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+# ACDL — Agentic Cloud Delivery Platform
+
+A 30-minute executive demo proving that infrastructure can be delivered
+**automatically, safely, and with a complete audit trail** — without the
+usual weeks of manual tickets, reviews, and copy-pasted configuration.
+
+The demo runs entirely on **local stubs** (no AWS/GCP/Azure, no external LLM
+APIs). It shows intent and safety behavior rather than provisioning real
+cloud resources.
+
+## Four acts
+
+1. **Act 1 — The Friction:** the old manual 2-week deployment process.
+2. **Act 2 — Developer Self-Service:** commit a valid `contract.yaml` for
+   `l2-commodity-price-feed`, watch Dev auto-run, QA + Prod approval gates,
+   then the evidence timeline.
+3. **Act 3 — Citizen Developer:** open a GitHub/Gitea Issue with natural-
+   language intent; the Python keyword parser generates the same
+   `contract.yaml` and triggers the identical pipeline.
+4. **Act 4 — The Safety Net:** commit a malicious `contract.yaml`
+   (`public-ingress: true`) for `l2-regulatory-reporting`; the pipeline
+   halts in Dev because the confidence signal drops below 0.50, and the
+   rejection is visible on the evidence stream.
+
+## Repositories
+
+All under the `continuous-intelligence` Gitea org at
+`https://git.cloudinit.dev`:
+
+- `acdl` (this repo) — platform + stubs + reusable workflows
+- `acdl-contracts` — developer surface (`contract.yaml` + issue trigger)
+- `acdl-evidence` — audit timeline (served via raw file URLs; Gitea has no
+  native Pages — see `.ciagent/ARCHITECTURE.md` Gitea API Surface table)
+
+## Project metadata
+
+See `.ciagent/PROJECT.md` for the full spec, `.ciagent/ROADMAP.md` for the
+5-phase breakdown, `.ciagent/REQUIREMENTS.md` for traceable requirements,
+and `.ciagent/PERSONAS.md` for the active persona roster.
+
+## Phase 01 verification
+
+After running `scripts/gitea_setup.sh` (which creates `acdl-contracts` and
+`acdl-evidence` in the org and pushes the placeholder `index.html`), run:
+
+```bash
+ACDL_GITEA_TOKEN=<token> scripts/verify_phase01.sh
+```
+
+The script confirms:
+- both new repos exist via the Gitea API
+- the raw `index.html` URL on `acdl-evidence` returns HTTP 200
+- the `qa` and `prod` branches exist on `acdl-contracts`
+
+Exit 0 = Phase 01 success criteria met.
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