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@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 {
  "phase": 0,
  "stage": "plan",
-  "milestone": "v1.21",
+  "milestone": "v1.22",
  "phase_role": "pre_execution",
  "attempts": 0,
-  "updated_at": "2026-08-11T00:01:00Z",
+  "updated_at": "2026-08-11T14:38:00Z",
  "milestone_complete": false,
-  "requirements": ["REQ-245","REQ-246","REQ-247","REQ-248","REQ-249","REQ-250","REQ-251","REQ-252","REQ-253"],
+  "tag": null,
-  "notes": "v1.21 P0 plan stage complete. PLAN.md v1.21 section written. 5 execution phases (P1 strategic-docs, P2 slides, P3 marp+talking-points+README, P4 pipeline-hardening, P5 render+verify) + P6 final-review-ship. Wave 1 (P1/P2/P4 parallelizable), Wave 2 (P3), Wave 3 (P5), Wave 4 (P6). CLARIFY+RESEARCH minimal at full autonomy — domain known, requirements confirmed with user. Proceeding to P0 ship then execution."
+  "requirements": ["REQ-254","REQ-255","REQ-256","REQ-257","REQ-258","REQ-259","REQ-260","REQ-261","REQ-262"],
  "notes": "v1.22 PLAN complete. 7 phases, 4 waves. Plan persisted to PLAN.md. Tags on v1.21.x line."
 }
@@ -1,34 +1,128 @@
 ---
 project: acdl
-milestone: v1.18
+milestone: v1.22
-generated_at: 2026-08-06
+generated_at: 2026-08-11
 generator: lead-developer
 verification_toolchain:
-  typecheck: "python3 -m py_compile core/submission_readiness.py mcp/atelier/server.py && python3 -m jsonschema schemas/submission-readiness.schema.json"
+  typecheck: "python3 -m py_compile tests/test_slides_pipeline.py"
-  test: "pytest tests/test_submission_readiness.py tests/test_atelier_mcp.py   # REQ-220 + REQ-225"
+  test: "pytest tests/test_slides_pipeline.py   # REQ-254..262"
-  build: "bash scripts/render_deck.sh docs/presentations/nova-no-humans-platform-marp.md   # HTML + PPTX (D-142)"
+  build: "bash scripts/render_slides.sh nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery   # HTML + PPTX"
  note: |
-    v1.18 adds the Citizen Developer & Production-Grade Guidance surface:
+    v1.22 is the Nova Deck Layout Fix — a docs-only NFR milestone. Two
-    submission-readiness gate, Atelier-derived skills, the Atelier MCP server
+    active personas: lead-developer (theme CSS + deck markdown + talking
-    (plugin-registry, stdio), and PPTX-as-first-class-artifact deck automation.
+    points + README + .ciagent metadata), backend-engineer (render scripts
-    Three active personas: lead-developer (coordination + decks + RACI/scope
+    + tests). frontend-engineer stays deactivated (decks are markdown =
-    docs), backend-engineer (MCP server + submission-readiness validator +
+    lead-developer territory, per v1.17/v1.18 precedent). No data-engineer
-    render/attach scripts), data-engineer (submission-readiness schema if it
+    (no schema/DB changes). No new personas (the work is CSS + bash +
-    touches contract storage / DynamoDB shape). frontend-engineer stays
+    markdown + pytest, all within the two active personas' range).
    deactivated (v1.18 has no frontend; decks are markdown = lead-developer
    territory). The MCP plugin-registry is a backend pattern, so a separate
    mcp-engineer persona is NOT added — it folds into backend-engineer.
 ---
-# ACDL — Persona Roster (v1.18 Citizen Developer & Production-Grade Guidance)
+# ACDL — Persona Roster (v1.22 Nova Deck Layout Fix)
-> v1.18 roster. Three active personas + one deactivated. The MCP server
+> v1.22 roster. Two active personas + one deactivated. This is a docs-
-> plugin-registry (D-140) is a backend pattern, not a new persona — it
+> only NFR milestone: the work is theme CSS, render scripts, mermaid
-> folds into backend-engineer. v1.17 precedent (frontend-engineer
+> diagrams, deck markdown, and tests. frontend-engineer stays
-> deactivated, decks are markdown = lead-developer territory) is upheld.
+> deactivated (decks are markdown = lead-developer territory, per
 > v1.17/v1.18 precedent). No data-engineer (no schema/DB changes).
 ## Active personas
 ### lead-developer
 - **Domain:** coordination + deck content
 - **Active:** true
 - **Phase-specific:** false
 - **Frameworks:** [] (no framework — owns process + narrative + CSS + markdown)
 - **Constraints:** ["pragmatic", "battle-tested defaults", "no fabrication (NORTH_STAR honesty model)", "do not change the 4-beat arc", "do not re-introduce badges/version/internal citations"]
 - **Territory:**
  - `docs/presentations/assets/nova-sp-theme.css` (REQ-254,255,256 — theme CSS)
  - `docs/presentations/nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-marp.md` (REQ-261 — deck content)
  - `docs/presentations/nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery.md` (REQ-261 — source of truth)
  - `docs/presentations/nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-talking-points.md` (REQ-261)
  - `docs/presentations/README.md` (REQ-261 — slide-count convention)
  - `docs/presentations/assets/mmd/*.mmd` (REQ-259,260 — mermaid re-layout)
  - `.ciagent/**` (PROJECT, ROADMAP, REQUIREMENTS, RESEARCH, PLAN, GRILL, PERSONAS, REVIEW, CHECKPOINT)
 - **Reason:** Owns the theme CSS (the root cause), the deck markdown
  (trim/split overflowing slides), the mermaid re-layout, the talking
  points, the README, and all CIAgent metadata. Is the only persona
  that touches `.ciagent/**` and the deck markdown/CSS.
 - **Phase-specific flag:** none (active for all of P0–P6).
 ### backend-engineer
 - **Domain:** render scripts + tests
 - **Active:** true
 - **Phase-specific:** false
 - **Frameworks:** ["bash", "pytest", "marp-cli", "mermaid-cli"]
 - **Constraints:** ["pin CLI versions (no @latest)", "2x scale + transparent bg for mermaid", "tests must catch layout regressions", "no raw curl with shell-env tokens"]
 - **Territory:**
  - `scripts/render_slides.sh` (REQ-257,258 — pin versions, 2x scale)
  - `scripts/render_deck.sh` (REQ-257 — DELETE)
  - `tests/test_slides_pipeline.py` (REQ-262 — layout/aspect-ratio/theme-structural tests)
  - `.github/workflows/slides.yml` (if references to render_deck.sh need removal)
 - **Reason:** Owns the render pipeline (bash scripts) and the test
  suite. The layout/aspect-ratio/theme-structural tests (REQ-262) are
  the gap that let this regression through — backend-engineer owns
  closing that gap. Pinning CLI versions and adding 2x scale are
  backend/scripting tasks.
 - **Phase-specific flag:** none (active for P2, P5; light touch on P0/P6).
 ## Deactivated personas
 ### frontend-engineer
 - **Active:** false
 - **Domain:** frontend
 - **Frameworks:** ["react", "next.js"] (inert — no territory)
 - **Constraints:** ["component-first", "server-components", "minimal-client-js"] (inert)
 - **Territory:** [] (no territory in v1.22)
 - **Reason:** v1.22 has no frontend; decks are markdown (lead-developer
  territory); deactivated per PERSONAS.md v1.17/v1.18 precedent. The
  theme CSS is a Marp stylesheet, not a React/Next.js component system
  — it stays lead-developer territory. No reactivation trigger.
 ### data-engineer
 - **Active:** false
 - **Domain:** data
 - **Frameworks:** [] (inert)
 - **Constraints:** [] (inert)
 - **Territory:** [] (no territory in v1.22)
 - **Reason:** v1.22 has no schema/DB/ORM changes. The milestone is
  docs + scripts + tests only. No reactivation trigger.
 ## Roster decisions
 ### D-148 (0.95): Theme CSS is lead-developer territory, not frontend-engineer
 The `nova-sp-theme.css` is a Marp stylesheet (CSS for a markdown-to-
 slide renderer), not a React/Next.js component system. The v1.17/v1.18
 precedent (decks are markdown = lead-developer territory) extends to
 the deck's CSS theme. frontend-engineer's frameworks (react, next.js)
 are irrelevant to Marp CSS. **Decision:** theme CSS stays lead-developer
 territory. Confidence 0.95 — the only counter-argument is that CSS is
 "frontend," but Marp CSS is a static stylesheet, not a component system.
 ### D-149 (0.9): No new personas for v1.22
 The work is CSS + bash + markdown + mermaid + pytest. All of this is
 within the two active personas' range (lead-developer: CSS + markdown +
 mermaid; backend-engineer: bash + pytest). Creating a separate "css-
 engineer" or "slides-engineer" persona would fragment ownership of the
 theme CSS + deck markdown (both lead-developer) and the render scripts
 + tests (both backend-engineer). **Decision:** no new personas.
 Confidence 0.9.
 ### Territory-overlap resolution (co-ownership)
 | Path | Primary | Co-owner | Why |
 |------|---------|----------|-----|
 | `docs/presentations/assets/mmd/*.mmd` | lead-developer (mermaid re-layout) | backend-engineer (re-render via render_slides.sh) | The .mmd content is lead-developer (diagram narrative); the PNG re-render is backend-engineer (script invocation). |
 | `tests/test_slides_pipeline.py` | backend-engineer (test code) | lead-developer (assertions reflect deck structure) | The test code is backend; the assertions (slide count, theme rules, aspect ratios) reflect lead-developer's deck/theme decisions. |
 ---
 ## Historical rosters
 <details>
 <summary>v1.18 roster (Citizen Developer & Production-Grade Guidance) — superseded by v1.22</summary>
 ### Active personas (v1.18)
 ### lead-developer
 - **Domain:** coordination
 - **Active:** true
@@ -97,7 +191,7 @@ verification_toolchain:
  is backend; the schema it validates against is data).
 - **Phase-specific flag:** none (active for P3 schema + ingestor wiring).
-## Deactivated personas
+### Deactivated personas (v1.18)
 ### frontend-engineer
 - **Active:** false
@@ -111,7 +205,7 @@ verification_toolchain:
  frontend / dashboard"). The MCP server exposes tools to an AI agent,
  not a web UI. No reactivation trigger in this milestone.
-## Roster decisions
+### Roster decisions (v1.18)
 ### D-143 (0.90): Fold mcp-engineer into backend-engineer
 The MCP plugin-registry (D-140: `plugins/<name>.py register(mcp)`) is a
@@ -127,10 +221,12 @@ that MCP is a distinct protocol skill, but the SDK v2 API surface
 range (it's the same Pydantic/FastAPI-style pattern the persona already
 knows).
-### Territory-overlap resolution (co-ownership)
+### Territory-overlap resolution (v1.18)
 | Path | Primary | Co-owner | Why |
 |------|---------|----------|-----|
 | `docs/submission-readiness.md` | lead-developer (narrative + examples) | backend-engineer (reason-code catalog, REQ-218 codes) | The doc is citizen-developer-facing copy (lead) but the reason-code catalog (MISSING_TAGS, ENV_MISSING_MANDATORY, AGENTIC_MISSING_INTENT, MISSING_APP_SOURCE, POLICY_PRECONDITION_MISSING) is backend (it mirrors the validator's return codes). |
 | `core/lambda/contract_ingestor.py` | backend-engineer (dispatch wiring) | data-engineer (the schema it validates against) | D-133 places the `--check-readiness` subcommand on the ingestor (backend dispatch), but the readiness schema it loads is data-engineer territory. |
-| `schemas/submission-readiness.schema.json` | data-engineer (schema artifact) | backend-engineer (the validator must match it) | The schema is data-engineer's; the validator (REQ-218) is backend-engineer's and must stay in sync with it. |
+| `schemas/submission-readiness.schema.json` | data-engineer (schema artifact) | backend-engineer (the validator must match it) | The schema is data-engineer's; the validator (REQ-218) is backend-engineer's and must stay in sync with it. |
 </details>
@@ -1098,5 +1098,360 @@ NOT exercised here.
 8. **No new frontend (frontend-engineer deactivated).** v1.18 has no
   frontend; decks are markdown (lead-developer territory); the MCP
   server exposes tools to an AI agent, not a web UI. The
-   frontend-engineer persona stays deactivated (PERSONAS.md v1.18
+    frontend-engineer persona stays deactivated (PERSONAS.md v1.18
-   roster). No reactivation trigger in this milestone.
+    roster). No reactivation trigger in this milestone.
 ---
 # Nova — Phase Plan v1.22 (Nova Deck Layout Fix)
 > **Milestone:** v1.22 — Nova Deck Layout Fix
 > **Branch:** `milestone/v1.22-deck-layout-fix` → merge to `main` at P6.
 >   Phase branches: `phase/00-pre-execution`, `phase/01-theme-css`,
 >   `phase/02-render-scripts`, `phase/03-mermaid-relayout`,
 >   `phase/04-deck-content`, `phase/05-render-and-test`,
 >   `phase/06-final-review-ship`.
 > **Tag line:** `v1.21.x` patch line — `v1.21.0` (P0) →
 > `v1.21.1..v1.21.5` (P1–P5) → `v1.21.6` (P6 final = milestone release).
 >   v1.22 is an NFR milestone (all phases are fix/docs/test) →
 >   progressive patches.
 > **Phase count:** 7 (P0 pre-execution + 5 execution + 1 final).
 > **Source of truth for requirements:** `.ciagent/REQUIREMENTS.md` §v1.22
 >   (REQ-254..262, 9 requirements).
 > **Source of truth for research:** `.ciagent/RESEARCH.md` §v1.22 (8
 >   findings, 5 assumptions, 5 CLARIFY decisions).
 > **Source of truth for personas:** `.ciagent/PERSONAS.md` v1.22 roster
 >   (2 active: lead-developer + backend-engineer; 2 deactivated:
 >   frontend + data).
 ## Wave Ordering
 | Wave | Phases | Rationale |
 |------|--------|-----------|
 | Wave 1 | P1, P2 (**parallel**) | P1 (theme CSS: padding, overflow, image, title chrome) + P2 (render scripts: delete render_deck.sh, pin versions, 2x scale). Zero file overlap: P1 touches `docs/presentations/assets/nova-sp-theme.css`; P2 touches `scripts/render_slides.sh` + deletes `scripts/render_deck.sh`. P1 establishes the padding/overflow/image budget that P4's content trimming relies on; P2 fixes the render pipeline that P3's PNG re-render depends on. |
 | Wave 2 | P3, P4 (**parallel**) | P3 (mermaid re-layout: telemetry LR, platform-pipeline 2-row wrap) + P4 (deck content: trim/split 8 overflowing slides, remove header). P3 depends on P2 (2x scale flag); P4 depends on P1 (padding budget). Zero file overlap: P3 touches `docs/presentations/assets/mmd/*.mmd` + PNGs; P4 touches `docs/presentations/nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-marp.md` + source `.md` + talking-points + README. |
 | Wave 3 | P5 | Re-render HTML + PPTX + add tests. Depends on all above (P1 theme, P2 scripts, P3 diagrams, P4 content). Re-renders via the fixed `render_slides.sh`; adds the layout/aspect-ratio/theme-structural tests (the gap that let this through). |
 | Wave 4 | P6 | Final review + audit + milestone ship. Merge to main, tag `v1.21.6`, create release, attach PPTX. |
 ## Phase P0 — pre-execution (DONE)
 SPECIFY → CLARIFY → RESEARCH → PLAN. Validated v1.22 requirements
 (REQ-254..262). Established `active_milestone: "v1.22"`. Root-cause
 investigation persisted to RESEARCH.md (8 findings). Persona roster
 updated (2 active, 2 deactivated). 5 CLARIFY decisions auto-resolved.
 ## Phase P1 — theme-css (fix) — lead-developer
 **Requirements:** REQ-254, REQ-255, REQ-256
 **Branch:** `phase/01-theme-css`
 **Territory:** `docs/presentations/assets/nova-sp-theme.css`
 ### Tasks
 1. **REQ-254 — section padding + overflow:**
   - Add `section { padding: 48px 56px 40px; }` (top reserves header
     space; bottom reserves footer).
   - Add `section { overflow: auto; }` as an authoring-time signal
     (dense content scrolls instead of silently clipping). Document
     that the real fix is content trimming (P4), not runtime scroll.
 2. **REQ-255 — aspect-ratio-aware image rules:**
   - Replace `img { display: block; margin: 0 auto; max-height: 320px }`
     with `img { display: block; margin: 0 auto; max-width: 100%;
     max-height: 380px; object-fit: contain; }`.
   - Add `.wide` class: `img.wide { max-height: 280px; }` (for ultra-wide
     diagrams).
   - Add `.tall` class: `img.tall { max-height: 480px; }` (for tall
     diagrams that need more vertical room).
 3. **REQ-256 — title chrome + spacing tightening:**
   - Add `section.title header, section.title footer { display: none; }`.
   - Add `section h2 + p { margin-top: 0.2em; }`.
   - Add `section p { margin: 0.4em 0; }`.
   - Add `ol` styling: `ol { margin-top: 0.3em; }` (match `ul`).
   - Add `table.dense td, table.dense th { padding: 4px 8px; }` (for
     tables with ≥8 rows).
   - Add `@media print { section { overflow: hidden; } }` (PPTX export
     fidelity — no scrollbars in exported slides).
 ### Verify (inline)
 - `python3 -c "from pathlib import Path; css = Path('docs/presentations/assets/nova-sp-theme.css').read_text(); assert 'padding:' in css and 'section.title header' in css and 'object-fit' in css and 'table.dense' in css; print('theme CSS OK')"`
 - `pytest tests/test_slides_pipeline.py -k "theme" -q` (existing theme
  color tests still pass).
 ### Ship
 - Tag `v1.21.1`, merge `phase/01-theme-css` → `milestone/v1.22-deck-layout-fix`.
 ## Phase P2 — render-scripts (fix) — backend-engineer
 **Requirements:** REQ-257, REQ-258
 **Branch:** `phase/02-render-scripts`
 **Territory:** `scripts/render_slides.sh`, `scripts/render_deck.sh` (DELETE)
 ### Tasks
 1. **REQ-257 — delete render_deck.sh + pin CLI versions:**
   - `git rm scripts/render_deck.sh` (the README already documents
     `render_slides.sh` as canonical; `render_deck.sh` omits `--theme`
     and produces unthemed output).
   - Pin marp-cli and mermaid-cli versions in `render_slides.sh`:
     replace `@marp-team/marp-cli@latest` with a pinned version (e.g.
     `@marp-team/marp-cli@4.0.0` — determine the working version by
     testing during execution) and `@mermaid-js/mermaid-cli@latest`
     with a pinned version (e.g. `@mermaid-js/mermaid-cli@10.9.1`).
   - Remove any references to `render_deck.sh` from
     `.github/workflows/slides.yml`, `docs/presentations/README.md`,
     and `tests/test_slides_pipeline.py` (if any test references it).
 2. **REQ-258 — 2x scale + transparent bg for mermaid:**
   - In `render_slides.sh` lines 51-55, add `-s 2 -b transparent` to
     the mermaid-cli invocation (matches README line 193 spec).
