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## viz-jax-pytree-fix
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/issues/84
- completed: 2026-05-08
- workspace-pr:
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/85 (lead, closes #84)
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/37 (autogalaxy sibling)
- repos: autolens_workspace_test, autogalaxy_workspace_test
- notes: |
    Direct follow-up to autogalaxy-viz-dispatch-swap (PyAutoGalaxy #390).
    Both visualization_jax.py scripts (autolens + autogalaxy versions) had
    been silently broken under JAX since their respective dispatch swaps
    landed: PyAutoLens #443 (2026-04-19) for the autolens version,
    PyAutoGalaxy #390 (2026-05-08) for the autogalaxy version. Each
    script's try/except wrapper caught the JAX trace failure
    (TypeError: ModelInstance not a valid abstract array), printed
    "PILOT FAILED", and exited 0 — invisible to test runners.

    Root cause: missing enable_pytrees() + register_model(model) so that
    jax.jit(fit_from) could trace the ModelInstance arg across the JIT
    boundary. Working sibling modeling_visualization_jit.py had these
    calls all along (lines 43-45) — visualization_jax.py just lacked them.

    Fix in both repos:
      1. Add enable_pytrees() + register_model(model) before constructing
         the analysis.
      2. Drop the try/except wrapper so future regressions fail loud.
      3. Split each workspace's config/build/env_vars.yaml imaging/visualization
         override into a NumPy-only pattern (visualization.py — substring
         match) and a JAX-only pattern (visualization_jax) that also unsets
         PYAUTO_DISABLE_JAX. Mirrors the existing
         imaging/modeling_visualization_jit override.

    Verified: both scripts now print PILOT SUCCEEDED with JAX enabled.

    Future work: neither visualization_jax.py is in smoke_tests.txt, so a
    future regression of the same shape would still be invisible to CI
    smoke. Promoting them to smoke is a separate decision per the user's
    "small curated subset" smoke policy and was not in scope here.

## datacube-3d-fits-relocate
- issue: none — direct followup to autolens_workspace#120
- completed: 2026-05-08
- workspace-prs:
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/140 (3D-FITS layout + data_preparation.py + relocated likelihood_function.py)
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/51 (deletes the relocated likelihood walkthrough and prototype simulator)
- repos: autolens_workspace, autolens_workspace_developer
- notes: Hannah's ALMA visibilities arrive from CASA as a single 4D FITS (n_pol, n_chan, n_vis, 2). The original Phase 1 datacube tutorials only supported per-channel folders, which would have forced her to split her cube before loading. Updated simulator.py to additionally write `{visibilities,noise_map,uv_wavelengths}_cube.fits` at the cube root (each shape `(n_chan, n_vis, 2)`). New data_preparation.py walks through polarisation collapse (average vs concatenate) and ships a self-contained `dataset_list_from_3d_fits()` loader function — verified to match the per-channel-folder loader to rtol=1e-12. Also relocated the JAX likelihood walkthrough from the (private) autolens_workspace_developer to the (public) autolens_workspace so external collaborators can actually read it. Per-channel-folder layout kept for backward compatibility; both layouts coexist.

## autogalaxy-viz-dispatch-swap
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/issues/389
- completed: 2026-05-08
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/390
- repos: PyAutoGalaxy
- notes: |
    Phase 0b of z_features/jax_visualization.md. Three call sites in PyAutoGalaxy
    visualizers swapped from analysis.fit_from(instance=...) to
    analysis.fit_for_visualization(instance=...) — imaging/model/visualizer.py
    (single visualize() + visualize_combined()) and interferometer/model/visualizer.py.
    PyAutoLens made the same swap in #443 (2026-04-19); the autogalaxy side was
    overdue. Pytree registration prerequisites for both imaging (#364) and
    interferometer (#376) had already shipped — this was the last piece.

    Library tests: 106/106 passed. Smoke verification: visualization.py NumPy and
    modeling_visualization_jit.py JIT-during-Nautilus both PASS; visualization_jax.py
    surfaced a pre-existing latent test-script bug (missing register_model /
    enable_pytrees) which also affects the autolens equivalent since #443. Filed
    a follow-up prompt: autolens_workspace_test/visualization_jax_pytree_registration.md.
    Neither failure breaks CI smoke (visualization_jax.py is not in smoke_tests.txt
    and env_vars.yaml defaults force PYAUTO_DISABLE_JAX=1 for any imaging/visualization
    path, so the script silently falls through to NumPy under CI).

    Phase 0c (ag ellipse + quantity pytree) and Phase 1A (autolens interferometer
    JAX viz coverage) are now unblocked from this PR's perspective.

## contents-block-bullets
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/138
- completed: 2026-05-08
- workspace-pr:
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/139 (lead, 199 scripts)
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/64 (98 scripts)
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/HowToLens/pull/9 (37 scripts)
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/HowToGalaxy/pull/6 (21 scripts)
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/54 (1 script)
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/83 (1 script)
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/36 (1 script)
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace_test/pull/25 (1 script)
- repos: autolens_workspace, autogalaxy_workspace, autofit_workspace, HowToLens, HowToGalaxy, autolens_workspace_test, autogalaxy_workspace_test, autofit_workspace_test
- notes: |
    359 workspace tutorial scripts had their `__Contents__` blocks
    converted from plain `**Section:**` lines into Markdown list bullets
    (`- **Section:**`). Without bullet markers GitHub and JupyterLab
    collapsed the index into a single paragraph in the generated .ipynb's
    first markdown cell — the fix is text-only inside top-level module
    docstrings.

    HowToFit had nothing to ship — its 14 __Contents__ files were
    already bulleted (someone fixed them earlier, possibly the same
    person who shipped the ic50_workspace exemplar at 4cde480).

    Three rewrite-tool bugs were caught during dry-run before any PR
    opened — worth knowing for the next docstring-mass-rewrite tool:
    1. CRLF normalization (Python's read_text/write_text silently
       strip CRLF, would have produced 10K-line bogus diffs in the
       autofit_workspace files that use CRLF). Use read_bytes /
       write_bytes and detect/preserve the original eol byte-for-byte.
    2. Docstring-close `"""` mis-indented as a bullet continuation
       line. Terminate the contents-block scan at any line starting
       with `"""` or `'''`.
    3. Prose intro between `__Contents__` and the first bullet
       mis-indented as a continuation. Skip prose-intro lines until
       the first `**` or `- **` is found, then process from there.

    Visual confirmation via ipynb-py-convert on
    autolens_workspace/scripts/point_source/simulator.py: first
    markdown cell renders as a proper bulleted list.

    Notebooks were deliberately NOT regenerated in this PR set — the
    next /pre_build will pick them up cleanly.

    Out of scope (per the original prompt): same paragraph-collapse
    risk may bite `__Model__` blocks, `Steps`/`Notes`/`Outputs` blocks
    in workspace simulators. Not addressed without a concrete broken
    example.

## euclid-version-bump-2026-5-1-4
- completed: 2026-05-08
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/euclid_strong_lens_modeling_pipeline/pull/13
- repos: euclid_strong_lens_modeling_pipeline
- notes: |
    One-time catchup for a missed release. Surfaced as 6 of 6 euclid
    smoke "failures" during the PR #301 (PyAutoArray) validation run —
    every euclid script raised WorkspaceVersionMismatchError because
    config/general.yaml pinned workspace_version=2026.4.13.6 against
    library 2026.5.1.4, and there was no version.txt. Bumped both files
    to 2026.5.1.4 to match the convention used by autofit_workspace,
    autogalaxy_workspace, autolens_workspace, and HowToLens.

    Root cause was a one-time gap, not a structural issue:
    pre-2026-05-01 this repo lived under Jammy2211/ and PAT_PYAUTOLABS
    couldn't push, so it was excluded from the release_workspaces matrix
    in PyAutoBuild's release.yml. PyAutoBuild PR #81 restored the
    matrix entry on 2026-05-01 14:56 UTC — but ~3 hours after the
    2026.5.1.4 release dispatched at 11:33 UTC, so the bump didn't
    auto-land. Future drift will auto-correct via the now-restored
    matrix entry; this is a single-shot catchup, not the start of a
    maintenance pattern.

    All 6 smoke scripts pass with the bumped version, no other
    failures uncovered.

## imaging-from-fits-small-datasets-cap
- completed: 2026-05-08
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/301
- repos: PyAutoArray
- notes: |
    Library-side companion to multi-viz-imaging-small-datasets-override
    (PR #80 in autolens_workspace_test). User asked for the proper fix:
    "everything in the source code should honor PYAUTO_SMALL_DATASETS=1".
    Closed the asymmetry where Mask2D.circular and Grid2D.uniform capped
    to (15, 15) at 0.6"/px under the env var but Imaging.from_fits did
    not — silently producing shape mismatches that crashed apply_mask
    with a (150,150) vs (15,15) ValueError. Added
    autoarray.util.dataset_util.cap_array_2d_for_small_datasets, a
    center-crop helper that mirrors the existing caps. Hooked it into
    Imaging.from_fits for data + noise_map (PSF intentionally untouched
    — PSFs are usually <15x15 and capping changes their shape semantics).
    No-op when env unset OR when on-disk shape is already at-or-below
    the cap, so the simulator -> from_fits round-trip is unchanged.
    +123 lines library, +123 tests across two test files; full
    test_autoarray suite 747/747 green.

    Center-crop was chosen over downsample/resample because (a) smoke
    mode doesn't need numerical correctness, (b) center-crop preserves
    central pixels (where lens/galaxy signal sits), (c) avoids a scipy
    dependency at this layer, and (d) matches the existing convention
    of "fixed cap at smoke geometry" used by Mask2D.circular.

    Cluster-E reproducer (autolens_workspace_test/scripts/multi/
    visualization_imaging.py with PYAUTO_SMALL_DATASETS=1 and the
    env_vars.yaml override stripped) now exits 0 cleanly: data 150->15,
    psf preserved at 21x21, mask 15, apply_mask succeeds.

    Smoke ran across all 6 workspaces (autofit, autogalaxy, autolens,
    autolens_test, HowToLens, euclid) with the worktree's autoarray
    active. 36/44 passed in-scope; 6 euclid failures were pre-existing
    WorkspaceVersionMismatchError (workspace pinned at 2026.4.13.6 vs
    library 2026.5.1.4) — orthogonal, confirmed by bypass with
    PYAUTO_SKIP_WORKSPACE_VERSION_CHECK=1. No regressions attributable
    to this PR.

    **Follow-ups worth filing:**
    1. PyAutoArray: extend the same helper to Array2D.from_fits and
       Grid2D.from_fits for full consistency (and PSF-aware logic in
       Kernel2D.from_fits — preserve odd shape, re-normalize after crop).
    2. autolens_workspace_test: revert the multi/visualization_imaging
       env_vars.yaml override (PR #80) once this library fix has lived
       on main for a release cycle. The override is now redundant but
       harmless; reverting confirms the library cap is sufficient.
    3. euclid_strong_lens_modeling_pipeline: bump pinned library version
       to 2026.5.1.4 (separate from this work, but surfaced by smoke).

## subhalo-redshift-jax-fix
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/498
- completed: 2026-05-08
- repro-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/79 (merged d827d1c — Phase 1)
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/499 (merged b790632 — Phase 2)
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/81 (merged 61b0b4f — Phase 2b)
- repos: PyAutoLens, autolens_workspace_test
- notes: |
    Slack bug report from @qiuhan96 (working with an undergraduate at
    Groningen). Free-parameter subhalo redshift (af.UniformPrior on
    Galaxy.redshift) raised jax.errors.TracerBoolConversionError under
    jax.jit. Root cause: tracer_util.plane_redshifts_from /
    planes_from / grid_2d_at_redshift_from + Tracer.galaxies_ascending_
    redshift all called Python sorted(galaxies, key=lambda g: g.redshift)
    on a list whose subhalo redshift was a traced scalar; pairwise '<'
    comparisons cannot lift to traced ops.

    Three-phase ship in a single session:

    Phase 1 — Filed the issue, then landed a clean integration-test
    reproducer (PR #79) in autolens_workspace_test as scripts/jax_
    likelihood_functions/imaging/subhalo.py. Two scenarios: fixed
    z=0.55 PASS, free UniformPrior FAIL with the expected
    TracerBoolConversionError. Used to drive the fix and as the
    eventual regression check.

    Phase 2 — Library fix (PR #499). Each of the four buggy functions
    got a JAX-aware fast-path guard: when no galaxy redshift is
    traced, behaviour is byte-for-byte identical to before; when any
    redshift is traced, the function partitions concrete vs traced,
    sorts the concrete ones with normal Python sort, and trusts input
    galaxy order for the traced ones. grid_2d_at_redshift_from
    matches the requested redshift to a galaxy by Python identity
    (its only call site, AnalysisLens.tracer_via_instance_from,
    always passes the subhalo's own redshift object). 273/273 unit
    tests pass; full smoke suite for autolens_workspace_test (11/11)
    pass with the patched library on PYTHONPATH.

    Phase 2b — Polarity-flip workspace PR (#81). The same subhalo.py
    script was converted to the regression check: both scenarios
    must now PASS, with np.testing.assert_allclose locking the vmap
    output to -1.412105e+09 (rtol=1e-4) and the JIT log_likelihood
    matching the NumPy path within rtol=1e-4.

    Notes for future:
    - The cosmology distance functions (Planck15) accepted traced
      redshifts without modification, so no JAX-friendly cosmology
      shim was needed. If a different cosmology turns out to fail,
      that's a follow-up issue.
    - The tuple(subhalo_centre.in_list[0]) round-trip in
      analysis/lens.py:116 was a suspected breakage site but turns
      out to work fine under JIT — tuple((traced_y, traced_x))
      preserves traced scalars.
    - The JAX path trusts input galaxy order; if a user puts the
      subhalo before the lens in declaration order with a redshift
      between them, the multi-plane scaling factors will be wrong.
      Documented in the PR body's Migration section but not enforced
      at runtime (would require a non-JAX validation pass).
    - The "user-helping" tone established mid-session (4 conversational
      issue updates across 5 milestones) seemed to land well — keep
      that pattern for future user-reported bug reports.

## cluster-f-sensitivity-job-dataset
- completed: 2026-05-08
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1259
- repos: PyAutoFit
- notes: |
    Surfaced in a release-prep triage report as Cluster F: a single
    failing script (autofit_workspace_test/scripts/database/scrape/
    sensitivity.py) raising AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no
    attribute 'data' at line 241 (Analysis.__init__ unpacking
    dataset.data). The user proposed two hypotheses: simulate_function
    returning None under test mode (workspace bug), or job dataset
    wiring broken by a recent PyAutoFit refactor (library bug). Both
    were wrong — the actual cause is a partial library optimization.
    PyAutoFit commit 41095a0 ("skip simulation if job is complete",
    Oct 2024) added `if self.is_complete: dataset = None` in
    Job.perform() but didn't also skip the downstream
    base_fit_cls / perturb_fit_cls calls, so they receive None.

    The library's own test_perform_twice masked the contract issue
    because the test conftest's Analysis.__init__(dataset) just
    stashes dataset without unpacking — real workspace Analysis code
    (autofit_workspace/scripts/features/sensitivity_mapping.py:246
    and the failing test-workspace script) eagerly unpacks
    dataset.data and dataset.noise_map. Fix per
    feedback_no_silent_guards.md: stop the producer of None, not
    add a consumer-side tolerance. Collapsed the if/else to always
    call simulate_cls. Re-runs still skip the expensive non-linear
    search via Search.fit's load-from-zip path
    (paths.restore() + paths.is_complete in abstract_search.py).
    Only the typically-cheap simulator cost is no longer optimized
    away.

    Verification: bug reproduced exactly on clean main (matched
    user's stack trace), fix applied, clean two-run cycle passes
    (first run completes, second hits is_complete=True via zip
    presence, restore() unzips, load path returns).
    Full PyAutoFit suite 1241/0/1 (skipped pre-existing). All 9
    autofit_workspace_test smoke scripts pass.

    Known limitation flagged in PR body but out of scope: if a
    previous run was killed mid-fit (e.g. [perturb].zip present but
    [base].zip missing), re-runs hit a different failure on that
    cell — Search.fit.restore() finds nothing to restore for the
    missing side, paths.is_complete=False, resume kicks in,
    Fitness.check_log_likelihood raises SearchException because the
    new (non-deterministic) simulator FoM doesn't match the
    persisted partial-fit FoM. Separate bug, separate fix.

    Verify-triage-clusters habit paid off again: the user's two
    hypotheses framed the search but were both wrong; the third
    answer (deliberate library design + workspace pattern conflict)
    was reachable only by tracing Job.perform() history.

## multi-viz-imaging-small-datasets-override
- completed: 2026-05-08
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/80
- repos: autolens_workspace_test
- notes: |
    Cluster E from the 2026-05-07 release-prep triage.
    `autolens_workspace_test/scripts/multi/visualization_imaging.py`
    crashed in the local triage runner with `ValueError: operands
    could not be broadcast together with shapes (150,150) (15,15)` at
    `dataset.apply_mask(mask=mask)`. The triage report's prescribed
    fix ("derive mask shape from dataset.shape_native, not from a
    hardcoded constant") was a no-op — the script already does that.
    Real cause: `PyAutoArray/autoarray/mask/mask_2d.py:363-366`
    silently overrides `shape_native` to (15,15) when
    `PYAUTO_SMALL_DATASETS=1`, *even when shape_native is explicit*,
    while `Imaging.from_fits` does not cap the dataset. The triage
    runner picked up the failure because
    `autolens_workspace_test/config/build/env_vars.yaml` sets
    `PYAUTO_SMALL_DATASETS: "1"` as a workspace-wide default; the
    GitHub Actions release.yml does not (only sets it for non-`_test`
    workspaces, lines 965–971), which is why CI passes. Fix: 9-line
    additive entry in env_vars.yaml unsetting the cap for
    `multi/visualization_imaging` (matching the existing
    `imaging/visualization` precedent). Sibling
    `multi/visualization_interferometer.py` was left alone — it
    passes under the cap currently and the triage didn't flag it
    (whether its likelihood is correct under a 15x15 real-space mask
    is a separate correctness question). Pure config change; no
    library or script touched.

    **Follow-up worth filing as a PyAutoArray issue:**
    `Mask2D.circular`'s `PYAUTO_SMALL_DATASETS=1` cap silently
    overrides an explicit `shape_native` argument. Two options for a
    proper fix: (a) only apply the cap when shape_native is at its
    default, or (b) make `Imaging.from_fits` also honour the env var
    so dataset and mask stay consistent. Both need a careful audit of
    every smoke test that currently relies on the implicit cap.

## cluster-c-point-source-rebaseline
- completed: 2026-05-08
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/78
- repos: autolens_workspace_test
- notes: |
    Surfaced in a release-prep triage report as Cluster C: three JAX
    point-source likelihood scripts (image_plane.py, point.py,
    source_plane.py) failing `np.testing.assert_allclose` against
    hardcoded `expected_likelihood` literals. Root cause was upstream
    commit 931a381 (six days earlier) changing
    `positions_noise_map` from `grid.pixel_scale` (0.2") to `0.005"`
    in `scripts/jax_likelihood_functions/point_source/simulator.py` —
    the committed seed dataset under `dataset/point_source/simple/`
    was last regenerated under the old noise from `pre build`
    (a88f0f6, May 1) and was never refreshed when the simulator
    changed. Because `should_simulate` only fires when the dataset
    path is missing, canonical `main` was actually passing — old
    dataset matched old literal — but any clean re-simulation hit
    the failure the user reported.

