# IDEATE — v1.26 Live Pilot Estate Activation

> **Autonomy:** full. 3-tier ideation per `config.json ideation.enabled:
> true`. `cross_project.enabled: false` → cross-project tier scoped to
> multi-project (deferred ideas only, no cross-project candidates
> accepted). `confidence_threshold: 0.6`, `max_ideas: 20`.
> Categories: security, quality, architecture, coverage, improvement.

## Tier 1 — Mechanical (pattern-driven, codebase-grounded)

### I1 — Outcome-backfill emitter ✅ ACCEPTED (REQ-317)

**Category:** quality, coverage
**Confidence:** 0.92
**Pattern:** stuck `pending` status → backfilled from a later event
(the most direct metric-grounding pattern).
**Source:** `core/metrics/decision_ledger.py:210-211` documents the
event chain `confidence.computed → ai.decision.made →
attestation.recorded → run.completed/failed`. `collector.py:262`
inserts `fact_decision.outcome` as `"pending"` — no backfill step
wires `run.completed/failed` back into the decision's outcome. The AI
Decision Accuracy metric (`trust_snapshot.py:70-85`) reads
`decisions WHERE outcome='succeeded' ÷ total` → 0% today (all pending).
**Idea:** `core/metrics/outcome_backfill.py` reads run-manifest
`completed`/`failed` events and updates `fact_decision.outcome` +
`fact_decision.backfilled_at`. The collector invokes backfill after run
completion. Grounds AI Decision Accuracy (Post-Pilot target).
**Accepted into:** REQ-317. Phase P3.

### I2 — `reason='confidence'` escalation tag ✅ ACCEPTED (REQ-318)

**Category:** quality, coverage
**Confidence:** 0.90
**Pattern:** boolean field → discriminated field (the metric-numerator
precision pattern).
**Source:** `core/confidence_signal.py:184` — a `block` band sets
`human_override=True`. The Human Escalation Frequency metric
(`docs/metrics/human_escalation_frequency.md:11-12`) is defined as
`count(runs WHERE hitl_block=1 AND reason='confidence') ÷ total runs`.
The `reason='confidence'` discriminator is not stored today.
**Idea:** `ai.decision.made` gains `escalation_reason: 'confidence'`
when `band == 'block'`. The collector persists it into `fact_run`.
Grounds Human Escalation Frequency numerator.
**Accepted into:** REQ-318. Phase P3.

### I3 — Env-JSON `state_backend` wiring reconciliation ✅ ACCEPTED (REQ-319)

**Category:** architecture, improvement
**Confidence:** 0.88
**Pattern:** unused config field → wired config field (the
single-source-of-truth pattern).
**Source:** `adapters/terraform/adapter.py:116-117` computes the state
bucket as `nova-tfstate-<AWS_ACCOUNT_ID>-us-east-1` from the
`AWS_ACCOUNT_ID` env var — **not** from the env JSON's
`state_backend.bucket`. The env JSON's `state_backend` field is
currently unused by the live apply path.
**Idea:** The adapter reads `env.state_backend.bucket` when present
(falling back to the computed name for backwards compat). `dev.json`
gets the real bucket name. Closes the wiring gap so the pilot's env
JSON is the single source of truth.
**Accepted into:** REQ-319. Phase P3.

### I4 — Pilot-readiness kyverno-json policy ✅ ACCEPTED (REQ-320)

**Category:** security, architecture
**Confidence:** 0.85
**Pattern:** runtime guard → declarative policy (the v1.25 thesis
applied to pilot onboarding).
**Source:** `core/environment_check.py:48-53` emits a stderr warning
(non-fatal) when `account_id == "000000000000"` and env != dev. A
warning is not a gate. The pilot should fail-closed if someone tries
to apply against a placeholder account.
**Idea:** A kyverno-json policy over the env JSON asserting
`account_id != "000000000000"` before any apply. Declarative
fail-closed gate. Extends v1.25's policy engine to the pilot-onboarding
domain.
**Accepted into:** REQ-320. Phase P3.

## Tier 2 — Backend-enriched (signal-driven)

### I5 — Settlement-finality kyverno-json policy ✅ ACCEPTED (REQ-315)

**Category:** security, coverage
**Confidence:** 0.82
**Pattern:** domain invariant → declarative policy (the v1.25 thesis
applied to the securities domain — the most novel use of kyverno-json
in v1.26).
**Source:** The pilot's settlement service records matches as
transactions on the chain; settlement finality = block commit. The
NORTH_STAR Objective #2 (provable trust) says trust should be a policy
artifact, not a promise. Today settlement finality is a runtime
property of the chain; making it a declarative policy turns it into an
auditable gate.
**Idea:** A kyverno-json policy over the settlement-service status JSON
asserting `all_committed: true` before any promotion (qa→prod). The
securities-specific extension of v1.25's policy engine. The policy is
skip-when-kj-absent (graceful).
**Accepted into:** REQ-315. Phase P3.