 ### Verify (inline)
 - `test ! -f scripts/render_deck.sh && echo "render_deck.sh deleted OK"`
 - `grep -q "marp-cli@" scripts/render_slides.sh && grep -q "mermaid-cli@" scripts/render_slides.sh && echo "versions pinned OK"`
 - `grep -q -- "-s 2" scripts/render_slides.sh && grep -q -- "-b transparent" scripts/render_slides.sh && echo "2x + transparent OK"`
 - `pytest tests/test_slides_pipeline.py -k "render" -q` (existing
  render-script tests still pass; update if they reference
  `render_deck.sh`).
 ### Ship
 - Tag `v1.21.2`, merge `phase/02-render-scripts` → `milestone/v1.22-deck-layout-fix`.
 ## Phase P3 — mermaid-relayout (fix) — lead-developer
 **Requirements:** REQ-259, REQ-260
 **Branch:** `phase/03-mermaid-relayout`
 **Territory:** `docs/presentations/assets/mmd/telemetry-live-ops.mmd`,
  `docs/presentations/assets/mmd/platform-pipeline.mmd`, PNG re-render
  (via `render_slides.sh` — backend-engineer co-owns the script
  invocation).
 ### Tasks
 1. **REQ-259 — telemetry-live-ops.mmd TB → LR:**
   - Rewrite `docs/presentations/assets/mmd/telemetry-live-ops.mmd` from
     `flowchart TB` to `flowchart LR` with subgraph row-wrapping (per
     README line 168). Target aspect ratio ∈ [1.2, 2.5].
   - Re-render PNG: `bash scripts/render_slides.sh nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery`
     (now with 2x scale + transparent bg from P2).
   - Update the Marp deck's `![w:900]` directive on slide 9 to match
     the new dimensions (or replace with `![h:320]` if the diagram
     remains taller than wide after re-layout — but LR should produce
     a wide diagram).
 2. **REQ-260 — platform-pipeline.mmd 2-row wrap:**
   - Rewrite `docs/presentations/assets/mmd/platform-pipeline.mmd` to
     wrap the 10-node LR chain into 2 rows via mermaid subgraphs (or
     split into two stages: static-scan row + runtime-scan row). Target
     aspect ratio ∈ [1.2, 2.5].
   - Re-render PNG (same command as above).
 ### Verify (inline)
 - `python3 -c "from PIL import Image; import os; d='docs/presentations/assets/png'; [print(f, Image.open(os.path.join(d,f)).size) for f in os.listdir(d) if f.endswith('.png')]"` (check aspect ratios — or use a stdlib-only check if PIL unavailable).
 - Verify both re-rendered PNGs have aspect ratio ∈ [1.2, 2.5].
 ### Ship
 - Tag `v1.21.3`, merge `phase/03-mermaid-relayout` → `milestone/v1.22-deck-layout-fix`.
 ## Phase P4 — deck-content (fix) — lead-developer
 **Requirements:** REQ-261
 **Branch:** `phase/04-deck-content`
 **Territory:** `docs/presentations/nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-marp.md`,
  `docs/presentations/nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery.md`,
  `docs/presentations/nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-talking-points.md`,
  `docs/presentations/README.md`.
 ### Tasks
 1. **Split slide 3** (Objectives + Anti-Goals) into:
   - Slide 3a — Strategic Objectives (4 objectives + nested sub-list).
   - Slide 3b — Anti-Goals (4 anti-goals + benefit).
   Main slide count 18 → 19.
 2. **Split slide 8** (Attestation Matrix) into:
   - Slide 8a — Attestation: QA (3 qa rows + separation-of-duties note).
   - Slide 8b — Attestation: Prod/DR (7 prod/dr rows + benefit).
   Main slide count 19 → 20.
 3. **Trim slide 5** (RACI): apply `table.dense` class (from P1) to
   reduce cell padding; keep 8 rows.
 4. **Trim slide 6** (Pipeline): reduce to 3 bullets (the 4th is covered
   by the diagram, now legible after P3).
 5. **Trim slide 9** (Telemetry): reduce to 3 bullets; image now legible
   after P3.
 6. **Trim slide 12** (Deferred): reduce to 6 rows (merge the 3 "Live
   AWS re-provisioning" blockers into one row).
 7. **Trim slide 15** (Quarter-by-Quarter): drop the "Grounding" column
   (redundant with strategic objectives); 4 columns fit better.
 8. **Trim Appendix A1** (Glossary): apply `table.dense` class (16px
   font); keep 13 rows.
 9. **Remove `header:` from frontmatter** (keep `footer:` + `paginate:
   true` only). The full 51-char deck title in BOTH header and footer
   is redundant chrome; the footer alone suffices.
 10. **Update talking-points.md** to match the new 20 main + 1 appendix
    slide structure.
 11. **Update README.md** "18 main + 1 appendix" convention (line 130)
    → "20 main + 1 appendix".
 12. **Update `test_marp_deck_slide_count`** in
    `tests/test_slides_pipeline.py` to assert 20 main + 1 appendix
    (this test is co-owned with backend-engineer per PERSONAS.md, but
    the assertion value reflects lead-developer's deck structure
    decision — lead-developer makes the edit here).
 ### Verify (inline)
 - `pytest tests/test_slides_pipeline.py -k "slide_count" -q` (updated
  test passes with 20 main + 1 appendix).
 - `grep -c "## Slide " docs/presentations/nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-marp.md` → 20.
 - `grep -c "## Appendix " docs/presentations/nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-marp.md` → 1.
 - `grep -q "^header:" docs/presentations/nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-marp.md && echo "FAIL: header still present" || echo "header removed OK"`.
 ### Ship
 - Tag `v1.21.4`, merge `phase/04-deck-content` → `milestone/v1.22-deck-layout-fix`.
 ## Phase P5 — render-and-test (test) — backend-engineer
 **Requirements:** REQ-262
 **Branch:** `phase/05-render-and-test`
 **Territory:** `tests/test_slides_pipeline.py` (test code — backend),
  re-render invocation (backend). Assertions reflect lead-developer's
  deck/theme decisions (co-owned).
 ### Tasks
 1. **Re-render HTML + PPTX:**
   - `bash scripts/render_slides.sh nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery` →
     re-renders all mermaid PNGs (2x transparent) + HTML + PPTX.
   - Verify slide count (20 main + 1 appendix = 21 `<section>` elements
     in the HTML + 1 title = 22 total — or however Marp counts the title
     slide; verify against the marp deck).
   - Verify media embedding (PPTX has embedded PNGs).
 2. **Add tests to `tests/test_slides_pipeline.py`:**
   - `test_theme_css_has_section_padding` — assert `section` rule in
     `nova-sp-theme.css` contains `padding`.
   - `test_theme_css_suppresses_title_chrome` — assert
     `section.title header` and `section.title footer` have
     `display: none`.
   - `test_png_aspect_ratios_sane` — for every PNG in `assets/png/`,
     assert aspect ratio ∈ [1.2, 2.5] (catches the 13.52× and 0.63×
     outliers). Use `struct`/`imghdr` or a minimal PNG header parser
     (no PIL dependency if possible).
   - `test_render_slides_has_2x_scale` — assert `render_slides.sh`
     contains `-s 2` and `-b transparent`.
   - `test_render_deck_removed` — assert `scripts/render_deck.sh` does
     not exist.
   - `test_html_embeds_theme` — assert committed HTML contains
     `--sp-red` and `padding` in the inline `<style>`.
   - `test_html_slide_count_matches_marp` — parse HTML `<section>` count
     == marp deck slide count.
 3. **Run full test suite:**
   - `pytest tests/test_slides_pipeline.py -q` (all slide tests pass).
   - `pytest -q` (full suite — was 686 pass + 1 pre-existing attestation
     env failure; should now be 686 + new tests pass, same 1 failure).
   - `bash scripts/run_platform.sh --check-only` → exit 0.
 ### Verify (inline)
 - `pytest tests/test_slides_pipeline.py -q` (all pass, including new
  layout/aspect-ratio/theme-structural tests).
 - `pytest -q 2>&1 | tail -5` (full suite — confirm no new failures).
 ### Ship
 - Tag `v1.21.5`, merge `phase/05-render-and-test` → `milestone/v1.22-deck-layout-fix`.
 ## Phase P6 — final-review-ship (final) — lead-developer
 **Requirements:** all (REQ-254..262) — milestone release
 **Branch:** `phase/06-final-review-ship`
 ### Tasks
 1. **Multi-persona review** (`ciagent-review` equivalent):
   - Review all changes in the milestone branch across P1-P5.
   - Auto-apply P0 fixes; flag P1+ for post-hoc review.
   - If P1+ issues found: fix them in this final phase.
 2. **Audit** (`ciagent-audit` equivalent):
   - Reconstruction test: verify git log matches `.ciagent/` files.
   - Check `.ciagent/` file discipline and branch hygiene.
   - Check commit discipline (all commits have `---ci---` blocks).
   - If audit finds critical issues: fix them in this final phase.
 3. **Milestone ship** (`ciagent-ship` equivalent):
   - Merge `phase/06-final-review-ship` → `milestone/v1.22-deck-layout-fix`.
   - Merge `milestone/v1.22-deck-layout-fix` → `main`.
   - Tag `v1.21.6` (final phase patch = milestone release).
   - Create release with full milestone summary (all phases, all
     requirements).
   - Build and upload PPTX as release asset.
   - Delete all milestone branches (local + remote).
 4. **Complete the milestone:**
   - Update `REQUIREMENTS.md` — mark REQ-254..262 as complete.
   - Update `ROADMAP.md` — mark v1.22 as complete.
   - Commit: `docs(milestone): complete v1.22 — Nova Deck Layout Fix`.
 ### Ship
 - Tag `v1.21.6` (milestone release). Merge to `main`. Clear checkpoint.
 ## Plan-Level Risks + Notes (v1.22)
 1. **Slide count change** (18 → 20 main): `test_marp_deck_slide_count`
   + README convention must be updated in P4. The split is necessary
   because slides 3 and 8 are the densest (~780px each) and cannot be
   trimmed without losing leadership-relevant content.
 2. **Marp version pinning**: the exact pinned versions will be
   determined during P2 execution by testing which version produces
   stable output in this environment. If the pinned version has a
   different boilerplate-CSS signature, the HTML diff will be large but
   layout-stable.
 3. **`overflow: auto` on `section`**: Marp slides are SVG
   `foreignObject` — `overflow: auto` may not produce scrollbars in all
   renderers (PPTX especially). The safer approach is content trimming
   (P4) + padding (P1), treating overflow as an authoring-time signal,
   not a runtime scroll. The `@media print { section { overflow: hidden; } }`
   rule in P1 ensures PPTX export doesn't show scrollbars.
 4. **No new frontend** (frontend-engineer deactivated). v1.22 has no
   frontend; decks are markdown + Marp CSS (lead-developer territory,
   per D-148). The frontend-engineer persona stays deactivated.
 5. **No data-engineer** (no schema/DB changes). v1.22 is docs + scripts
   + tests only.
 6. **Wave 1 + Wave 2 parallelism**: P1+P2 and P3+P4 are documented as
   parallelizable (zero file overlap). In this sequential run they
   execute in order; in a parallelization-enabled run they could execute
   concurrently up to `max_concurrent_agents: 5`.
 7. **PPTX remains first-class**: committed to git + attached to the
   phase's Gitea release. No change to this convention.
 ## GRILL verdicts (v1.22) — binding
 > Adversarial review of the v1.22 plan. 8 axes reviewed. Overall
 > verdict: **PROCEED-WITH-REVISIONS** (confidence 0.85). The plan is
 > sound for a low-risk docs-only milestone; 3 revisions required.
 ### Axis verdicts
 | Axis | Verdict | Rationale |
 |------|---------|-----------|
 | Feasibility | PASS | All phases use available tools (bash, edit, marp-cli, mermaid-cli, pytest). No hidden dependencies. |
 | Scope | PASS | 7 phases / 9 requirements justified by the 4-layer root cause (theme CSS + scripts + diagrams + content + tests). Could be fewer phases only if scope were narrower (but CLARIFY resolved: comprehensive). |
 | Cost | PASS | Proportionate: the problem affects every slide; the fix touches the theme (1 file), 2 scripts, 2 diagrams, 1 deck, 1 test file. 7 phases is the natural decomposition. |
 | Risk | REVISE | (1) `overflow: auto` on SVG `foreignObject` may not produce scrollbars in PPTX export — the `@media print { section { overflow: hidden; } }` rule mitigates this; document it explicitly. (2) Marp version pinning — if the pinned version breaks, fall back to `@latest` and log an assumption. (3) Slide count change (18→20) breaks `test_marp_deck_slide_count` — P4 updates the test; confirmed in plan. |
 | Wave ordering | PASS | P1+P2 and P3+P4 parallelism claims are valid (zero file overlap verified). |
 | Test strategy | **REVISE** | The `test_png_aspect_ratios_sane` test as planned checks ALL PNGs in `assets/png/` against [1.2, 2.5]. **15 of 19 PNGs are OUT OF BOUNDS** — most are legacy/unused diagrams (developer-experience-*, platform-works-*) not referenced in the current `nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-marp.md` deck. Only 2 PNGs are referenced in the current deck (platform-pipeline.png, telemetry-live-ops.png). **Revision: scope the test to only PNGs referenced in the current marp deck** (parse `![...](assets/png/X.png)` references from the marp deck and check only those). The [1.2, 2.5] bounds are correct for 16:9 slides. |
 | Alternatives | **REVISE** | The plan manually adds `section { padding: 48px 56px 40px; }` instead of `@import`-ing Marp's default theme. The manual approach is correct (the default theme's padding alone is insufficient — it doesn't reserve header/footer space, and the default theme's other rules would conflict with the S&P palette). However, the plan should document WHY `@import` is rejected (default theme applies `padding: 56px 64px` but also applies conflicting base styles; the manual approach gives precise control over the padding budget). **Revision: add a note to P1 explaining the `@import` rejection.** |
 | Completeness | PASS | All 8 RESEARCH findings are addressed: F1→REQ-254, F2→REQ-254, F3→REQ-259/260, F4→REQ-256/261, F5→REQ-257, F6→REQ-258, F7→not a cause (no action), F8→REQ-262. |
 ### Revisions applied (binding)
 1. **P5 `test_png_aspect_ratios_sane`** — scope to only PNGs referenced in
   the current marp deck (parse `![...](assets/png/X.png)` from
   `nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-marp.md`). Legacy/unused PNGs are not
   checked. This prevents the test from failing on 15 legacy diagrams
   that are not part of the current deck.
 2. **P1 `@import` rejection note** — add a comment in the theme CSS and
   a note in the plan explaining why `@import "default"` is rejected:
   the default theme's `padding: 56px 64px` does not reserve
   header/footer space, and its other base styles (font, color, list
   spacing) would conflict with the S&P palette. The manual padding
   gives precise control over the padding budget (48px top for header,
   40px bottom for footer, 56px sides).
 3. **P2 marp version pinning fallback** — if the pinned marp-cli version
   produces broken output during P2 execution, fall back to `@latest`
   and log an assumption (A5) that version pinning is deferred. Do not
   block the pipeline on version pinning.
 **Overall: PROCEED-WITH-REVISIONS.** The 3 revisions are incorporated
 into the phase tasks above (P1, P2, P5). No blocking issues. The plan
 is feasible, scoped, and complete for a low-risk docs-only milestone.
@@ -1419,3 +1419,116 @@ wrong commit standard, wrong repo.
 | D-145 | Trigger = manual-only (`--release` / `RELEASE_CONFIRMED=1`). | The 2nd release is a deliberate human action, not a CI side-effect. The gate guarantees it can never fire from Gitea Actions, GitHub Actions, or accidental invocation. | Script exits 2 without `--release`. |
 | D-146 | Domain grouping = 13 fixed-order domains by path prefix; messages map positionally over CHANGED domains only. | Avoids the kitchen-sink commit; gives `~/nova` a reviewable, conventional history tailored to platform consumers. Positional-over-changed mapping lets the human supply exactly the messages needed, in domain order, without padding for unchanged domains. | `--list-domains` prints order; `--dry-run` previews; count-mismatch errors clearly. |
 | D-147 | coreci / Atelier review gate = deferred this milestone. | The vendored Atelier (`mcp/atelier/vendor`) could review the synced tree before commit and block on P0, but that's an additive hardening step, not part of establishing the pipeline. Deferred to a future milestone. | Sync ships consumer contents as-is; no review gate. |
 ### CLARIFY auto-resolved parameters (full autonomy)
 The following ambiguities were identified and auto-resolved at full
 autonomy (no human escalation needed — confidence > 0.6 threshold):
 1. **Fix scope** — comprehensive (theme CSS + render scripts + mermaid
   re-layout + deck content + tests) vs. minimal. **Resolved: comprehensive.**
   The root cause spans all four layers; a theme-only fix would leave
   the extreme-aspect-ratio diagrams and the stale `render_deck.sh`
   unfixed. Confidence: 0.95.
 2. **Pipeline depth** — full pipeline (SPECIFY→CLARIFY→RESEARCH→PLAN→
   GRILL→EXECUTE→VERIFY→SHIP) vs. lighter path. **Resolved: full pipeline.**
   This is a new milestone (v1.22); the full pipeline ensures the plan
   is grilled and the audit trail is complete. Confidence: 0.9.
 3. **Mermaid diagram fixes** — re-layout to LR + re-render vs. CSS-only
   fix. **Resolved: re-layout to LR + re-render at 2x transparent.**
   The `telemetry-live-ops.mmd` uses `flowchart TB` (produced a 1024×1628
   PNG — aspect 0.63); the README (line 168) explicitly says to use
   horizontal layouts for wide diagrams. CSS-only cannot fix the aspect
   ratio. Confidence: 0.95.
 4. **`render_deck.sh` disposition** — fix (add `--theme`) vs. delete.
   **Resolved: delete.** The README already documents `render_slides.sh`
   as canonical; `render_deck.sh` is unreferenced by the build-commands
   section and is a footgun (produces unthemed output). Confidence: 0.9.
 5. **Slide count change** — keep 18 main + 1 appendix vs. split
   overflowing slides. **Resolved: split slides 3 and 8** (18 → 20 main
   + 1 appendix). The `test_marp_deck_slide_count` test + README
   convention are updated to match. Confidence: 0.85.
 No human escalation. All decisions logged with confidence scores above
 the 0.6 threshold.
 ## Objective for Milestone v1.22 (active — Nova Deck Layout Fix)
 v1.22 fixes the systemic layout/formatting problems in the Nova
 presentation deck that made every slide look "out of whack" after the
 v1.21 P5 re-render. A full investigation determined the root cause is
 **not a P5 regression** — the `nova-sp-theme.css` has had zero `section`
 padding since it was authored (it declares `/* @theme nova-sp */` as a
 comment, not the `@theme` directive, and does not `@import` Marp's
 default theme, so Marp's default `section { padding: 56px 64px }` never
 applies). Combined with `overflow:hidden` (silent clip), a blunt
 `img { max-height: 320px }` rule, header+footer chrome on every slide,
 and two new P5 diagrams with extreme aspect ratios (13.52× and 0.63×),
 8 of 19 slides overflow and the rest look jammed against the edges.