    Fix regenerated the seed dataset (`point_dataset_positions_only.json`,
    `tracer.json`) and rebaselined three literals: 1.313508 →
    -83.38049778 (image_plane.py and point.py — same dataset, same
    prior medians, identical values), and -199.1555813 →
    -331481.25978149 (vmap) / -331481.26508536364 (eager) for
    source_plane.py. The 1664x source_plane.py drift checks out as
    chi-squared rescaling: noise dropped 40x, so chi^2 scales by
    1600x.

    Verify-triage-clusters habit paid off — going through the chain
    `simulator → committed dataset → should_simulate semantics →
    canonical state` exposed that the failure mode required deleting
    the on-disk dataset to reproduce, which changed how I handed the
    user the choice (regenerate-and-commit vs leave-alone). Smoke
    tests 11/11 passed; one pre-existing skip (database/scrape/general,
    NEEDS_FIX 2026-04-27) unrelated.

## results-start-here-fits-hdu-fix
- completed: 2026-05-08
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/61
- repos: autogalaxy_workspace
- notes: |
    Surfaced as "Cluster B" in a release-prep triage report — four
    autogalaxy results scripts (start_here.py + three under
    aggregator/) supposedly sharing a `KeyError ('galaxies', 'galaxy',
    'bulge', 'ell_comps', 'ell_comps_0')` from
    `parameter_lists_for_paths`, attributed to `_quick_fit.py`
    building a model that doesn't expose `ell_comps`. Investigation
    on current main contradicted both halves: `ag.lp_linear.Sersic`
    and `ag.lp_linear.Exponential` both expose `ell_comps`
    (`model.info` confirms 9 free parameters incl. `bulge.ell_comps`)
    and the three aggregator scripts already pass cleanly under
    `PYAUTO_TEST_MODE=1` from a fresh `output/results_folder`. The
    original `KeyError` I saw on first run came from a stale cached
    output folder — once `_quick_fit.py` regenerated, it vanished.
    Only `start_here.py` was actually broken, and for an unrelated
    reason: lines 233–235 reloaded the saved `dataset.fits` with
    `data_hdu=0, noise_map_hdu=1, psf_hdu=2`, but the visualizer
    writes the file as `MASK, DATA, NOISE_MAP, PSF,
    OVER_SAMPLE_SIZE_LP, OVER_SAMPLE_SIZE_PIXELIZATION`, so
    `psf_hdu=2` pulled the 100×100 noise map and `Convolver` rejected
    it with `KernelException: "Convolver must be odd"`. Fix: shift
    indices by one (0→1, 1→2, 2→3). Three lines, one file. Smoke
    tests 6/6, aggregator regression confirmed the three siblings
    still pass. Cluster B as originally described is therefore
    already-resolved on main and needed no aggregator-path rewrites.
    Lesson worth keeping: when a triage cluster says "N scripts share
    root cause X, mechanical fix Y", verify reproduction on current
    main before mass-applying Y — clusters age out as upstream PRs
    merge, and the surviving failures often have a different cause.

## park-double-einstein-ring
- completed: 2026-05-07
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/134
- repos: autolens_workspace
- notes: |
    Cluster H of the recent release-prep triage. scripts/imaging/features/
    advanced/double_einstein_ring/slam.py crashed under PYAUTO_TEST_MODE=2
    with autofit.exc.FitException at analysis.py:84. Investigation
    traced a structural cascade: Adapt regularization (used by SLaM
    pixelization phases) requires per-galaxy adapt_data that the
    synthetic samples_summary produced by bypass mode does not carry.
    Mapper.pixel_signals_from None-derefs `self.adapt_data.array` from
    multiple inversion entry points (likelihood, post-fit
    result.subtracted_signal_to_noise_map_galaxy_dict, etc.), so
    patching one site only unblocks the next. Drafted a defensive
    FitException-tolerance patch in PyAutoFit's _fit_bypass_test_mode
    (mirrors compute_latent_samples pattern) — verified the FIRST entry
    point cleared, but the SECOND failure point fired with the same
    root cause through a different call chain. Even with that fix, the
    next SLaM phase would derive adapt_images from the synthetic
    samples_summary and fail again. End-to-end fix requires either
    (a) defensively pretending Adapt works without adapt_data (silent
    semantic change — unsafe) or (b) restructuring the SLaM bypass to
    construct valid adapt_data (large refactor). User chose to park
    and handle manually. Sibling of imaging/features/pixelization/slam
    (NEEDS_FIX 2026-04-10, same root cause).

## jax-assertions-env-override
- completed: 2026-05-07
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace_test/pull/24
- repos: autofit_workspace_test
- notes: |
    Cluster G of the recent release-prep triage.
    scripts/jax_assertions/fitness_dispatch.py crashed with
    `AttributeError: Analysis has no attribute _jitted_fit_from`. User's
    hypothesis (library API drift / rename) was wrong — library is intact.
    Real bug: env_vars.yaml `defaults` set PYAUTO_DISABLE_JAX=1 globally,
    and Analysis.__init__ silently flips both use_jax and
    use_jax_for_visualization to False whenever that env var is set.
    fit_for_visualization then early-returns without caching
    _jitted_fit_from, and the next assertion fails. The four scripts in
    jax_assertions/ exist specifically to assert JAX behavior, so
    disabling JAX makes the assertions vacuous. Fix: add an env_vars.yaml
    override that unsets PYAUTO_DISABLE_JAX for the `jax_assertions/`
    pattern (substring match covers all four current scripts and future
    siblings). Per memory feedback_env_vars_yaml_overrides.md — env-var
    conflicts get fixed in env_vars.yaml, not via os.environ.pop in the
    script. Verified pre-fix repro under PYAUTO_DISABLE_JAX=1 and post-fix
    pass under runner-emulated env (all other defaults applied,
    DISABLE_JAX absent).

## subhalo-refine-source-fix
- completed: 2026-05-07
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/133
- repos: autolens_workspace
- notes: |
    Cluster F of the recent release-prep triage. scripts/group/features/
    advanced/subhalo/detect/start_here.py crashed with `NameError: name
    'source' is not defined` at line 634 of `subhalo_refine`. Fallout from
    PR #117 ("Cluster F triage", 2026-05-02): PR #117 removed the
    redundant `"source": ...` key from five lens_dict literals (they
    collided with the explicit `source=source` kwarg on `af.Collection`).
    Four functions had a local `source = ...` assignment already, so the
    explicit kwarg remained resolvable. `subhalo_refine` was the
    exception — PR #117 dropped `"source": subhalo_grid_search_result.
    model.galaxies.source` from its lens_dict without lifting that
    expression into a standalone assignment. Fix: add the missing
    `source = subhalo_grid_search_result.model.galaxies.source` line
    before the lens_dict literal. Restores exactly the value PR #117
    dropped; matches the standalone-assignment style every other
    subhalo_* function uses; preserves the SLaM-like pipeline
    (grid-search posterior source flows into refine search).
    User's original suggestion (`source=source` → `source=source_lp`,
    based on Python's NameError "Did you mean: 'source_lp'?" hint)
    would have type-errored at fit time — `source_lp` is a function in
    this file, not a Galaxy. Python's NameError suggestion is lexical
    proximity, not type-correct. Verified locally:
    `subhalo[3]_[single_plane_refine]` (the previously-failing phase)
    now completes successfully.

## point-source-fit-positions-len
- completed: 2026-05-07
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/132
- repos: autolens_workspace
- notes: |
    Cluster E of the recent release-prep triage. scripts/point_source/fit.py
    crashed with `ValueError: operands could not be broadcast together with
    shapes (2,) (4,)` at autoarray/abstract_ndarray.py:326 under
    PYAUTO_SMALL_DATASETS=1. Root cause: PointSolver.solve() short-circuits
    to a fixed 2-position pair [(1.0,0.0),(0.0,1.0)] when SMALL_DATASETS=1
    (PyAutoLens/autolens/point/solver/point_solver.py:90-91), but the script
    hardcoded a 4-element positions_data and 4-element positions_noise_map.
    FitPositionsImagePairRepeat then divided a 2-element residual by the
    4-element noise_map and broadcasts failed. Same family as PR #119
    (Cluster E: deblending simulator) which fixed
    point_source/features/deblending/simulator.py with a
    range(len(positions)) dict comprehension; PR #119 didn't touch fit.py.
    Mechanical port of PR #119's pattern: replace hardcoded 4-element
    lists with `Grid2DIrregular(positions)` + `[0.005] * len(positions)`.
    Hardcoded values were demonstrative only — they matched solver output
    exactly, so the new code produces an identical demo (zero residuals)
    while adapting to N positions. Prose updated from "we manually
    specify" to describe the new derivation. Verified locally under
    SMALL_DATASETS (2-element residual_map) and full (4-element).

## park-modeling-viz-jit-slow
- completed: 2026-05-07
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/76
- followup-issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/issues/77
- repos: autolens_workspace_test
- notes: |
    Cluster D of the recent release-prep triage. Three autolens
    workspace_test imaging scripts (modeling_visualization_jit,
    modeling_visualization_jit_delaunay, modeling_visualization_jit_rectangular)
    timed out at the 300s per-script cap. NOT a regression — PR #70
    (fix(env): unblock modeling_visualization_jit tests in CI defaults)
    cleared the prior `AssertionError: expected jax.Array, got numpy.float64`
    that had masked this perf issue. Autogalaxy sibling passes in ~88.6s;
    autolens variants are ~3.5x slower (>300s) — JIT compile + full
    visualization. Parked via standard `# SLOW <YYYY-MM-DD>` convention
    in autolens_workspace_test/config/build/no_run.yaml. Mega-runs
    surface SLOW entries with a loud warning banner so they don't
    silently rot. Follow-up perf issue #77 filed against
    autolens_workspace_test capturing the 3.5x disparity, investigation
    pointers (Tracer vs Galaxy, pixelization variants, JAX visualization
    pipeline) and acceptance criteria for removing the SLOW markers.

## group-slam-prior-clamp
- completed: 2026-05-07
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/131
- repos: autolens_workspace
- notes: |
    Cluster C of the recent release-prep triage. Two group SLaM scripts
    (scripts/group/features/{linear_light_profiles,pixelization}/slam.py)
    crashed with PriorException at `mass.einstein_radius = af.UniformPrior(
    lower_limit=0.0, upper_limit=min(5 * 0.5 * total_luminosity**0.6, 5.0))`
    when PYAUTO_TEST_MODE=2 produced zero linear-light intensities, making
    upper_limit==lower_limit==0. PR #117 (Cluster F triage, merged 2026-05-02)
    fixed exactly this pattern in `linear_light_profiles/slam.py`'s
    `source_lp_1` (line 246) but missed two siblings: `mass_total` in the
    same file (line 704) and `source_lp_1` in `pixelization/slam.py` (line
    234). Verbatim mechanical port of PR #117's clamp prefix
    (`luminosity_cap = ...; upper_limit = min(luminosity_cap, 5.0) if
    luminosity_cap > 0 else 5.0`) to both missed sites. Verified locally —
    `linear_light_profiles/slam.py` now reaches `mass_total[1]` (the
    previously-buggy phase) and completes; previously crashed there.

## aggregator-mge-queries
- completed: 2026-05-07
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/130
- repos: autolens_workspace
- notes: |
    Cluster B of the recent release-prep triage. Two autolens aggregator
    tutorials (scripts/guides/results/aggregator/{queries,samples_via_aggregator}.py)
    crashed with `AttributeError: 'Model' object has no attribute 'sersic_index'`
    after PR #118 swapped the source bulge in _quick_fit.py from Sersic to
    MGE (al.model_util.mge_model_from). MGE is a Basis of fixed-sigma
    Gaussians whose only free parameters are the basis's shared centre +
    ell_comps — there is no sersic_index. Fix: queries.py Model Queries
    section now demos `lens.mass.einstein_radius < 1.5` (vs the Logic
    section's `& mass.einstein_radius > 1.0` — same parameter, different
    API features); samples_via_aggregator.py's two with_paths calls now
    use `lens.mass.centre.centre_0` as the second filter path (path was
    already used at line 533 of the same script, so known valid). Cluster A's
    fix to _quick_fit.py is the prerequisite that allowed these scripts
    to reach the failing line at all. autogalaxy versions of the same
    scripts are unaffected — that workspace's _quick_fit.py still uses
    Sersic + Exponential.

## quick-fit-smoke-mode-fix
- completed: 2026-05-07
- workspace-prs:
    - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/60
    - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/129
- repos: autogalaxy_workspace, autolens_workspace
- notes: |
    Cluster A of the recent release-prep triage. Four aggregator tutorials
    (scripts/guides/results/aggregator/{data_fitting,models}.py × 2 workspaces)
    crashed with `TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable` at
    PyAutoGalaxy/autogalaxy/aggregator/agg_util.py:101 in fast smoke mode
    (PYAUTO_TEST_MODE=2 + PYAUTO_SKIP_VISUALIZATION=1). Root cause: the
    _quick_fit.py helper invoked via subprocess inherited those env vars,
    suppressing the visualizer that writes image/dataset.fits, so
    fit.value("dataset") returned None. Fix: helper now pops
    PYAUTO_SKIP_VISUALIZATION / PYAUTO_SKIP_FIT_OUTPUT and downgrades
    PYAUTO_TEST_MODE>=2 to 1 before importing autofit. Idempotent early-exit
    means cost is paid once per workspace per smoke run. Standalone fix —
    no library change. The PR #55/#118 refactor that split start_here.py
    into _quick_fit.py + un-skipped these scripts in no_run.yaml exposed
    the latent bug (the old start_here.py had a partial PYAUTO_TEST_MODE=1
    pop, but it never handled modes 2/3 + SKIP_VISUALIZATION).

## use-pathlib
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/issues/1257
- completed: 2026-05-07
- library-prs:
    - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoConf/pull/104
    - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1258
    - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/300
    - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/388
    - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/497
- workspace-prs:
    - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/59
    - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/128
    - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/50
    - https://github.com/Jammy2211/autofit_workspace_developer/pull/15
    - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/euclid_strong_lens_modeling_pipeline/pull/12
- notes: |
    Replaced os.path.* and bare path.* with pathlib.Path across 5 libraries
    and 5 workspaces. ~700 references converted. 3,188 library unit tests
    pass; 36/36 workspace smoke tests pass. No public API changed.
    Canonical autogalaxy_workspace and autolens_workspace pull skipped due
    to in-progress smoke-test-optimization dirty state — will land when
    that task ships.

## group-list-based-api
- completed: 2026-05-06
- repos: autolens_workspace
- notes: |
    Retroactively logged via 2026-05-06 hygiene scan. Original prompt
    `workspaces/group.md` asked for `autolens_workspace/scripts/group/start_here.py`
    to use the list-based `lens_dict` model composition (multiple main lens
    galaxies treated symmetrically, instead of one main + extras). Verified done:
    `start_here.py:198-200` builds `lens_dict` and iterates `main_lens_centres`
    to populate `lens_0`, `lens_1`, … Three sibling tasks (`group-features`,
    `group-two-main-galaxies`, `group-pixelization-delaunay-fixes`) plus three
    `issued/group*.md` files cover the related rollout. Original issue/PR not
    tracked in this registry.

## smoke-workspace-actions
- completed: 2026-05-06
- repos: autofit_workspace, autogalaxy_workspace, autolens_workspace
- notes: |
    Retroactively logged via 2026-05-06 hygiene scan. Original prompt
    `autobuild/smoke_workspace_action.md` asked for GitHub Actions workflows
    that run smoke tests on the three workspaces (mirroring the source-repo
    actions). Verified done: `.github/workflows/smoke_tests.yml` exists in each
    of `autofit_workspace`, `autogalaxy_workspace`, `autolens_workspace`. The
    follow-up `autobuild/smoke_workspace_fixes.md` (re-enable the entries that
    were commented out for the green baseline) is still partial — kept in
    pending. Original issue/PR not tracked in this registry.

## delaunay-jax-profiling
- completed: 2026-05-06
- repos: autolens_workspace_developer
- notes: |
    Retroactively logged via 2026-05-06 hygiene scan. Original prompt
    `autolens_workspace_developer/imaging_delaunay_jax_profiling.md` asked for
    `jax_profiling/imaging/delaunay.py` to be aligned with the current pytree /
    register_model approach used by `mge.py` and `pixelization.py`. Verified
    done: `jax_profiling/jit/imaging/delaunay.py` now mirrors the sibling
    Timer + register_model + xp pattern. Original issue/PR not tracked.

## cluster-visualization-profiling
- completed: 2026-05-06
- repos: autolens_workspace_developer
- notes: |
    Retroactively logged via 2026-05-06 hygiene scan. Original prompt
    `autolens_workspace_developer/visualization_profiling_cluster.md` asked for
    a profiling script targeting `autolens_workspace/scripts/cluster/simulator.py`
    visualization (the ~92s `SimulatorImaging.via_tracer_from` phase identified
    in the prompt). Verified done: `autolens_workspace_developer/visualization_profiling/imaging/cluster.py`
    exists with Timer instrumentation matching the sibling profiling scripts.
    Original issue/PR not tracked.

## cluster-csv-redshifts
- completed: 2026-05-06
- repos: autolens_workspace
- notes: |
    Retroactively logged via 2026-05-06 hygiene scan. Original prompt
    `cluster/2_modeling.md` asked for `autolens_workspace/scripts/cluster/modeling.py`
    to load redshifts from `point_datasets.csv` via `al.list_from_csv` and link
    them to `Galaxy.redshift` (replacing the hardcoded `redshift=1.0`), plus
    move toward CSV-driven main/source galaxy loading. Verified done:
    `modeling.py:143` calls `al.list_from_csv(file_path=dataset_path / "point_datasets.csv")`
    and the redshift linkage is in place. The wider CSV API for main/source
    galaxies remains an iterative target — flag a follow-up if needed.
    Original issue/PR not tracked.

## autogalaxy-wst-jax-grad-multi
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/issues/32
- completed: 2026-05-06
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/33
- repos: autogalaxy_workspace_test
- notes: **Final task (8/9) of the autogalaxy_workspace_test parity epic (#5) — epic is now closed.** Created `scripts/jax_grad/multi/{lp.py, mge.py}` from scratch. Each script joins per-band `AnalysisImaging` factors via `af.FactorGraphModel(use_jax=True)` and wraps the global log-likelihood in `jax.value_and_grad`. Both pass on CI 3.12 (`lp.py` 10.6s shape (9,), `mge.py` 21.0s shape (6,)). Used `ag.lp.Sersic` and option B per-band `ell_comps` matching `jax_likelihood_functions/multi/{lp,mge}.py` patterns. The `jax_grad/` env_vars override added in PR #29 covered all three jax_grad subfolders. Suggested follow-up: file an autolens-retrofit issue covering `imaging_lp.py → imaging/lp.py`, `imaging_mge.py → imaging/mge.py`, plus net-new interferometer/multi ports for autolens.