### I6 — Pilot-estate regression capability (CAP-025) ✅ ACCEPTED (REQ-316)

**Category:** quality, coverage
**Confidence:** 0.88
**Pattern:** manual e2e → regression-gated capability (the v1.0 CAP
pattern applied to the pilot).
**Source:** `core/regression_verify.py` has CAP-013..024 (live-AWS +
local tiers). The pilot estate is a new live-AWS capability —
"contract resolve → adapter compile → terraform plan → policy scan →
confidence signal → attestation → outbox record" against
`581513795199`. Without a regression CAP, the pilot could silently
decay.
**Idea:** CAP-025 (live-pilot-apply) in the regression gate. The
round-trip assertion. Grounds the pilot as a maintained capability,
not a one-shot demo.
**Accepted into:** REQ-316. Phase P3.

### I7 — DynamoDB L1 primitive ✅ ACCEPTED (REQ-322)

**Category:** architecture, coverage
**Confidence:** 0.95
**Pattern:** missing primitive → authored module (the v1.7 + v1.8
module-build-out pattern).
**Source:** RESEARCH §3.4 — no `modules/l1/dynamodb/` exists. The
blockchain exchange's ledger table needs it. The adapter is
stateless/registry-driven (no `TYPE_MAP`); a new stack type requires a
new L1 module, not an adapter change.
**Idea:** Author `modules/l1/dynamodb/` (interface.json +
terraform/main.tf + README.md + instance.json + registry.json entry).
The single platform-side module build-out for the milestone. Follows
the `s3`/`rds` primitive template. Encryption + PITR enabled per v1.8
NFR defaults.
**Accepted into:** REQ-322. Phase P3.

### I8 — Stale `adapters/README.md` TYPE_MAP references ❌ DEFERRED (scope)

**Category:** improvement
**Confidence:** 0.70 (above threshold, but scoped into REQ-321)
**Pattern:** stale doc → corrected doc.
**Source:** `adapters/README.md:49-54` references the deleted
`TYPE_MAP`/`INPUT_MAP`/`OUTPUT_MAP` — contradicts `adapter.py:1-11` +
`modules/STANDARDS.md:212-214`.
**Idea:** Fix the stale references as part of the docs phase.
**Reason deferred as a standalone idea:** Already captured in REQ-321
(docs + adapter README). No new requirement needed — the fix lands in
P4 docs.

## Tier 3 — Cross-project (deferred — multi-project, but cross-project sharing disabled)

### I9 — Cross-project policy sharing ❌ DEFERRED (config)

**Category:** improvement
**Confidence:** N/A
**Pattern:** policies shared across projects in a multi-project org.
**Source:** `config.json ideation.cross_project.enabled: false`.
**Idea:** In a multi-project org, kyverno-json policies could be shared
across projects (a tagging standard policy applies to all projects).
**Reason deferred:** `cross_project.enabled: false`. Even though
v1.26 is multi-project (acdl + nova-blockchain-exchange),
cross-project *ideation* is disabled in config. Recorded for when the
org grows + the flag is enabled.

### I10 — Consumer-repo CI scaffolding as a reusable template ❌ DEFERRED

**Category:** improvement
**Confidence:** 0.55 (below threshold — deferred, not rejected)
**Pattern:** one-off CI → reusable template.
**Source:** The consumer repo (`nova-blockchain-exchange`) needs its
own CI (`ci.yml` — lint + pytest). If Nova expects many consumers, a
reusable consumer-CI template would reduce onboarding friction.
**Idea:** A `nova-consumer-template` repo (or a
`.github/workflow-templates/` dir) that new consumers instantiate.
**Reason deferred:** Nova has 1 consumer today (the pilot). A template
is premature abstraction until the 2nd consumer arrives. The pilot's
CI is authored directly (REQ-310..312 tests). Recorded for when the
3rd consumer onboards.

## Summary

- 7 ideas accepted (I1..I7) → already captured as REQ-315, REQ-316,
  REQ-317, REQ-318, REQ-319, REQ-320, REQ-322.
- 3 ideas deferred (I8 scoped into REQ-321; I9 config-disabled; I10
  below threshold) with documented blocking reasons.
- 0 ideas rejected (below-threshold ideas are deferred, not rejected —
  they may activate when their blockers lift).
- The accepted ideas are the **quality improvement** the `--ideate` flag
  drives: I1 + I2 ground the Post-Pilot metrics (outcome backfill +
  escalation reason); I3 closes the env-JSON wiring gap; I4 + I5 extend
  v1.25's policy engine to the pilot domain (pilot-readiness +
  settlement-finality); I6 gates the pilot as a maintained capability;
  I7 is the single platform-side module build-out.
- No new requirements added beyond REQ-310..322 (the accepted ideas are
  already scoped into the existing requirements). The IDEATE pass
  validated the requirement set rather than expanding it — the ideas
  were anticipated in the SPECIFY + RESEARCH stages.