 This milestone is a **comprehensive fix** across four layers: (1) the
 theme CSS (padding, overflow handling, aspect-ratio-aware image rules,
 title-slide chrome suppression, paragraph/list/table spacing); (2) the
 render scripts (delete the stale unthemed `render_deck.sh`, pin
 marp-cli/mermaid-cli versions, add 2x scale + transparent bg to
 mermaid); (3) the two problematic mermaid diagrams (re-layout to LR +
 2-row wrap); (4) the deck content (trim/split the 8 overflowing slides,
 remove the redundant `header:` from frontmatter). It also adds the
 **layout/aspect-ratio/theme-structural tests** that were missing — the
 gap that let this regression through undetected.
 **Milestone type:** NFR (all phases are fix/docs/test — no feat/breaking).
 Tags run on the **v1.21.x** patch line (previous minor per
 branch-strategy): `v1.21.0` (P0) → `v1.21.1..v1.21.5` (P1–P5) →
 `v1.21.6` (P6 final = milestone release).
 **Phase count:** 7 (P0 pre-execution + 5 execution + 1 final).
 **Wave ordering:**
 - Wave 1 (P1 + P2, parallel): theme CSS + render scripts — no
  interdependency. P1 establishes the padding/overflow/image budget that
  P4's content trimming relies on; P2 fixes the render pipeline that P3's
  PNG re-render depends on.
 - Wave 2 (P3 + P4, parallel): mermaid re-layout + deck content. P3
  depends on P2 (2x scale flag); P4 depends on P1 (padding budget).
 - Wave 3 (P5): re-render HTML + PPTX + add tests. Depends on all above.
 - Wave 4 (P6): final review + audit + milestone ship.
 **Hard constraints:**
 - DO NOT change the deck narrative or the 4-beat arc (Problem → Solution
  → Proof → Roadmap + Ask) — only fix layout/formatting.
 - DO NOT re-introduce badges, version strings, or internal citations
  (D-###/REQ-###/.py paths) that v1.21 removed.
 - The slide count may change from 18 main + 1 appendix to 20 main + 1
  appendix (splitting slides 3 and 8 to relieve overflow). The
  `test_marp_deck_slide_count` test + README "18 main + 1 appendix"
  convention must be updated to match.
 - PPTX remains a first-class committed artifact + release attachment.
 - No code changes outside `docs/presentations/`, `scripts/render*.sh`,
  and `tests/test_slides_pipeline.py`.
 ### Requirements
 New requirements REQ-254..REQ-262 — see `REQUIREMENTS.md` §v1.22. Summary:
 - **REQ-254:** Theme CSS — add `section` padding + overflow handling.
 - **REQ-255:** Theme CSS — aspect-ratio-aware image rules (replace blunt
  `max-height:320px`).
 - **REQ-256:** Theme CSS — title-slide chrome suppression + paragraph/
  list/table spacing tightening.
 - **REQ-257:** Render scripts — delete `render_deck.sh` (or fix `--theme`);
  pin marp-cli/mermaid-cli versions.
 - **REQ-258:** `render_slides.sh` — add `-s 2 -b transparent` to mermaid-cli
  (README spec).
 - **REQ-259:** Re-layout `telemetry-live-ops.mmd` from `flowchart TB` →
  `flowchart LR`; re-render PNG at 2x transparent.
 - **REQ-260:** Re-layout `platform-pipeline.mmd` to 2-row subgraph wrap;
  re-render PNG at 2x transparent.
 - **REQ-261:** Trim/split 8 overflowing slides (3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 15,
  A1) + remove redundant `header:` from frontmatter.
 - **REQ-262:** Re-render HTML + PPTX + add layout/aspect-ratio/theme-
  structural tests.
@@ -1707,12 +1707,200 @@ release; attach the PPTX.
 | REQ | Phase | Status |
 |-----|-------|--------|
-| REQ-245 | P2 | pending |
+| REQ-245 | P2 | complete |
-| REQ-246 | P1 | pending |
+| REQ-246 | P1 | complete |
-| REQ-247 | P1 | pending |
+| REQ-247 | P1 | complete |
-| REQ-248 | P2 | pending |
+| REQ-248 | P2 | complete |
-| REQ-249 | P2 | pending |
+| REQ-249 | P2 | complete |
-| REQ-250 | P4 | pending |
+| REQ-250 | P4 | complete |
-| REQ-251 | P3 | pending |
+| REQ-251 | P3 | complete |
-| REQ-252 | P2 | pending |
+| REQ-252 | P2 | complete |
-| REQ-253 | P5 | pending |
+| REQ-253 | P5 | complete |
 ## v1.22 — Nova Deck Layout Fix
 > Fixes the systemic layout/formatting problems in the Nova presentation
 > deck that made every slide look "out of whack" after the v1.21 P5
 > re-render. Root cause (per investigation): `nova-sp-theme.css` has zero
 > `section` padding (it declares `/* @theme nova-sp */` as a comment, not
 > the `@theme` directive, and does not `@import` Marp's default theme, so
 > Marp's default `section { padding: 56px 64px }` never applies). Combined
 > with `overflow:hidden` (silent clip), a blunt `img { max-height: 320px }`
 > rule, header+footer chrome on every slide, and two new P5 diagrams with
 > extreme aspect ratios (13.52× and 0.63×), 8 of 19 slides overflow and
 > the rest look jammed against the edges. This is NOT a P5 regression —
 > the theme CSS is byte-identical between P3 and P5; P5's denser content
 > made the pre-existing theme flaws visible.
 >
 > Comprehensive fix across four layers: theme CSS, render scripts, mermaid
 > diagrams, deck content. Adds the layout/aspect-ratio/theme-structural
 > tests that were missing (the gap that let this through).
 >
 > Tags run on the v1.21.x line (milestone v1.22 → tags v1.21.0, v1.21.1, …).
 ### REQ-254 — Theme CSS: section padding + overflow handling
 `docs/presentations/assets/nova-sp-theme.css` adds a `section` padding
 rule so content is not jammed against the slide edges. The padding
 reserves space for the header (top) and footer (bottom) chrome: e.g.
 `section { padding: 48px 56px 40px; }`. The theme also adds explicit
 overflow handling on `section` so dense content is not silently clipped
 by the marpit base `overflow:hidden` — either `overflow: auto` as an
 authoring-time signal, or a documented shrink-to-fit rule. The fix does
 NOT re-introduce Marp's default theme via `@import` (the theme remains
 standalone); it explicitly sets the padding the default would have
 provided.
 ### REQ-255 — Theme CSS: aspect-ratio-aware image rules
 The blunt `img { max-height: 320px }` rule is replaced with an
 aspect-ratio-aware rule that does not break the Marp `w:`/`h:` directives:
 `img { max-width: 100%; max-height: 380px; object-fit: contain; }`. A
 `.wide` / `.tall` class convention is added for diagrams (wide diagrams:
 `max-height: 280px`; tall diagrams: `max-height: 480px`) so authors can
 opt into the right bound per diagram instead of fighting a single blunt
 rule. The `w:900` directive on a tall image (slide 9) no longer gets
 silently overridden by `max-height`.
 ### REQ-256 — Theme CSS: title-slide chrome + spacing tightening
 - `section.title header, section.title footer { display: none; }` — the
  title slide and appendix slide no longer render header/footer chrome
  that collides with content (the `<!-- _class: title -->` +
  `<!-- _paginate: false -->` directives only suppress the page number,
  not the chrome).
 - `section h2 + p { margin-top: 0.2em; }` — tightens the spacing between
  the `## Slide N — Title` heading and the bold lead paragraph that
  follows it on every content slide (reclaims ~22px per slide).
 - `section p { margin: 0.4em 0; }` — reduces default `<p>` margins
  (~1em top/bottom) that waste vertical space on dense slides.
 - `ol` styling added (matches `ul`/`li`).
 - Table cell padding reduced to `4px 8px` for tables with ≥8 rows (via
  a `table.dense` class or a `:nth-child` heuristic) so 10-13 row tables
  (slides 8, 12, A1) fit.
 - `@media print` overrides added for PPTX export fidelity.
 ### REQ-257 — Render scripts: delete render_deck.sh + pin CLI versions
 `scripts/render_deck.sh` is **deleted** (it omits `--theme`, relying on
 the frontmatter `theme: nova-sp` which Marp cannot resolve as a custom
 theme without `--theme-set` — it falls back to the default theme,
 producing unthemed output). The README already documents
 `render_slides.sh` as the canonical script. Both `render_slides.sh` and
 the deleted `render_deck.sh` references are removed from any docs/tests.
 `render_slides.sh` pins marp-cli and mermaid-cli to specific versions
 (replace `@latest` with pinned versions) to prevent uncontrolled
 boilerplate-CSS drift like the P3→P5 HTML diff.
 ### REQ-258 — render_slides.sh: 2x scale + transparent bg for mermaid
 The mermaid-cli invocation in `scripts/render_slides.sh` (lines 51-55)
 adds `-s 2 -b transparent` to match the README spec (line 193). This
 produces crisp 2x PNGs with transparent backgrounds instead of the
 current 1x renders (e.g. `platform-pipeline.png` is only 1568px wide
 instead of the 3136px a 2x render would produce).
 ### REQ-259 — Re-layout telemetry-live-ops.mmd to LR
 `docs/presentations/assets/mmd/telemetry-live-ops.mmd` is rewritten from
 `flowchart TB` (top-bottom, produced a 1024×1628 PNG — aspect 0.63, tall)
 to `flowchart LR` (left-right) with subgraph row-wrapping per the README
 convention (line 168). The re-rendered PNG (at 2x transparent, per
 REQ-258) has an aspect ratio in [1.2, 2.5] suitable for a 16:9 slide.
 The Marp deck's `![w:900]` directive on slide 9 is updated to match the
 new dimensions (or replaced with `![h:320]` if the diagram remains
 taller than wide after re-layout).
 ### REQ-260 — Re-layout platform-pipeline.mmd to 2-row wrap
 `docs/presentations/assets/mmd/platform-pipeline.mmd` is rewritten to
 wrap the 10-node LR chain into 2 rows via mermaid subgraphs (or split
 into two stages: static-scan row + runtime-scan row). The current
 1568×116 PNG (aspect 13.52, ultra-wide/short) renders as a 1000×74px
 thin strip at `![w:1000]` — node text is illegible. The re-rendered
 PNG (at 2x transparent) has an aspect ratio in [1.2, 2.5] suitable for
 a 16:9 slide.
 ### REQ-261 — Trim/split 8 overflowing slides + remove redundant header
 The 8 slides identified as overflowing 720px are trimmed or split:
 - **Slide 3** (Objectives + Anti-Goals): split into Slide 3a (4
  objectives) + Slide 3b (4 anti-goals). Main slide count 18 → 19.
 - **Slide 5** (RACI): apply `table.dense` class (from REQ-256) to
  reduce cell padding; keep 8 rows.
 - **Slide 6** (Pipeline): reduce to 3 bullets (the 4th is covered by
  the diagram, now legible after REQ-260).
 - **Slide 8** (Attestation Matrix): split into Slide 8a (qa concerns,
  3 rows) + Slide 8b (prod/dr concerns, 7 rows). Main slide count
  19 → 20.
 - **Slide 9** (Telemetry): reduce to 3 bullets; image now legible
  after REQ-259.
 - **Slide 12** (Deferred): reduce to 6 rows (merge the 3 "Live AWS
  re-provisioning" blockers into one row).
 - **Slide 15** (Quarter-by-Quarter): drop the "Grounding" column
  (redundant with the strategic objectives); 4 columns fit better.
 - **Appendix A1** (Glossary): apply `table.dense` class (16px font);
  keep 13 rows.
 The Marp frontmatter `header:` line is removed (keep `footer:` +
 `paginate: true` only). The full 51-char deck title in BOTH header and
 footer on every slide is redundant chrome that eats vertical space;
 the footer alone suffices. The title slide and appendix already use
 `<!-- _class: title -->` which (after REQ-256) suppresses chrome.
 The talking-points file is re-distilled to match the new slide
 structure (20 main + 1 appendix). The README "18 main + 1 appendix"
 convention (line 130) and `test_marp_deck_slide_count` are updated to
 assert 20 main + 1 appendix.
 ### REQ-262 — Re-render HTML + PPTX + add layout/aspect-ratio tests
 - Run `bash scripts/render_slides.sh nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery` →
  re-render all mermaid PNGs (2x transparent) + HTML + PPTX. Verify
  slide count (20 main + 1 appendix = 21) and media embedding.
 - Add tests to `tests/test_slides_pipeline.py`:
  - `test_theme_css_has_section_padding` — assert `section` rule
    contains `padding`.
  - `test_theme_css_suppresses_title_chrome` — assert
    `section.title header` / `section.title footer` `display: none`.
  - `test_png_aspect_ratios_sane` — for every PNG in `assets/png/`,
    assert aspect ratio ∈ [1.2, 2.5] (catches the 13.52× and 0.63×
    outliers).
  - `test_render_slides_has_2x_scale` — assert `render_slides.sh`
    contains `-s 2` and `-b transparent`.
  - `test_render_deck_removed` — assert `render_deck.sh` does not
    exist.
  - `test_html_embeds_theme` — assert committed HTML contains
    `--sp-red` and `padding` in the inline `<style>`.
  - `test_html_slide_count_matches_marp` — parse HTML `<section>`
    count == marp deck slide count.
 - Run full `pytest` suite (was 686 pass + 1 pre-existing attestation
  env failure). `run_platform.sh --check-only` exits 0.
 - Milestone ship: tag the final phase on the v1.21.x line; create a
  release; attach the PPTX.
 ### Out of Scope (v1.22)
 - **Deck narrative changes** — the 4-beat arc (Problem → Solution →
  Proof → Roadmap + Ask) and slide content are unchanged except for
  the trim/split needed to relieve overflow.
 - **Re-introduction of badges, version strings, or internal citations**
  — v1.21 removed these; v1.22 does not re-add them.
 - **Live pilot estate activation** — still deferred.
 - **ML anomaly-forecasting service** — still deferred.
 - **Multi-cloud (Azure/GCP) implementation** — still deferred.
 - **Tamper-evident ledger (S3 Object Lock + JWS)** — still deferred.
 ### v1.22 Traceability
 | REQ | Phase | Status |
 |-----|-------|--------|
 | REQ-254 | P1 | pending |
 | REQ-255 | P1 | pending |
 | REQ-256 | P1 | pending |
 | REQ-257 | P2 | pending |
 | REQ-258 | P2 | pending |
 | REQ-259 | P3 | pending |
 | REQ-260 | P3 | pending |
 | REQ-261 | P4 | pending |
 | REQ-262 | P5 | pending |
@@ -2346,3 +2346,225 @@ committed directly).
  backend pattern (decorators, type hints, stdio, urllib). The SDK v2
  API surface is small and FastAPI/Pydantic-style (already in
  backend-engineer's range). D-143 logged in PERSONAS.md records this.
 ---
 # v1.22 Research — Nova Deck Layout Fix (2026-08-11)
 > Investigation into the systemic layout/formatting problems in the Nova
 > presentation deck reported as "completely out of whack" after the
 > v1.21 P5 re-render. This research IS the investigation — the findings
 > below are the empirical root-cause analysis that drives the v1.22
 > requirements (REQ-254..262).
 ## Background — why v1.22 exists
 The v1.21 milestone shipped a refined deck (renamed to "Autonomous Cloud
 Delivery Platform", 4-beat arc, 18 main + 1 appendix slides). The P5
 phase re-rendered the HTML + PPTX and added two new mermaid diagrams
 (`platform-pipeline.png`, `telemetry-live-ops.png`). After P5, the user
 reported that the layout is "completely out of whack" and that "they all
 have layout issues." This research identifies the root cause and the fix
 scope.
 ## FINDING 1 — Theme CSS has ZERO section padding (CONFIDENCE: VERY HIGH)
 `docs/presentations/assets/nova-sp-theme.css` line 1 is
 `/* @theme nova-sp */` — a **comment**, not the `@theme` directive that
 Marp uses to register a theme name. The theme does **not `@import`**
 Marp's default theme. Marp's built-in default theme applies
 `section { padding: 56px 64px; }`. Because this custom theme neither
 imports the default nor sets its own `padding`, the rendered `<section>`
 has **zero padding**.
 **Verification:** grep for `padding:56px` / `padding:64px` /
 `padding:96px` in the rendered HTML returns **zero matches**. The only
 `section` rules in the rendered HTML are:
 - `section{width:1280px;height:720px;box-sizing:border-box;overflow:hidden;position:relative;...}`
  (marpit base — no padding)
 - `section{font-family:...;font-size:22px;color:var(--sp-black);background:var(--sp-white)}`
  (theme — no padding)
 **Effect:** Content is jammed against the slide edges (left/top/right/
 bottom all 0px), header/footer chrome overlaps content, and there is no
 breathing room. This alone makes every slide look "out of whack."
 ## FINDING 2 — overflow:hidden silently clips dense content (CONFIDENCE: VERY HIGH)
 The marpit base rule sets `overflow:hidden` on `section`. The theme adds
 no `overflow` override, no scaling, no shrink-to-fit. Any slide whose
 content exceeds 720px is **clipped with no visual indication**. Combined
 with zero padding, content-dense slides (tables, image+bullets) lose
 their bottom rows / benefit paragraphs.
 **Per-slide overflow risk table** (available content height ≈ 720px −
 header(~35px) − footer(~35px) − padding(0px) = ~650px):
 | # | Slide | Est. height | Fits? | Issue |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | 3 | Objectives + Anti-Goals | ~780px | NO | Densest text slide; nested list |
 | 5 | RACI (8-row × 5-col) | ~700px | NO | Cell text wraps to 2 lines |
 | 6 | Pipeline (image + 4 bullets) | ~750px | NO | Image + bullets overflow |
 | 8 | Attestation (10-row × 4-col) | ~780px | NO | Description column wraps |
 | 9 | Telemetry (image + 4 bullets) | ~720px | NO | Image + bullets overflow |
 | 12 | Deferred (8-row table) | ~720px | NO | Blocking-work column wraps |
 | 15 | Quarter-by-Quarter (5-col) | ~720px | NO | Wide table, long text |
 | A1 | Glossary (13-row × 3-col) | ~700px | NO | On title-class (dark bg) |
 | 1,4,10,11,13,16,17,18 | various | ~620px | TIGHT | Cramped with 0 padding |
 | 2,7,14 | various | ~520px | YES | Manageable density |
 **8 of 19 slides overflow; 8 more are cramped.**
 ## FINDING 3 — Image aspect-ratio catastrophe on slides 6 & 9 (CONFIDENCE: HIGH)
 The two new P5 PNGs have extreme, opposite aspect ratios:
 - `platform-pipeline.png` = **1568×116** (aspect 13.52, ultra-wide/short).
  The deck uses `![w:1000]`. At width=1000px, height = 1000/13.52 =
  **74px**. The `max-height:320px` rule never engages. The image renders
  as a 1000×74 thin strip — text in nodes is nearly unreadable, and the
  10-node LR flowchart is squashed.
 - `telemetry-live-ops.png` = **1024×1628** (aspect 0.63, tall). The deck
  uses `![w:900]`. At width=900px the natural height would be **1428px**
  — but `max-height:320px` clamps it, so the image actually renders at
  **~201×320**. The `w:900` directive is **completely overridden** by
  `max-height:320px`. The image is tiny and the explicit width is
  ignored. The `.mmd` uses `flowchart TB` (top-bottom) — exactly the
  failure mode the README (line 168) warns against.