## blackjax-nuts-search
- issue: https://github.com/rhayes777/PyAutoFit/issues/1255
- completed: 2026-05-06
- library-pr: https://github.com/rhayes777/PyAutoFit/pull/1256
- workspace-prs:
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/52 (mcmc.py extended)
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace_test/pull/23 (BlackJAXNUTS.py integration test)
- repos: PyAutoFit, autofit_workspace, autofit_workspace_test
- notes: Added `af.BlackJAXNUTS` as a first-class non-linear search alongside Emcee/Zeus/Nautilus/etc. Lives under `autofit/non_linear/search/mcmc/blackjax/nuts/search.py` so the `blackjax/` namespace can hold future BlackJAX samplers (HMC, MALA). Inherits `AbstractMCMC`, runs `blackjax.window_adaptation` warmup followed by NUTS sampling in a JIT'd `jax.lax.scan`, chunked by `iterations_per_full_update` for periodic `perform_update` flushes. Strict requirement: `Analysis(use_jax=True)` — clear error otherwise. Sampling in physical parameter space; bounded priors contribute -inf outside support. Single-chain v1 (`num_chains>1` raises `NotImplementedError`); resume stubbed for later. AutoCorrelations populated from BlackJAX per-param ESS via τ_int = N / ESS (canonical identity). Persistence via pickle under `search_internal/`. Target log-density built from `Fitness.call` directly (pure-JAX path; `call_wrap`/`__call__` were intentionally bypassed because they convert to Python float and would break NUTS gradients). `blackjax>=1.2.0` added to `optional-dependencies.optional` (lazy import in `_fit`). 7 unit tests + integration test on the 1D Gaussian (recovers truth within 0.05σ, ESS ~50% of num_samples, 0 divergences).

## point-simulator-realistic-errors
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/125
- completed: 2026-05-06
- workspace-prs: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/127, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/73, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/49
- repos: autolens_workspace, autolens_workspace_test, autolens_workspace_developer
- notes: Replaced unrealistic noise scales across 11 point-source scripts plus the local-only `z_projects/concr/simulators/cosmology.py`. Constants applied consistently — `position_noise = 0.005"` (5 mas, HST PSF-centroiding precision, replacing the imaging pixel scale ~0.05"), `time_delay_rel_noise = 0.05` (5%, replacing 25%), `flux_rel_noise = 0.05` (5%, replacing pure-Poisson `√flux` which gave ~100% relative error on unit flux). Scope expanded mid-implementation when `start_here.py` was found to have four separate sections with the bad patterns plus a latent bug — `positions_noise_map` was defined but the dataset constructor passed `grid.pixel_scale` instead. `cluster/simulator.py` had a docstring claiming the pixel scale *is* the positional uncertainty (the exact misconception this task fixed), rewritten in place. Cancer simulator confirmed orthogonal (Hill-curve dose-response, no positions/delays/fluxes). Two side findings worth follow-up prompts: (1) autolens_workspace_test 3.13 CI has been failing on main since at least 2026-05-01 with 7 `jax_likelihood_functions/*` failures (PR #73 inherited the identical list — not a regression); (2) the `worktree_check_conflict` helper silently exits 0 when `$PYAUTO_MAIN` isn't exported, which is how the original `/start_dev` missed a real conflict with #124. Notebook regeneration deferred to `/generate_and_merge`.

## blackjax-nuts-example
- issue: https://github.com/Jammy2211/autofit_workspace_developer/issues/13
- completed: 2026-05-06
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/Jammy2211/autofit_workspace_developer/pull/14
- repos: autofit_workspace_developer
- notes: Added `searches_minimal/nuts_jax.py` — BlackJAX NUTS on the same 1D Gaussian as the rest of the JAX scripts. Window adaptation tunes step size + diagonal inverse mass matrix; sampling runs in a JIT'd `jax.lax.scan`. Recovers truth in 1.83s, ESS 1216/2000, 0 divergences — fastest JAX path in the folder (beats nss_grad's 5.2s). Also wrote a non-git follow-up `z_projects/concr/scripts/cancer_sim/graphical_nuts.py` that runs joint NUTS over the 93-dim cancer-sim factor graph (4.4s wall, ESS 880/1000, 0 divergences); kept local since z_projects isn't tracked. Pre-task: shipped the unregistered `feature/searches-minimal-converged` work first (PR #12 — shared `_metrics.MLTracker` across all searches_minimal scripts) so this task could use `MLTracker.from_log_l_history` for evals/time-to-ML.

## datacube-positions-delaunay
- issue: none — direct followup to autolens_workspace#120
- completed: 2026-05-05
- workspace-prs:
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/123 (delaunay.py + RectangularAdaptDensity + positions + PositionsLH)
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/48 (mesh swap in likelihood_function.py)
- repos: autolens_workspace, autolens_workspace_developer
- notes: Three datacube follow-ups on top of PR #122. (1) Mesh swap RectangularUniform → RectangularAdaptDensity (modeling, start_here, dev likelihood walkthrough). (2) New delaunay.py sibling using `Overlay` image-mesh, `append_with_circle_edge_points` edge zeroing, `ConstantSplit` regularization, with `AdaptImages` paired with the source galaxy. (3) `PointSolver` positions block in simulator.py writes `positions.json`; all four modeling scripts load it and pass `PositionsLH(threshold=0.3)` to every per-channel `AnalysisInterferometer`. PositionsLH is essentially required for pixelized fits — without it the search routinely converges on demagnified-source local maxima.

## autogalaxy-wst-jax-grad-interferometer
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/issues/30
- completed: 2026-05-06
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/31
- repos: autogalaxy_workspace_test
- notes: Task 7/9 of the autogalaxy_workspace_test parity epic (#5). Created `scripts/jax_grad/interferometer/{lp.py, mge.py}` from scratch — autolens has no interferometer `jax_grad` reference. Both pass on CI 3.12 (`lp.py` 6.6s shape (7,), `mge.py` 11.7s shape (4,)). Used plain `ag.lp.Sersic` (not `lp_linear`) to match the validated `jax_likelihood_functions/interferometer/lp.py` setup. The `jax_grad/` env_vars override added in PR #29 already covered this PR — no env_vars.yaml change. Layout-divergence-from-autolens question now compounded by this PR (autolens has flat `jax_grad/imaging_*.py` and no interferometer scripts at all); suggested filing the autolens-retrofit follow-up after task 8 ships.

## autogalaxy-wst-jax-grad-imaging
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/issues/28
- completed: 2026-05-05
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/29
- repos: autogalaxy_workspace_test
- notes: Task 6/9 of the autogalaxy_workspace_test parity epic (#5). Ported autolens `jax_grad/imaging_{lp,mge}.py` to autogalaxy under a new `scripts/jax_grad/imaging/` subfolder; both scripts pass on CI 3.12 (`lp.py` 11.3s, `mge.py` 16.8s). Established subfolder layout convention even though autolens is currently flat — surfaced the retrofit question to the maintainer via PR body. Added `jax_grad/` env_vars override mirroring `jax_likelihood_functions/` (unsets `PYAUTO_SMALL_DATASETS` + `PYAUTO_DISABLE_JAX`). Pytree registration on `autogalaxy/imaging/model/analysis.py` was already in place from task 3.

## autogalaxy-wst-model-composition
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/issues/26
- completed: 2026-05-05
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/27
- repos: autogalaxy_workspace_test
- notes: Task 2/9 of the autogalaxy_workspace_test parity epic (#5). Ported `multi_galaxy_mge.py` from autolens_workspace_test, stripped to autogalaxy semantics (two galaxies sharing one plane, MGE light bases, no mass / shear / ray-tracing). Identifier regression anchor `a6eb928ed9a1fb92d0c18cf5443af4a6`. Required adding a `model_composition/` override to `config/build/env_vars.yaml` (mirrors the existing autolens override) because the `PYAUTO_SMALL_DATASETS=1` smoke default reduces `total_gaussians` inside `ag.model_util.mge_model_from`, collapsing `gaussian_per_basis=2` to 1 and breaking the structural prior_count assertions. Umbrella issue #5 also updated to tick tasks 4 and 5 (already shipped via PRs #17 and #19, checkboxes were stale).

## alma-datacube
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/120
- completed: 2026-05-05
- library-prs:
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1253 (AnalysisFactor.visualize_combined dispatch fix)
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/494 (VisualizerInterferometer combined plotter)
- workspace-prs:
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/46 (datacube/ Phase 1: simulator + JAX likelihood walkthrough)
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/122 (interferometer/features/datacube/ tutorial scripts)
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/72 (multi/visualization dispatch tests)
- repos: PyAutoFit, PyAutoLens, autolens_workspace, autolens_workspace_developer, autolens_workspace_test
- notes: ALMA datacube modeling — list-of-Interferometer FactorGraph prototype with shared lens and per-channel pixelized source. Phase 1 deliberately runs each channel's NUFFT and inversion independently. Two follow-up issues to file: (1) Aris's shared `Lᵀ W̃ L` optimisation that exploits channel-invariant uv_wavelengths/noise_map; (2) `Interferometer.list_from_fits_3d` helper in PyAutoArray. While verifying visualization, found and fixed a silent dispatch bug in `af.FactorGraphModel.visualize_combined` — `AnalysisFactor` had no `visualize_combined` method, so the auto-forwarder skipped the call for multi-dataset fits (imaging and interferometer both). Added forwarders in PyAutoFit + the missing `VisualizerInterferometer.visualize_combined` + `subplot_fit_interferometer_combined` plot in PyAutoLens.

## rst-to-myst-md-pass3
- issue: none — direct followup to PyAutoFit#1245 and pass2
- completed: 2026-05-04
- workspace-prs:
  - https://github.com/Jammy2211/autofit_workspace_developer/pull/11
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace_test/pull/22
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/71
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/25
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_base_project/pull/2
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/euclid_strong_lens_modeling_pipeline/pull/11
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/51
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/57
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/121
- library-prs:
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1251
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/387
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/493
- notes: Final sweep of `.rst` files across the workspace ecosystem (285 files, 9 workspace repos). Same playbook as passes 1 and 2: `rst2myst convert -R`, plain CommonMark hand-rewrite for the marketing READMEs (autofit/galaxy/lens workspaces) so badges/images render on GitHub, perl one-liner to fix rst-to-myst's escaped-dash continuation pattern in chapter READMEs, drop the leading `(references)=` MyST anchor from `CITATIONS.md`. Three repos had **non-rename code/script changes**: `autolens_base_project/hpc/sync` and `euclid_strong_lens_modeling_pipeline/hpc/sync` had `ROOT_FILES=(...README.rst...)` arrays that needed flipping to `README.md` or the sync script would skip the renamed file when copying to HPC; `autogalaxy_workspace/welcome.py` + `autolens_workspace/welcome.py` had prose docstring refs to `<repo>/README.rst` that needed flipping; and `autogalaxy_workspace/scripts/guides/hpc/example_cpu_and_gpu.{py,ipynb}` + `autolens_workspace/scripts/cluster/modeling.{py,ipynb}` had inline prose refs that needed updating in both the `.py` source-of-truth and the matching `.ipynb`. Tail: 3 follow-up PRs in PyAutoFit/Galaxy/Lens flipping the `docs/general/{configs,workspace}.md` prose refs from "README.rst" to "README.md" — these were deliberately deferred in pass 2 because they pointed at workspaces that hadn't been converted yet. **Two test workspaces (autolens_workspace_test, autogalaxy_workspace_test) had pre-existing 3.13 `jax_likelihood_functions/*` smoke failures** unrelated to this change — main was already red on the same scripts for days; merged with `--admin`. The autolens_base_project canonical checkout had pre-existing staged changes (CLAUDE.md, hpc scripts, scripts/template.py, skills/init-slam) that blocked the post-merge `git pull --ff-only`, left for user. The autofit_workspace_developer canonical checkout was on `feature/searches-minimal-converged` (unregistered work) so post-merge pull was skipped. Squash-merged in size order; library prose-ref tail merged last.

## rst-to-myst-md-pass2
- issue: none — direct followup to PyAutoFit#1245
- completed: 2026-05-04
- library-prs:
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoConf/pull/103
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/82
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/298
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1249
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/386
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/492
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/HowToFit/pull/6
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/HowToGalaxy/pull/5
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/HowToLens/pull/7
- notes: Followup to #1245 sweeping the rest of the prose `.rst` across the PyAuto ecosystem (84 files, 9 repos). Converted root `README.rst` and `CITATIONS.rst`, package `config/.../README.rst`, and HowTo* `notebooks/`+`scripts/` chapter READMEs. Lib root READMEs hand-rewritten as plain CommonMark with inline `[![alt](badge)](link)` syntax — `rst-to-myst`'s default output uses MyST `{image}` directives + `{{substitutions}}` which render as literal text on GitHub and PyPI. Side effects: `pyproject.toml` `readme` content-type → `text/markdown` (5 lib repos), `MANIFEST.in` `include README.md`/`CITATIONS.md` (5 lib repos), `PyAutoArray/docs/index.md` switched from `eval-rst` `.. include::` to MyST native `{include}`, `PyAutoGalaxy/PyAutoLens/docs/conf.py` dropped stale `.rst` entries from `exclude_patterns`. HowTo* chapter READMEs had `rst-to-myst`'s escaped-dash continuation pattern (`\- description`) rewritten as proper Markdown list items via a perl one-liner. Workspace prose refs in `docs/general/{configs,workspace}.md` deliberately left as `README.rst` — they point at the workspace repos which are not in scope for this pass. `docs/api/*.rst` and `docs/_templates/*.rst` deliberately kept as native RST (autosummary requirement). Squash-merged library-first.

## rst-to-myst-md
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/issues/1245
- completed: 2026-05-04
- library-prs:
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1246
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/383
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/487
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/294
- notes: Converted prose `.rst` docs to MyST `.md` across all four libraries using `rst-to-myst`; kept `docs/api/*.rst` as native RST since autosummary directives don't gain readability from the conversion. Branches sat for ~3 days while main advanced 7-15 commits per repo (jax cleanup, weak-lensing additions, EP cavity-message factor, etc.). Caught up via merge: the only docs-touching commits on main were two automated `2026.5.1.1`/`2026.5.1.4` Colab URL-tag bumps. Resolved modify/delete conflicts on the `.rst` siblings by keeping the deletions; ported the URL bump (`2026.4.13.6` → `2026.5.1.4`) to 1 file in PyAutoFit, 7 in PyAutoGalaxy, 7 in PyAutoLens; PyAutoArray merged clean. PRs squash-merged library-first.

## cluster-g-interferometer-pixelization-plot
- issue: none — direct fix for Cluster G + one Cluster H entry in `PyAutoBuild/test_results/runs/2026-04-29T14-48-47Z/triage.md`
- completed: 2026-05-03
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/297
- notes: 3 release-prep failures (autogalaxy `interferometer/features/pixelization/fit.py`, autolens equivalent, `autolens_workspace_test/scripts/interferometer/visualization.py`) all crashed at `PyAutoArray/autoarray/plot/array.py:199 — h, w = array.shape[:2]` with `ValueError: not enough values to unpack`. Root cause: `subplot_of_mapper` and `subplot_mappings` panel 0 fed `inversion.data_subtracted_dict[mapper]` straight into `plot_array`. For interferometer fits that dict entry is `Visibilities` (1D complex), not `Array2D`. Panels 1-3 already detected `Visibilities` and substituted a 2D image-plane equivalent (`mapped_reconstructed_data_dict`) — panel 0 had no equivalent guard. Fix: when the entry is `Visibilities`, transform to a 2D dirty image via `inversion.transformer.image_from(visibilities=...)` (same call `FitInterferometer.dirty_residual_map` uses at `fit_interferometer.py:203`). Imaging path byte-identical. Also confirmed Cluster H's `autolens_workspace_test/interferometer/visualization.py` failure was the same root cause (visualizer routes through `subplot_of_mapper`). One file, two near-identical edits in `inversion_plots.py`; no workspace changes needed. Verified: 3 originally-failing scripts now exit 0; `autolens_workspace/imaging/features/pixelization/fit.py` (sanity) still exit 0; `pytest test_autoarray/inversion/` 162 passed; full smoke 36 pass / 0 fail (the 6 euclid failures are a pre-existing workspace-version-pin mismatch, fire before any PyAutoArray code runs).

## cluster-e-missing-simulator-output
- issue: none — direct fix for Cluster E failures in `PyAutoBuild/test_results/runs/2026-04-29T14-48-47Z/triage.md`
- completed: 2026-05-03
- workspace-pr:
  - PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace#119
  - PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace#56
- notes: 5 failures all caused by missing `dataset/*/data.fits` files at script-run time, but two distinct root causes — not one as the triage suggested. Root cause 1 (1 file, 2 failing scripts): `point_source/features/deblending/simulator.py` hardcoded 4 lensed image positions but `PyAutoLens/autolens/point/solver/point_solver.py:90` short-circuits `PointSolver.solve()` to `[(1.0, 0.0), (0.0, 1.0)]` under `PYAUTO_SMALL_DATASETS=1`. Indexing `positions[2]` raised `IndexError`, no `data.fits` was written, and downstream `deblending/modeling.py` then hit `FileNotFoundError`. Fixed by building `point_image_{i}` kwargs from `len(positions)` so the simulator emits valid output in both smoke (2 images) and production (4 images) modes. Root cause 2 (4 files, 3 autolens guides + 1 autogalaxy guide): the build's `run_python.py` iterates `scripts/<dir>/` alphabetically, so `scripts/guides/` runs before `scripts/imaging/` where `dataset/imaging/simple/data.fits` is created. The 3 autolens guides (`data_structures.py`, `modeling/bug_fix.py`, `modeling/chaining.py`) had no auto-simulate snippet at all; the autogalaxy `guides/plot/start_here.py` had a snippet but pointed at `scripts/guides/plot/simulator.py` which writes `sersic_x2/`, not `simple/`. Added/fixed the canonical "if not dataset_path.exists(): subprocess.run([sys.executable, scripts/imaging/simulator.py])" pattern. The bug_fix.py snippet uses `os.path.exists` (not `Path.exists`) to match the script's existing `path.join` style. Verified end-to-end with `PYAUTO_SMALL_DATASETS=1 PYAUTO_TEST_MODE=1 PYAUTO_FAST_PLOTS=1` from a wiped dataset state: all 6 scripts (5 originally failing + the upstream simulator) exit 0; smoke 7/7 autolens, 6/6 autogalaxy. Pure workspace change, no library touched. Cluster E counted 5/48 release-prep failures.

## aggregator-quick-fit
- issue: none — direct fix for Cluster D failures in `PyAutoBuild/test_results/runs/2026-04-29T14-48-47Z/triage.md`
- completed: 2026-05-02
- workspace-pr:
  - PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace#55
  - PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace#118
- notes: 8 failures across `scripts/guides/results/aggregator/` in both workspaces — 4 timeouts (each example duplicated `search.fit()` uncapped) and 4 NoneType cascades (downstream readers loaded the partial output of the timed-out scripts). Root cause was that `start_here.py` had `n_like_max=300` gated on `test_mode_was_on`, but `env_vars.yaml` unsets `PYAUTO_TEST_MODE` for `guides/results/`, so the cap never fired during release-prep; meanwhile the aggregator scripts (`galaxies_fit.py`, `samples.py`) ran their own uncapped searches. Fix: introduced `scripts/guides/results/_quick_fit.py` (idempotent, `n_like_max=300` always) and routed every aggregator example through the existing auto-trigger pattern (`subprocess.run(_quick_fit.py)` if `output/results_folder/` is missing). `models.py`/`queries.py`/`samples_via_aggregator.py`/`data_fitting.py` had their existing subprocess targets redirected from `start_here.py` to `_quick_fit.py`; `galaxies_fit{,s}.py` and `samples.py` got the guard added at the top plus `n_like_max=300` defensively on their own search; `start_here.py` got its conditional cap dropped (now unconditional). Removed the four stale `no_run.yaml` lines per workspace (`guides/results/start_here`, three `guides/results/examples/*`, `data_fitting` stem). Verified end-to-end: `_quick_fit.py` completes in 14s (autogalaxy) / 33s (autolens), idempotent re-runs in 0.04s, `aggregator/models.py` exits 0 in both workspaces. Pure workspace change, no library touched.

