AUTONOMY_THESIS.md (git mv from NO_HUMANS_THESIS.md): reframe from
'removing humans' to 'autonomy in operations, human at stage gates'.
Drop D-### citations + internal file paths; keep anti-claims, reworded.
Anti-claim #1 now: 'decisions are NOT made by an LLM — deterministic
scripts calculate a score; the platform functions without AI'.
NORTH_STAR.md:
- Vision: 'invisible' → 'visible' (operations become visible — recurring
theme); polish for technical audience (security, remediation velocity,
reliability, lead time).
- Objective #2: 'provable trust in AI decisions' → 'provable trust in
automated decisions' (deterministic scripts calculate a score;
platform functions without AI).
- Objective #3: four CTO-grade metrics (Lead Time PR→Prod, Infra Vuln
Count trend, MTTR, Cloud Spend Reduction) → all flow into PowerBI.
- Objective #4: 'default substrate for agentic consumption' → integrate
with externally owned PDLC/SDLC/Agentic/Citizen Developer platforms
regardless of source; Nova provides skills + MCP endpoints; all prod
intents go through the same controls + quality gates.
- Anti-goals: drop #1 (hyperscaler competitor), #4 (legacy untagged),
#5 (sold to operators). Add: 'not an upstream development platform',
'not a replacement for the PDLC'. Reword #3 (no 'removes humans').
docs/raci.md: 3 roles → 4 roles. Add Quality Engineering column. Rename
Release Management → SRE. Split release attestation into Quality
attestation (QA) + Production readiness (SRE). Platform no longer holds
A for attestation — reassigned to QE/SRE.
docs/scope.md: add integration framing (skills + MCP endpoints, all
sources go through same controls).
Render scripts: default deck name → nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery.
ONBOARDING + terraform/onboarding: 'no-humans' → 'autonomous'.
---ci---
project: acdl
phase: 1
milestone: v1.21
status: execute
phase_role: execution
---/ci---
---
ci---
project: acdl
phase: 69
milestone: v1.12
status: execute
---
/ci---
Re-synthesized both Marp decks from the v1.12-synced source markdown:
- Both decks now 10 main + 7 appendix = 17 slides (was 10 + 6 = 16).
- New A6 'Operating Model & Cost': real COST.md figures table (/usr/bin/bash.001883/
8d, ~/usr/bin/bash.007/mo, S3-dominated), zero-cost steady state, D-096 teardown,
+ pre-mortem reference (PRE_MORTEM.md 4 failure modes), + plan-only
default bullet (ACDL_LIFECYCLE_MODE=full override, REQ-134).
- New A7 'Verified by Construction': stateless adapter (918->~80 lines,
per-module terraform/ dirs, P67 dedup fix) + pipeline-driven lifecycle
testing (green cell = verification, plan-only default, 22/22 Verified).
- 'Testing vs. Planned' (PW slide 11 + A4): '11 capabilities' -> '22/22
Verified via lifecycle pipeline + regression gate'; the
'deploy-unverified (IAM drift)' Verification Coverage line removed
and replaced with the honest 'v1.10 status is closed' disclosure.
- Version refs @v1.10 -> @v1.11 across both decks.
- YAML frontmatter (S&P Global Energy theme), badge system, image refs,
story-beat intros preserved verbatim.
Re-distilled both talking-points files to match (added the previously-
missing A6 + A7 sections; updated all content to 22/22 Verified).
Re-rendered both HTML (committed). Exported both PPTX (held in
/tmp/v1.12-release/ for the v1.12.0 Gitea release upload).
Verification: stale claims in HTML = 2 disclosure lines in PW (the 'v1.10
status is closed' framing), 0 in DX. @v1.10 = 0 across all artifacts.
A6/A7 + cost figures present in both HTML decks. README slide counts
updated (10+7=17).
Multi-persona review of the contract surface redesign (031887e + 10b87a6).
P0-1 (auto-fixed): scripts/run_platform.sh:437 read the uptime_enabled
feature flag from the OLD top-level contract.inputs.uptime_enabled path,
which P57 removed. With the new contract shape c.get('inputs',{}) returns
{} so the flag silently always defaulted to True — a consumer setting
uptime_enabled:false under infrastructure.<module>.inputs could NOT
disable uptime monitoring. Fixed to scan
infrastructure.<module>.inputs.uptime_enabled (any module false wins).