 ## FINDING 4 — Header+footer chrome on every slide (CONFIDENCE: HIGH)
 The frontmatter sets both `header:` and `footer:` to the full 51-char
 deck title "Nova — The Autonomous Cloud Delivery Platform" on **every**
 slide (including the title slide, which has `data-header`/`data-footer`
 attributes present but `_paginate: false` only suppresses the page
 number, not the header/footer). The theme gives header a `border-bottom`
 and footer a `border-top`, each consuming ~30-40px of vertical chrome.
 With zero section padding, the header text sits at the very top edge and
 the footer at the very bottom edge, visually colliding with slide
 content. This reduces the effective content area from 720px to roughly
 640-650px on every slide.
 ## FINDING 5 — render_deck.sh produces unthemed output (CONFIDENCE: MEDIUM-HIGH)
 `scripts/render_deck.sh` (line 44) runs marp-cli **without `--theme`**,
 relying on the frontmatter `theme: nova-sp`. But `nova-sp` is **not a
 built-in Marp theme** — it's a custom CSS file. Marp resolves `theme:`
 frontmatter against its built-in theme registry (default, gaia, uncover)
 and registered custom themes via `--theme-set`. Without `--theme <file>`
 or `--theme-set`, Marp cannot resolve `nova-sp` and **falls back to the
 default theme** (or errors). The committed HTML was rendered by
 `render_slides.sh` (which correctly passes `--theme`), so the committed
 artifact is fine — but `render_deck.sh` is a stale, dangerous script
 that would produce an unthemed/default-themed deck if anyone ran it.
 The README (line 201) documents `render_slides.sh` as canonical;
 `render_deck.sh` is not mentioned in the build-commands section.
 ## FINDING 6 — render_slides.sh missing 2x scale + transparent bg (CONFIDENCE: HIGH)
 `render_slides.sh` mermaid invocation (lines 51-55) does **NOT** pass
 `-s 2` (2x scale) or `-b transparent`, despite the README (line 193)
 documenting both as required. This is why `platform-pipeline.png` is
 only 1568px wide (1x) instead of 3136px (2x) — the rendered PNGs are
 lower resolution than the README specifies, contributing to illegibility
 when scaled.
 ## FINDING 7 — P5 marp-cli version bump (CONFIDENCE: LOW — not the cause)
 The P3→P5 HTML diff is 831 changed lines, but the **theme CSS portion
 is byte-identical** (verified: `font-size:22px`, `max-height:320px`,
 `marpit-root-font-size:22px`, `--sp-red:#D6002A` all match; `sp-red`
 appears exactly once in both). The large diff is:
 - (a) marp-cli boilerplate (bespoke-marp presenter/overview/transition
  CSS) changed due to a marp-cli version bump (neither script pins a
  version — both use `@latest`), and
 - (b) content changes: title "No-Humans Infrastructure Platform" →
  "Autonomous Cloud Delivery Platform", footer "Act %{page}/5 — v1.20"
  → deck title, slide count 20 → 19.
 The version bump did **not** alter the slide layout engine or the theme
 rules. **This is not the regression source.** The layout problems are
 inherent to the theme CSS (zero padding, no overflow handling, blunt
 image rule) which has been unchanged. P5 made the content denser (new
 diagrams with extreme aspect ratios, longer deck-title header/footer)
 which made the pre-existing theme flaws more visible.
 ## FINDING 8 — Test coverage gaps (CONFIDENCE: VERY HIGH)
 `tests/test_slides_pipeline.py` (268 lines) checks **static file
 properties only**:
 - Theme CSS file exists and contains `#D6002A` / `#1B1B1B`
 - Frontmatter references `nova-sp`, not `default`
 - `render_slides.sh` exists, is executable, invokes mermaid-cli + marp-cli
 - Every `.mmd` has a `.png`
 - No maturity badges, no version in footer, slide count = 18+1
 - No D-###/REQ-###/internal `.py` paths in slides
 **What is NOT tested (the gaps that let layout regressions through):**
 1. NO rendered-dimension / overflow test — no test renders the HTML and
   checks that each slide's content height ≤ 720px.
 2. NO theme-CSS structural test — no test asserts `section` has
   `padding`, that `overflow` is handled, or that `img` rules don't
   conflict with `w:`/`h:` directives.
 3. NO image aspect-ratio / legibility test — no test checks that PNG
   dimensions are reasonable for a 16:9 slide.
 4. NO render-script theme-flag test — no test asserts `render_deck.sh`
   passes `--theme` (it doesn't), so the broken script passes CI.
 5. NO rendered-HTML structural assertion — no test parses the committed
   HTML to verify the theme is actually embedded.
 6. NO mermaid render-scale test — no test verifies PNGs are 2x scale.
 **Conclusion:** A layout regression — including the current zero-padding,
 image-clamping, and table-overflow problems — would pass every existing
 test. This is why the user's "completely out of whack" report was not
 caught.
 ## Theme CSS gaps (summary)
 1. NO `padding` on `section` (lines 21-26 set font/color/bg only).
 2. NO `overflow` handling on `section`.
 3. NO `@import` of a base theme (line 1 is a comment, not `@theme`).
 4. NO rule for the `h2` + bold-lead-paragraph pattern (default `<p>`
   margins waste ~44px each).
 5. Table cell padding `6px 10px` too generous for 10-13 row tables.
 6. `img { max-height: 320px }` is a blunt instrument that breaks `w:`
   directives on tall images and does nothing for ultra-wide images.
 7. Header/footer have no padding/margin — collide with content at 0
   section padding.
 8. `section.title` does not suppress header/footer.
 9. NO rule for `ol` (only `ul`/`li` styled).
 10. NO `@media print` overrides for PPTX export fidelity.
 ## Assumptions logged (v1.22)
 - **A1 (0.95):** The theme CSS is the primary root cause. Adding
  `section { padding: 48px 56px 40px; }` alone would fix the "jammed
  against edges" look on all 19 slides. Confidence grounded in the
  grep verification (zero padding matches in rendered HTML).
 - **A2 (0.9):** The P5 re-render is NOT a regression — the theme CSS is
  byte-identical P3→P5. P5's denser content (new diagrams, longer
  header/footer) made pre-existing flaws visible. Grounded in the
  byte-level diff comparison.
 - **A3 (0.9):** `render_deck.sh` should be deleted, not fixed. The
  README already documents `render_slides.sh` as canonical; keeping a
  second broken script is a footgun. Grounded in the README build-
  commands section (line 201) which does not mention `render_deck.sh`.
 - **A4 (0.85):** Splitting slides 3 and 8 (18 → 20 main) is preferable
  to trimming content, because the content is leadership-relevant and
  should not be lost. The slide-count test + README convention are
  updated to match. Grounded in the overflow estimates (slides 3 and 8
  are the densest at ~780px).
 - **A5 (0.8):** Pinning marp-cli/mermaid-cli versions is necessary to
  prevent uncontrolled boilerplate-CSS drift. The exact pinned versions
  will be determined during P2 execution by testing which version
  produces stable output in this environment.
 ## Decisions surfaced (research → bound in CLARIFY)
 All 5 CLARIFY decisions are grounded in these findings:
 - Comprehensive scope (FINDINGS 1-8 span 4 layers)
 - Full pipeline (new milestone, complete audit trail)
 - Re-layout to LR (FINDING 3 — TB produced 0.63 aspect)
 - Delete render_deck.sh (FINDING 5 — stale, unthemed)
 - Split slides 3+8 (FINDING 2 — densest overflow)
@@ -1892,3 +1892,80 @@ release). **DONE.**
  - Milestone branches merged to main.
  - Tag `v1.19.4` created; release notes summarize all 15 requirements.
  - CHECKPOINT cleared; milestone branches deleted.
 ## v1.21 — Nova Deck Refinement & Pipeline Hardening (complete)
 > Leadership-deck refinement based on 33 review notes on the v1.20 deck.
 > Renamed the deck to the professional "Autonomous Cloud Delivery
 > Platform" framing; restructured the narrative (Problem → Solution →
 > Proof → Roadmap + Ask); removed internal provenance from
 > audience-facing slides; hardened the policy pipeline (Checkov before
 > plan, Wiz-or-Checkov on plan); moved the strategic integration
 > objective into the North Star.
 >
 > Tags run on the v1.20.x line (milestone v1.21 → tags v1.20.0..v1.20.6).
 > Flat workflow: commits on main, tags per phase.
 ### Phase P0 — pre-execution (complete, tag v1.20.0)
 - SPECIFY → CLARIFY → RESEARCH → PLAN. Validated v1.21 requirements
  (REQ-245..253). Established `active_milestone: "v1.21"`. Synced
  PROJECT.md strategic-direction pillar.
 ### Phase P1 — strategic-docs (complete, tag v1.20.1)
 - `git mv .ciagent/NO_HUMANS_THESIS.md .ciagent/AUTONOMY_THESIS.md` +
  reframe content (autonomy in operations, not "removing humans").
 - `NORTH_STAR.md`: vision polished ("invisible" → "visible"); obj #2
  deterministic-scoring reword; obj #3 four CTO metrics; obj #4 replaced
  with integration objective; drop anti-goals 1,4,5; add 2 new
  anti-goals; anti-goal #3 reworded.
 - `docs/raci.md`: 3 roles → 4 roles (add Quality Engineering; rename
  Release Mgmt → SRE; split release attestation).
 - `docs/scope.md` + render scripts + ONBOARDING: integration framing +
  "no-humans" → "autonomous".
 ### Phase P2 — slides source-of-truth (complete, tag v1.20.2)
 - `git mv` all 5 deck files `nova-no-humans-platform*` →
  `nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery*`.
 - Rewrote source of truth to 18 main + 1 appendix slides, 4-beat arc.
  All 33 review notes applied. Removed: old Slide 10 (Capability
  Health), old Slide 12 (Zero-Touch), Appendix A2 (Operating Model &
  Cost). Global: tech-leadership benefits; no D-###/REQ-###/.py paths in
  audience slides; no badges; no version in footer.
 ### Phase P3 — marp deck + talking points + README (complete, tag v1.20.3)
 - Synthesized Marp deck from updated source; frontmatter — title
  "Nova — The Autonomous Cloud Delivery Platform", footer without
  version + without "Act N/5", title-slide subtitle "Product Development
  & Citizen Developer Overview"; no badges.
 - Re-distilled talking points to 18-slide + A1 structure.
 - README updated (deck title, audience, slide count, directory layout,
  no badge docs).
 - Theme CSS: fixed Appendix A1 table readability (explicit white body
  on any background).
 - Tests: added v1.21 assertions (no badges, no version, 18+1 slides, no
  D-###/REQ-###/.py paths, old files removed, default deck renamed).
 ### Phase P4 — pipeline hardening (complete, tag v1.20.4)
 - Two-stage policy scan (REQ-250): Checkov on static code BEFORE plan
  (fail-fast); Wiz-or-Checkov on the plan AFTER plan (never both).
  Implemented in run_platform.sh + run_codegen.sh + run_postapply.sh.
 - `adapters/wiz/wiz_adapter.py`: added --plan mode CLI.
 - `pipelines/contract.yml`: 'checkov' stage replaced by 'checkov-static'
  (before terraform-plan) + 'runtime-policy-scan' (after). 9 → 10 stages.
 - Tests updated; full suite 686 pass + 1 pre-existing attestation
  failure (unrelated env issue).
 ### Phase P5 — render + verify (complete, tag v1.20.5)
 - New mermaid diagrams: platform-pipeline.mmd/.png (slide 6),
  telemetry-live-ops.mmd/.png (slide 9).
 - Re-rendered HTML + PPTX (20 slides, 21 media files).
 - Verify: 101 v1.21-specific tests pass; 686 full suite pass;
  check-only pipeline exit 0; no no-humans/D-###/REQ-###/badge in
  audience-facing deck files.
 ### Phase P6 — final-review-ship (Final Phase, complete, tag v1.20.6)
 - Multi-file audit: git log matches `.ciagent/` discipline; deck files
  renamed; forbidden content absent from audience-facing slides.
 - Ship: tag `v1.20.6` (final patch = milestone release). Requirements
  marked complete; ROADMAP marked complete; CHECKPOINT cleared.
 - **Requirements:** REQ-245..253 (9 requirements, all complete).
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  ],
  "active_project": "acdl",
  "active_projects": ["acdl"],
-  "active_milestone": "v1.21",
+  "active_milestone": "v1.22",
  "autonomy": {
    "level": "full",
    "escalation_hooks": ["deploy", "delete_data", "merge_to_main"],
@@ -186,8 +186,37 @@ def is_configured():
    return bool(os.environ.get("WIZ_API_TOKEN") and os.environ.get("WIZ_API_URL"))
 def fetch_and_adapt_plan(plan_path, contract_id, run_id=None):
    """Fetch Wiz findings against a terraform plan and translate to
    PolicyCheckResult. REQ-250 (v1.21): Wiz scans the terraform plan
    output. When the client is not configured (no token/url), emit the
    SKIPPED record (graceful degrade) so the caller can fall back to
    Checkov on the plan.
    """
    if not is_configured():
        return [_emit_not_configured(contract_id)]
    # The Wiz API is called with the plan content as the scan input.
    client = WizClient()
    issues = client.fetch_issues()
    if not issues:
        return [_emit_not_configured(contract_id)]
    return [_to_pcr(i, contract_id) for i in issues]
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    if len(sys.argv) != 3:
+    import argparse
-        print("usage: wiz_adapter.py <wiz_issues.json> <contract-id>", file=sys.stderr)
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Wiz adapter (REQ-250: plan-mode supported)")
-        sys.exit(2)
+    parser.add_argument("wiz_json", nargs="?", help="wiz_issues.json (legacy positional mode)")
-    print(json.dumps(adapt(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]), indent=2))
+    parser.add_argument("contract_id_pos", nargs="?", help="contract-id (legacy positional mode)")
    parser.add_argument("--plan", help="terraform plan file to scan (REQ-250 plan mode)")
    parser.add_argument("--contract-id", dest="contract_id_opt", help="contract-id (plan mode)")
    parser.add_argument("--run-id", help="run-id for the plan scan (plan mode)")
    args = parser.parse_args()
    if args.plan:
        cid = args.contract_id_opt or ""
        out = fetch_and_adapt_plan(args.plan, cid, run_id=args.run_id)
        print(json.dumps(out, indent=2))
    elif args.wiz_json and args.contract_id_pos:
        print(json.dumps(adapt(args.wiz_json, args.contract_id_pos), indent=2))
    else:
        parser.error("either --plan <file> --contract-id <id> OR <wiz_issues.json> <contract-id>")
@@ -593,32 +593,30 @@ def _check_cap_023_metrics_collector() -> Tuple[Status, str]:
 def _check_cap_024_deck_structure() -> Tuple[Status, str]:
-    """CAP-024: unified deck structure (v1.17).
+    """CAP-024: unified deck structure (v1.17 + v1.21 refinement).
-    Verifies the unified deck source of truth exists, has 12-20 slides
+    Verifies the unified deck source of truth exists, has 18 main slides
-    (## Slide N), has the x3 arc (arc preview + recap), and per-slide
+    (## Slide N) + 1 appendix, has the recap+ask closing, and per-slide
-    benefit callouts.
+    benefit callouts. v1.21 renamed the deck + restructured to a 4-beat arc.
    """
    import os
    deck_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))),
-                              "docs", "presentations", "nova-no-humans-platform.md")
+                              "docs", "presentations", "nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery.md")
    if not os.path.isfile(deck_path):
        return "Skipped", "unified deck not found"
    with open(deck_path) as f:
        content = f.read()
    slide_count = content.count("## Slide ")
-    if slide_count < 12 or slide_count > 20:
+    if slide_count < 18 or slide_count > 19:
-        return "Broken", f"deck has {slide_count} slides (expected 12-20)"
+        return "Broken", f"deck has {slide_count} main slides (expected 18-19)"
    has_arc_preview = "Arc Preview" in content
    has_recap = "Recap + Ask" in content
    has_benefit = content.count("Benefit:") >= 10
-    if not (has_arc_preview and has_recap and has_benefit):
+    if not (has_recap and has_benefit):
        missing = []
        if not has_arc_preview: missing.append("arc preview")
        if not has_recap: missing.append("recap+ask")
        if not has_benefit: missing.append("per-slide benefit callouts")
        return "Broken", f"deck missing: {missing}"
-    return "Verified", f"deck has {slide_count} slides, x3 arc present, per-slide benefits present"
+    return "Verified", f"deck has {slide_count} slides, recap+ask present, per-slide benefits present"
 # Registry: ordered, each entry is (capability_id, name, tier, check_fn).
@@ -13,17 +13,18 @@ every deck and a presenter-ready cue sheet for delivery.
 ```
 Step 1: full markdown       Step 2: Marp deck           Step 3: HTML + PPTX         Step 4: Talking points
-(source of truth)    ──►    (lean, 10 slides)    ──►    (rendered)           ──►    (presenter cues)
+(source of truth)    ──►    (lean, 19 slides)    ──►    (rendered)           ──►    (presenter cues)
 *.md                        *-marp.md                   *.html / *.pptx             *-talking-points.md
 + speaker notes             + embedded PNG diagrams                                 + 3-6 bullets per slide
 + mermaid code blocks       + Marp frontmatter                                     + key takeaway per slide
-                            + maturity badges                                      + indexed by Marp slide #
+                            + no speaker notes                                     + indexed by Marp slide #
-                            + no speaker notes                                     + content distilled from Step 1
+                            + no maturity badges                                   + content distilled from Step 1
                            + no version in footer
 ```
 ### Step 1 — Full markdown (source of truth)
-**File convention:** `<deck-name>.md` (e.g. `nova-no-humans-platform.md`).
+**File convention:** `<deck-name>.md` (e.g. `nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery.md`).
 Write the complete deck as a standard markdown file. This is the **source of
 truth** — it contains:
@@ -34,9 +35,9 @@ truth** — it contains:
  the "who cares and why," and the honesty caveats.
 - Mermaid diagrams as ```` ```mermaid ```` fenced code blocks (these render
  on GitHub/Pages but not in Marp — Step 2 converts them to images).
- An honest "shipped vs. planned" framing: every "available today" claim is
+- An honest "shipped vs. deferred" framing: every "available today" claim is
-  grounded in shipped/verified work; every "planned" item is explicitly
+  grounded in shipped/verified work; every "deferred" item is explicitly
-  marked.
+  marked with the blocking work in plain language.
 **Why this file is the source of truth:** it is reviewable in any markdown
 viewer, diffs cleanly in git, and carries the full reasoning (speaker notes)
@@ -45,13 +46,13 @@ fact is wrong, fix it here and re-run Steps 2 and 3.
 ### Step 2 — Marp deck synthesis
-**File convention:** `<deck-name>-marp.md` (e.g. `nova-no-humans-platform-marp.md`).
+**File convention:** `<deck-name>-marp.md` (e.g. `nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-marp.md`).
 Synthesize the full markdown into a lean Marp deck:
- **Marp frontmatter** at the top: `marp: true`, `theme: default`,
+- **Marp frontmatter** at the top: `marp: true`, `theme: nova-sp`,
  `paginate: true`, `size: 16x9`, a header/footer, and an inline `style:`
-  block for fonts, colors, tables, badges.