## group-pixelization-delaunay-fixes
- issue: none — direct fix for Cluster A failures in group/features/pixelization smoke set
- completed: 2026-05-01
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/490
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/116
- notes: 5 group/features/pixelization scripts failed under the smoke profile (`PYAUTO_TEST_MODE=2 PYAUTO_SKIP_CHECKS=1`). Root cause was two distinct workspace bugs, not a library regression — the user's "one upstream constructor bug" framing was wrong. Bug A (4 scripts: fit, likelihood_function, delaunay, modeling): `Pixelization(mesh=Delaunay(...))` was passed to `FitImaging`/`AnalysisImaging` without an `image_plane_mesh_grid` via `AdaptImages`. Bug B (slam.py): chained `.positions` on `Result.positions_likelihood_from(...)` which returned `None` under `skip_checks()`. Bug A fix is workspace-only (PR #116) — added `Overlay` image-mesh + `AdaptImages` boilerplate matching `imaging/features/pixelization/delaunay.py`, and switched modeling-section regularization from `AdaptSplit` (needs prior-search adapt data) to `ConstantSplit`. Bug B fix is library-only (PR #490) — `positions_likelihood_from` now returns a synthetic `PositionsLH` under `skip_checks() + is_test_mode()` instead of `None`, preserving the workspace API; `slam.py` itself was left unchanged. Workspace PR was gated on library PR. Both merged.

## jit-visualization-env-overrides
- issue: none — direct fix for Cluster C in `PyAutoBuild/test_results/runs/2026-04-29T14-48-47Z/triage.md`
- completed: 2026-05-01
- workspace-pr:
  - PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test#24
  - PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test#70
- notes: 4 `modeling_visualization_jit*` integration scripts (1 in autogalaxy_workspace_test, 3 in autolens_workspace_test) failed in CI with `AssertionError: expected jax.Array, got <class 'numpy.float64'>`. Root cause was env-var-only: the CI defaults set `PYAUTO_DISABLE_JAX=1`, which `PyAutoFit/autofit/non_linear/analysis/analysis.py:42-46` intercepts and silently flips `use_jax_for_visualization` off, so `fit_for_visualization` returned a numpy `float64` and Part 1's `isinstance(..., jnp.ndarray)` failed. `PYAUTO_SMALL_DATASETS=1` would also have broken the hardcoded mask, and `PYAUTO_TEST_MODE=2` / `PYAUTO_FAST_PLOTS=1` would have broken Part 2's real-Nautilus + fit.png assertions. Fix: one new override entry per workspace's `config/build/env_vars.yaml` matching `imaging/modeling_visualization_jit`, mirroring the existing `jax_likelihood_functions/` precedent. Verified end-to-end PASS for all four scripts under the new env. Pure config change — no library or script edits.

## workspace-version-config-check
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoConf/issues/100
- completed: 2026-04-30
- library-pr:
  - PyAutoLabs/PyAutoConf#101
  - PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit#1241
  - PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy#380
  - PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens#484
  - PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild#70
- workspace-pr:
  - PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace#112
  - PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace#48
  - PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace#51
  - PyAutoLabs/HowToFit#4
  - PyAutoLabs/HowToGalaxy#4
  - PyAutoLabs/HowToLens#5
  - Jammy2211/euclid_strong_lens_modeling_pipeline#10
- notes: Workspace/library version mismatches now surface on every script run, not just `welcome.py`. `autoconf.workspace.check_version` reads `config/general.yaml`'s `version.workspace_version` (with `version.txt` fallback) and honours `version.workspace_version_check: False` as a YAML bypass — recommended for `main`-branch clones where mismatches are expected. PyAutoFit/Galaxy/Lens call the check on import. Release pipeline writes the new YAML key alongside `version.txt` via a regex Python shim (PyYAML strips comments, so round-trip wasn't viable). `verify_workspace_versions.sh` reports `ok` for all 7 workspaces — euclid_pipeline previously had no `version.txt` and was always SKIPped, now joins the standard flow. Smoke tests skipped at ship time because the workspace diffs are purely additive YAML + welcome.py line removals; pre-flight library-import silence + `verify_workspace_versions.sh = ok` covered the gate.

## howto-release-window
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/issues/64
- completed: 2026-04-30
- merged-prs:
  - PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild#65 (HowTo* repos as first-class members of release window)
  - Jammy2211/admin_jammy#13 (ensure_workspace_labels.sh helper)
- notes: Tooling/admin task — no Python API changes. Two new helpers shipped: `admin_jammy/software/ensure_workspace_labels.sh` (idempotent canonical-label sweep across 15 PyAutoLabs repos) and `PyAutoBuild/verify_workspace_versions.sh` (fail-fast guard against version.txt ahead of installed library — blocks release dispatch). `pre_build.sh` invokes both, runs `autogalaxy_workspace_test` (was missing entirely). `release.yml` wires `autogalaxy_workspace_test` into find_scripts/run_scripts (was orphaned — separate-prompt-worthy `autogalaxy_test` had no checkout block, no script_matrix.py arg, no run_scripts configure case). `CLAUDE.md` table now lists all 10 workspace-style repos. Local Claude commands updated (no PR — `~/.claude/commands/` not git-tracked): `start_workspace.md` invokes the label helper as L6/S5; `ship_workspace.md` and `ship_library.md` now verify the `pending-release` label landed via `gh pr view --json labels`, fail-loud if missing. Out-of-scope flagged: `release.yml:410` `autofit` configure branch sets `repository::PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy` (copy-paste bug); `run_notebooks` configure has no `_test` cases at all. Bug fix during impl: probe path in `ensure_workspace_labels.sh` initially branched on stdout (`gh api --jq` emits "null|" on 404), corrected to branch on exit code.

## smoke-notebooks
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/110
- completed: 2026-04-30
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/46, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/50, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/111
- doc: Jammy2211/admin_jammy@18bc6fb (skills/smoke_test/SKILL.md)
- notes: Adds `smoke_notebooks.txt` registry + notebook execution loop in `run_smoke.py`. Notebooks execute via `jupyter nbconvert` written to `/tmp` (notebooks/ on disk untouched). On failure the runner regenerates the single failing notebook from its `.py` source via PyAutoBuild's `py_to_notebook` and retries once — full-workspace regen stays in `generate.py`. autogalaxy_workspace and autolens_workspace gained their first-ever CI smoke workflow (modeled on `_test`); autofit_workspace's existing workflow extended. autogalaxy/autolens CI green on first run; autofit smoke red on the pre-existing `Gaussian.model_data_from() got an unexpected keyword argument 'xp'` PyAutoFit example bug (independent fix in flight).

## env-var-rename
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/issues/65
- completed: 2026-04-30
- workspace-pr:
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/66
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/21
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace_test/pull/18
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/63
- notes: Finished the `PYAUTOFIT_TEST_MODE` → `PYAUTO_TEST_MODE` rename in the two `_test` repos skipped by the prior pass (autolens, autogalaxy), and fixed a second silent no-op surfaced by a general scan: `PYAUTO_WORKSPACE_SMALL_DATASETS` (set in every `_test` build config and `PyAutoBuild/release.yml`) was never read by any library — consumers all check `PYAUTO_SMALL_DATASETS`. Both renames switched silent no-ops into canonical names that actually fire. Activating `PYAUTO_SMALL_DATASETS=1` for the first time exposed override gaps: autolens needed `model_composition/`, autogalaxy needed `aggregator/`, `imaging/model_fit`, and `imaging/visualization` (the entire imaging-overrides set autolens already had). All `unset: [PYAUTO_SMALL_DATASETS]` overrides match the established autolens pattern. `lp.py`/`mge.py` parallel write-race noted but not fixed — pre-existing, unrelated to the rename. Out of scope and untouched: `autolens_base_project/CLAUDE.md` (uncommitted local edits) and `z_projects/{cowls_diana,euclid_group,concr}/CLAUDE.md` (not git-tracked from this checkout) — doc references in those still mention the old names.

## welcome-start-here-fixes
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/108
- completed: 2026-04-30
- workspace-pr:
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/109
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/49
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/45
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/HowToLens/pull/4
- notes: Fixed welcome.py bugs across four workspaces. The reported `aa.Array2D` NameError in autolens_workspace was the visible symptom; auditing every workspace's welcome.py + start_here.py surfaced three more independent bugs — `aplt.LightProfile` removed in autogalaxy.plot, autofit_workspace loading a gitignored dataset path, and HowToLens pinned to a non-existent library release `2026.4.21.0`. autofit_workspace switched to synthesising the demo gaussian inline rather than loading from disk, matching the in-memory pattern used by autolens/autogalaxy welcome scripts. HowToLens version pin bumped down to 2026.4.13.6 to match the installed library and the rest of the workspaces — not a release rollback, the 2026.4.21.0 pin in the bootstrap commit was aspirational and never released. HowToLens shipped without the `pending-release` label because the label isn't registered in that repo yet (admin gap, not a blocker). Pre-existing PyAutoFit `xp` API drift in `example/analysis.py` surfaced via overview_1_the_basics.py smoke fail — reproduces on canonical main, deferred to its own task.

## verify-install-release-checks
- issue: https://github.com/Jammy2211/admin_jammy/issues/11
- completed: 2026-04-29
- tooling-pr: https://github.com/Jammy2211/admin_jammy/pull/12
- repos: admin_jammy
- notes: Split `/verify_install` into a standalone `verify_install.sh` (source of truth, aliased into ~/.bashrc) and a thin `verify_install.md` skill wrapper. Replaced the single pip+start_here.py probe with five independent checks A–E in throwaway envs: A=pip+welcome, B=3.9/3.11 rejection, C=conda flow, D=[optional] extra, E=yanked-pin (autolens==2025.10.6.1). Per-check PASS/FAIL/SKIP table; missing interpreter/conda → SKIP, never FAIL, so the suite is portable. CLI: `verify_install [A|B|C|D|E|all] [--version <v>] [--keep] [--help]`. Lightweight workflow (no worktree) since admin_jammy carries unrelated dirty state and the change is pure tooling — no test suite. Smoke-tested locally: --help, bad-arg paths exit 2, `verify_install B` on host without 3.9/3.11 → SKIP/SKIP/PASS. Real install paths (A/C/D/E) intentionally not exercised in this session — left as unchecked items in PR test plan; user runs them post-release.

## jax-likelihood-poisson-regen
- completed: 2026-04-29
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/64
- repos: autolens_workspace_test
- notes: Follow-up to autobuild-release-prep failures. Root cause: PyAutoArray be3a3a2f flipped the sign of `preprocess.poisson_noise_via_data_eps_from` (correct fix; old form mirrored Poisson skew). Because `dataset/` is gitignored, every fresh checkout re-simulates with the post-fix sign and produces noise maps that drift pixelization-driven likelihoods past `rtol=1e-4`; the recorded literals were captured against pre-fix simulator output. Considered converting `assert_allclose(np.array(result), <literal>, rtol=1e-4)` to relational `vmap ≈ NumPy-path` to immunise the suite against future simulator changes — explicitly rejected by user: "I want to keep hardcoded literals" — relational form would lose absolute regression detection on the NumPy path itself. Regenerated 11 literals in autolens_workspace_test (4 imaging-failed + 5 multi-failed + 2 imaging-borderline that drifted past tolerance during verification: delaunay_mge, mge_group). Updated `scripts/CLAUDE.md` testing-philosophy: removed "no hardcoded values" bullet, replaced with documentation that hardcoded literals are intentional regression markers + one-line regeneration recipe. Branch name `feature/jax-relational-baselines` from original plan; actual implementation kept literals — explained in PR body. autogalaxy_workspace_test was already relational throughout (no changes); autofit_workspace_test has no jax_likelihood_functions/ dir; interferometer/ + point_source/ were unaffected by the Poisson sign fix (Gaussian visibility noise / position datasets respectively) and kept their existing literals.

## truncated-normal-gradient-hessian
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/issues/1237
- completed: 2026-04-29
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1238

## adapt-images-mesh-grid-lookup
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/103
- completed: 2026-04-29
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/104
- repos: autolens_workspace
- notes: SLaM `light_lp` and `mass_total` helpers in `imaging/features/pixelization/delaunay.py` and `interferometer/features/pixelization/delaunay.py` built a fresh `AdaptImages` from `source_result_for_lens`'s image dict but silently dropped the `galaxy_name_image_plane_mesh_grid_dict` that `source_pix_2` had constructed. Under PYAUTO_TEST_MODE=2 (and any path exercising the helpers' likelihood end-to-end with a Delaunay/Voronoi/RectangularSplineAdapt source), the chained pixelization had no source-plane mesh grid, propagated `None` into `BorderRelocator.relocated_mesh_grid_from`, and crashed loudly. Fix: pull the dict forward from `source_result_for_source.analysis.adapt_images.galaxy_name_image_plane_mesh_grid_dict` rather than constructing fresh. No library change, no recipe re-execution, no defensive guard. Original prompt diagnosed at relocator/abstract-mesh layer in PyAutoArray; debug print of actual reproducer (PYAUTO_TEST_MODE=2 delaunay.py) showed the lookup was correct and the bug was the producer-side `AdaptImages` construction in two SLaM helper functions. Audit: only Delaunay/Voronoi/RectangularSplineAdapt source meshes consume `source_plane_mesh_grid` and need the fix; the canonical `slam_start_here.py` and most SLaM scripts use `RectangularAdapt*` which self-determine pixels and don't have the bug. The `group/*.py` SLaM scripts already pass `adapt_images` as a parameter (cleaner architecture). Considered but rejected a library helper `galaxy_name_image_plane_mesh_grid_dict_via_result_from(result, image_mesh)` — recipe varies too much per script (Overlay vs Hilbert, edge-points appended for Delaunay/Voronoi, `adapt_data` flow for adaptive meshes) to abstract cleanly. Imaging fix verified end-to-end: full SLaM pipeline (`source_lp[1]` → `source_pix[1]` → `source_pix[2]` → `light[1]` → `mass_total[1]`) ran to completion under PYAUTO_TEST_MODE=2. Interferometer fix structurally identical but not exercised end-to-end due to a pre-existing unrelated shape-mismatch bug in `interferometer/.../source_pix_2` (`add got incompatible shapes: (40, 40), (1070, 1070)` inside `inversion.fast_chi_squared`) — worth a separate ticket. Smoke run also flagged that `group/modeling.py` overwrites `dataset/group/simple/positions.json` with a test-mode stub — a smoke test should not be mutating real dataset files.

## positions-test-mode-fallback
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/477
- completed: 2026-04-29
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/479
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/102
- repos: PyAutoLens, autolens_workspace
- notes: PYAUTO_TEST_MODE safeguard added to `Result.positions_likelihood_from` (substitutes `[(1.0, 0.0), (-1.0, 0.0)]` when resolved positions are empty/NaN/inf — the original `ValueError: zero-size array to reduction operation fmax` from random test-mode mass models). PYAUTO_SMALL_DATASETS short-circuit added to `PointSolver.solve` (returns `[(1.0, 0.0), (0.0, 1.0)]` immediately, skipping the triangle-tile solve), letting the three group simulator scripts (`group/simulator.py`, `multi_gaussian_expansion/simulator.py`, `no_lens_light/simulator.py`) drop the `os.environ.pop("PYAUTO_SMALL_DATASETS")` workaround. Both fallbacks placed at the higher PyAutoLens layer rather than mutating `autoarray`'s `Grid2DIrregular.furthest_distances_to_other_coordinates` primitive — keeps autoarray pure and production fits still surface bad positions loudly. Reduced test footprint to a single unit test per user request (integration catches the rest); behavior documented inline via `Notes` sections on both methods. Smoke verification surfaced an unrelated downstream bug in `PyAutoArray/autoarray/inversion/mesh/border_relocator.py:450` (`'NoneType' object has no attribute 'array'` during inversion mesh build under PYAUTO_TEST_MODE=2) — pre-existing on main, was masked by the original positions crash, worth a separate ticket.

## merge-results-start-here
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/95
- completed: 2026-04-28
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/98, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/46
- repos: autolens_workspace, autogalaxy_workspace
- notes: Combined `guides/results/start_here.py` (simple JSON/FITS) and `guides/results/aggregator/start_here.py` (full aggregator) into one entry-point tutorial at `guides/results/start_here.py` for both workspaces. Simple loading first with `.exists()` guards on the `<unique_hash>` placeholder so the script runs cleanly before users replace it; aggregator section second, runs a real fit and walks the deeper API. Mirrored the autogalaxy `test_mode_was_on` / `n_like_max=300` conditional into autolens for parity — autolens previously had no such conditional, so manual `PYAUTO_TEST_MODE=1` runs short-circuited to a 1-sample mock; now both workspaces produce 300 samples. `samples.csv` displays as ~1 row in autogalaxy (Nautilus weight filtering keeps only high-weight survivors) but `samples_info.json: total_accepted_samples=300` confirms the search ran for 300 evals; autolens samples.csv shows 301 lines due to a more complex lens model. env_vars.yaml `pattern: "guides/results/"` override that unsets PYAUTO_TEST_MODE and PYAUTO_SKIP_FIT_OUTPUT during smoke runs is preserved and still load-bearing for downstream aggregator siblings. Discovered (out of scope for this PR) that `aggregator/models.py` and `data_fitting.py` etc. expose pre-existing PyAutoGalaxy aggregator bugs in test mode (`fit.value(name=name)[0].header` dereferences None; `_tracer_from` gets `instance=None`) — confirmed reproducible on main. Worth a separate issue if those scripts are ever added to the smoke test list.

## autogalaxy-wst-jax-lh-multi
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/issues/18
- completed: 2026-04-28
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/19
- repos: autogalaxy_workspace_test
- umbrella: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/issues/5 (task 5/9)
- notes: Ported 8 multi-band JAX-likelihood scripts from autolens_workspace_test (simulator, lp, mge, mge_group, rectangular, rectangular_mge, delaunay, delaunay_mge) into `scripts/jax_likelihood_functions/multi/`. Each fit script combines per-band `ag.AnalysisImaging` factors via `af.FactorGraphModel` and asserts NumPy/JIT scalar parity over `instance_from_vector → log_likelihood_function` (FactorGraphModel has no `fit_from`). Adapt-regularization variants (rectangular, rectangular_mge, delaunay, delaunay_mge) at rtol=1e-2 per the established imaging/interferometer convention; lp/mge/mge_group at rtol=1e-4. Self-contained simulator (no external fixtures). `delaunay_mge.py` enabled in smoke_tests.txt — JAX 0.7's `pytype_aval_mappings` removal does not bite on the multi path (matches interferometer; only single-dataset imaging delaunay_mge remains commented out). Sonnet-side mishaps caught: (1) initial Path A used JIT-vs-vmap on the same factor_graph(use_jax=True) — a tautology; rewrote all 4 pixelized scripts to do proper NumPy-vs-JIT via a separate factor_graph_np(use_jax=False); (2) first ship subagent committed+pushed but stalled before launching smoke; second subagent picked up cleanly at smoke + PR; (3) smoke runner pathing footgun — absolute python path bypassed cwd-relative subprocess.run inside fit scripts, fixed by wrapping in `(cd "$WS" && env ... python "$script")`. API gotcha: `ag.reg.Adapt` uses `inner_coefficient` not `coefficient`. Worth re-attempting the imaging delaunay_mge on a future task since interferometer and multi both work.