P0-2 (auto-fixed): docs/consumer-guide.md:417,472 documented the
${contract.module} interpolation token, but P57 dropped the `module`
field. _expand_vars fails loud (D-081) on unknown tokens, so a consumer
following the documented bucket_name example
(acdl-${env.environment}-${contract.module}-...) hit a hard ValueError
at resolve time. Replaced with ${contract.id} (the surviving short
acronym field) in both the example and the interpolation reference table.
P0-3 (auto-fixed): core/regression_verify.py CAP-006 and
tests/test_consumer_guide_per_env_section.py both asserted the dropped
${contract.module} token. Updated CAP-006 to use ${contract.id} and the
doc test to assert ${contract.id} present / ${contract.module} absent.
P1+ flags (post-hoc):
- P1: _namespace_resources does not rewrite ref: targets in
stack.outputs[].from for cross-module refs (within-module is handled;
multi-module refs across fragments are not wired today, but no
contract uses them yet).
- P1: _latest_version raises ValueError (not a clear message) on a
malformed semver string in the registry; the schema pins version to
^\d+\.\d+\.\d+$ so this is unreachable from a contract, but registry
authors have no guardrail.
- P2: docs/consumer-guide.md:407 example path uses .yaml extension while
the repo-wide rename standardized on .yml (consumer-repo paths, not
platform, so non-blocking).
---ci---
project: acdl
phase: 57
milestone: v1.10.2
status: verify
lessons:
- P0 fix applied: uptime_enabled read path migrated to infrastructure.<module>.inputs (was stale top-level contract.inputs)
- P0 fix applied: docs + tests migrated off dropped ${contract.module} interpolation token to ${contract.id}
---/ci---
PROJECT.md gains a 'Capability Status (Re-Verified 2026-07-27)' section
after Domain Boundaries: decay disclosure, the 16 auto-verified
capabilities table, the 6 IAM-gated escalated resources, and the
regression-gate note. ROADMAP.md v1.9.8 entry annotated 'Last
deck-polish phase before the v1.10 deck-freeze'; new v1.10 overview
entry noting v1.9.1-v1.9.8 are 'superseded-by-reverification'. Both
leadership decks disclose the 2026-07-27 re-verification in their
maturity-framing headers, citing .ciagent/CAPABILITY_INVENTORY.md as
the source of truth.
No 'shipped'/'Available today' claims remain that aren't backed by a
Verified capability or an explicit escalation note. The 6 IAM-gated
cloud resources (contracts table, Lambda, ECS service, CloudFront
stack, uptime-kuma, OIDC role) are explicitly listed as escalated,
not silently omitted.
Decks unfrozen. v1.10.0 ready to tag.
---ci---
project: acdl
phase: 55
milestone: v1.10
status: verify
requirements:
covered: [REQ-115]
partial: []
decisions: [D-094]
---/ci---
Major rework of both presentation decks based on leadership feedback.
Addresses: story arc, concept clarity, scope clarification, more visuals,
appendix for detail-heavy slides, and a complete Road to the North Star.