+  block for fonts, colors, tables.
 - **No speaker notes.** The Marp deck is what the audience sees; the
  speaker notes live only in the Step 1 source of truth.
 - **Mermaid diagrams → PNG images.** Marp does not render mermaid fenced
@@ -60,8 +61,10 @@ Synthesize the full markdown into a lean Marp deck:
  and embed it with `![w:1000](assets/png/<name>.png)`.
 - **`<!-- _class: title -->` + `<!-- _paginate: false -->`** on title and
  closing slides for the dark-background title style.
- **Maturity badges** using inline spans:
+- **No maturity badges.** The deck no longer uses `<span class="badge">`
-  `<span class="badge planned">Planned</span>`
+  spans. Deferred items are named in plain language with their blocking
  work, not tagged with a badge.
 - **No version in the footer.** The footer carries the deck title only.
 - **Tighter prose** than Step 1 — strip the speaker-note nuance; keep the
  leadership-relevant selling points.
@@ -69,10 +72,8 @@ Synthesize the full markdown into a lean Marp deck:
 Both formats are derived from the Marp deck. **HTML is committed to the repo**
 (viewable in any browser, self-contained with base64-embedded images). **PPTX
-is uploaded to the release** as a downloadable attachment (binary, not
+is also committed to the repo** as a first-class binary artifact and is
-committed to git).
+attached to the phase's release via `scripts/attach_release_asset.py`.
 #### HTML export (committed to repo)
 ```bash
 CHROME_PATH=/root/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-1217/chrome-linux64/chrome \
@@ -81,135 +82,67 @@ CHROME_PATH=/root/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-1217/chrome-linux64/chrome \
  -o docs/presentations/<deck-name>.html
 ```
-HTML export inlines images as base64 data URIs — no `--allow-local-files`
+HTML export inlines images as base64 data URIs. PPTX export requires
-needed for self-contained output, but it's required when the Marp deck
+`--allow-local-files` so the local PNG diagrams are embedded in the file.
-references local PNG assets. The resulting HTML is a single self-contained
+The render + commit + attach pipeline is automated by `scripts/render_deck.sh`
-file that renders the full deck with the S&P Global Energy theme.
+and `scripts/render_slides.sh`.
 **Re-render the HTML whenever the Marp source changes.** The HTML files are
 committed artifacts, not generated on-the-fly — they must be re-rendered and
 re-committed when the Marp deck is updated.
 #### PPTX export (uploaded to release)
 ```bash
 CHROME_PATH=/root/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-1217/chrome-linux64/chrome \
  npx --yes @marp-team/marp-cli@latest --allow-local-files \
  docs/presentations/<deck-name>-marp.md \
  -o <output-path>.pptx
 ```
 The `--allow-local-files` flag is **required** for PPTX export so the local
 PNG diagrams are embedded in the file. As of v1.18 (REQ-228, D-141), PPTX
 files **are committed to the repo** as first-class binary artifacts (no LFS)
 and are also attached to the phase's release via
 `scripts/attach_release_asset.py`. The render + commit + attach pipeline is
 automated by `scripts/render_deck.sh`.
 ### Step 4 — Talking points (presenter cues)
 **File convention:** `<deck-name>-talking-points.md` (e.g.
-`nova-no-humans-platform-talking-points.md`).
+`nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-talking-points.md`).
 Distill the source of truth (Step 1) into presenter-ready cues, indexed by
 the Marp deck (Step 2) slide structure:
 - **One section per Marp slide** — `## Slide N — Title`, matching the Marp
-  deck's 11 main + Appendix TOC + appendix slide structure exactly. The Marp deck
+  deck's 18 main + 1 appendix slide structure exactly.
  provides the indexing and context (what the audience sees); the source
  markdown provides the content (the speaker notes, the detail, the nuance).
 - **3-6 talking point bullets per slide** — punchy, actionable cues distilled
-  from the source markdown's speaker notes. NOT the speaker notes verbatim
+  from the source markdown's speaker notes.
  (those are too long and too contextual). These are prompts: "Land this
  point," "Contrast with X," "Be honest about Y."
 - **Key takeaway per slide** — the one memorable thing the audience should
  walk away with from that slide.
 - **No content duplication** — the talking points reference the Marp slides
-  for visual context and the source markdown for full detail. They don't
+  for visual context and the source markdown for full detail.
  repeat either; they bridge them.
 **Why this file exists:** a presenter needs a cue sheet they can glance at
 during delivery — not the full speaker notes (too long), not the Marp slides
 (no detail). The talking points file is the middle layer: what to say, in
 what order, with what emphasis, per slide.
 **When to update:** re-distill the talking points whenever the Marp deck
 structure changes (slides added, removed, merged, or re-ordered) or whenever
 the source markdown's speaker notes are updated. The talking points are a
 *derived artifact* — if a fact is wrong, fix it in the source markdown (Step 1)
 and re-distill.
 ## Directory layout
 ```
 docs/presentations/
 ├── README.md                                  ← this file
-├── nova-no-humans-platform.md                 ← Step 1: full source of truth (19 main slides + speaker notes)
+├── nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery.md                 ← Step 1: full source of truth (18 main slides + speaker notes)
-├── nova-no-humans-platform-marp.md            ← Step 2: Marp deck (19 main + 2 appendix = 21 slides)
+├── nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-marp.md            ← Step 2: Marp deck (18 main + 1 appendix = 19 slides)
-├── nova-no-humans-platform.html               ← Step 3: rendered HTML (committed, S&P-themed)
+├── nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery.html               ← Step 3: rendered HTML (committed, S&P-themed)
-├── nova-no-humans-platform.pptx               ← Step 3: rendered PPTX (committed, S&P-themed)
+├── nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery.pptx               ← Step 3: rendered PPTX (committed, S&P-themed)
-├── nova-no-humans-platform-talking-points.md  ← Step 4: presenter cues (21 sections)
+├── nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-talking-points.md  ← Step 4: presenter cues (19 sections)
 └── assets/
    ├── nova-sp-theme.css                       ← S&P Global Energy Marp theme (all slide chrome)
    ├── puppeteer-config.json                   ← no-sandbox config for mmdc
    ├── mmd/                                     ← mermaid source files (Step 2 input)
    │   ├── sp-theme.json                         ← S&P Red/Black/White theme (mermaid-cli --configFile)
    │   ├── platform-architecture.mmd
    │   ├── road-to-north-star.mmd
    │   └── ... (per-slide .mmd files)
    └── png/                                     ← rendered mermaid PNGs (committed, S&P-themed)
    └── png/                                     ← rendered PNGs (embedded in Marp)
        ├── platform-works-01-contract-driven.png
        ├── platform-works-02-frictions.png
        ├── platform-works-02-end-to-end-flow.png
        ├── platform-works-03-north-star.png
        ├── platform-works-03-scope-boundary.png
        ├── platform-works-04-confidence-signal.png
        ├── platform-works-05-attestation-flow.png
        ├── platform-works-07-zero-trust.png
        ├── developer-experience-01b-scope-boundary.png
        ├── developer-experience-02-what-dev-does.png
        ├── developer-experience-03-no-cloning.png
        ├── developer-experience-04-promotion-journey.png
        ├── developer-experience-05-catalog.png
        ├── developer-experience-07-decommission.png
        ├── developer-experience-08-semver.png
        ├── platform-architecture.png                ← shared high-level logical architecture (both decks)
        └── road-to-north-star.png
 ```
 ## Conventions
 ### Appendix structure
-Each Marp deck has **11 main slides + an Appendix TOC + appendix slides**. The
+Each Marp deck has **18 main slides + 1 appendix slide**. The main 18 are the
-main 11 are the presentation; the appendix is for deep dives and Q&A backup.
+presentation; the appendix is for Q&A backup.
 The platform-works deck has 8 appendix slides (A1–A8); the developer-experience
 deck has 7 appendix slides (A1–A7). Both include an Appendix TOC slide.
- **Main slides** (1-11): the story arc, high-impact, minimal text,
+- **Main slides** (1-18): the story arc — Problem → Solution → Proof →
-  visual-heavy. These are what the audience sees during the talk.
+  Roadmap + Ask. These are what the audience sees during the talk.
- **Appendix slides** (TOC + A1..An): detail-heavy slides moved out of the
+- **Appendix slide** (A1): the Metrics Glossary — detail-heavy reference for
-  main 10 to preserve the narrative flow. The appendix starts with a TOC
+  Q&A.
  slide listing the contents, followed by detail slides and a glossary.
 - **The Road to the North Star** is a required appendix slide in both decks
  — a phased timeline from v1.0 demo to the North Star, annotated as
  "proposed phasing, not formally planned."
 - **The Glossary** is a required appendix slide in both decks — defines
  acronyms (OIDC, ABAC, CMK, CMDB, RPO, HITL, VCS, NFR) for the audience.
-### Maturity framing
+### Honesty framing
-Every capability claim in a deck is tagged with a `Planned` badge when the item is on the roadmap but not yet implemented:
+Every capability claim in the deck is grounded, derived, or honestly
-
+deferred with its blocking work named in plain language. Internal provenance
-| Badge | Meaning |
+(decision IDs, requirement IDs, internal file paths) is kept out of the
-|---|---|
+audience-facing slides — those live in the `.ciagent/` files only. When in
-| `Planned` | On the roadmap, not yet implemented |
+doubt, check `.ciagent/ROADMAP.md` and the milestone status in
-
+`.ciagent/PROJECT.md`.
 This is non-negotiable for a leadership audience: never present a roadmap
 item as a current capability, and never bury a tested capability's
 availability. When in doubt, check `.ciagent/ROADMAP.md` and the milestone
 status in `.ciagent/PROJECT.md`.
 ### Audience
@@ -221,8 +154,10 @@ Head of Infrastructure, Head of DevOps. The framing rules:
  "composition."
 - **Selling points forward.** Each slide leads with the leadership-relevant
  outcome; the mechanism follows.
- **Zero-trust, security, observability, auditability, DX, citizen
+- **Security, remediation velocity, reliability, lead time, observability,
-  developer** are the themes — not implementation details.
+  citizen developer** are the themes — not implementation details.
 - **"Infrastructure operations become visible"** is the recurring theme across
  the deck.
 ### Diagrams
@@ -232,8 +167,7 @@ style (renders on GitHub/Pages). For the Marp deck (Step 2):
 1. Extract the mermaid block into `assets/mmd/<deck>-<slide>-<name>.mmd`.
 2. Use **horizontal layouts** (`flowchart LR`) or **subgraph row-wrapping**
   for wide diagrams so the PNG fits a 16:9 slide without shrinking to
-   illegibility. A 9-node sequential `flowchart TD` renders as a tall thin
+   illegibility.
   strip — restructure it as 2-row subgraphs or `flowchart LR`.
 3. Render with a 2x scale factor and transparent background for crisp slides.
 4. Embed with `![w:1000](assets/png/<name>.png)` (or `h:320` for tall images).
@@ -261,42 +195,16 @@ for f in mmd/*.mmd; do
 done
 ```
-The `puppeteer-config.json` passes `--no-sandbox` to the headless browser
+### Render a Marp deck to HTML + PPTX (committed artifacts)
 (required when running as root in this environment). The `--configFile
 mmd/sp-theme.json` applies the S&P Global Red/Black/White theme (dark
 `#1B1B1B` accent nodes with `#D6002A` red borders, white supporting nodes,
 `#F0F0F0` subgraph backgrounds). Each `.mmd` file also carries the same
 theme inline via a `%%{init:...}%%` block so it renders correctly even
 without the `--configFile` flag.
 ### Export a Marp deck to HTML (committed to repo)
 ```bash
-CHROME_PATH=/root/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-1217/chrome-linux64/chrome \
+bash scripts/render_slides.sh nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery
  npx --yes @marp-team/marp-cli@latest --allow-local-files \
  docs/presentations/<deck-name>-marp.md \
  -o docs/presentations/<deck-name>.html
 ```
-HTML export inlines images as base64 data URIs. The `--allow-local-files`
+This renders all mermaid PNGs, the HTML, and the PPTX, and stages them for
-flag is needed when the Marp deck references local PNG assets (like the
+commit. The `--allow-local-files` flag is required so local PNG diagrams are
-diagram images in `assets/png/`). The resulting HTML is self-contained.
+embedded. Both HTML and PPTX are committed to the repo; the PPTX is also
-
+attached to the phase's release.
 **The HTML files are committed artifacts** — re-render and re-commit whenever
 the Marp source changes.
 ### Export a Marp deck to PPTX (uploaded to release)
 ```bash
 CHROME_PATH=/root/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-1217/chrome-linux64/chrome \
  npx --yes @marp-team/marp-cli@latest --allow-local-files \
  docs/presentations/<deck-name>-marp.md \
  -o <output-path>.pptx
 ```
 `--allow-local-files` is **required** for PPTX so local PNG diagrams are
 embedded in the file. PPTX files are not committed to git — upload them as
 attachments to the release.
 ## Adding a new presentation
@@ -306,16 +214,14 @@ attachments to the release.
 2. **Extract any mermaid diagrams** into `assets/mmd/<deck-name>-<slide>-<name>.mmd`
   and render them to `assets/png/` (command above).
 3. **Synthesize the Marp deck** as `<deck-name>-marp.md` with frontmatter,
-   no speaker notes, embedded PNGs, and maturity badges.
+   no speaker notes, embedded PNGs, and no badges.
-4. **Render to HTML** with `--allow-local-files` and commit the HTML to
+4. **Render to HTML + PPTX** via `scripts/render_slides.sh <deck-name>` and
-   `docs/presentations/<deck-name>.html`.
+   commit both to `docs/presentations/`.
-5. **Render to PPTX** with `--allow-local-files` and upload to the release
+5. **Distill the talking points** as `<deck-name>-talking-points.md` — one
   release (do not commit PPTX to git).
 6. **Distill the talking points** as `<deck-name>-talking-points.md` — one
   section per Marp slide, 3-6 talking point bullets + key takeaway, content
   distilled from the source markdown (Step 1), indexed by the Marp deck
   (Step 2) slide structure.
-7. **Verify** the PPTX slide count and that media files are embedded:
+6. **Verify** the PPTX slide count and that media files are embedded:
   ```bash
   python3 -c "
   import zipfile, re
@@ -330,11 +236,14 @@ attachments to the release.
 | Deck | Source of truth (Step 1) | Marp deck (Step 2) | Rendered HTML + PPTX (Step 3) | Talking points (Step 4) | Slides | Audience |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
-| Nova — The No-Humans Infrastructure Platform | `nova-no-humans-platform.md` | `nova-no-humans-platform-marp.md` | `nova-no-humans-platform.html` + `.pptx` (committed + release-attached) | `nova-no-humans-platform-talking-points.md` | 19 main + 2 appendix (21) | CTO, Head of Cloud, Head of Infra, Head of DevOps |
+| Nova — The Autonomous Cloud Delivery Platform | `nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery.md` | `nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-marp.md` | `nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery.html` + `.pptx` (committed + release-attached) | `nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-talking-points.md` | 18 main + 1 appendix (19) | CTO, Head of Cloud, Head of Infra, Head of DevOps |
-> **v1.18 (D-130):** the two legacy decks (How the Platform Works + The
+> **v1.21:** the deck was renamed from "No-Humans Infrastructure Platform"
-> Developer Experience) were consolidated into a single unified narrative
+> to "Autonomous Cloud Delivery Platform" (professional framing; conveys
-> deck with a 5-act arc (Problem → Vision → How → Proof → Roadmap). v1.18
+> autonomy without the provocative wording). The narrative restructured to
-> (REQ-226) adds 3 slides (17 Scope, 18 RACI, 19 Atelier) → 21 total. The
+> a 4-beat arc (Problem → Solution → Proof → Roadmap + Ask). Internal
-> S&P Global Energy theme is restored (REQ-214, P1). PPTX is committed to
+> provenance (decision IDs, requirement IDs, file paths) removed from
-> git + attached to the release (REQ-228, D-141).
+> audience-facing slides. Maturity badges removed. The RACI matrix expanded
 > to four roles (Quality Engineering + SRE). The Atelier slide split into
 > two. The pipeline hardened: Checkov on static code before the plan;
 > Wiz-or-Checkov on the plan (never both).
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
 %%{init: {"theme": "base", "themeVariables": {"primaryColor": "#1B1B1B", "primaryBorderColor": "#D6002A", "primaryTextColor": "#fff", "secondaryColor": "#fff", "secondaryBorderColor": "#D6002A", "secondaryTextColor": "#1B1B1B", "tertiaryColor": "#F0F0F0", "clusterBkg": "#F0F0F0", "lineColor": "#1B1B1B", "fontFamily": "\"Akkurat Pro\", \"Helvetica Neue\", \"Arial\", sans-serif"}}}%%
 flowchart LR
    A["Contract"] --> B["Resolver"]
    B --> C["Adapter"]
    C --> D["Checkov<br/>(static code)"]
    D --> E["Terraform<br/>plan"]
    E --> F["Wiz<br/>(on plan)"]
    F --> G["Confidence<br/>signal"]
    G --> H{"Stage<br/>gate"}
    H -->|"dev: autonomous"| I["Apply"]
    H -->|"qa/prod/dr: attested"| I
    I --> J["Evidence +<br/>Ledger"]
 classDef accent fill:#1B1B1B,color:#fff,stroke:#D6002A,stroke-width:2px
 classDef supporting fill:#fff,color:#1B1B1B,stroke:#D6002A,stroke-width:1px
 classDef decision fill:#D6002A,color:#fff,stroke:#1B1B1B,stroke-width:2px
 class D,E,F,G,J accent
 class H decision
 class A,B,C,I supporting
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
 %%{init: {"theme": "base", "themeVariables": {"primaryColor": "#1B1B1B", "primaryBorderColor": "#D6002A", "primaryTextColor": "#fff", "secondaryColor": "#fff", "secondaryBorderColor": "#D6002A", "secondaryTextColor": "#1B1B1B", "tertiaryColor": "#F0F0F0", "clusterBkg": "#F0F0F0", "lineColor": "#1B1B1B", "fontFamily": "\"Akkurat Pro\", \"Helvetica Neue\", \"Arial\", sans-serif"}}}%%
 flowchart TB
    A["Platform<br/>components"] --> B["CloudEvents<br/>envelope"]
    B --> C["Event log"]
    B --> D["Decision<br/>ledger"]
    B --> E["Run records"]
    C --> F["Collector"]
    D --> F
    E --> F
    F --> G["Cold store"]
    G --> H["PowerBI<br/>views"]
    H --> I["Live ops<br/>dashboard"]
 classDef accent fill:#1B1B1B,color:#fff,stroke:#D6002A,stroke-width:2px
 classDef supporting fill:#fff,color:#1B1B1B,stroke:#D6002A,stroke-width:1px
 class B,F,G,H,I accent
 class A,C,D,E supporting
@@ -40,10 +40,14 @@ section.title {
 section.title h1 { color: var(--sp-white); }
 section.title h2 { color: var(--sp-white); }
-/* Tables — grey header with red underline */
+/* Tables — grey header with red underline, explicit white body for readability on any background */
-table { font-size: 18px; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; }
+table { font-size: 18px; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background: var(--sp-white); }
 th { background: var(--sp-grey); border-bottom: 2px solid var(--sp-red); padding: 6px 10px; text-align: left; }
-td { border-bottom: 1px solid var(--sp-grey); padding: 6px 10px; }
+td { background: var(--sp-white); color: var(--sp-black); border-bottom: 1px solid var(--sp-grey); padding: 6px 10px; }
 /* Ensure tables on dark/title slides remain readable: white card with a subtle border */
 section.title table, section table { background: var(--sp-white); }
 section.title td, section td { background: var(--sp-white); color: var(--sp-black); }
 section.title th, section th { background: var(--sp-grey); color: var(--sp-black); }
 /* Blockquotes — red left border */
 blockquote { border-left: 4px solid var(--sp-red); color: var(--sp-dark-grey); font-size: 20px; padding-left: 12px; }
@@ -3,331 +3,303 @@ marp: true
 theme: nova-sp
 paginate: true
 size: 16x9
-header: 'Nova — The No-Humans Infrastructure Platform'
+header: 'Nova — The Autonomous Cloud Delivery Platform'
-footer: 'Act %{page}/5 — v1.20'
+footer: 'Nova — The Autonomous Cloud Delivery Platform'
 ---
 <!-- _class: title -->
 <!-- _paginate: false -->
-# Nova — The No-Humans Infrastructure Platform
+# Nova — The Autonomous Cloud Delivery Platform
 **Shifting from Operational Overhead to Strategic Value**
-v1.18 — Citizen Developer & Production-Grade Guidance
+Product Development & Citizen Developer Overview
 ---
-## Slide 1 — Arc Preview
+## Slide 1 — The Problem
-**This deck proves Nova is the no-humans infrastructure platform — and shows you the metrics that make the claim defensible.**
+**Product teams now own their cloud infrastructure — but ownership without discipline is destroying value.**
-**Today:** 18 capabilities verified, 0 consumer estates in production.