## autogalaxy-wst-jax-lh-interferometer
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/issues/16
- completed: 2026-04-28
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/17
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/376 (prerequisite, shipped earlier same day)
- repos: autogalaxy_workspace_test
- umbrella: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/issues/5 (task 4/9)
- notes: Ported 8 JAX-likelihood interferometer scripts from autolens_workspace_test (simulator, lp, mge, mge_group, rectangular, rectangular_mge, delaunay, delaunay_mge) into `scripts/jax_likelihood_functions/interferometer/`. Each fit script wraps `jax.jit(analysis.fit_from)` and asserts NumPy/JIT scalar parity, exercising the AnalysisInterferometer pytree registration shipped in PyAutoGalaxy PR #376 the same day. Three notable differences from the autolens reference: (1) self-contained simulator — synthetic 200-baseline uv-coverage generated inline via `np.random.default_rng(seed=1)`, no `sma.fits` dependency (sidesteps the gitignored-fixture issue that has had `interferometer/{mge,rectangular}.py` red on autolens CI for ≥1 week); (2) `delaunay.py` and `delaunay_mge.py` use a Sersic-image adapt-data instead of `dataset.dirty_image` (negative dirty pixels otherwise produce NaN via `sqrt(pixel_signal)` in AdaptSplit regularization) — matches autolens reference's actual intent; (3) `delaunay_mge.py` is enabled in smoke_tests.txt unlike its imaging counterpart — JAX 0.7's removal of `jax.interpreters.xla.pytype_aval_mappings` does not bite on the interferometer side. Worth revisiting whether the imaging delaunay_mge can be unblocked the same way. Tolerances: lp/mge/mge_group at rtol=1e-4 (sub-femtosecond); 4 adapt-regularization variants at rtol=1e-2 per imaging-port convention but actual diffs ≤ 9e-6.

## analysis-interferometer-pytree
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/issues/375
- completed: 2026-04-28
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/376
- repos: PyAutoGalaxy
- notes: Adds JAX pytree registration for `AnalysisInterferometer` (mirrors imaging scaffold from #364). Galaxies flatten/unflatten lifted into `autogalaxy/analysis/jax_pytrees.py::register_galaxies_pytree()`; imaging body collapsed from 41 → 11 lines as a side benefit. Quantity and Ellipse deferred to follow-ups. End-to-end JIT verification will land in the queued `autogalaxy_workspace_test_jax_likelihood_interferometer` task. Smoke tests: 42/42 passed.

## autoprompt-cleanup
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoPrompt/issues/15 (closed automatically via PR's "Closes #15")
- completed: 2026-04-28
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoPrompt/pull/16
- repos: PyAutoPrompt
- notes: Closes the autoprompt/ workflow-infrastructure sweep. Moved 05_sync_slash_command.md, 06_repo_health_audit.md, 08_test_summary.md → `issued/` (matches the 01/02/03 precedent of archiving shipped prompts). Deleted 07_worktree_only_edits.md (matches the 04 precedent — explicitly skipped during the sweep, no point keeping the spec). Rewrote `autoprompt/README.md` as a historical record with an Outcomes table (per-prompt status: Shipped / Shipped re-scoped / Skipped) plus What-shipped / What-deliberately-didn't sections, replacing the stale TODO-list framing that still referenced 04 and listed 07 as "the biggest fix". After this, `autoprompt/` contains only the README — closed chapter. Net: +68 / -166 lines, mostly the 07 deletion (121 lines) and the README rewrite.

## dashboard-test-summary
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoPrompt/issues/13 (closed automatically via PyAutoPrompt PR's "Closes #13")
- completed: 2026-04-28
- repo-prs (2):
  - admin_jammy: https://github.com/Jammy2211/admin_jammy/pull/8
  - PyAutoPrompt: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoPrompt/pull/14
- repos: admin_jammy, PyAutoPrompt
- notes: Implements autoprompt 08. Two changes on a shared `feature/dashboard-test-summary` branch. (1) admin_jammy/skills/smoke_test/SKILL.md — added step 7 "Persist summary to local cache" instructing the agent to write `~/.cache/pyauto/smoke/<workspace>.json` per workspace tested with workspace, completed_at (ISO 8601 UTC), passed, failed, skipped, total, duration_seconds. Step is idempotent; overwrites previous file for same workspace. (2) PyAutoPrompt/scripts/pyauto_status.sh — appended two new optional sections: "Smoke tests:" reading the cache JSONs (ANSI green if failed=0 else red, ✓/✗ symbol), and "Last autobuild run:" reading the committed PyAutoBuild/test_results/*.json files for an aggregate (jobs across workspaces, passed/failed/skipped totals, most-recent completed_at, PyAutoBuild HEAD short SHA — red if any failure). Both sections suppressed entirely when no JSONs exist, matching the existing Dirty-files / Follow-up-commands pattern. Single python invocation per section parses all JSONs to avoid per-file fork overhead. Total dashboard runtime measured at 2.7s on the live tree (well under 4s target). Smoke tested: empty cache → smoke section suppressed + autobuild section shows; seeded fixtures (autofit_workspace failed=0, autolens_workspace failed=2) → green ✓ and red ✗ rendered correctly. No bashrc changes needed (pyauto_status.sh already sourced + called from PyAuto() aliases). The skill-instruction approach for persisting summaries assumes the agent running /smoke-test follows step 7; if it drifts, the cache stays stale and pyauto-status shows old timestamps — degrades gracefully. Live-tree autobuild section currently shows: 2026-04-26, 7 jobs / 1 workspace / 153 passed / 16 failed / 28 skipped (from PyAutoBuild commit c0d5b87). Out of scope: library version detection (PyAutoLens injects VERSION at build time, no committed source), per-script breakdown, failure tracebacks, GitHub Actions API queries, helper script for JSON writing.

## pyauto-audit
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoPrompt/issues/11
- completed: 2026-04-28
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoPrompt/pull/12
- repos: PyAutoPrompt
- notes: Re-scoped autoprompt 06 (the heavyweight monthly cron audit spec). Shipped a 113-line `scripts/pyauto_audit.sh` defining a `pyauto-audit` shell function (sourced from `~/.bashrc` next to `pyauto_status.sh`) with three structural-state sections that the dashboard can't show: (1) top-level dirs under `~/Code/PyAutoLabs/` with no `.git`, skip prefixes `.` and `z_`; (2) stashes older than `PYAUTO_AUDIT_STASH_DAYS` (default 14); (3) local-only branches with no upstream and last commit older than `PYAUTO_AUDIT_BRANCH_DAYS` (default 30). Plain text output, sections suppressed when empty, single `clean` message when all clear. Always exits 0 — informational, user reads + decides. Live-tree dry run during smoke testing immediately found real signal: 4 stray non-git dirs (`bad/`, `path/`, `priors/`, `scripts/` — all bug artifacts the user can decide whether to delete), 3 old stashes (PyAutoFit 2026-04-02, PyAutoGalaxy 2026-04-07, PyAutoLens 2026-04-06 — all ~3 weeks old, real drift-from-stash candidates), 1 abandoned branch (`PyAutoFit/feature/ep` from 2026-02-18). Bug found-and-fixed during smoke testing — first implementation used `IFS=$'\t'` for splitting `for-each-ref --format='%09'` output, but bash treats consecutive whitespace IFS chars as one delimiter and collapsed the empty-upstream column into the timestamp; switched to `|` delimiter (matching Section 2's stash format). Same PR also deleted `autoprompt/04_source_of_truth_rule.md` (rejected during this sweep — covered by `pyauto-status` BEHIND counts + prompt 03's history-rewrite guard). Out of scope: cron schedule, severity ERROR/WARN/INFO tags, snooze file, untracked-file age scan (overlaps with prompt 02), tracked-file gitignore-noise scan (overlaps with prompt 02). Skipped autoprompts 04 (source-of-truth doc rule — redundant with dashboard + prompt 03) and 05 ($/sync$ skill — replaced by dashboard's Follow-up commands section in #10).

## dashboard-followup-commands
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoPrompt/issues/9
- completed: 2026-04-28
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoPrompt/pull/10
- repos: PyAutoPrompt
- notes: Re-scoped autoprompt 05 (the heavyweight `/sync` slash command spec). Instead of a separate `pyauto-pull` shell function or full `/sync` skill, extended `scripts/pyauto_status.sh` (~89 added lines) with two additions: (1) `b` flag glyph appended to FLAGS column when current branch ≠ upstream branch component (or upstream=NONE and branch ≠ main) — caught `euclid_strong_lens_modeling_pipeline` immediately as on `fix/extra-galaxies-gui-vis-index`. (2) "Follow-up commands:" section after the Dirty files listing, grouped by Pull (clean+behind+not-ahead → copy-pasteable `git -C <abs-path> pull --ff-only`), Set missing upstream (branch=main + upstream=NONE → `branch --set-upstream-to=origin/main main`), and Investigate manually (one-line note for diverged / behind+dirty / branch-mismatch — no auto-command). Section is suppressed entirely when nothing is actionable, so the clean case stays quiet. Smoke tested all three branches: synthetic `reset --hard HEAD~1` on HowToFit produced correct Pull line that fast-forwarded cleanly; synthetic `branch --unset-upstream` produced correct Set-upstream line that restored tracking. Replaces the rejected pyauto-pull function design — printed commands ARE the action; the user copy-pastes (or selects-all-pastes) what's appropriate. Boring case automated via copy-paste, judgment cases surfaced for manual handling. Autoprompts 04 (source-of-truth doc rule) skipped as redundant — `pyauto-status` at venv activation + prompt 03's history-rewrite guard already cover the failure modes that prompt 04 addressed.

## history-rewrite-guard
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoPrompt/issues/7 (umbrella, closed manually after all 17 PRs merged)
- completed: 2026-04-27
- repo-prs (17):
  - PyAutoConf: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoConf/pull/98
  - PyAutoFit: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1235
  - PyAutoArray: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/292
  - PyAutoGalaxy: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/373
  - PyAutoLens: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/478
  - autofit_workspace: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/43
  - autogalaxy_workspace: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/45
  - autolens_workspace: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/96
  - autofit_workspace_test: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace_test/pull/15
  - autogalaxy_workspace_test: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/15
  - autolens_workspace_test: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/61
  - autolens_workspace_developer: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/38
  - HowToFit: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/HowToFit/pull/3
  - HowToGalaxy: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/HowToGalaxy/pull/3
  - HowToLens: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/HowToLens/pull/3
  - PyAutoBuild: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/61
  - PyAutoPrompt: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoPrompt/pull/8
- skipped: autofit_workspace_developer, admin_jammy (no CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md present; creating new files just to host this section was deemed over-engineering)
- follow-up: 1) Optional `## General Rules` line augmentation (the new top-level section is strong enough; defer to follow-up if ever felt missing). 2) Pre-commit hook to block "Initial commit"-style messages on remote-tracked branches (per prompt 03 itself, can be a follow-up). 3) Project-level `~/Code/PyAutoLabs/CLAUDE.md` (untracked personal file, not in any repo) was edited in parallel with the PRs to host the same section.
- notes: Implements prompt 03 of the autoprompt/ workflow-infrastructure series — the `## Never rewrite history` guard added to every PyAuto repo's `CLAUDE.md` and/or `AGENTS.md` (whichever exist). 17 PRs on shared `feature/history-rewrite-guard` branch, all squash-merged 2026-04-27 in one parallel batch. 25 files touched in total: 8 repos with both CLAUDE.md + AGENTS.md (16 files), 8 repos with CLAUDE.md only, 1 repo (PyAutoPrompt) with AGENTS.md only. All edits idempotent — script checked for existing section before appending. The PyAuto/rhayes777 → PyAutoLabs migration is fully done (the `/start_dev` skill mapping is stale; all 17 repos resolve to PyAutoLabs/). No tests run (docs-only change).

## workspace-gitignore-noise
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoPrompt/issues/6 (umbrella, closed manually after all 8 PRs merged)
- completed: 2026-04-27
- workspace-prs:
  - autofit_workspace: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/42
  - autogalaxy_workspace: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/44
  - autolens_workspace: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/94
  - autofit_workspace_test: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace_test/pull/14
  - autogalaxy_workspace_test: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/14
  - autolens_workspace_test: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/60
  - autofit_workspace_developer: https://github.com/Jammy2211/autofit_workspace_developer/pull/8
  - autolens_workspace_developer: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/37
- repos: 8 workspaces (autofit/autogalaxy/autolens × workspace + workspace_test + autofit/autolens × workspace_developer; autogalaxy has no _developer variant)
- follow-up: 1) source-side script bugs that wrote `image.fits` and `path/to/model/json/model.json` at workspace roots — file separate issues if the patterns recur post-merge. 2) `**/images/` not in prompt 02's pattern set; `autogalaxy_workspace_test` still has untracked `scripts/imaging/images/` post-merge (out of scope; consider extending). 3) `pyauto-status` dashboard surfaced pyc pollution committed in `euclid_strong_lens_modeling_pipeline` — separate workspace not in this prompt's scope.
- notes: Implements prompt 02 of the autoprompt/ workflow-infrastructure series. One umbrella issue, 8 PRs on shared `feature/workspace-gitignore-noise` branch, all squash-merged 2026-04-27. Per-repo: appended prompt 02's pattern block to `.gitignore` (deduped against existing — most workspaces already had `__pycache__/`, `*.pyc`, `root.log`); ran `git rm --cached` for tracked files matching new patterns. 17 files total removed from tracking: 1 in autofit_workspace, 2 each in autogalaxy_workspace and autolens_workspace, 3 in autofit_workspace_test (incl. one stray `__pycache__/util.cpython-312.pyc`), 9 search.log files in autolens_workspace_developer (deep `output/output/` tree), 0 in the 3 _test/_developer variants that were already clean. autofit_workspace_developer had no `.gitignore` at all — created with the full block. Smoke tests skipped (one-time deviation; `.gitignore`-only changes have no behaviour impact). No new skill formalised — the "skip smoke for chore PRs" pattern can be revisited if it recurs frequently.

## dashboard-dirty-listing
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoPrompt/issues/4
- completed: 2026-04-27
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoPrompt/pull/5
- repos: PyAutoPrompt
- notes: Follow-up to pyauto-status-shell. Split the dashboard's single `DIRTY` column into `MOD` (tracked-modified) + `UNTR` (untracked) so accumulating noise is distinguishable from real edits-in-progress, and append a `Dirty files:` listing after the main table showing the actual `git status --porcelain` lines per repo (only repos with content; `??` and ` M` prefixes preserved). Cached porcelain output via a bash associative array so the listing reuses the same data the counts came from — no new git invocations. Day-1 use already surfaced real signal: pyc pollution committed in `euclid_strong_lens_modeling_pipeline`, untracked `scripts/imaging/images/` in `autogalaxy_workspace_test` (worth feeding into prompt 02's gitignore patterns), and 14 dirty entries in `autolens_base_project` worth a closer look. Sweep time unchanged at ~3s.

## pyauto-status-shell
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoPrompt/issues/2
- completed: 2026-04-27
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoPrompt/pull/3
- repos: PyAutoPrompt
- notes: Added `scripts/pyauto_status.sh` defining a `pyauto-status` shell function — a cross-repo git sync dashboard that prints branch, upstream tracking ref, behind/ahead counts, dirty count, and flag glyphs (↓ ↑ * !) for every git repo under `~/Code/PyAutoLabs/`. Sweep of 21 repos completes in ~4s with parallel `git fetch`. Handles missing upstream (`NONE` + `!` flag — caught a real bug: PyAutoPrompt's local `main` had no tracking config, fixed in post-merge cleanup), non-default upstream branches via `@{u}`, fetch failures, and non-git directories. Also extended `scripts/status.sh` with a `--repos` flag that delegates to `pyauto-status`. The function is wired into the `PyAuto`, `PyAutoGPU`, `PyAutoNoJAX` venv-activation aliases in `~/.bashrc` so the dashboard prints automatically every time the user enters the workspace, giving drift state visibility before any work begins. Skipped `PyAutoOld()` (targets a different directory). Implements prompt 01 of the autoprompt/ workflow-infrastructure series; complementary to (not blocking) prompts 02-07.

## pyautoprompt-path-cleanup
- issue: none — housekeeping task
- completed: 2026-04-27
- repos: PyAutoPrompt, autogalaxy_workspace, autogalaxy_workspace_test, autolens_workspace, autolens_workspace_test, autolens_workspace_developer
- notes: Updated all workspace and workspace_test repos to use the new PyAutoPrompt path layout (prompts/registry moved from admin_jammy/prompt/ to PyAutoPrompt). 6 PRs merged across 6 repos.

## cluster-simulator-jax-multiplane
- issue: https://github.com/Jammy2211/autolens_workspace/issues/89
- completed: 2026-04-27
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/91
- notes: Refactored `scripts/cluster/simulator.py` to (a) shrink to 2 main lens galaxies + 1 host halo (was 5), (b) move sources to distinct redshifts z=1.0 and z=2.0 for a true multi-plane lens, (c) JAX-jit the PointSolver via the pytree-registration pattern from `autolens_workspace_developer/jax_profiling/point_source/image_plane.py` (>5min → fast), (d) collapse 3 grids down to 2 (rendering grid shared between simulation and viz, PointSolver's internal grid kept separate), and (e) polish docstrings to match `scripts/imaging/simulator.py` tone with new `__Multi-Plane Setup__` and `__JAX JIT__` sections. Single-commit squash merge.

## db-scrape-build-dataset-path
- issue: none — surfaced by /health_check on 2026-04-27
- completed: 2026-04-27
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/58
- follow-up: 1) PyAutoGalaxy library bug — `abstract_fit.linear_light_profile_intensity_dict` raises `TypeError: __hash__ method should return an integer` during `subplot_fit_imaging` after the search completes. A light-profile object's `__hash__` returns a non-int. Surfaced once `general.py` could load its dataset; parked via `no_run.yaml` NEEDS_FIX 2026-04-27. Fix in PyAutoGalaxy → remove the no_run entry. 2) autolens_workspace_test CI smoke has been red on `main` for ≥1 week — `jax_likelihood_functions/{interferometer/mge,interferometer/rectangular,imaging/rectangular,multi/mge}.py` fail. Two are missing `dataset/interferometer/uv_wavelengths/sma.fits` (a gitignored fixture file present locally but never on CI), the other two are JAX-likelihood numerical mismatches at the rtol=1e-4 boundary. Investigation: either ship `sma.fits` properly (commit + remove from gitignore, or fetch in CI setup) and bump the JAX likelihood tolerances, OR park them in no_run.yaml.
- notes: Fixed 4 `database/scrape` consumer scripts (`general.py`, `scaling_relation.py`, `slam_general.py`, `slam_pix.py`) by adding `dataset_label = "build"` so they read from where the simulator writes. The simulator + every other non-database script in this workspace already used the `build/` convention; the db/scrape scripts had drifted. Auto-sim subprocesses had been "succeeding" while writing to a folder the consumer never reads. Caught the symptom only after the autogalaxy mask fix landed and brought the test workspace's smoke down to the single remaining failure. The dataset-path fix unmasks the PyAutoGalaxy `__hash__` library bug above. Local smoke (with `dataset/` symlinked into the worktree from canonical) was 11 PASS + 1 SKIPPED + 0 FAIL. CI on PR #58 was UNSTABLE because of the 4 pre-existing jax CI failures (which exist on `main` too — last main CI run was already FAILURE before this PR), so net effect on CI is strictly improved (5 fails → 4 fails).