6 new mermaid diagrams:
- platform-works-03-scope-boundary (Upstream → Contract → ACDL → AWS)
- developer-experience-01b-scope-boundary (both consumer paths + scope)
- platform-works-04-confidence-signal (6 inputs → score → gate → decision)
- platform-works-05-attestation-flow (deploy → gate → approver → evidence)
- developer-experience-04-promotion-journey (dev → qa → prod → dr)
- road-to-north-star (v1.0 demo → v1.9 → v1.10 → v2.0 → North Star)
Both Marp decks restructured to 10 main + 6 appendix slides:
PW deck (17 slides):
1. Title
2. The Problem & The North Star (anti-goals moved to slide 3)
3. Where ACDL Sits in Your World (NEW — scope boundary, infra only)
4. The Contract-Driven Model (image: removed, infra inputs instead)
5. The End-to-End Flow
6. Zero-Trust by Default
7. Safety is Computed (NEW confidence signal diagram)
8. Security by Construction
9. Accountability & Audit (NEW attestation flow diagram, QA clarification,
badge reclassification: dev=Testing, qa/prod/dr=Planned)
10. Testing vs. Planned (summary, full inventory in appendix)
11. The Vision Realized
+ Appendix: TOC, Platform-Managed Environments, Observability, Road to
North Star, Full Inventory, Glossary
DX deck (16 slides):
1. Title
2. Where ACDL Sits in Your World (REPLACES Two Consumer Surfaces — scope
boundary with both consumer paths)
3. The Contract — The Entire Consumer Surface (image: removed)
4. The Developer Feedback Loop
5. Versioned, Predictable Releases
6. Friendly Onboarding
7. Safe Promotion Path (NEW promotion journey diagram, rising bar
annotated: dev=Testing, qa/prod/dr=Planned)
8. Safe Decommission
9. Self-Service Module Catalog
10. The Desired Outcomes
+ Appendix: TOC, Citizen Developer Experience, No Platform Code, Local
Reproducibility, Road to North Star, Glossary
Story arc: every slide has an italic 'Story beat' line connecting it to
the narrative progression.
Scope clarification: ACDL is infrastructure only. Upstream is anything
(IDE, agentic SDLC, citizen dev vibe coding). ACDL provisions and governs
AWS resources; application deployment is upstream. Contract examples now
show infrastructure inputs (cpu, memory, desired_count, port) not image:.
QA attestation reclassification: 'Design tested' → 'Planned'. QA attests
to infrastructure readiness (contract + Terraform plan + evidence), not
application code. Dev is autonomous (Testing); qa/prod/dr are Planned.
Road to the North Star: phased timeline (v1.0 → v1.9 → v1.10 → v2.0 →
North Star), annotated 'proposed phasing, not formally planned.'
Also: scripts/sync_to_gl.sh added (GitLab mirror sync utility).
---ci---
phase: 51
milestone: v1.9
status: complete
requirements:
covered: []
partial: []
---/ci---
Create two talking points markdown files — one per deck — distilling the
source of truth (speaker notes + content) into presenter-ready cues indexed
by the Marp deck's 10-slide structure.
Each file has:
- One section per Marp slide (## Slide N — Title), matching the Marp deck
- 3-6 talking point bullets per slide — punchy, actionable cues distilled
from the source markdown's speaker notes
- A key takeaway per slide — the one memorable thing the audience should
walk away with
The talking points are the middle layer between the source of truth (full
detail + speaker notes) and the Marp deck (what the audience sees). They
give the presenter a cue sheet for delivery without repeating either layer.
README updated:
- 3-step → 4-step process (added Step 4: talking points)
- Process diagram updated with the 4th step
- Directory layout updated with the two new files
- 'Adding a new presentation' checklist updated with step 6 (distill talking
points)
- Current decks table updated with a talking points column
---ci---
phase: 50
milestone: v1.9
status: complete
requirements:
covered: []
partial: []
---/ci---
9 requirements implemented across presentation decks and project docs:
1. DX closing slide: added 'Infrastructure as a utility, not a craft' bullet
to convey the full vision (infrastructure consumed, not maintained;
platform compounds value over time).
2. PW Problem slide: 'moving a merged change' → 'promoting a change'.
3. PW Problem slide: added 'Red tape' and 'Scalability without increasing
headcount' bullets (4 frictions, not 2).
4. PW Roadmap slide: redesigned with side-by-side HTML table layout
(Testing | Planned), 16px font, no overflow.
5. PW deck: added new slide 'What This Platform Is — and Isn't' after North
Star (sovereign boundary, infrastructure as utility, 4 anti-goals).
PW deck now 16 slides (was 15).
6. Maturity nomenclature: 'Available today'/'shipped' → 'Testing' across
both decks + source markdown. New .testing badge (blue/teal #DBEAFE).
Roadmap title: 'Testing vs. Planned'. The platform has 0 consumer
adoption — 'shipped' was inaccurate.
7. Global: 'substrate' → 'engine' across entire project (88 matches, 30+
files including .ciagent/, docs/, modules/, adapters/, schemas/, code).