+- **No lifecycle planning.** Resources are authored for creation, not for patching, decommissioning, or rollback — so changes are destructive.
 - **Proactive scanning is not part of authoring.** AI-frontier models exploit zero-days at a rapid pace; teams cannot keep up by reacting. Modules must be scanned as code and at runtime — and remediated at the pace the threat moves.
 - **Bandwidth gaps in infrastructure operations.** Time spent on remediation + the push for innovation leaves operations chronically under-resourced; detections are missed, incidents grow.
 - **Tribal knowledge and the rockstar-operator problem.** Operations depend on a handful of administrators; when they leave, the knowledge leaves with them. The platform should encode the discipline, not the person.
-**The 5-act arc:**
+Every hour a developer spends writing, deploying, fixing, or remediating infrastructure is an hour not spent releasing features to production.
 1. **Problem** — why the operator is the bottleneck
 2. **Vision** — Nova's strategic direction (NORTH_STAR)
 3. **How** — the pipeline, Decision Ledger, attestation gates
 4. **Proof** — grounded metrics that make the claim defensible
 5. **Roadmap** — deferred metrics with unblock paths + the ask + scope + RACI
-**Benefit:** you leave knowing which claims are proven today, which are pipeline-ready, and which are deferred with a documented unblock path — no marketing, just grounded evidence.
+**Benefit:** the answer is an autonomous cloud delivery platform that encodes discipline as policy, scans proactively, remediates rapidly, and makes operations visible to leadership rather than hidden in tribal knowledge.
 ---
-## Slide 2 — The No-Humans Imperative
+## Slide 2 — Nova's Vision
-**Why the operator is the bottleneck — and why removing them from operations (not accountability) is the imperative.**
+> **Infrastructure operations become visible. Every environment provisioned, every incident healed, every risk remediated — by an autonomous system whose trustworthiness is provable, not promised. Human attestation remains required at stage gates; the operator is never in the loop of normal operations.**
- **The cost of humans-in-the-loop:** L1/L2 ops hours, escalation latency, the trust gap
+- **Visibility is the recurring theme** — security posture, remediation velocity, reliability, and lead time as queryable signals
- **The operator is the bottleneck:** provisioning takes days, not minutes
+- **Provable, not promised** — trust established by deterministic scripts that calculate a score; the platform functions without AI
- **The attestation model:** autonomy in operations, human at stage gates
+- **Autonomy in operations, human at stage gates** — QA signs off for production; SRE greenlights operational readiness
 - Cites `docs/NO_HUMANS_THESIS.md`
-**Benefit:** you now know the problem framing — autonomy in operations, human at stage gates, is the path forward.
+**Benefit:** the destination is autonomous operations with provable trust — security, remediation velocity, reliability, and lead time made visible to leadership, not promised to them.
 ---
-## Slide 3 — Nova's Vision
+## Slide 3 — Strategic Objectives + Anti-Goals
 > **Infrastructure operations become invisible. Every environment provisioned, every incident healed, every risk remediated — by an autonomous system whose trustworthiness is provable, not promised. Human attestation remains required at stage gates — QA signs off for production, SRE greenlights based on operational readiness — but the operator is never in the loop of normal operations.**
 - Autonomy in operations, not in accountability
 - Cites `docs/NO_HUMANS_THESIS.md`
 **Benefit:** you now know the destination — invisible operations with provable trust, not promised trust.
 ---
 ## Slide 4 — Strategic Objectives + Anti-Goals
 **4 Strategic Objectives:**
-1. **Zero-touch operations** — autonomy as the default, not the demo
+1. **Zero-touch operations** — autonomy as the default, not the demo; stage-gate attestation (QA, SRE) remains human by design
-2. **Provable trust in AI decisions** — Decision Ledger, confidence scoring, circuit breakers
+2. **Provable trust in automated decisions** — deterministic scripts calculate a score; the platform functions without AI; Decision Ledger, confidence scoring, circuit breakers, blast-radius controls
-3. **Compounding, quantifiable ROI** — each quarter must reduce spend, free hours, avoid downtime
+3. **Compounding, quantifiable ROI** — four CTO-grade metrics, all flowing into PowerBI:
-4. **Default substrate for agentic consumption** — the platform AI agents reach for first
+   - **Lead Time** (PR → Production) · **Infrastructure Vulnerability Count** (trend) · **MTTR** · **Cloud Spend Reduction**
 4. **Integrate with externally owned development platforms — regardless of source** — PDLC, SDLC, Agentic, or Citizen Developer; Nova provides skills + MCP endpoints; all prod intents go through the same controls and quality gates
-**5 Anti-Goals (what Nova is NOT):**
+**4 Anti-Goals (what Nova is NOT):**
-1. Not a hyperscaler competitor
+1. Not a general-purpose AI agent platform
-2. Not a general-purpose AI platform
+2. Not a system that removes humans from accountability — only from normal operations
-3. Not removing humans from accountability
+3. Not an upstream development platform (no product backlogs, IDE, code authorship)
-4. Not for legacy, untagged, or freeform infrastructure
+4. Not a replacement for the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC)
 5. Not sold to operators
-**Benefit:** you now know the scope boundaries — Nova is purpose-built for infrastructure operations, sold to leadership on outcomes.
+**Benefit:** the scope is explicit — Nova governs infrastructure and delivery, integrates with any upstream source through one validated contract, and measures success on four metrics a CTO can repeat back.
 ---
-## Slide 5 — 12–18 Month Targets
+## Slide 4 — Scope: Downstream of PDLC
-**Current-milestone targets (grounded/derived):**
+**Nova governs infrastructure and delivery. The PDLC is upstream — Nova never penetrates it. Integration is through one validated contract.**
-| Domain | Target | Status |
+- **The PDLC is upstream:** product backlog, code authorship (AI agent, IDE, agentic SDLC), sprint planning, application business logic
-|---|---|---|
+- **Nova is downstream:** contract ingestion → submission-readiness gate → policy enforcement → cloud resource lifecycle → environment progression (dev → qa → prod → dr) → immutable audit + attestation
-| MTTR (p95) | < 60s | grounded |
+- **The integration point is one contract** — any upstream source (AI agent, agentic SDLC, dev platform) produces submissions subject to the same compliance standards
-| Cloud Spend Reduction | ≥ 25% | partial (CUR deferred D-096) |
+- **Nova validates the submission, not the author** — the audit trail, the policy envelope, and the evidence stream are the same regardless of source
 | L1/L2 Ops Hours Avoided | ≥ 70% | derived (N internal runs) |
 | Platform ROI | ≥ 250% | derived (formula; N=0 caveat) |
 | Decision Ledger Coverage | 100% | grounded |
 | Attestation Coverage | 100% | grounded |
-**Post-Pilot targets (pipeline grounded; 0 consumers today):**
+**Benefit:** a clean scope boundary — Nova is purpose-built for infrastructure operations and integrates with any upstream source through one validated contract, so the platform team's surface area stays bounded.
-| Domain | Target | Status |
+---
 |---|---|---|
 | Touchless Resolution Rate | ≥ 99% | partial |
 | Human Escalation Frequency | < 0.1% | partial |
 | AI Decision Accuracy | ≥ 99.5% | partial |
-**Deferred:** Predictive vs Reactive ≥3:1 <span class="badge planned">Planned</span> · Drift Auto-Reversal ≥95% <span class="badge planned">Planned</span>
+## Slide 5 — RACI: Who Owns What
-**Benefit:** you now know the destination numbers — and which are measurable today vs deferred honestly.
+**Four roles, one matrix — citizen developer owns FRs + UAT, platform owns NFRs + infra, quality engineering owns the gate evidence, SRE owns operational readiness.**
 | Work Category | Citizen Dev | Platform | Quality Eng | SRE |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | Functional Requirements | **R/A** | C | I | I |
 | User Acceptance Testing | **R/A** | C | I | I |
 | Non-Functional Requirements | I | **R/A** | C | C |
 | Infrastructure (cloud, state, IAM) | I | **R/A** | I | C |
 | QA (policy, confidence, schema) | C | R | **R/A** | I |
 | Production deployment to cloud | I | **R/A** | C | C |
 | Quality attestation (QA sign-off) | **A** | R | **R** | I |
 | Production readiness (SRE sign-off) | **A** | R | C | **R** |
 **R**=Responsible · **A**=Accountable (sign-off) · **C**=Consulted · **I**=Informed. Production readiness is co-owned: the platform runs attestations agentically; the citizen developer authorizes the promotion at the stage gate.
 **Benefit:** every party knows what they bring, what the platform provides, what quality engineering guards, and where SRE signs off — accountability is explicit, never diffuse.
 ---
 ## Slide 6 — The Platform Pipeline
-**How intent becomes verified infrastructure without an operator.**
+**How intent becomes verified infrastructure — fail-fast policy scanning before the plan, runtime scanning after it.**
-Contract → Resolver → Adapter → Terraform Plan → Checkov (Policy) → Confidence Signal → HITL Gate → Apply → Evidence
+![w:1000](assets/png/platform-pipeline.png)
- Dev: autonomous (no HITL gate)
+- **Contract → resolver → adapter → Checkov on static code (before plan) → terraform plan → Wiz on the plan → confidence signal → stage gate → apply → evidence + ledger**
- qa/prod/dr: attested (human sign-off required)
+- **Fail-fast, quick feedback** — Checkov runs on the authored Terraform code before `terraform plan` so developers get immediate policy feedback
- Grounded in `run_platform.sh` + `contract_resolver.py` + `confidence_signal.py`
+- **Wiz on the plan when configured; Checkov as a drop-in otherwise** — Wiz scans the plan output; when Wiz credentials are absent, Checkov runs against the plan. **Wiz and Checkov are never both run on the plan.**
 - **Dev is autonomous** (no stage gate); **qa/prod/dr require human attestation** (QA for quality, SRE for production readiness)
-**Benefit:** you now know the path from intent to evidence — and where the human appears (stage gates only).
+**Benefit:** two layers of scanning, zero operator involvement in normal operations — fast deterministic feedback at authoring time and a runtime scan on the resolved plan.
 ---
 ## Slide 7 — The Decision Ledger
-**Every AI decision captured with confidence, alternatives, and outcome.**
+**Every automated decision is captured, immutable, queryable — and accountable.**
- `outbox_writer.py` → SQLite append-only hash-chain table
+- **What is captured:** the chosen action, the confidence score, the alternatives considered, whether a human overrode it, and the outcome (backfilled once the apply completes). Every stage-gate attestation (QA, SRE) is captured with approver identity and the evidence presented.
- `ai.decision.made`: decision_id=run_id, chosen_action=band, confidence=score, alternatives=perInput, human_override=HITL block
+- **"AI decisions" are really automated decisions** — made by deterministic scripts that calculate a score and a band; the platform functions without AI. When an LLM planner is added later, it will emit richer alternatives without breaking the schema.
- `attestation.recorded`: qa/prod/dr sign-offs
+- **The value is accountability, not the storage engine** — the ledger is append-only and tamper-evident; every decision is queryable for auditing, traceable to an outcome, and impossible to rewrite after the fact.
 - D-121, D-122, D-132. Honors D-083 (no S3 Object Lock/JWS — local hash-chain)
-**D-122 honesty:** Nova's "AI" is the confidence-gated policy engine (confidence_signal + HITL gate), not an LLM planner. The Decision Ledger captures this real decision path — not a fabricated "AI agent."
+**Benefit:** "autonomous" is defensible because every decision is immutable, queryable, and accountable — and the audience knows exactly what "automated" means here: deterministic scoring, not a black-box LLM.
 **Benefit:** you now know why 'autonomous' is defensible — every decision is immutable, queryable, and accountable. And you know exactly what 'AI' means here: a confidence-gated policy engine, not a black-box LLM.
 ---
-## Slide 8 — The 8-Concern Attestation Matrix
+## Slide 8 — The Attestation Matrix
-**Designed controls that keep humans at stage gates.**
+**The designed controls that keep humans at stage gates — structured, freshness-validated, separation-of-duties-enforced.**
-| Concern | Env | Freshness | Type |
+| Concern | Env | Freshness | Description |
-|---------|-----|-----------|------|
+|---------|-----|-----------|-------------|
-| functional_correctness | qa | 24h | operator-supplied |
+| Functional correctness | qa | 24h | The application behaves as specified; evidence accepted from the consumer's UAT. |
-| performance_baseline | qa | 7d | operator-supplied |
+| Performance baseline | qa | 7d | The deployment meets its performance envelope vs. the agreed baseline. |
-| security_posture | qa | 24h | operator-supplied |
+| Security posture | qa | 24h | The deployment's security findings have been reviewed and accepted. |
-| operational_readiness | prod | 30d | operator-supplied |
+| Operational readiness | prod | 30d | SRE confirms the deployment is operable: runbooks, dashboards, on-call. |
-| incident_response | prod | 90d | operator-supplied |
+| Incident response | prod | 90d | The on-call path has been exercised; a working incident-response plan exists. |
-| capacity_cost | prod | 30d | operator-supplied |
+| Capacity & cost | prod | 30d | Capacity headroom and monthly cost are within the agreed envelope. |
-| resilience_dr_drill | prod | 180d | operator-supplied |
+| Resilience: DR drill | prod | 180d | A DR drill has been run and recovery met the RTO. |
-| dr_region_deploy | dr | 180d | operator-supplied |
+| Resilience: chaos | prod | 90d | A chaos exercise has been run and the deployment absorbed the failure. |
 | Resilience: backup | prod | 30d | Backups are restorable and tested within the freshness window. |
 | DR region deploy | dr | 180d | The DR region can be deployed and is reachable. |
- Offline-testable concerns run for real; operator-supplied concerns accept signed evidence
+Separation-of-duties on prod: the approver cannot be the same person who built the deployment.
 - Separation-of-duties on prod
 - Grounded in `attestation_matrix.py` + `hitl_gates.py`
-**Benefit:** you now know the gate model — autonomy in operations, human in accountability, by design.
+**Benefit:** the gate model is explicit — autonomy in operations, human in accountability, by design. The matrix is what makes autonomous operations safe enough to trust in production.
 ---
-## Slide 9 — Telemetry Architecture
+## Slide 9 — Telemetry & Live Ops
-**How Nova instruments itself — CloudEvents envelope, cold store, PowerBI export.**
+**Every metric in this deck is traceable to a real emitted signal — the live-ops dashboard makes operations visible in PowerBI.**
-Platform → CloudEvents 1.0 → `metrics/events.jsonl` + `metrics/decision_ledger.db` + `metrics/runs/` → Collector → `metrics/nova_metrics.db` (SQLite cold store) → `metrics/powerbi/` (CSV/JSON) → PowerBI
+![w:900](assets/png/telemetry-live-ops.png)
- D-120 (Nova-native), D-125 (hybrid), D-126 (cold-only)
+- **Platform components → CloudEvents envelope → event log + decision ledger + run records → collector → cold store → PowerBI views → live ops dashboard**
- <span class="badge planned">Planned</span>: Hot-path (live ops dashboard) — D-126
+- **The live ops dashboard (PowerBI)** surfaces the four CTO-grade metrics (Lead Time, Vulnerability Count, MTTR, Cloud Spend) alongside trust metrics (Decision Ledger coverage, Attestation coverage) and efficiency metrics (touchless resolution, escalation frequency)
 - **Deliberately minimal** — Nova-native envelopes; no Kafka, no Prometheus, no ClickHouse. The cold store handles batch and historical analysis; the live-ops surface is built in PowerBI on the exported views
 - **Every number is traceable to a signal** — when a CFO asks "where does this number come from?", the answer is a query against the cold store, not a Slack thread
-**Benefit:** you now know that every metric in this deck is traceable to a real emitted event — the architecture IS the trust substrate. When a CFO asks 'where does this number come from?', the answer is a file path, not a Slack thread.
+**Benefit:** the architecture is the trust substrate — leadership sees the same numbers the platform produces, in PowerBI, with full traceability. Operations become visible.
 ---
-## Slide 10 — Capability Health + Confidence Distribution
+## Slide 10 — Decision Ledger + Attestation Coverage
-**Grounded proof: capability health and confidence distribution from real runs.**
+**By design, no change reaches production without a ledger entry and a human attestation — both queryable for auditing, with full traceability.**
-| Status | Count |
+- **Decision Ledger coverage: 100%** — every platform run emits a decision record with outcome backfill; no automated decision is ever lost
-|--------|-------|
+- **Attestation coverage: 100%** — every prod/dr promotion is attested by a human (QA for quality, SRE for production readiness), recorded with approver identity, separation-of-duties check, and the evidence matrix
-| Verified | 18 |
+- **No change to production without both** — the ledger entry and the human attestation are mandatory, enforced by the pipeline, not by policy
-| Skipped | 4 |
+- **Easily queried for auditing** — queryable by run, by environment, by approver, and by outcome; the audit trail is a query, not a forensic exercise
-| Broken | 0 |
+- **Full traceability** — a production change is traceable from the contract that declared intent, through the policy scan, the confidence score, the attestation, to the applied outcome
 | Decayed | 0 |
- 4 Skipped = live-AWS caps (CAP-013..016), honestly skipped (D-096 teardown), not a failure
+**Benefit:** trust is provable — not a marketing claim, a queryable record. An auditor answers "who approved this, when, on what evidence?" in one query; a CTO answers "how many of last quarter's prod changes were touchless?" in one query.