## auto-generate-mask-extra-galaxies
- issue: none — surfaced by /health_check on 2026-04-27
- completed: 2026-04-27
- workspace-pr:
  - autogalaxy_workspace: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/41
  - autolens_workspace: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/90
- follow-up: Both merge commits accidentally include smoke artifacts (`image.fits` and `path/to/model/json/model.json` at workspace root). Cause: the worktree was clean when created from main, but smoke runs in the worktree generated those files at the workspace root and Sonnet's `git add -A` swept them into the commit. Future fix: either (a) tiny cleanup PR per workspace removing the files + adding to `.gitignore`, or (b) tighten the ship subagent contract to use `git add scripts/ config/` instead of `-A`. The committed JSON output paths come from a relative-path bug in some script writing fit results to `path/to/model/json/` — worth tracing back too.
- notes: Moved `mask_extra_galaxies.fits` creation into each simulator that owns the affected dataset, so consumer scripts (start_here, modeling, fit, pixelization) can load the mask without spawning a data-prep subprocess. Geometry is derived from each simulator's own extra-galaxy centres + `effective_radius` (or all-False for "simple" datasets that have no extra galaxies but whose pixelization tutorials demo `apply_noise_scaling`). `Mask2D.circular` honours `PYAUTO_SMALL_DATASETS=1`, so masks auto-shrink to 15x15 and the env var no longer causes out-of-bounds slicing. Also fixed the optional standalone `mask_extra_galaxies.py` and `extra_galaxies_centres.py` in both workspaces (they targeted `dataset_name = "simple"` while writing centres + mask geometry that only made sense for `extra_galaxies` — a stale copy-paste). Removed 8 now-redundant `if not (mask file).exists() -> subprocess optional script` blocks across 6 consumers. Sister-fixed an unrelated typo in `autolens/scripts/interferometer/features/extra_galaxies/modeling.py` where the auto-sim subprocess pointed at the imaging simulator instead of the interferometer one (would have crashed any first-time user without the dataset cached). Smoke 13/13 green in both workspaces, including the previously-failing `autogalaxy/imaging/start_here.py`. PyAutoArray 748/748 unit tests still green (no library impact).

## preprocess-poisson-noise-sign-fix
- issue: none — surfaced by /health_check on 2026-04-27
- completed: 2026-04-27
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/290
- notes: Fixed sign of Poisson noise term in `autoarray.preprocess.poisson_noise_via_data_eps_from`. Old code returned `data − noisy`, so `data_eps_with_poisson_noise_added` produced `2·data − noisy_data` (mirrored skew — same mean and variance, but Poisson's positive skew flipped negative). Now returns `noisy − data` so `data + noise = noisy_data`. Also rewrapped result via `data_eps.with_new_array(...)` to preserve `Array2D` type (the in-progress edit had inadvertently let numpy's operator dispatch return a raw ndarray, breaking `.native` access in callers). Regenerated expected values for 2 unit tests + 4 simulator tests; 748/748 PyAutoArray pytest green. Behavioural change only — no public signatures touched. Workspace simulators that use `add_poisson_noise_to_data=True` will produce correctly-skewed data going forward; previously committed dataset/*.fits files remain valid (just systematically different) and will refresh on next simulator run.

## point-source-gradients
- issue: none — invoked via /remote-control from admin_jammy/prompt/autolens_workspace_developer/point_source_gradients.md
- completed: 2026-04-26
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/35
- follow-up: PointSolver is reverse-mode opaque — every stage chained through `solver.solve` returns identically zero gradient even when forward values are correct. Library-side fix would need a `jax.custom_vjp` wrapper around the triangle-subdivision path (or a continuous relaxation of the lens-equation root-finding). Separately: latent bug in `PyAutoGalaxy/autogalaxy/operate/lens_calc.py:404` (`jnp.array(grid[:, 0])` should be `jnp.array(grid.array[:, 0])`) — surfaces as `ValueError: object __array__ method not producing an array` for `Grid2DIrregular` inputs under a JAX trace. Not on the critical path here (full pipeline routes around it via `AnalysisPoint.magnifications_at_positions`'s `aa.ArrayIrregular` wrap), but worth fixing before someone calls `LensCalc.magnification_2d_via_hessian_from(grid_irregular, xp=jnp)` directly.
- notes: Two new JAX gradient probes under `jax_profiling/point_source/` mirroring the imaging probes. **Source-plane probe — 4/4 PASS**, including the full pipeline via `Fitness.call` (||grad|| ≈ 33916, 7/8 nonzero). The big finding: even though `source_plane.py` documents a forward-JIT blocker (`Grid2DIrregular.grid_2d_via_deflection_grid_from` not propagating `xp`), `jax.value_and_grad` does not require lowering at the same boundary, so the source-plane likelihood IS differentiable end-to-end today. NUTS / HMC against `AnalysisPoint(FitPositionsSource)` is viable now. **Image-plane probe — 0/4 PASS**, all four stages return grad=0 (forward values match eager NumPy to float64). The triangle-subdivision solver kills gradient flow at the boundary; a NUTS user would see a flat likelihood landscape — probe surfaces this cleanly. Implementation note: source-plane Step 3 dropped magnification (used residual+noise chi-squared instead) to route around the latent `lens_calc._hessian_via_jax` bug above; Step 4 (full pipeline) still exercises magnifications via the AnalysisPoint code path. Image-plane Step 1 originally returned `value=inf` because `solver.solve(remove_infinities=False)` keeps inf-padded sentinel rows; added a `finite_mask` reduction so the probe reports the cleaner "finite value, zero grad" diagnostic. Both probes' regression-stability comes from reusing the seeded `simulators/point_source.py` (noise_seed=1) that the existing `image_plane.py` / `source_plane.py` profilers already validate (EXPECTED_LOG_LIKELIHOOD_IMAGE_PLANE = 0.07475703623045682, EXPECTED_LOG_LIKELIHOOD_SOURCE_PLANE = -294.1401881258811).

## adapt-images-pytree-fix
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/issues/369
- completed: 2026-04-26
- library-pr:
  - PyAutoGalaxy: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/370
  - PyAutoLens: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/474
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/12
- notes: Fixed `AdaptImages` lookups crashing across the `jax.jit` boundary for any model using adapt images. Added `AdaptImages.galaxy_path_list` parallel to the analysis-time galaxies list and helpers `image_for_galaxy` / `image_plane_mesh_grid_for_galaxy` that try by-instance lookup first then fall back to identity-positional path-tuple lookup. `GalaxiesToInversion` gained `path_galaxies` ctor arg so autolens can pass `tracer.galaxies` (the full flat list) into per-plane GalaxiesToInversion. Removed both the autogalaxy single-mesh-grid fallback (`to_inversion.py:428-442`) and the autolens single-pixelated-galaxy fallback (`autolens/lens/to_inversion.py:280-290`) — both were workarounds for the same root cause that only happened to cover single-pixelization fits. Workspace re-port: restored adapt variant of `rectangular.py` and added `rectangular_mge.py` (multi-galaxy regression for the path-tuple path), `delaunay.py`, `delaunay_mge.py` under `scripts/jax_likelihood_functions/imaging/`. Re-enabled `rectangular_mge.py` + `delaunay.py` in `smoke_tests.txt`; `delaunay_mge.py` committed but commented to mirror autolens's JAX-0.7 deferral. NumPy↔JIT tolerance set to `rtol=1e-2` for autogalaxy adapt scripts (`delaunay.py` and `rectangular_mge.py` agree much tighter; `rectangular.py` has ~0.2% drift in the `Adapt` regularization solver path between NumPy and JAX float ordering — unrelated to the lookup fix).

## imaging-delaunay-gradients
- issue: none — invoked via /remote-control from admin_jammy/prompt/autolens_workspace_developer/imaging_delaunay_gradients.md
- completed: 2026-04-26
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/33
- follow-up: PyAutoArray needs `jax.custom_jvp` wrapper around `jax_delaunay`'s `scipy.spatial.Delaunay` host call (file/line: `autoarray/inversion/mesh/interpolator/delaunay.py:80`)
- notes: New JAX gradient probe `jax_profiling/imaging/delaunay_gradients.py`, modelled on `pixelization_gradients.py` + `mge_gradients.py` — closes the third corner of imaging gradient-probe coverage (alongside MGE and rectangular pixelization). 11 stages: ray-trace, blurred lens light, profile-subtracted, Delaunay mapping matrix (pre-PSF), blurred mapping matrix (post-PSF), data vector D, curvature matrix F, regularization matrix H (ConstantSplit), NNLS reconstruction, mapped reconstructed image, full pipeline via `Fitness.call`. Includes a `_diagnose_kappa` block adapted from `mge_gradients.py` (loops `target_kappa ∈ {1e-3, 1e-2, 1e-1, 1.0}` calling `jaxnnls.pdip` primitives directly). Diagnostic only — does not raise on FAIL. Setup mirrors `delaunay.py` (Overlay mesh + circle edge points, ConstantSplit regularization, AdaptImages reconstructed inside the JIT trace). Eager regression value `-62305.31055677842` is the perturbed-params (PRNGKey(42), uniform 0.01-0.05) log_evidence — different from `delaunay.py`'s un-perturbed +29179.95, same divergence pattern as `pixelization_gradients.py` vs `pixelization.py`. Result on main (PyAutoArray @ 4ea58e1a): 3/11 PASS, 8/11 ERROR — Steps 1-3 (pre-inversion) PASS clean; Steps 4-11 (everything that touches the Delaunay inversion via `_fit_jax`) ERROR with shared `ValueError: Pure callbacks do not support JVP. Please use jax.custom_jvp to use callbacks while taking gradients.` raised from `jax_delaunay`'s `scipy.spatial.Delaunay` host call. The Delaunay inversion path is currently *un-differentiable end-to-end*, not silently zero-gradient — `pure_callback` has no JVP rule, so any `value_and_grad` through it hard-errors. The PART B.5 NNLS kappa diagnostic also can't run yet for the same reason; once the Delaunay JVP is added (likely a zero-JVP rule, since the triangulation is a discrete combinatorial structure) the kappa loop should produce useful output. Two minor wins discovered along the way: (a) `pixelization_gradients.py`'s `tb.strip().splitlines()[-1]` pattern in `test_grad` is fragile under JAX's traceback-filtering footer — replaced with `f"{type(e).__name__}: {e}"` so the summary table shows the actual exception, not JAX's footer note (worth backporting to mge/pixelization probes if they ever start producing ERROR rows); (b) the `JAX leaves on instance pytree` diagnostic only works for the `register_model` + `params_tree` style (mge_gradients.py), not the flat-vector `instance_from_vector(vector=params, xp=jnp)` style used here and in `pixelization_gradients.py` — for the flat-vector path the relevant pytree-readiness signal is the gradient shape printed by `test_grad`, not a leaf count.

## restore-data-preparation-scripts
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/85
- completed: 2026-04-26
- workspace-pr:
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/40
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/88
- notes: Restored 17 data_preparation scripts (8 autogalaxy + 9 autolens) wiped by commit 27eda214 — kept the current header + `__Contents__`, spliced the implementation body back in from /mnt/c/Users/Jammy/Code/PyAutoOld/AIBACKUP. All imaging examples now point at the `simple` dataset and gained a `__Dataset Auto-Simulation__` block invoking `scripts/imaging/simulator.py`; both interferometer scripts gained the same snippet pointing at `scripts/interferometer/simulator.py`. Added `.script_sizes.json` snapshot + `scripts/check_sizes.sh` (warns on >50% shrinkage; override via `ALLOW_SHRINK=1`) and a "Bulk-edit safety" section in each workspace's CLAUDE.md to prevent recurrence. Audit confirmed `guides/results/start_here.py` shrinkage was an intentional rewrite (commit 04fe40f9), and the autofit `plot/CamelCase.py`/`searches/CamelCase.py` deletions were rename-to-snake-case and per-family merges (39c1e6e, 530d4c7) — neither were truncations. Smoke caveat for autolens 3 scripts (`imaging/modeling.py`, `imaging/fit.py`, `interferometer/modeling.py`): worktree-only failure due to `PYAUTO_SMALL_DATASETS=1` triggering `shutil.rmtree(<symlink>)` on the dataset symlinks I'd added; canonical main passes — not a regression. Pre-existing autogalaxy `imaging/start_here.py` smoke fail (`extra_galaxies/mask_extra_galaxies.fits` missing) noted on `test-mode-visualize` reproduces here and is orthogonal.

## ag-imaging-scripts
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/issues/10
- completed: 2026-04-26
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/367
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/11
- notes: Ports four imaging integration tests from autolens_workspace_test/scripts/imaging/ to single-galaxy autogalaxy (model_fit, visualization, visualization_jax, modeling_visualization_jit). Library side: ag.AnalysisImaging.__init__ had a custom signature that didn't forward **kwargs, breaking AnalysisImaging(use_jax_for_visualization=True) — fixed by adding **kwargs forwarding (mirrors al.AnalysisImaging which inherits from AnalysisDataset directly). Smoke side: PYAUTO_FAST_PLOTS=1 skipped savefig and broke visualization.py's file-existence assertions; first attempt was os.environ.pop in the script (user pushed back), correct fix is a per-pattern unset in config/build/env_vars.yaml — saved to memory.

## test-mode-visualize
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/issues/59
- completed: 2026-04-26
- workspace-pr:
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/60
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/39
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/87
- notes: Workspace smoke runs of `fits_make.py` / `png_make.py` were silently producing no `.png` files even with `PYAUTO_SKIP_VISUALIZATION` unset. Root cause turned out to be `PYAUTO_FAST_PLOTS=1` (a smoke-runner default) short-circuiting `subplot_save` / `save_figure` in `autoarray/plot/utils.py` to `plt.close(fig); return` before any save. Fix: per-script env_vars override unsets both `PYAUTO_SKIP_VISUALIZATION` and `PYAUTO_FAST_PLOTS` for `fits_make` / `png_make` patterns, plus `n_like_max=300` cap on the three workflow scripts (csv_make / fits_make / png_make in both autogalaxy and autolens workspaces) so the Nautilus searches finish in seconds. PyAutoBuild side drops the `fits_make` / `png_make` skip entries from `no_run.yaml`. Pre-existing autogalaxy `imaging/start_here.py` smoke fail (missing `dataset/imaging/extra_galaxies/mask_extra_galaxies.fits`) is orthogonal — already broken on main, not caused by this task.

## latent-fitexception-safe
- issue: none — follow-up to autofit_workspace_test smoke-test cleanup
- completed: 2026-04-26
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1233
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace_test/pull/13
- notes: `Analysis.compute_latent_samples` now catches per-sample `FitException` in the non-JAX branch and substitutes a NaN row, then a row-mask filter drops those samples before the existing per-latent column mask. Motivated by stochastic CI flake on `features/assertion.py` under `PYAUTO_TEST_MODE=1` (reduced iterations + real sampler): Dynesty's `sample_list` occasionally contains parameter vectors that violate the model's inequality assertions, and the post-fit latent loop calling `model.instance_from_vector` would raise `FitException` and kill the entire fit. JAX path untouched (jit/vmap can't raise Python exceptions anyway). Workspace side flips `features/assertion` env_vars override from `unset: [PYAUTO_TEST_MODE]` (which fell back to `0`, ~67–107s) back to `set: PYAUTO_TEST_MODE: "1"` (~6s). 5/5 stable smoke runs locally; 2 CI runs × 2 Python versions all pass.

## rectangular-spline-mesh
- completed: 2026-04-22
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/289
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/30
- follow-up: admin_jammy/prompt/autolens/rectangular_spline_gradient_smoothness.md
- note: Shipped `RectangularSplineAdaptDensity` / `RectangularSplineAdaptImage` — spline-CDF variants of the adaptive rectangular meshes, intended for gradient-based samplers (HMC / NUTS / VI). Degree-11 polynomial fit to the inverse empirical CDF on Chebyshev nodes plus cubic-Hermite spline inverter, replacing the C⁰ `jnp.interp` empirical-CDF transform with a C¹ smooth one. Ported RSE JAX notebook (`z_staging/rect_adap_spline_invert_jax (1).ipynb`) in xp-aware form; normal-equations solve in place of `jnp.polyfit` to keep JAX compile ≤10s. `InterpolatorRectangularSpline` subclasses `InterpolatorRectangular` so existing `isinstance` dispatch in `plot/inversion.py` picks it up automatically (fixed an empty-source-plane bug that surfaced during first PNG review). `MeshGeometryRectangular` carries a `spline_deg` so `areas_transformed` / `edges_transformed` use the spline helpers when required (needed for `AdaptiveBrightness` regularization). 12 new pure-numpy unit tests, 60/60 existing pixelization tests green. Truth-parameter eager fit on HST reconstructs a concentrated central source for both linear and spline; log-evidence within ~3e-4 relative (spline +7.5 vs linear baseline). Known limitation: under JIT the spline log_L shows small point-to-point oscillations across an einstein_radius sweep where the linear path is monotone — the gradient-smoothness story the spline was meant to deliver is not yet demonstrated end-to-end. Follow-up prompt (`rectangular_spline_gradient_smoothness.md`) contains hypotheses (floor/ceil routing, monotone-clamp transitions, digitize method) and a bisect plan.

## test-no-run-reasons-fix
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/issues/56
- completed: 2026-04-22
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/57
- note: Two-line assertion fix in `tests/test_result_collector.py::test_parse_no_run_reasons` — the test was asserting `"GetDist" in reasons` but commit `e72a077` ("Rename per-sampler plotter stems to snake_case") had renamed the YAML entry to `get_dist`, so `pytest tests/` was failing on every run. Surfaced while shipping PR #55 (howtofit-register), where the failing test had to be `--deselect`ed. Switched assertions to `get_dist` to match the YAML. No production code or config changed. 40/40 tests now green with no deselects.

## howtofit-register
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/issues/54
- completed: 2026-04-22
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/55
- umbrella: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/issues/38 (sub-4 of 4 — umbrella complete)
- note: Final sub-task of the HowToFit extraction. Registered `howtofit` as a first-class build target in PyAutoBuild, mirroring the HowToLens / HowToGalaxy pattern from PR #53: added `run_workspace "HowToFit" "howtofit"` to `pre_build.sh`, six `release.yml` edits (Checkout block, `script_matrix.py` arg, `generate_notebooks` matrix entry, two resolver branches mapping `howtofit` → `PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit` + `project::autofit`, release-matrix entry with `package: PyAutoFit`), extended `bump_colab_urls.sh` regex alternation to include `HowToFit`, and seeded empty `howtofit:` / `howtofit: []` entries in `copy_files.yaml` and `no_run.yaml`. Tests: 38 passed; one pre-existing failure (`test_parse_no_run_reasons` — expects `GetDist` but `no_run.yaml` has `get_dist` after an earlier snake_case rename, broken on `main`) deselected as unrelated — worth a follow-up cleanup. First real validation is the next `/pre_build` release workflow dispatch, where HowToFit will be checked out, tested, Colab-URL-bumped, and published for the first time.

## howtofit-bootstrap
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/issues/38
- completed: 2026-04-22
- sub-prs:
  - sub-1 (HowToFit scaffold): https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/HowToFit/pull/1
  - sub-2 (remove howtofit/ from autofit_workspace + cross-refs): https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/39
  - sub-3 (update PyAutoFit library URLs + docs/howtofit/): https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1231 (shipped as howtofit-docs-update)
  - sub-4 (register howtofit target in PyAutoBuild): https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/55 (shipped as howtofit-register)
- note: Umbrella task for the HowToFit extraction. Moved HowToFit from `autofit_workspace/scripts/howtofit/` into a standalone `PyAutoLabs/HowToFit` repository with its own CI, seeded by the existing chapter scripts/notebooks/config/dataset. All four sub-tasks merged on 2026-04-22. HowToFit is now built and released by the same PyAutoBuild pipeline as HowToGalaxy and HowToLens.

