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# Active Tasks
-## jax-default-dependency
-- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/702
-- status: shipped-awaiting-release-followups — ALL ELEVEN PRs merged 2026-08-19 (human-authorized):
- six library (PyAutoHeart#150, PyAutoNerves#150, PyAutoFit#1503, PyAutoArray#450, PyAutoGalaxy#574,
- PyAutoLens#703) + five workspace (autolens_workspace#486, autogalaxy_workspace#212,
- autofit_workspace#139, HowToLens#71, HowToGalaxy#67; pending-release hold waived by human — prose-only,
- few-hour docs-ahead window until the nightly). Worktree removed, claims released, branches deleted.
-- nojax CI leg caught two real bugs day one: unmarked jax-requiring autolens test (94d8f54ba);
- NumPy-scalar misrouting in autofit Beta/Gamma/Normal message dispatch (19c679583).
-- jax cap stays <0.11 (widen reverted 848a254; jax 0.11 bug prompt:
- draft/bug/autofit/jax_011_message_log_partition_tuple_shape.md).
-- NEXT (release-blocked; nightly 02:00 UTC): (1) bump intra-family floors `>=2026.7.29.2` → first
- promoted version in all five pyprojects, then move this task to complete/; (2) later, make
- unittest-nojax a required check once it has green history.
-- prompt: active/jax_default_dependency.md
-
## transformed-message-factor-gradient-unpack
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/issues/1501 (issued 2026-08-19)
- prompt: active/16_transformed_message_factor_gradient_unpack.md
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+# jax-default-dependency
+
+**Completed 2026-08-22.** JAX became a default dependency across the family
+(PyAutoLens#702): eleven PRs merged 2026-08-19 (six library — PyAutoHeart#150,
+PyAutoNerves#150, PyAutoFit#1503, PyAutoArray#450, PyAutoGalaxy#574,
+PyAutoLens#703 — plus five workspace: autolens_workspace#486,
+autogalaxy_workspace#212, autofit_workspace#139, HowToLens#71, HowToGalaxy#67),
+released as **2026.8.22.1** (nightly-release run 50, dispatched by hand after
+the gates cleared), and closed out with the intra-family floor bumps
+`>=2026.7.29.2` → `>=2026.8.22.1`: PyAutoFit#1509, PyAutoArray#466,
+PyAutoGalaxy#582, PyAutoLens#708. PyAutoNerves needs no bump — its pyproject
+carries no intra-family floor, so four PRs cover all five libraries' floors.
+
+## Why the release (and therefore this task) sat blocked for two days
+
+The promoting release was held up by two stacked regressions the task did not
+cause, found and fixed while driving it out (2026-08-21/22 session):
+
+- **PyAutoArray#453's in-place numba Cholesky kernels rejected JAX inputs**:
+ the sparse-operator inversion path hands `fnnls_cholesky` JAX arrays even
+ under `PYAUTO_DISABLE_JAX=1`; indexing a JAX array yields another JAX array,
+ which numba maps to a *readonly* buffer, so kernel compilation died with
+ "Cannot modify readonly array" — HowToLens smoke red from 2026-08-20 22:30,
+ readiness RED, nightly blocked. Fixed by boundary coercion to numpy
+ (PyAutoArray#463) with a jnp-input regression test. The scipy solvers #453
+ replaced tolerated JAX input by copying internally — an in-place rewrite of
+ a copy-tolerant seam must re-check every caller's array provenance.
+- **The rectangular mesh split (PyAutoArray#462 et al.) merged library-side
+ without its downstream legs**, breaking the retired `RectangularAdapt*`
+ names in HowToLens, HowToGalaxy and autogalaxy_workspace_test (the Stage-3
+ release gate). Legs landed as HowToLens#74, HowToGalaxy#71,
+ autolens_workspace#496, autogalaxy_workspace#222, autogalaxy_workspace_test#106.
+
+Release attempts: run 47 (scheduled) blocked on readiness RED; run 48 blocked
+at Stage 3 (agwt old names; validation otherwise 672p/0f); run 49 passed
+everything but blocked STALE — PyAutoGalaxy#581 merged mid-run, the staleness
+gate correctly refusing to ship a set that no longer matched main; run 50
+(pins incl. #581) released 2026.8.22.1 and PyPI carries all five packages.
+
+## Keep / traps
+
+- The nojax CI leg caught two real bugs on day one: an unmarked
+ jax-requiring autolens test (94d8f54ba) and NumPy-scalar misrouting in
+ autofit Beta/Gamma/Normal message dispatch (19c679583).
+- jax cap stays `<0.11` (widen reverted 848a254; jax 0.11 bug prompt:
+ draft/bug/autofit/jax_011_message_log_partition_tuple_shape.md).
+- The staleness gate makes manual dispatches race active development: a
+ library merge landing between the driver's rehearsal SHA-pin (~15 min in)
+ and its readiness re-check (~80 min in) blocks the night. Dispatch when
+ merging has quiesced, or expect a re-run.
+
+## Remaining (deliberately not part of this record)
+
+- Make `unittest-nojax` a required check once it has green history (the
+ "later" half of the old NEXT list).
+
+## Original prompt
+
# Make JAX a default (non-optional) dependency across the library stack
Type: maintenance
diff --git a/complete/index.md b/complete/index.md
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Token-light navigation over the finished-work records (schema:
only then grep a dated bucket. Curators: edit the band between the CURATED
markers; everything below GENERATED is rebuilt.
-1071 records across 7 buckets.
+1072 records across 7 buckets.
## Highlights
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ _(curate hard-won records here — survives regeneration.)_
- [interferometer-delaunay-flaky-fitexception](2026/08/interferometer-delaunay-flaky-fitexception.md)
- [interferometer-start-here-integrate-oom](2026/08/interferometer-start-here-integrate-oom.md)
- [intra-family-dep-floors](2026/08/intra-family-dep-floors.md)
+- [jax-default-dependency](2026/08/jax-default-dependency.md)
- [jax-grad-smoke-timeout-budget](2026/08/jax-grad-smoke-timeout-budget.md)
- [jax-likelihood-mass-sensitivity](2026/08/jax-likelihood-mass-sensitivity.md) — Audit + fix for median-literal mass blindness across all jax_likelihood/datacube scripts (phase 2 of the findi…
- [knowledge-board](2026/08/knowledge-board.md) — auto-closed on merge
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📋 PyAutoMind Dashboard
Every task the Mind is holding. Tap a task's 📋 and its /start_dev command is on your clipboard — paste it into a Claude Code chat to route Claude straight to that task.
-In flight 3 · Parked 3 · Planned 6 · Backlog 144 · markdown version
+In flight 2 · Parked 3 · Planned 6 · Backlog 144 · markdown version
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