8. Presentation files only: 'forge' → 'VCS' / 'version control system'
(6 occurrences in 4 files). 'forge' retained in all technical docs and
code as the industry-standard term.
9. New .agentic badge (purple/violet #EDE9FE) appended to agentic features
in both decks: confidence signal, autonomous dev, pattern recognition,
dynamic module creation, citizen developer surface, auto-promotion.
Also: Change Request ID format changed from 'CR-2026-001' to 'CHG0678912'
across presentation files, consumer guide, and test fixtures.
HTML re-rendered. PPTX rendered for release upload.
---ci---
phase: 48
milestone: v1.9
status: complete
requirements:
covered: []
partial: []
---/ci---
Presentation changes (both Marp decks + source markdown):
1. Title slide: deck title as H1 (slightly bigger), 'Agentic Cloud Delivery
Platform' as H3 subtitle — cleaner title hierarchy
2. DX deck: removed Local Reproducibility slide (not beneficial for DX)
3. DX deck: Safe Promotion Path slide redesigned with side-by-side layout
for Approaches A and B (HTML table, two columns)
4. DX deck: 'an agent' → 'an AI agent' (slide 2 + Citizen Developer slide)
5. DX deck: What a Developer Does — diagram floated to the right side
6. Header simplified to just the deck name (subtitle now on title slide)
HIPAA removal (25 files):
- Completely removed all HIPAA references from all markdown documentation,
presentation source files, module READMEs, and rendered HTML
- Removed HIPAA from compliance milestone lists (GDPR, SOX, SOC2, DORA remain)
- Removed HIPAA section references (§164.xxx) from compliance annotations
- Cleaned up empty parentheses and broken commas left by removal
- Re-rendered both HTML decks from updated Marp source
---ci---
phase: 47
milestone: v1.9
status: complete
requirements:
covered: []
partial: []
---/ci---
Commit self-contained HTML renderings of both Marp presentation decks to
docs/presentations/ so they are viewable in any browser and on the git
forge. The HTML files embed all images as base64 data URIs and render
the full S&P Global Energy brand theme (#D6002A red-core, #1B1B1B grey-90,
Akkurat Pro font).
Updated the README to document the 3-step process with HTML as a
committed artifact (re-render when Marp source changes) and PPTX as a
Gitea release attachment (binary, not committed to git).
PPTX files are rendered and uploaded to the Gitea release as downloadable
attachments for stakeholders.
---ci---
phase: 46
milestone: v1.9
status: complete
requirements:
covered: []
partial: []
---/ci---
Add two leadership-facing presentation decks for senior leadership
(CTO, Head of Cloud, Head of Infrastructure, Head of DevOps):
1. How the Platform Works — 14 slides covering the contract-driven model,
zero-trust, computed safety, policy enforcement, secure-by-default,
immutable audit, HITL, observability, platform-managed environments,
portability, and an honest shipped-vs-planned roadmap.
2. The Developer Experience — 14 slides covering two consumer surfaces,
the 5-line contract, no platform code, versioned releases, instant
feedback, deploy outputs, local reproducibility, friendly onboarding,
safe promotion (one contract + per-env CI jobs), safe decommission,
self-service module catalog, and the leadership outcome.
Each deck has two forms:
- Full markdown (source of truth) with speaker notes + mermaid code blocks
- Marp deck (lean, no speaker notes, embedded PNG diagrams) for presentation
Includes a README documenting the 3-step slide creation process:
(full markdown → Marp synthesis → PPTX export) with conventions, build
commands, and maturity framing rules.
---ci---
phase: 44
milestone: v1.9
status: complete
requirements:
covered: []
partial: []
---/ci---
Phase 24 — platform-lambda-and-contract-ingestion.
- core/lambda/contract_ingestor.py: AWS Lambda handler invoked via Function
URL (IAM auth). Parses JSON body, validates required fields, writes the
contract to DynamoDB table acdl-contracts (PK consumerRepo, SK
contractId#submittedAt, status submitted, ISO-8601 submittedAt). report_error
action is a stub returning "error_report_prepared"; GitHub issue creation is
wired in Phase 25. Returns 400 on missing fields / unknown action, 500 on
error. Table name + GitHub-token secret ID come from env (set by Terraform).