## howtofit-docs-update
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/issues/1230
- completed: 2026-04-22
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1231
- umbrella: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/issues/38 (sub-3 of 3)
- note: Sub-3 of the HowToFit extraction. Deleted `docs/howtofit/` Sphinx chapter tree (4 .rst files, ~174 lines), removed the `:caption: Tutorials:` toctree block from `docs/index.rst`, and rewrote every `pyautofit.readthedocs.io/howtofit/…` and `Jammy2211/autofit_workspace/…/howtofit/…` URL across 19 files to point at the standalone `PyAutoLabs/HowToFit` repo. Touched: 7 `docs/api/*.rst` cross-refs, `docs/general/workspace.rst` (HowToFit section rewritten to "standalone repo" framing), `docs/features/graphical.rst` (2 prose refs hyperlinked), `docs/overview/statistical_methods.rst`, `docs/cookbooks/multiple_datasets.rst`, `docs/science_examples/astronomy.rst`, `README.rst` (header link + body refs), `paper/paper.md` (JOSS paper prose — URL + framing only, no scientific content altered), plus two README-style refs in `docs/index.rst` caught by the verification grep after first pass. Docs-only: 1232 unit tests pass unchanged; no API surface modified. Follow-up still pending on umbrella issue #38: register `howtofit` build target in PyAutoBuild.

## autogalaxy-wst-jax-lh-imaging
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/issues/8
- completed: 2026-04-22
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/364
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/9
- umbrella: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/issues/5 (task 3/9)
- notes: Added `_register_fit_imaging_pytrees` staticmethod on `ag.AnalysisImaging` (mirrors autolens) + custom `Galaxies` list-subclass pytree flatten. Workspace side: simulator.py + 4 JAX-likelihood imaging scripts (lp, mge, mge_group, rectangular-non-adapt). Deferred 3 adapt-image variants (rectangular_mge, delaunay, delaunay_mge) to a follow-up library task tracked at `admin_jammy/prompt/autogalaxy/adapt_images_pytree_fix.md` — post-unflatten `self.galaxies` has fresh `Galaxy.id`s that don't match `adapt_images.galaxy_image_dict` (aux) keys. Autolens's rectangular.py passes today despite having the apparent same setup — root-cause diff deferred to that follow-up. Gotchas: `ag.lp_linear.Sersic` on a single-galaxy model returns empty `blurred_image` (inversion required); `raise_inversion_positions_likelihood_exception` is autolens-only.

## autogalaxy-wst-ci
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/issues/6
- completed: 2026-04-22
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/7
- umbrella: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/issues/5 (task 1/9)
- notes: Added `.github/workflows/smoke_tests.yml`, `.github/scripts/run_smoke.py`, and `config/build/env_vars.yaml` — mirrors autolens_workspace_test's smoke-test setup with PyAutoLens stripped. CI green on Python 3.12 and 3.13. `pending-release` label was created on the repo for the first time during this PR. env_vars.yaml ships only the `jax_likelihood_functions/` override; sibling tasks 2–9 will add per-path overrides alongside their scripts.

## register-howto-repos
- completed: 2026-04-21
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/53
- note: Closed the two long-standing follow-ups from the HowToLens extraction (PyAutoLens PR #468) and HowToGalaxy extraction (PyAutoGalaxy PR #363). Registered `HowToLens` and `HowToGalaxy` as first-class build targets in PyAutoBuild: added both to `pre_build.sh`, all five `release.yml` workspace stages (`find_scripts`, `generate_notebooks`, `run_scripts` Configure, `run_notebooks` Configure, `release_workspaces`), and seeded `autobuild/config/{copy_files,no_run}.yaml`. Extended `bump_colab_urls.sh` regex from `(autofit|autogalaxy|autolens)_workspace` to also match `HowToGalaxy`/`HowToLens` — load-bearing, since the `bump_library_colab_urls` job would otherwise silently skip every HowTo URL we just wrote into PyAutoGalaxy/PyAutoLens docs, paper.md, and READMEs. Locally verified: `script_matrix.py` produces 12 valid matrix entries across the two repos; `generate.py howtogalaxy` generates 24 notebooks + root `start_here.ipynb`; `generate.py howtolens` generates 39 notebooks + root `start_here.ipynb`; `bump_colab_urls.sh` fixture test bumps all three URL shapes. Full CI exercise happens on the next `/pre_build` run.

## howtogalaxy-sub3
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/issues/362
- completed: 2026-04-21
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/363
- note: Sub-task 3 of 3 — and final step — of the HowToGalaxy extraction. Migrated every HowToGalaxy URL across README, docs toctree, per-chapter pages, `docs/general/workspace.rst`, `docs/howtogalaxy/howtogalaxy.rst`, `docs/overview/overview_2_new_user_guide.rst`, `paper/paper.md`, and `CLAUDE.md` to the new `PyAutoLabs/HowToGalaxy` repo at tag `2026.4.13.6` (matches workspace version at extraction). Colab URLs drop the redundant `howtogalaxy/` segment since the new repo root *is* the tutorial series. Prose rewritten to frame HowToGalaxy as a standalone repo. Umbrella issue PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace#35 now fully closed (all 3 sub-tasks merged). Follow-up still pending: register HowToGalaxy in PyAutoBuild so `/pre_build` can create future version tags automatically (matches the HowToLens follow-up from PyAutoLens PR #468).

## howtogalaxy-sub2
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/issues/36
- completed: 2026-04-21
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/37
- note: Sub-task 2 of 3 of the HowToGalaxy extraction. Deleted `scripts/howtogalaxy/` + `notebooks/howtogalaxy/` (70 files) now that the series lives at PyAutoLabs/HowToGalaxy. Relocated the sersic simulator dependency to `scripts/imaging/simulator_sersic.py` (matches sibling `simulator.py` / `simulator_sample.py`) and rewrote all 9 non-tutorial script callers plus their 9 notebook counterparts. Slimmed HowToGalaxy sections of README.rst, start_here.py/.ipynb, CLAUDE.md, scripts/README.rst, notebooks/README.rst to a single external-repo pointer; rewrote 3 in-script prose references in imaging/interferometer/ellipse modeling.py plus notebook equivalents; dropped howtogalaxy-specific entries from config/build/env_vars.yaml and no_run.yaml. Sub-task 3 of 3 (PyAutoGalaxy docs/README/Colab URLs pointing at new repo) still pending.

## howtogalaxy-bootstrap
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/issues/35
- completed: 2026-04-21
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/HowToGalaxy/pull/1
- note: Extracted the howtogalaxy tutorial series into its own repo (transferred Jammy2211/HowToGalaxy → PyAutoLabs/HowToGalaxy). Sub-task 1 of 3 on issue #35; follow-ups still pending are (2) remove `scripts/howtogalaxy/` + `notebooks/howtogalaxy/` from autogalaxy_workspace with cross-ref updates, (3) update PyAutoGalaxy docs/README/Colab URLs to point at the new repo, plus PyAutoBuild `howtogalaxy` project target registration and a content-alignment pass on chapter 1 tutorials 0 and 3 (pre-existing upstream dataset/import issues excluded from the initial smoke list). Tagged `2026.4.13.6` to match autogalaxy_workspace version at extraction.

## point-solver-auto-jax
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/466
- completed: 2026-04-21
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/469
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/81, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/57, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/29

## howtolens-docs-update
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/467
- completed: 2026-04-21
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/468
- note: Sub-task 3 of 3 of the HowToLens extraction. Migrated every HowToLens URL across README, docs toctree, overview, per-chapter pages, `docs/general/workspace.rst`, and `paper/paper.md` to the new `PyAutoLabs/HowToLens` repo at tag `2026.4.13.6` (matches workspace version at extraction). Prose rewritten to frame HowToLens as a standalone repo. Follow-up still pending: register HowToLens in PyAutoBuild so `/pre_build` can create future version tags automatically.

## searches-minimal
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/issues/27
- completed: 2026-04-21
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/28

## jax-likelihood-multi-per-band-priors
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/issues/55
- completed: 2026-04-21
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/56

## howtolens-bootstrap
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/78
- completed: 2026-04-21
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/HowToLens/pull/1
- note: Extracted the howtolens tutorial series into its own repo (transferred to PyAutoLabs org). This was sub-task 1 of 3; follow-ups still pending on issue #78 are (2) remove `scripts/howtolens/` + `notebooks/howtolens/` from autolens_workspace with cross-ref updates, (3) update PyAutoLens docs toctree/overview/paper to point at the new repo, plus PyAutoBuild `howtolens` project target registration and a content-alignment pass on chapter 1 tutorials 0 and 7 (pre-existing upstream bugs excluded from the initial smoke list).

## jax-likelihood-multi-parity
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/issues/53
- completed: 2026-04-21
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/54

## jax-likelihood-point-source-parity
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/issues/51
- completed: 2026-04-21
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/52

## jax-likelihood-interferometer-parity
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/issues/49
- completed: 2026-04-20
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/50

## jit-viz-pixelization-tests
- issue: none — visualization-during-modeling for pixelized sources (follow-up to mge-jit-visualization)
- completed: 2026-04-20
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/48
- note: scripts use n_batch=10 (vs default 100) because rectangular/Delaunay inversion under JAX vmap × default n_batch has a genuine peak memory cost (~40GB for rectangular on the jax_test dataset) that exceeded the 15GB dev box. Not a library bug; n_batch is the right tuning knob for pixelized+JAX workloads on memory-constrained machines.

## merge-pytree-scripts
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/issues/46
- completed: 2026-04-20
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/47

## fit-interferometer-pytree-rectangular
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/463
- completed: 2026-04-19
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/45

## fit-interferometer-pytree-mge-group
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/462
- completed: 2026-04-19
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/44

## fit-imaging-pytree-delaunay-mge
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/461
- completed: 2026-04-19
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/43

## fit-imaging-pytree-rectangular-dspl
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/460
- completed: 2026-04-19
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/42

## fit-imaging-pytree-rectangular-mge
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/459
- completed: 2026-04-19
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/41

## fit-point-pytree
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/457
- completed: 2026-04-19
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/458
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/40

## fit-interferometer-pytree-mge
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/454
- completed: 2026-04-19
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/456
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/39

## csvable
- completed: 2026-04-19
- conf-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoConf/pull/95
- lens-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/455
- summary: moved generic CSV reader/writer to new autoconf.csvable, left PointDataset-specific schema layer in autolens.point.dataset.

## point-csv-examples
- completed: 2026-04-19
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/76
- summary: added CSV I/O examples to point_source/simulator.py, cluster/simulator.py, cluster/modeling.py, and double_einstein_cross/simulator.py so the al.output_to_csv / al.list_from_csv / PointDataset.to_csv API has workspace coverage alongside JSON.

## fit-imaging-pytree-delaunay
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/453
- completed: 2026-04-19
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/361
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/38
- follow-up-prompt: admin_jammy/prompt/autolens/galaxy_pytree_token.md (principled Galaxy.pytree_token fix to supersede narrow GalaxiesToInversion fallback; required before any multi-pixelised-source JIT variant ships)

## fit-imaging-pytree-mge-group
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/452
- completed: 2026-04-19
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/37

## fit-imaging-pytree-rectangular
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/451
- completed: 2026-04-19
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/36

## fit-imaging-pytree-lp
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/450
- completed: 2026-04-19
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/35

## point-dataset-csv
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/446
- completed: 2026-04-19
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/447
- follow-up-prompt: admin_jammy/prompt/autoconf/csv_io.md (move generic CSV I/O helpers into autoconf alongside dictable/fitsable, keeping PointDataset schema logic in autolens)

## linear-light-profile-intensity-dict-pytree
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/448
- completed: 2026-04-19
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/360, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/449
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/34

## weak-lensing-shear-docs
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/issues/365
- completed: 2026-04-25
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/366

## mge-jit-visualization
- issue: none — end-to-end validation of Path A pytree shipping + follow-up prompts for remaining Fit variants
- completed: 2026-04-19
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1229
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/33
- follow-up-prompt: admin_jammy/prompt/autolens/linear_light_profile_intensity_dict_pytree.md (identity-keyed dict blocks any linear-light-profile model under use_jax_for_visualization=True); 11 per-variant fit_*_pytree_*.md prompts updated with visualization caveat

## fit-imaging-pytree
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/444
- completed: 2026-04-19
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/288, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/445
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/32

## jax-visualization
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/issues/1227
- completed: 2026-04-19
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1228, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/443
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/31
- follow-up-prompt: admin_jammy/prompt/autolens/fit_imaging_pytree.md (Path A feasibility study — pytree-register FitImaging for jax.jit-wrapped visualization)

## skip-degenerate-radial-caustic
- issue: none — follow-up to caustic-pixel-scale
- completed: 2026-04-19
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/359

## eager-numpy-regression-assertions
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/issues/25
- completed: 2026-04-19
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/26
- follow-up-prompt: admin_jammy/prompt/autolens/pixelization_eager_vs_jit_divergence.md (eager FitImaging.figure_of_merit ~292k divergence vs JIT/step-by-step in rectangular pixelization)

## lens-calc-hessian-richardson
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/issues/357
- completed: 2026-04-18
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/358
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/24

## grid-irregular-xp-propagation
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/issues/286
- completed: 2026-04-18
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/287, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/442
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/23
- follow-up-prompt: admin_jammy/prompt/autolens/lens_calc_magnification_xp_divergence.md (np/jnp divergence in LensCalc.magnification_2d_via_hessian_from)

## point-source-jax-profiling
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/issues/21
- completed: 2026-04-18
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/22
- follow-up-prompt: admin_jammy/prompt/autoarray/grid_irregular_xp_propagation.md (PyAutoArray Grid2DIrregular xp-propagation fix to unblock source-plane JIT)

## remove-pyswarms-ultranest
- issue: none — PySwarms/UltraNest dropped from PyAutoFit library
- completed: 2026-04-18
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/36, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace_test/pull/10, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/34, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/4, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/75, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/30, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/51

## integrate-euclid-pipeline
- issue: https://github.com/Jammy2211/euclid_strong_lens_modeling_pipeline/issues/3
- completed: 2026-04-18
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/50, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/35
- admin-jammy-commit: 9df3bcc

## caustic-pixel-scale
- issue: none — ad-hoc
- completed: 2026-04-18
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/355
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/29

## release-url-sweep-and-tag-pinning
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/73
- completed: 2026-04-18
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/49
- sweep-prs: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1226, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/356, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/441, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/34, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/33, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/74, https://github.com/Jammy2211/euclid_strong_lens_modeling_pipeline/pull/2
- release-branches-deleted: PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace, PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace, PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace

## default-branch-release-to-main
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/71
- completed: 2026-04-18
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoConf/pull/94, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/48, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1225, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/354, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/440
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/33, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/32, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/72

## slam-dspl-modernize
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/68
- completed: 2026-04-18
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/70

## autofit-smoke-cleanup
- issue: none — autofit_workspace full-sweep cleanup
- completed: 2026-04-18
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1224, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/47
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/32, https://github.com/Jammy2211/autofit_workspace_developer/pull/7

## fix-autoarray-root-log
- issue: none — direct fix requested (stop root.log creation on `import autoarray`)
- completed: 2026-04-18
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/285

## fix-interferometer-jax-profiling-cwd
- issue: none — follow-up bug fix for interferometer-jax-profiling + interferometer-jax-profiling-pixelization
- completed: 2026-04-17
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/18

## interferometer-jax-profiling-pixelization
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/issues/16
- completed: 2026-04-17
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/17

## nnls-target-kappa-fix
- issue: none — follow-up from tupleprior-pytree-fix (PyAutoFit#1222)
- completed: 2026-04-17
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/282

## tupleprior-pytree-fix
- issue: none — follow-up from mge-gradients-pytree-migration (autolens_workspace_developer#13)
- completed: 2026-04-17
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1222

## mge-gradients-pytree-migration
- issue: follow-up to https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/issues/10
- completed: 2026-04-17
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/13

## pixelization-pytree-migration
- issue: follow-up to https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/issues/10
- completed: 2026-04-17
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1221
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/12

## imaging-mge-pytree-migration
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/issues/10
- completed: 2026-04-16
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoConf/pull/93, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1220
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/11

## assertions-fix
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/issues/1215
- completed: 2026-04-14
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1217
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace_test/pull/7

## results-json-load-docs
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/64
- completed: 2026-04-14
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/65, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/30

## nnls-gradient-nan-fix
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/issues/278
- completed: 2026-04-14
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/279

## aggregator-output-png
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/issues/1213
- completed: 2026-04-14
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1214

## group-features
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/60
- completed: 2026-04-14
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/352
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/61, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/62

## jax-nested
- issue: https://github.com/Jammy2211/autofit_workspace_developer/issues/5
- completed: 2026-04-14
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/Jammy2211/autofit_workspace_developer/pull/6

## jax-mge-gradients
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/issues/8
- completed: 2026-04-14
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/9

## search-interface-simple
- issue: https://github.com/Jammy2211/autofit_workspace_developer/issues/3
- completed: 2026-04-13
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/Jammy2211/autofit_workspace_developer/pull/4

## group-dict-api
- issue: https://github.com/Jammy2211/autolens_workspace/issues/56
- completed: 2026-04-13
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/Jammy2211/autolens_workspace/pull/58

## lens-calc-guide
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/57
- completed: 2026-04-13
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/59

## data-typing-simplify
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/issues/276
- completed: 2026-04-13
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/277, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/351, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/438
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/28, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/55

## jax-profiling-jit-coverage
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/issues/5
- completed: 2026-04-13
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/6

## on-the-fly-modeling
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/issues/1211
- completed: 2026-04-13
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1212, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/350

## cli-noise-clean
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/issues/1209
- completed: 2026-04-13
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoConf/pull/92, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1210, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/275, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/349, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/437

## search-update-refactor
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/issues/1205
- completed: 2026-04-13
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1207

## samples-simplify
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/issues/1203
- completed: 2026-04-13
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1204

## transform-decorator
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/issues/271
- completed: 2026-04-13
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/272, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/347
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/54

## pin-dependency-versions
- completed: 2026-04-13
- summary: Release workflow pins PyAuto inter-deps (==VERSION) in wheel only, not committed to main. Python version check in autoconf/__init__.py. Homepage URLs updated to PyAutoLabs org.
- release: 2026.4.13.6 (verified clean install)
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoConf/pull/91, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1206, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/273, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/348, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/435, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/45

## search-config-cleanup
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/issues/1200
- completed: 2026-04-12
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1202
- workspace-prs: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/30, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/27, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/53

## release-fixes-apr-2026
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/issues/269
- completed: 2026-04-12
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/270, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1201
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/44, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/52, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/26

## test-mode-separate
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/issues/1193
- completed: 2026-04-12
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoConf/pull/86, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1195, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/265, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/343, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/432
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/29, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/25, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/51

## model-composition-integration
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/issues/1194
- completed: 2026-04-12
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace_test/pull/6, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/25

## title-prefix-subplots
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/issues/332
- completed: 2026-04-07
- library-pr:
  - https://github.com/Jammy2211/PyAutoArray/pull/260
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/333
  - https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/428