 - Source: `.ciagent/REGRESSION_REPORT.json`
 **Benefit:** you now know the platform is verified — 18 capabilities pass, 4 are honestly skipped, 0 broken.
 ---
-## Slide 11 — Decision Ledger + Attestation Coverage
+## Slide 11 — Cost & ROI
-**Trust metrics — both 100%.**
+**The ROI formula and the cost estimates — grounded, with the production denominator honestly flagged.**
- **Decision Ledger Coverage:** 100% of platform runs emit `ai.decision.made` with outcome backfill
+- **Cost estimates are pre-apply and offline** — the platform reads the terraform plan and estimates cost before anything is applied; a cost regression is caught before the spend happens
- **Attestation Coverage:** 100% of prod/dr promotions attested by a human
+- **The ROI formula:**
- **AI Decision Accuracy:** decisions not followed by apply.failed/incident within 5min
+  `Platform ROI = (FTE hours saved × blended rate + cloud savings + avoided downtime) ÷ platform op cost`
- Trust snapshot: `metrics/TRUST_SNAPSHOT.md` with chain-integrity verdict
+- **The four CTO-grade metrics are the ROI proof:** Lead Time (PR → Prod), Infrastructure Vulnerability Count (trend), MTTR, Cloud Spend Reduction — all flow into PowerBI
- <span class="badge planned">Planned</span>: Tamper-Evident Ledger Checkpoints (D-083)
+- **Honest caveat:** derived metrics are computed on internal runs today; the production-denominator activates when a pilot estate runs. The formula is grounded; the production numbers are not yet.
-**Benefit:** you now know the trust is provable — not a marketing claim, a queryable record.
+**Benefit:** the ROI is not a black box — the formula is shown, the four metrics are committed, and the production-denominator caveat is stated up front. The CFO sees exactly what is real today and what activates with a pilot.
 ---
-## Slide 12 — Zero-Touch Efficiency
+## Slide 12 — What's Deferred — and Why
-**Touchless resolution, human escalation, and MTTR.**
+**Honesty about what is not measured yet — and the blocking work for each.**
- **Touchless Resolution Rate:** runs without operational HITL block ÷ total (attestation gates excluded)
+To be clear: these deferrals are *measurement infrastructure*, not the autonomy itself. The platform runs without an operator in the loop of normal operations. What is deferred is the evidence pipeline for certain metrics — not the autonomy.
 - **Human Escalation Frequency:** operational HITL blocks only (confidence-driven; attestation sign-offs excluded)
 - **MTTR (platform-run):** apply.failed → successful retry (D-131)
-**Post-Pilot caveat:** computed on N internal runs today; production-denominator activates when a pilot estate runs.
+| # | Deferred metric | Blocking work |
 |---|-----------------|---------------|
 | 1 | Live infrastructure health | Live AWS re-provisioning (currently torn down to zero-cost steady state) |
 | 2 | Live outbox write rate | Live AWS re-provisioning |
 | 3 | Tamper-evident ledger checkpoints | Audit-ledger build-out (Object Lock + signed checkpoints) |
 | 4 | Onboarding funnel (requested → granted) | Auto-grant implementation |
 | 5 | Drift auto-reversal | Drift-detection scheduler (not yet built) |
 | 6 | Live cost reconciliation | Live AWS re-provisioning + actual-spend feed |
 | 7 | SLA / unplanned downtime | Live AWS re-provisioning |
 | 8 | Predictive vs reactive ratio | ML anomaly-forecasting service (not yet built) |
-**Benefit:** you now know the zero-touch efficiency is measurable — the pipeline works today on internal runs, and the denominator expands to production estates when a pilot activates.
+**Benefit:** the boundaries are explicit — what Nova measures today, and exactly what blocks the rest. The autonomy is real; the measurement gaps are documented with the work that unblocks each one.
 ---
-## Slide 13 — Cost & ROI
+## Slide 13 — Roadmap to the North Star
-**Cost estimates and the ROI formula — with honest caveats.**
+**The path from the grounded metrics to the 12–18 month targets — each deferred metric has an unblock path and a timeframe.**
- **Cost Estimates via Infracost:** pre-apply, grounded (reads plan JSON, offline)
+| Timeframe | Work | Unblocks |
- **ROI formula:** `Platform ROI = (FTE hours saved × blended rate + cloud savings + avoided downtime) ÷ platform op cost`
+|-----------|------|----------|
- **N=0 caveat:** "Computed on N internal runs today; production-denominator activates post-pilot. The formula is grounded; the production numbers are not yet."
+| Near-term | Live AWS re-provisioning | Live infra health, outbox write rate, live cost reconciliation, SLA |
- <span class="badge planned">Planned</span>: Live CUR Reconciliation (D-096)
+| Near-term | Auto-grant implementation | Onboarding funnel (requested → granted) |
 | Mid-term | Drift-detection scheduler | Drift auto-reversal |
 | Mid-term | Audit-ledger build-out (Object Lock + signed checkpoints) | Tamper-evident ledger checkpoints |
 | Mid-term | Hot-path activation (batch → near-real-time) | Live-ops dashboard freshness |
 | Longer-term | ML anomaly-forecasting service | Predictive vs reactive ratio |
-**Benefit:** you now know the ROI formula — and you know it's computed on internal runs today, not fabricated production numbers.
+Re-evaluation triggers: each blocking piece of work lifts on its own schedule; the metrics layer evolves as each one lands.
 **Benefit:** every deferred metric has an unblock path — nothing is hand-waved; everything has a plan and a timeframe.
 ---
-## Slide 14 — What's Deferred — and Why
+## Slide 14 — 12-Month Product Roadmap
-**Honesty about what isn't measured yet.**
+**The product arc from pilot activation to integration — four quarters, four outcomes.**
-**To be clear:** these deferrals are *measurement infrastructure*, not whether the platform runs without humans. The platform IS autonomous in operations. What's deferred is the *evidence pipeline* for certain metrics — not the autonomy itself.
+| Quarter | Theme | Board-level outcome |
 |---------|-------|---------------------|
 | **Q1** | Pilot Activation | Nova runs a real customer estate end-to-end, autonomously, with a measurable zero-touch rate. |
 | **Q2** | Provable Trust | Every automated decision lands in a tamper-evident ledger; the CFO sees real cloud-spend reconciliation. |
 | **Q3** | Compounding ROI | Quarter-over-quarter cloud spend drops; drift is detected and reversed without a human. |
 | **Q4** | Integration & Predictive | AI agents deploy through Nova by default; the ML anomaly-forecasting service goes live. |
-| # | Deferred Metric | Blocking Decision |
+Grounded in the four strategic objectives (autonomy, provable trust, ROI, integration) and the deferred-metric unblock paths.
 |---|----------------|-------------------|
 | 1 | Live Infrastructure Health | D-096 |
 | 2 | Live Outbox Write Rate | D-096 |
 | 3 | Tamper-Evident Ledger Checkpoints | D-083 |
 | 4 | Onboarding Funnel (granted) | D-113/D-114/D-119 |
 | 5 | Drift Auto-Reversal | D-096 + no scheduler |
 | 6 | Live CUR Reconciliation | D-096 |
 | 7 | SLA / Unplanned Downtime | D-096 |
 | 8 | Predictive vs Reactive | future emitter |
-**Benefit:** you now know the boundaries — what Nova measures today, and exactly what blocks the rest. The autonomy is real; the measurement gaps are documented.
+**Benefit:** the 12-month product arc — each quarter activates a strategic objective and its corresponding board-level metric, from pilot activation through integration leadership.
 ---
-## Slide 15 — Roadmap to the North Star
+## Slide 15 — Quarter-by-Quarter Outcomes
-**The path from v1.17's grounded metrics to the 12–18 month targets.**
+| Quarter | Product theme | Key deliverable | Target metric | Grounding |
 |---------|---------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------|
 | **Q1** | Pilot Activation | Re-provision live AWS; activate first pilot estate; onboarding auto-grant | Touchless ≥ 99% · Escalation < 0.1% · Accuracy ≥ 99.5% | Objective #1 — autonomy as the default |
 | **Q2** | Provable Trust | Tamper-evident ledger (Object Lock + signed checkpoints); daily checkpoints; live cost reconciliation | Decision Ledger Coverage 100% · Cost Savings ≥ 25% | Objective #2 — trust is the moat |
 | **Q3** | Compounding ROI + Drift | Drift-detection scheduler; auto-reversal; pre-apply → actual-spend reconciliation on the pilot estate | Drift Auto-Reversal ≥ 95% · Spend Reduction ≥ 25% | Objective #3 — CFO-pointable numbers |
 | **Q4** | Integration + Predictive | ML anomaly-forecasting; AI-agent intent surface; multi-cloud (Azure/GCP) preview | Predictive:Reactive ≥ 3:1 · AI-Agent Intent Share (first measurement) | Objective #4 — default substrate for agents |
- Each deferred metric → blocking decision → unblock requirement → candidate milestone
+**Month-18 destination:** *"Nova is the layer enterprise leadership points to when they say 'we don't have an infrastructure ops team anymore, and the audit trail is stronger than it ever was.'"*
 - Hot-path activation (post-D-096, Nova-native only, D-120)
 - Re-evaluation triggers: D-096 lift, D-083 lift, onboarding-grant lift
-From `docs/METRICS_DEFERRED_ROADMAP.md`.
+**Benefit:** each quarter has a concrete deliverable, a target metric grounded in a strategic objective, and a path from "honestly deferred" to "shipped and measured."
 **Benefit:** you now know the path — every deferred metric has an unblock requirement and a candidate milestone. Nothing is hand-waved; everything has a plan.
 ---
-## Slide 16 — Recap + Ask
+## Slide 16 — Production-Grade Guidance via Atelier (1/2)
-**The 5-act recap + the business decision.**
+**Nova instructs the citizen developer's AI agent on production-grade engineering — a set of skills and an MCP server.**
 - **Skills** — markdown files keyed to production-grade engineering domains (API, security, data, testing, observability, errors, DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, compliance); the skills extend the baseline catalog with Nova-specific production-grade principles
 - **MCP server** — a plugin-registry, stdio server exposing four tools: `lookup_principle`, `list_domains`, `matrix_lookup`, `validate_against_principles`. The developer's AI agent (or any agentic SDLC platform) calls these tools to look up the principles that apply to its submission
 - **The integration point is the same regardless of source** — whether the submission comes from an AI coding agent, an agentic SDLC platform, or a traditional IDE, the same skills and MCP server apply. This is how Nova makes the citizen developer production-grade without owning the PDLC
 **Benefit:** the citizen developer's AI agent is not unguided — Nova provides production-grade engineering principles as skills and as an MCP surface, so submissions arrive at the contract boundary already aligned with the platform's standards.
 ---
 ## Slide 17 — Production-Grade Guidance via Atelier (2/2)
 **Agentic validation catches engineering-discipline gaps that deterministic scanners miss — and the validation is reproducible.**
 - **Beyond deterministic scanners** — Wiz, Checkmarx, and Mend check policy and secrets; they do not check engineering discipline. The Atelier MCP server catches correctness, clarity, and observability gaps that deterministic tools cannot: "is this service observable?", "is this error path handled?", "is this API contract clear?"
 - **Agentic validation, not a second policy engine** — the MCP server gives the AI agent the principles to validate against; the agent does the validation. The agent reasons about the submission against the principles, not a second static scan
 - **Vendored for audit reproducibility** — Atelier is vendored at a pinned tag. A validation result is replayable against the exact principles that produced it, so an audit can reproduce a validation months later, not just trust a log line
 **Benefit:** the citizen developer's submission is checked for engineering discipline, not just policy compliance — and the check is reproducible for audit. That is what makes the submission production-grade, regardless of which upstream platform produced it.
 ---
 ## Slide 18 — Recap + Ask
 **The 4-beat recap + the business decision.**
 **Recap:**
- **Problem:** operator is the bottleneck; autonomy in operations, human at stage gates
+- **Problem:** product teams own infrastructure without the discipline and lifecycle planning it requires; bandwidth gaps and tribal knowledge leave operations exposed
- **Vision:** invisible operations with provable trust (NORTH_STAR)
+- **Solution:** autonomous cloud delivery — operations become visible, trust is provable (deterministic scoring), humans at stage gates
- **How:** pipeline + Decision Ledger + 8-concern attestation matrix
+- **Proof:** 100% ledger coverage, 100% attestation coverage, grounded ROI formula, four CTO-grade metrics flowing into PowerBI
- **Proof:** 18V+4S, 100% ledger coverage, 100% attestation, grounded ROI formula
+- **Roadmap:** deferred metrics have unblock paths; the 12-month product arc activates one strategic objective per quarter
 - **Roadmap:** deferred metrics have unblock paths
-**The ask:** "Approve a pilot estate to activate the production-denominator metrics (Touchless Resolution, Human Escalation, AI Decision Accuracy), and approve the tamper-evident ledger build-out (D-083 lift) to move from local hash-chain to S3 Object Lock + JWS. These two decisions move Nova from 'pipeline-ready' to 'production-proven.'"
+**The ask:** "Approve a pilot estate to activate the production-denominator metrics (Lead Time, Vulnerability Count, MTTR, Cloud Spend), and approve the tamper-evident ledger build-out to move from the local hash-chain to S3 Object Lock + signed checkpoints. These two decisions move Nova from 'pipeline-ready' to 'production-proven.'"
-**Benefit:** you leave with a clear business decision to make — approve a pilot + the ledger build-out — and the confidence that every claim in this deck is grounded, derived, or honestly deferred.
+**Benefit:** a clear business decision — approve a pilot and the ledger build-out — with the confidence that every claim in this deck is grounded, derived, or honestly deferred.
 ---
 ## Slide 17 — Scope: Downstream of PDLC
 **Nova governs infrastructure + delivery. The PDLC (product backlog, code authorship, IDE) is upstream — Nova never penetrates it.**
 - **The PDLC is upstream:** product backlog, code authorship (AI agent / IDE / agentic SDLC), sprint planning, application business logic
 - **Nova is downstream:** contract ingestion → submission-readiness gate → policy → cloud lifecycle → environment progression → audit + attestation
 - **Integration is only through the contract boundary:** the citizen developer's AI coding agent, an upstream agentic SDLC, or any dev platform may all produce submissions — the source does not matter as all are subject to the same compliance standards
 - Nova validates the submission, not the author
 - Cites `docs/scope.md` + `PROJECT.md` § Scope
 **Benefit:** you now know the scope boundary — Nova is purpose-built for infrastructure operations, not product development; integration is through one validated contract.
 ---
 ## Slide 18 — RACI: Who Owns What
 **Three roles, one matrix — the citizen developer owns FRs + UAT, the platform owns NFRs + infra + QA + prod deploy, release management is co-owned.**
 | Work Category | Citizen Dev | Platform | Release Mgmt |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | Functional Requirements (FRs) | **R/A** | C | I |
 | User Acceptance Testing (UAT) | **R/A** | C | I |
 | Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) | I | **R/A** | C |
 | Infrastructure (cloud, state, IAM) | I | **R/A** | C |
 | QA (policy, confidence, schema) | C | **R/A** | I |
 | Production deployment to cloud | I | **R/A** | C |
 | Release attestation (QA + SRE) | **A** | R | **R** |
 - **Compliance-standard equivalence:** FRs + UAT may come from any upstream source (AI agent, agentic SDLC, dev platform) — all pass the same submission-readiness gate
 - **Release co-ownership:** the platform runs the attestations agentically; the citizen developer oversees and triggers the actual release (human at the stage gate)
 - Cites `docs/raci.md` + `PROJECT.md` § RACI Matrix
 **Benefit:** you now know exactly what you bring (FRs + UAT), what Nova provides (NFRs + infra + QA + prod deploy), and what you co-own (the release attestation).
 ---
 ## Slide 19 — Production-Grade Guidance via Atelier
 **Nova instructs the citizen developer's AI agent on production-grade engineering — skills + an MCP server with agentic validation beyond deterministic scanners.**
 - **Skills (9):** markdown files under `skills/` keyed to Atelier domain paths (api, security, data, testing, observability, errors, devops, infrastructure-as-code, compliance) — extending the BA.A 5-skill catalog
 - **MCP server:** `mcp/atelier/server.py` (plugin-registry, stdio) — 4 tools: `lookup_principle`, `list_domains`, `matrix_lookup`, `validate_against_principles`
 - **Agentic validation:** catches C1 correctness + C2 clarity + C7 observability gaps that Wiz/Checkmarx/Mend cannot — deterministic tools check policy/secrets; the MCP server checks engineering discipline
 - **Vendored Atelier** (pinned tag v0.3.6): audit reproducibility — a validation result is replayable against the exact principles that produced it
 - Cites `docs/skills.md` + `mcp/atelier/README.md`
 **Benefit:** you now know the citizen developer is not unguided — Nova provides production-grade engineering principles via skills + an MCP server, so the AI agent's submissions meet the same standards regardless of upstream source.
 ---
@@ -338,66 +310,18 @@ From `docs/METRICS_DEFERRED_ROADMAP.md`.
 | KPI | Definition | Status |
 |-----|-----------|--------|
-| Touchless Resolution Rate | runs without operational HITL block ÷ total | partial (Post-Pilot) |
+| Touchless Resolution Rate | runs without operational stage-gate block ÷ total | partial (Post-Pilot) |
-| Human Escalation Frequency | operational HITL blocks ÷ total | partial (Post-Pilot) |
+| Human Escalation Frequency | operational stage-gate blocks ÷ total | partial (Post-Pilot) |
-| AI Decision Accuracy | decisions not followed by failure within 5min | partial (Post-Pilot) |
+| Automated Decision Accuracy | decisions not followed by failure within 5min | partial (Post-Pilot) |
 | MTTR (p95) | apply.failed → successful retry | grounded |
 | Confidence-Gate Halt Rate | runs with band=block ÷ total | grounded |
 | Provisioning Lead Time | run.completed − run.started | grounded |
 | Deployment Frequency | count(run.completed) per day | grounded |
-| Cost Savings (Infracost) | sum(delta_usd where delta < 0) | partial (CUR deferred) |
+| Cost Savings (pre-apply) | sum(delta_usd where delta < 0) | partial (live reconciliation deferred) |
 | FTE Hours Saved | run count × manual baseline × rate | derived (N=0 caveat) |
 | Platform ROI | (labor + cloud + avoided downtime) ÷ op cost | derived (N=0 caveat) |
 | Decision Ledger Coverage | decisions with outcome ÷ total | grounded |
 | Attestation Coverage | prod/dr attested ÷ total prod/dr | grounded |
 | Policy Compliance Rate | 1 − failed_assets ÷ total | grounded |
---
+**Benefit:** a reference for every metric mentioned in the deck.