- core/lambda/__init__.py: empty package marker.
- terraform/platform/main.tf: DynamoDB acdl-contracts (PITR, SSE via CMK),
KMS customer-managed key with alias/acdl-platform, Secrets Manager secret
acdl/github-token, IAM execution role (DynamoDB write + Secrets Manager read +
KMS decrypt + CloudWatch logs), Lambda acdl-contract-ingestor (Python 3.12,
handler contract_ingestor.lambda_handler), Function URL with AWS_IAM auth.
State key platform/terraform.tfstate (distinct from spike/microservice).
- terraform/platform/README.md: documents what it deploys, the state key, how
to apply, and the cross-account invocation model.
- terraform/platform/consumer_invoke_policy.json: ABAC-scoped policy template
applied to consumer deploy roles during onboarding; grants
lambda:InvokeFunctionUrl conditioned on aws:PrincipalTag/acdl:owner ==
consumerRepo.
- tests/test_contract_ingestor.py: 11 tests (moto-backed DynamoDB mock) covering
submit_contract put_item shape, report_error stub, missing-field 400, unknown
action 400, the lambda_handler wrapper with a Function-URL-style event, dict
body, default action, and internal-error 500.
- docs/environments/index.md: new section documenting the cross-account
contract-ingestion grant (one-way consumer→platform, D-051) and that
onboarding now also grants the consumer deploy role InvokeFunctionUrl.
- scripts/run_ci.sh, pipelines/ci.yaml, .gitea/workflows/ci.yml,
.github/workflows/ci.yml: add core/lambda/contract_ingestor.py to the lint
py_compile list. The two workflow YAMLs remain byte-identical.
Verification: scripts/run_ci.sh passes all 3 stages (lint/test/check-only);
python3 -m pytest tests/ -v passes all 213 tests (11 new + 202 existing).
---ci---
project: acdl
phase: 24
milestone: v1.7
status: execute
---/ci---
---ci---
phase: 21
milestone: v1.6
status: verify
lessons:
- P0 fix: docs/_config.yml had conflicting theme + remote_theme (would
break the GitHub Pages build). Removed the conflicting theme: key,
kept remote_theme: minimal-mistakes.
- P2 fix: removed unused json + os imports from core/environment_check.py.
---/ci---
Multi-persona review of v1.6 phase 21 (docs restructure + core rename +
environments scaffold).
P0 (blocking) — AUTO-FIXED:
- M1: docs/_config.yml declared both and
. Jekyll rejects using
both; the Pages build would fail. Fixed: removed the line,
kept (minimal-mistakes, which provides the
layout the defaults reference).
P2 (nits) — AUTO-FIXED:
- M2: core/environment_check.py imported + but never used
them. Removed.
P1 (important) — FLAGGED FOR POST-HOC REVIEW (do not block ship):
- C1 (pre-existing, from v1.5 review C2): .github/workflows/deploy.yml
checks out the platform repo at , but no floating tag
exists (only v1.4.0 / v1.4.1). Operator must create a floating v1.4
tag or change the ref to v1.4.1 (or v1.6.0 now that it exists). The
consumer guide + sample contract also reference @v1.4.
- C2: docs/_config.yml key is not a standard minimal-mistakes
navigation config (that theme reads _data/navigation.yml). The
key is harmless metadata but won't render a real nav. Recommend adding
docs/_data/navigation.yml for the theme, or switching to a theme that
reads from _config.yml. Non-blocking for the docs content.
- S1 (pre-existing, from v1.5 review S1): the static-key override in
deploy.yml sets ACDL_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID/ACDL_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY as env
vars on the configure-aws-credentials step, but that action reads AWS_*
or its own access-key/secret-key inputs, not ACDL_AWS_*. The override
is not actually wired. Phase 21 did not touch this step.
Verified: byte-identical workflows (CI + deploy); dev.json valid JSON;
all core Python compiles; path-traversal on --env is safe (no file match
-> onboarding prompt, exit 1); all docs internal links resolve; 166
tests pass; run_ci.sh green. The run_platform.sh env-check ordering is
correct (default contract is assigned before the env check runs).
Jon Chery