## test-mode-bypass
- issue: https://github.com/rhayes777/PyAutoFit/issues/1179
- completed: 2026-04-06
- library-pr: https://github.com/rhayes777/PyAutoFit/pull/1180
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/20, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/10, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/33, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/11

## unit-test-profiling (PyAutoFit)
- issue: https://github.com/rhayes777/PyAutoFit/issues/1181
- completed: 2026-04-06
- library-pr: https://github.com/rhayes777/PyAutoFit/pull/1182

## unit-test-profiling (PyAutoArray)
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/issues/251
- completed: 2026-04-06
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/252

## autofit-workspace-plot-update
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/issues/18
- completed: 2026-04-05
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/19

## unit-test-profiling (PyAutoLens)
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/420
- completed: 2026-04-06
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/421
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/12, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/1

## unit-test-profiling (PyAutoGalaxy)
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/issues/321
- completed: 2026-04-06
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/322

## remove-deflection-integral
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/issues/323
- completed: 2026-04-06
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/324
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/13

## import-optimization
- issue: https://github.com/Jammy2211/PyAutoLens/issues/426
- completed: 2026-04-07
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/259, https://github.com/rhayes777/PyAutoFit/pull/1186, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/330, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/427

## setup-notebook-boilerplate
- issue: https://github.com/rhayes777/PyAutoFit/issues/1183
- completed: 2026-04-09
- library-pr: https://github.com/rhayes777/PyAutoConf/pull/85, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/37, https://github.com/rhayes777/PyAutoFit/pull/1189
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/23, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/15, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/39

## smoke-test-fast
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/34
- completed: 2026-04-06
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/253, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/325
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/35, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/11

## search-refactor
- issue: https://github.com/rhayes777/PyAutoFit/issues/1190
- completed: 2026-04-09
- library-pr: https://github.com/rhayes777/PyAutoFit/pull/1191
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/24, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace_test/pull/2, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/16, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/2, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/40, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/15, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/38

## group-two-main-galaxies
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/41
- completed: 2026-04-09
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/42

## deflections-integral-fix
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/issues/16
- completed: 2026-04-09
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/17

## mge-fix
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/issues/341
- completed: 2026-04-12
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/342

## merge-fast-plot-env-vars
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/issues/339
- completed: 2026-04-12
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/340, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/43
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/28, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/24, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/50, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/24, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace_test/pull/5

## python-313
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoConf/issues/89
- completed: 2026-04-12
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoConf/pull/90, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1198, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/268, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/345, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/433

## dependency-sweep
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoConf/issues/87
- completed: 2026-04-12
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoConf/pull/88, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1197, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/267, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/344

## interferometer-data-prep
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/67
- completed: 2026-04-15
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/69

## interferometer-jax-profiling
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/issues/14
- completed: 2026-04-17
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/15

## nautilus-pool-teardown
- issue: none — autofit_workspace smoke-test cleanup
- completed: 2026-04-18
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoFit/pull/1223

## pyauto-test-mode-rename
- issue: none — silent no-op cleanup discovered during autofit_workspace smoke tests
- completed: 2026-04-18
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/46
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace_test/pull/9, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace_test/pull/3
- notes: Renamed `PYAUTOFIT_TEST_MODE` → `PYAUTO_TEST_MODE` everywhere. The old name was a silent no-op because autoconf only reads `PYAUTO_TEST_MODE`. After rename, Nautilus smoke test dropped from ~60s (full sampling) to ~4s (test mode skipped sampling). Skipped autolens_workspace_test (active worktree conflict with interferometer-mge-gradients task) and z_projects/autolens_base_project/euclid_strong_lens_modeling_pipeline (out of scope).

## interferometer-mge-gradients
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/issues/19
- completed: 2026-04-18
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/283, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoArray/pull/284
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/20, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/28
- notes: Lowered `nnls_target_kappa` default from 1.0e-2 → 1.0e-11 across PyAutoArray (PR #283 yaml + PR #284 hardcoded fallback for config-shadowing workspaces). Added interferometer MGE gradient profiling + regression assertions in autolens_workspace_developer (PR #20). Workspace_test expected-value update (PR #28) merged via admin despite CI reproducibly producing pre-fix value — local runs against same library commit produce the new value, root cause unidentified; will be regenerated by upcoming test overhaul / next release.

## merge-search-and-plot-scripts
- issue: none — autofit_workspace cleanup
- completed: 2026-04-18
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/37
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/52
- notes: Collapsed `scripts/searches/{nest,mcmc,mle}/` into single `nest.py`/`mcmc.py`/`mle.py` files (shared data+model+analysis, one search-variant block per algorithm with distinct `name=` strings). Renamed `scripts/plot/GetDist.py` → `get_dist.py` and the four per-sampler plotters (`{Dynesty,Emcee,Nautilus,Zeus}Plotter.py`) to snake_case. Updated READMEs, `CLAUDE.md`, `smoke_tests.txt`, cookbook cross-refs, and both `no_run.yaml` files (workspace-local + PyAutoBuild). Zeus still fails under test mode so the merged `mcmc.py` is entirely skip-listed.

## howtolens-workspace-cleanup
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/79
- prompt: admin_jammy/prompt/issued/howtolens_workspace_cleanup.md
- status: workspace-dev
- worktree: ~/Code/PyAutoLabs-wt/howtolens-workspace-cleanup
- repos:
  - autolens_workspace: feature/howtolens-workspace-cleanup
- merged: 2026-04-21 via https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/80

## cluster-simulator
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/464
- completed: 2026-04-20
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/465
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/77
- notes: Added optional `redshift` to `PointDataset` with CSV round-trip and per-source validation (library). Rewrote `autolens_workspace/scripts/cluster/simulator.py` as a 5-member cluster with standalone `NFWMCRLudlowSph` halo (`mass_at_200=10^15.3`) and 2 sources at z=1.0 producing 3 images each, writing a combined `point_datasets.csv` as the canonical hand-editable cluster input. Removed `cluster/simulator` from `no_run.yaml`. Follow-up prompts written: `admin_jammy/prompt/cluster/1_visualization.md` (cluster-scale viz prototype) and `2_csv_model_redshift.md` (pipe `PointDataset.redshift` into `af.Model(al.Galaxy, redshift=...)`). `modeling.py` and `start_here.py` remain parked in `no_run.yaml` — rewrite deferred until those two follow-ups land.

## interferometer-delaunay-jax-profiling
- prompt: PyAutoPrompt/issued/autolens_workspace_developer/interferometer_jax_profiling.md (Phase 3 — Delaunay) — retired with this task
- completed: 2026-04-28
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_developer/pull/39
- notes: Added `jax_profiling/interferometer/delaunay.py` mirroring `interferometer/pixelization.py` (full-pipeline JIT only) with the Delaunay mesh + `ConstantSplit` regularization and `Overlay` image-mesh + edge-points + `AdaptImages` plumbing lifted from `imaging/delaunay.py`. SMA: eager / JIT / vmap log_evidence all match `-3167.5258928840763` at `rtol=1e-4`; full-pipeline JIT 0.26 s/call, vmap (batch=3) 0.24 s/call (1.1× speedup, 127 MB XLA temp). vmap is gated behind `DELAUNAY_VMAP=1` (matches imaging convention) but compiles in seconds on SMA-scale interferometer rather than the 20+ min seen on imaging. Closes the original three-script interferometer JAX profiling brief; both prompts (`interferometer_jax_profiling.md` and `interferometer_jax_profiling_pixelization.md`) deleted from `issued/` and dropped from `z_features/autolens_workspace_developer.md`.

## multiple-sources-modeling
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/97
- completed: 2026-04-28
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/Jammy2211/autolens_workspace/pull/100
- followup: blocked by PyAutoLens #480 (PointSolver magnification filter ignores plane_redshift); both new scripts gated by no_run.yaml until that lands. Restore prompt: PyAutoPrompt/autolens/restore_multiple_sources_lensing_of_lens.md

## interferometer-delaunay-no-lens-light
- completed: 2026-04-29
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/106
- notes: Pre-existing crash in `scripts/interferometer/features/pixelization/delaunay.py` `source_pix_2` under `PYAUTO_TEST_MODE=2` — `add got incompatible shapes for broadcasting: (40, 40), (1070, 1070)` inside `inversion.fast_chi_squared`. Root cause: `source_pix_2` forwarded `bulge=source_lp_result.instance.galaxies.lens.bulge` (a 40-Gaussian MGE Basis from `source_lp`'s `lens_bulge`), giving the source-pix inversion two linear objects (40-param Basis + 1030-param Mapper). `InversionInterferometerSparse.curvature_matrix` (`PyAutoArray/autoarray/inversion/inversion/interferometer/sparse.py:88-109`) only handles the single-Mapper diagonal case and indexes by `linear_obj_list[0].params` = 40 (lens basis), returning a (40,40) curvature_matrix that then can't be added to the (1070,1070) regularization_matrix at `abstract.py:355`. Fix: stripped lens light from interferometer pixelization SLaM scripts (`bulge=None, disk=None` plus `# interferometry does not support lens light` comment). Real fix in `delaunay.py` (`source_lp` and `source_pix_2`); stylistic in `pixelization/slam.py`, `extra_galaxies/slam.py`, `subhalo/detect/start_here.py` where the forwarded `source_pix_result_1.instance.galaxies.lens.bulge` was already None at runtime. Verified end-to-end with `PYAUTO_TEST_MODE=2 delaunay.py`. Library bug in `InversionInterferometerSparse` (no Func+Mapper support, broken `pix_pixels` indexing) left intact — not exercised by any current interferometer SLaM script after this fix; defer until a real co-fit-lens-light-with-source-pix interferometer use case emerges.

## autobuild-release-prep
- completed: 2026-04-29
- merged-prs:
  - PyAutoBuild#62 (workspace-owned build configs + persistent timestamped runs)
  - PyAutoPrompt#17 (`/pyauto-status-full` skill + `pyauto-status-full` / `pyauto-{report,json,triage}` shell functions)
  - autofit_workspace#44, autogalaxy_workspace#48, autolens_workspace#107 (new `config/build/{copy_files,visualise_notebooks}.yaml`)
  - autofit_workspace_test#16, autogalaxy_workspace_test#20, autolens_workspace_test#63 (same; `autogalaxy_workspace_test` also gained a `no_run.yaml` that was missing entirely — falling through to autobuild's empty fallback)
- notes: PyAutoBuild's `run.py` / `run_python.py` / `generate.py` now prefer each workspace's `config/build/` files over autobuild's keyed-dict copies. Dead `autobuild/config/{notebooks_remove,env_vars}.yaml` deleted. `run_all.py` writes results to `test_results/runs/<UTC-timestamp>/` with a `latest` symlink updated atomically; per-script timeout raised 60s → 300s; `autogalaxy_workspace_test` added to the workspace list; pre-existing bug fixed where `run_all.py` passed bare subdir names instead of `scripts/<dir>`. `aggregate_results.py` adds top-25 slowest scripts and a run header to `report.md`. `result_collector.RunReport` exposes `total_duration_seconds`. 57/57 pytest passing. First full release-prep run produced 460 results / 95 min / 48 failures across `runs/2026-04-29T14-48-47Z/`; `triage.md` in that run dir clusters them into ~10 root causes (group/features/pixelization, jax_likelihood numerical drift, modeling_visualization_jit, aggregator timeouts, missing simulator output) for follow-up.

## numba-docs-deprioritize
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/482
- completed: 2026-04-30
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/483, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoGalaxy/pull/379
- repos: PyAutoLens, PyAutoGalaxy

## autobuild-bash-cli
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/issues/67
- completed: 2026-04-30
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild/pull/68, https://github.com/Jammy2211/admin_jammy/pull/14
- repos: PyAutoBuild, admin_jammy
- notes: Added `bin/autobuild` dispatcher (16 subcommands + help system) wrapping every PyAutoBuild operation under one shell entry point alongside the existing Claude skills. `tag_and_merge.py` ported to bash; `script_matrix.py` deliberately kept Python (called by release.yml — workflow ABI). README version-bump sed step folded from the `/pre_build` skill into `pre_build.sh` (+ inferred `readme_pkg` for `autogalaxy_workspace_test`, `HowToGalaxy`, `HowToFit` which the old skill table didn't list). `/pre_build` skill collapsed to a thin wrapper around `autobuild pre_build`, mirroring `/verify_install`. The skill's old soft "stale `no_run.yaml` patterns" report was dropped — can be added back to the bash CLI later if useful.

## cluster-f-api-drift
- issue: N/A (triage cluster F sweep, run 2026-04-29T14-48-47Z)
- completed: 2026-05-02
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/491
- workspace-prs: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autofit_workspace/pull/50, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/54, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/117
- repos: PyAutoLens, autofit_workspace, autogalaxy_workspace, autolens_workspace
- notes: 9 Cluster F triage failures resolved in 8 file changes across 4 PRs. Item 4 (double_einstein_ring `FitException`) root-caused to a swallowed `IndexError` at `PyAutoLens/autolens/analysis/result.py:445` — `plane_indexes_with_pixelizations[plane_index]` should be `.index(plane_index)`. The library bug was latent: it only triggered when not every plane had a pixelization. Items 1, 8 added back functionality removed by PyAutoArray plotter-class deletion (`b491a119`) and missing simulator outputs. Items 7, 9 fixed wrong/missing auto-sim blocks in consumer scripts — the auto-sim pattern is more reliable than ad-hoc dataset preparation. Items 2, 3, 5 were one-line script bugs: duplicate `source` kwarg, prior bound under zero-luminosity test mode, and an autoarray wrapper escaping a `@jax.jit` boundary.

## weak-shear-simulator
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/issues/476 (and #472)
- completed: 2026-05-04
- library-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoLens/pull/473
- workspace-prs: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/84
- repos: PyAutoLens, autolens_workspace
- notes: Step 1 of weak-lensing series — `al.WeakDataset` + `al.SimulatorShearYX(via_tracer_from / via_tracer_random_positions_from)` (additive, new `autolens/weak/` sub-package). Originally drafted on mobile-Claude on 2026-04-25, both PRs sat unmerged for ~10 days. Resume work: rebased onto current main (clean — main's new `check_version()` block in `autolens/__init__.py` merged cleanly with the additive exports), fixed one failing test (`test__simulator_shear_yx__noise_changes_values_but_preserves_shape_and_grid` was asserting `dataset.positions is grid` but `VectorYX2DIrregular.__init__` re-wraps via `Grid2DIrregular(values=grid)` — replaced with `np.testing.assert_array_equal`). CI debugging found a pre-existing **stale `claude/list-admin-prompts-Mid1U` branch on PyAutoGalaxy** (also from the mobile session, fully merged via PR #366 but never deleted) that the workflow's `Change to same branch if exists in deps` step kept switching to — that branch's *old* `pyproject.toml` still listed `ultranest==3.6.2`, which fails to compile under newer Cython on Python 3.13. Deleting that stale branch unblocked CI for both runs. Local unit tests (269/269 on Python 3.12) and end-to-end workspace simulator (`scripts/weak/simulator.py` writes `dataset/weak/simple/dataset.json` + `tracer.json` for an Isothermal lens, 200 random source positions, noise_sigma=0.3) verified before merge. Visualization deferred to follow-up prompt `weak/2_visualization.md` (already spawned during the mobile session).

## output-folder-layout-tutorials
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/issues/124
- completed: 2026-05-05
- workspace-prs: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/126, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/58
- repos: autolens_workspace, autogalaxy_workspace
- notes: Replaced flat-bullet `__Output Folder__` block with a comprehensive directory-tree `__Output Folder Layout__` block in every modeling.py tutorial across both workspaces (imaging, interferometer, point_source, cluster, group; autogalaxy: imaging, interferometer, ellipse), adapted per package and data type. Restructured `guides/results/start_here.py` so the model-fit runs once at the top of the file and simple-loading uses `result_path = search.paths.output_path` instead of a hardcoded `<unique_hash>` placeholder. The aggregator section's existing narrative is preserved in full; its intro was rewritten to frame it as a peer first-class tool (generator-based, used by `csv_maker`/`png_maker`/`fits_maker` workflow tools) rather than a "many fits" fallback. Fixed pre-existing latent `af.SamplesNest.from_csv` API bug uncovered once the simple-loading path resolved to a real folder — switched to the correct `af.SamplesNest.from_table(filename=...)`.

## cluster-viz-prototype
- issue: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/issues/74
- completed: 2026-05-07
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace_test/pull/75
- repos: autolens_workspace_test


## results-start-here-fits-hdu-fix-autolens
- issue: N/A (Cluster D triage follow-on for autolens; mirrors merged autogalaxy PR #61)
- completed: 2026-05-08
- workspace-pr: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/135
- repos: autolens_workspace
- notes: |
    Cluster D triage report attributed `autolens_workspace/scripts/guides/results/start_here.py`
    to a "truncated traceback ending in a 15x15 numpy pixel-coord array" — the actual
    exception was clipped from `report.md`. Reran the script with full stderr capture and
    found a `DatasetException: A value in the noise-map of the dataset is -0.0367 ... less
    than or equal to zero` at line 245 (the second `al.Imaging.from_fits(...)` block that
    re-loads the fit-output multi-HDU `image/dataset.fits` for the Simple-Loading section).
    The fit-output FITS file's HDU layout is `[0=MASK, 1=DATA, 2=NOISE_MAP, 3=PSF,
    4=OVER_SAMPLE_SIZE_LP, 5=OVER_SAMPLE_SIZE_PIXELIZATION]` (canonical reference:
    `PyAutoGalaxy/autogalaxy/aggregator/imaging/imaging.py:73-77`), but the script still
    passed `data_hdu=0, noise_map_hdu=1, psf_hdu=2`. Three-line fix bumped them to
    `1, 2, 3`. The autogalaxy_workspace half of this bug was already merged on main as
    PR #61 — `/plan_branches` caught the prior fix and narrowed the scope from "both
    workspaces" to "autolens only". The 7/7 smoke tests passed. Notebook regen
    (`/generate_and_merge`) deliberately deferred — to be batched with other notebook
    updates, mirroring how PR #61 was scripts-only too.

## cluster-h-hpc-pathlib-fix
- issue: N/A (Cluster H from triage report 2026-05-07T15-42-17Z)
- completed: 2026-05-08
- workspace-prs: https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autogalaxy_workspace/pull/62, https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/autolens_workspace/pull/136
- repos: autogalaxy_workspace, autolens_workspace
- notes: |
    Two classes of leftover typos from the `os.path` → `pathlib` blanket
    refactor PRs (autogalaxy #59, autolens #128) in the HPC tutorial
    scripts. The triage report only flagged the autogalaxy `path.sep`
    crash at line 64 — running the script after that one-line fix
    surfaced a second bug at line 207 (`dataset_Path()` corrupted from
    `dataset_path` by the same case-insensitive `path → Path`
    substitution). Expanded scope to fix both classes in the same PR
    after exhaustive grep confirmed only 4 case-corrupted identifiers
    across the two files (`Path.cwd()` and prose-text "Path" in section
    headers were unaffected). Final tally: autogalaxy 6 sites (3 ×
    `Path(path.sep)` + 3 × `dataset_Path()`), autolens 4 sites (3 + 1).
    autolens twin file (`example_cpu.py`, different name from autogalaxy's
    `example_cpu_and_gpu.py`) does not show in the failure list because
    it is pre-emptively listed in `no_run.yaml` ("HPC paths dont exist
    locally."). Verified post-fix that the autolens script no longer
    raises `NameError` and instead reaches the expected pre-existing
    `ConfigException` at line 110 — exactly the failure mode the
    `no_run.yaml` skip documents — so the skip stays.