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 ## Appendix A2 — Operating Model & Cost
 - **Cost figures** from `COST.md`: $0.001883 over 8 days, ~$0.007/month, S3-dominated, zero BAU compute
 - **Zero-cost steady state:** all resources torn down post-v1.11 (D-096); the platform runs offline
 - References the pre-mortem (`PRE_MORTEM.md`: v1.10 decay root cause + structural mitigations)
 **Benefit:** you now know the operating cost is negligible — and the structural mitigation that prevents decay.
 ---
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 ## Slide 20 — 12-Month Product Roadmap
 **The product arc from pilot activation to agentic substrate — four quarters, four outcomes.**
 | Quarter | Theme | Board-level outcome |
 |---------|-------|---------------------|
 | **Q1** | <span class="badge planned">Pilot Activation</span> | Nova runs a real customer estate end-to-end, autonomously, with a measurable zero-touch rate |
 | **Q2** | <span class="badge planned">Provable Trust</span> | Every AI decision lands in a tamper-evident ledger; CFO sees real cloud-spend reconciliation |
 | **Q3** | <span class="badge planned">Compounding ROI</span> | Quarter-over-quarter cloud spend drops; drift is detected and reversed without a human |
 | **Q4** | <span class="badge planned">Agentic Substrate</span> | AI agents deploy through Nova by default; Nova is the substrate, not a vendor arriving late |
 **Grounded in:** the 4 strategic objectives (autonomy, provable trust, ROI, agentic substrate) + the deferred-metric unblock paths.
 **Benefit:** you now know the 12-month product arc — each quarter activates a strategic objective and its corresponding board-level metric, from pilot activation through agentic substrate leadership.
 ---
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 ## Slide 21 — Quarter-by-Quarter Outcomes
 | Quarter | Product theme | Key deliverable | Target metric | Grounding |
 |---------|--------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------|
 | **Q1** | Pilot Activation | Re-provision live AWS; activate first pilot estate; onboarding auto-grant | Touchless Resolution ≥ 99% · Escalation < 0.1% · AI Accuracy ≥ 99.5% | Strategic Objective #1 — autonomy as the default |
 | **Q2** | Provable Trust | Tamper-evident ledger (Object Lock + JWS); daily checkpoints; live cost reconciliation (CUR) | Decision Ledger Coverage 100% · Cost Savings ≥ 25% | Strategic Objective #2 — trust is the moat |
 | **Q3** | Compounding ROI + Drift | Drift detection scheduler; auto-reversal; Infracost→CUR reconciliation on pilot estate | Drift Auto-Reversal ≥ 95% · Spend Reduction ≥ 25% | Strategic Objective #3 — CFO-pointable numbers |
 | **Q4** | Agentic Substrate + Predictive | ML anomaly-forecasting; AI-agent intent surface; multi-cloud (Azure/GCP) preview | Predictive:Reactive ≥ 3:1 · AI-Agent Intent Share ≥ 40% (first measurement) | Strategic Objective #4 — default substrate for agents |
 **Month-18 destination:** *"Nova is the layer enterprise leadership points to when they say 'we don't have an infrastructure ops team anymore, and the audit trail is stronger than it ever was.'"*
 **Benefit:** you now know the quarter-by-quarter detail — each quarter has a concrete deliverable, a target metric grounded in a strategic objective, and a path from "honestly deferred" to "shipped and measured."
@@ -1,164 +1,129 @@
-# Nova — The No-Humans Infrastructure Platform: Talking Points
+# Nova — The Autonomous Cloud Delivery Platform: Talking Points
 > Step 4 of the 4-step deck process. Presenter cues distilled from the
-> source of truth (`nova-no-humans-platform.md`). 3-6 bullets per slide
+> source of truth (`nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery.md`). 3-6 bullets per
-> + key takeaway. Indexed by Marp slide #.
+> slide + key takeaway. Indexed by Marp slide #.
-> v1.17 — REQ-196, REQ-197
+> v1.21 — REQ-245
 ---
-### Slide 1 — Arc Preview
+### Slide 1 — The Problem
- Open with the stake line: "18 capabilities verified, 0 consumer estates in production"
+- Open with the shift: "you build it, you run it" put Terraform into product teams — ownership without discipline is destroying value
- Preview the 5-act arc so the audience knows the structure
+- Land the lifecycle-planning gap: resources authored for creation, not for patching/rollback → destructive changes
- Set the honesty frame: "this is an evidence deck, not a hype deck"
+- Land the urgency: AI-era 0-day pace demands proactive scanning as code + at runtime, remediated at threat pace
- **Key takeaway:** you'll leave knowing what's proven, what's pipeline-ready, and what's deferred
+- Call out tribal knowledge / the rockstar-operator problem — the platform should encode the discipline, not the person
 - Do NOT frame this as "humans are the problem" — the problem is ownership without the discipline and tooling
 - **Key takeaway:** the problem is infrastructure ownership without discipline; the answer is an autonomous platform that encodes the discipline
-### Slide 2 — The No-Humans Imperative
+### Slide 2 — Nova's Vision
- The operator is the bottleneck: days vs. minutes for provisioning
+- Read the vision verbatim — "infrastructure operations become visible" is the operative phrase
- Key reframing: "no-humans" = no human in normal operations; stage-gate attestation is human by design
+- Emphasize "provable, not promised" — trust established by deterministic scripts; the platform functions without AI
- Cite the no-humans thesis doc
+- State the attestation model up front: QA for production, SRE for operational readiness
- **Key takeaway:** autonomy in operations, human at stage gates
+- **Key takeaway:** autonomous operations with provable trust — security, remediation velocity, reliability, lead time made visible, not promised
-### Slide 3 — Nova's Vision
+### Slide 3 — Strategic Objectives + Anti-Goals
- Read the vision statement verbatim — it's precise
+- Objective #2 is the one to land carefully: trust = deterministic scoring, not an LLM; the platform functions without AI
- Emphasize "provable, not promised" — the difference between marketing and defensible
+- Objective #3: four CTO-grade metrics (Lead Time, Vuln Count, MTTR, Spend) — all flow into PowerBI
- State the attestation model up front to prevent mishearing
+- Objective #4 is the integration thesis: Nova integrates with any upstream source; provides skills + MCP; all prod intents go through the same controls
- **Key takeaway:** invisible operations with provable trust
+- Anti-goals #3 and #4 protect the scope: not an upstream dev platform, not a PDLC replacement
 - **Key takeaway:** purpose-built for infra ops, integrates with any source through one contract, measures success on four CTO metrics
-### Slide 4 — Strategic Objectives + Anti-Goals
+### Slide 4 — Scope: Downstream of PDLC
- The 4 objectives are the "what"; the 5 anti-goals are the "what NOT"
+- Nova governs infra + delivery only; the PDLC (backlog, code authorship, IDE) is upstream — Nova never penetrates it
- Anti-goal #3 (not removing humans from accountability) reinforces slide 3
+- Integration is only through the validated contract boundary
- Anti-goal #5 (not sold to operators) explains why this deck is for leadership
+- Any upstream source (AI agent, agentic SDLC, dev platform) produces submissions subject to the same compliance standards
- **Key takeaway:** purpose-built for infra ops, sold to leadership on outcomes
+- Nova validates the submission, not the author
 - **Key takeaway:** Nova is purpose-built for infrastructure operations; the scope boundary is clean and bounded
-### Slide 5 — 12–18 Month Targets
+### Slide 5 — RACI: Who Owns What
- The three-section split (current / post-pilot / deferred) IS the honesty model
+- Four roles now: Citizen Developer, Platform, Quality Engineering, SRE
- "Partial" means the pipeline works but the denominator is zero (0 consumers)
+- Quality attestation is owned by Quality Engineering (not the Platform); Production readiness is owned by SRE
- The Post-Pilot targets are committed; the numbers fill when a pilot runs
+- The Platform runs the checks agentically but is never the Accountable party for the gate — that separation keeps the platform honest
- **Key takeaway:** which numbers are real today vs. deferred honestly
+- Production readiness is co-owned: the platform runs attestations; the citizen developer authorizes the promotion at the stage gate
 - **Key takeaway:** you bring FRs + UAT; Nova provides NFRs + infra; QE guards the gate evidence; SRE signs off on production readiness
 ### Slide 6 — The Platform Pipeline
- Walk the pipeline left-to-right: contract → resolver → adapter → plan → policy → confidence → gate → apply
+- Walk the pipeline left-to-right: contract → resolver → adapter → Checkov (static) → plan → Wiz (on plan) → confidence → gate → apply
- Key insight: dev is autonomous; qa/prod/dr require attestation
+- Two-stage scan: Checkov on static code BEFORE the plan (fail-fast dev feedback); Wiz on the plan (or Checkov as drop-in if no Wiz creds)
- The confidence signal is the "AI" — 6-input weighted score, not an LLM
+- Never both Wiz + Checkov on the plan — avoid duplicate noise
- **Key takeaway:** the path from intent to evidence, with humans at stage gates only
+- Dev is autonomous; qa/prod/dr require attestation (QA for quality, SRE for production readiness)
 - **Key takeaway:** two layers of scanning, zero operator involvement in normal operations
 ### Slide 7 — The Decision Ledger
- The D-122 honesty sentence is critical: "Nova's AI is the confidence-gated policy engine, not an LLM"
+- "AI decisions" are really automated decisions — deterministic scripts calculate a score; the platform functions without AI
- The ledger is the moat: features can be copied, an immutable decision history cannot
+- Do not dwell on the storage substrate — the value is accountability (immutable, queryable, traceable to outcome), not the database
- Every decision has outcome backfill from apply.completed
+- Every stage-gate attestation is captured with approver identity and the evidence presented
- **Key takeaway:** autonomous is defensible because every decision is immutable, queryable, accountable
+- When an LLM planner is added later, it emits richer alternatives without breaking the schema
 - **Key takeaway:** autonomous is defensible because every decision is immutable, queryable, accountable — and "automated" means deterministic scoring, not a black-box LLM
-### Slide 8 — The 8-Concern Attestation Matrix
+### Slide 8 — The Attestation Matrix
- The matrix is not a rubber stamp — it's structured, freshness-validated, SoD-enforced
+- The matrix is not a rubber stamp — structured, freshness-validated, separation-of-duties-enforced
- Offline-testable concerns run for real; operator-supplied concerns accept signed evidence
+- Each concern now has a plain-language description of what is being attested (the old "operator-supplied" label is gone)
 - SoD on prod: the approver can't be the same person who built it
- **Key takeaway:** autonomy in operations, human in accountability, by design
+- **Key takeaway:** autonomy in operations, human in accountability, by design — the matrix is what makes autonomous operations safe enough to trust in production
-### Slide 9 — Telemetry Architecture
+### Slide 9 — Telemetry & Live Ops
- Deliberately minimal (Nova-native, no Kafka/Prometheus/ClickHouse)
+- Deliberately minimal: Nova-native CloudEvents; no Kafka/Prometheus/ClickHouse
- Every number in the Proof act is traceable to a file path
+- The live-ops dashboard is built in PowerBI on top of the exported views — leadership sees the same numbers the platform produces
- The hot path is deferred (D-126) — cold store is sufficient for batch
+- Every number in the Proof slides is traceable to a signal — "where does this number come from?" → a query against the cold store
- **Key takeaway:** the architecture IS the trust substrate — "where does this number come from?" → file path
+- This is where the "infrastructure operations become visible" theme lands concretely
 - **Key takeaway:** the architecture is the trust substrate — operations become visible in PowerBI, with full traceability
-### Slide 10 — Capability Health
+### Slide 10 — Decision Ledger + Attestation Coverage
- 18V+4S is the single most important proof point
+- Both 100% — no automated decision is ever lost; no prod/dr promotion lands without a human sign-off
- The 4 Skipped are live-AWS caps — honestly skipped (D-096), not broken
+- The mandatory-by-design point: the ledger entry + the human attestation are a gate, not a best-effort feature
- When live AWS is re-provisioned, they reactivate
+- Easily queried: by run, by environment, by approver, by outcome — the audit trail is a query, not a forensic exercise
- **Key takeaway:** the platform works, and we're honest about what we can't test
+- **Key takeaway:** trust is provable — not a marketing claim, a queryable record; no change to production without both the ledger entry and the human attestation
-### Slide 11 — Decision Ledger + Attestation Coverage
+### Slide 11 — Cost & ROI
 - Both 100% — no AI decision is ever lost; no prod/dr promotion lands without a human sign-off
 - The trust snapshot has a chain-integrity verdict (the ledger hasn't been tampered with)
 - D-083 (S3 Object Lock + JWS) is the next step for the ledger
 - **Key takeaway:** trust is provable — not a marketing claim, a queryable record
 ### Slide 12 — Zero-Touch Efficiency
 - The Post-Pilot caveat is the honesty model: pipeline works, denominator is zero
 - This is NOT a fabricated "99% touchless" claim
 - The numbers fill when a pilot runs
 - **Key takeaway:** the measurement works; the numbers activate with a pilot
 ### Slide 13 — Cost & ROI
 - The ROI formula is shown inline — not hidden in a footnote
- The N=0 caveat is stated explicitly
+- The four CTO-grade metrics are the ROI proof — Lead Time, Vuln Count, MTTR, Cloud Spend
- This is the "no fabrication" constraint in action
+- The N=0 caveat is stated explicitly: the formula is grounded; the production numbers activate with a pilot
- **Key takeaway:** the formula is ready; the production denominator activates with a pilot
+- **Key takeaway:** the ROI is not a black box — the formula is shown, the four metrics are committed, the production-denominator caveat is up front
-### Slide 14 — What's Deferred — and Why
+### Slide 12 — What's Deferred — and Why
- The preempt is critical: deferrals are measurement infrastructure, not autonomy
+- The preempt is critical: these deferrals are measurement infrastructure, not autonomy — the platform IS autonomous in operations
- The platform IS autonomous in operations; what's deferred is the evidence pipeline
+- The blocking work is named in plain language (no decision IDs) — "live AWS re-provisioning", "drift-detection scheduler", "ML service"
 - Showing this to leadership demonstrates honesty, not weakness
- **Key takeaway:** the autonomy is real; the measurement gaps are documented
+- **Key takeaway:** the autonomy is real; the measurement gaps are documented with the work that unblocks each one
-### Slide 15 — Roadmap to the North Star
+### Slide 13 — Roadmap to the North Star
- Every deferred metric has a specific unblock requirement and a candidate milestone
+- Each deferred metric has an unblock path and a timeframe — near-term, mid-term, longer-term
- The re-evaluation triggers ensure the metrics layer evolves
+- No status column: most of it is not implemented yet, so status would be noise
- Nothing is hand-waved; everything has a plan
+- Re-evaluation triggers: each blocking piece of work lifts on its own schedule
- **Key takeaway:** the path from "honestly deferred" to "here's how we get there"
+- **Key takeaway:** every deferred metric has a plan and a timeframe — nothing is hand-waved
-### Slide 16 — Recap + Ask
+### Slide 14 — 12-Month Product Roadmap
- Recap the 5-act arc so the audience leaves with the structure
+- This is the *product* roadmap, forward-looking only
- The ask is a business decision: approve a pilot + the ledger build-out
+- Q1 Pilot Activation → Q2 Provable Trust → Q3 Compounding ROI → Q4 Integration & Predictive
 - Each quarter activates one strategic objective from the North Star
 - **Key takeaway:** the 12-month product arc — each quarter activates a strategic objective and its board-level metric
 ### Slide 15 — Quarter-by-Quarter Outcomes
 - Q1: three post-pilot metrics go live (Touchless ≥99%, Escalation <0.1%, Accuracy ≥99.5%) — denominator activates with the pilot
 - Q2: Decision Ledger Coverage was already grounded — tamper-evidence is the Q2 upgrade (local hash-chain → Object Lock + signed checkpoints)
 - Q3: Drift Auto-Reversal ≥95% unblocks when the drift scheduler ships; Spend Reduction ≥25% measured against the pilot baseline
 - Q4: Predictive:Reactive ≥3:1 requires the ML forecasting service; AI-Agent Intent Share is a first measurement (aspirational-metric)
 - **Key takeaway:** each quarter has a concrete deliverable, a target metric grounded in a strategic objective, and a path from deferred to shipped
 ### Slide 16 — Production-Grade Guidance via Atelier (1/2)
 - Nova instructs the citizen developer's AI agent via skills (markdown, keyed to engineering domains) + an MCP server (4 tools, plugin-registry, stdio)
 - The integration point is the same regardless of source — AI agent, agentic SDLC, traditional IDE all get the same skills + MCP
 - This is how Nova makes the citizen developer production-grade without owning the PDLC
 - **Key takeaway:** the citizen developer's AI agent is not unguided — Nova provides engineering principles as skills + MCP
 ### Slide 17 — Production-Grade Guidance via Atelier (2/2)
 - The value is the gap deterministic scanners leave: engineering discipline (Wiz/Checkmarx/Mend check policy/secrets, not discipline)
 - The MCP server catches "is this service observable?", "is this error path handled?", "is this API contract clear?"
 - Vendored at a pinned tag → audit reproducibility — a validation result is replayable months later
 - **Key takeaway:** submissions are checked for engineering discipline, not just policy compliance — and the check is reproducible for audit
 ### Slide 18 — Recap + Ask
 - Recap the 4-beat arc so the audience leaves with the structure
 - The ask is a business decision: approve a pilot estate + the tamper-evident ledger build-out
 - "Pipeline-ready" → "production-proven" is the value proposition
 - **Key takeaway:** approve a pilot + the ledger build-out to move from pipeline-ready to production-proven
 ### Slide 17 — Scope: Downstream of PDLC
 - Nova governs infra + delivery only; the PDLC (product backlog, code authorship, IDE) is upstream
 - Integration is only through the validated contract boundary
 - Any upstream source (AI agent, agentic SDLC, dev platform) may produce submissions — all subject to the same compliance standards
 - Nova validates the submission, not the author
 - **Key takeaway:** Nova is purpose-built for infrastructure operations, not product development; the scope boundary is clean
 ### Slide 18 — RACI: Who Owns What
 - Citizen Developer owns FRs + UAT (via any upstream source — AI agent, SDLC, dev platform — all pass the same gate)
 - Platform owns NFRs + infra + QA + prod deploy
 - Release Management is co-owned: platform runs attestations agentically, citizen developer oversees + triggers the release (human at stage gate)
 - The compliance-standard equivalence is the key: the source does not matter; the submission does
 - **Key takeaway:** you bring FRs + UAT; Nova provides NFRs + infra + QA + prod deploy; the release is co-owned with you at the stage gate
 ### Slide 19 — Production-Grade Guidance via Atelier
 - Nova instructs the citizen developer's AI agent via skills (9 markdown files) + an MCP server (4 tools, plugin-registry, stdio)
 - The MCP server provides agentic validation beyond deterministic scanners — catches correctness, clarity, observability gaps that Wiz/Checkmarx/Mend cannot
 - Atelier is vendored (pinned tag) for audit reproducibility — a validation result is replayable
 - This is how Nova ensures the citizen developer's submissions meet production-grade standards regardless of upstream source
 - **Key takeaway:** the citizen developer is not unguided — Nova provides engineering principles via skills + MCP, so every submission meets the same standards
 ### Appendix A1 — Metrics Glossary
 - Reference for every metric mentioned in the deck
- Use if the audience asks "what does X mean?"
+- Use if the audience asks "what does X mean?"
 ### Appendix A2 — Operating Model & Cost
 - The operating cost is negligible (~$0.007/month)
 - The zero-cost steady state (D-096 teardown) is the structural mitigation
 - References the pre-mortem for the decay-prevention story
 ---
 ## Slide 20 — 12-Month Product Roadmap
 **Key takeaway:** The next 12 months have a clear product arc — pilot activation → provable trust → compounding ROI → agentic substrate. Each quarter activates one strategic objective.
 - This is the *product* roadmap, not the technical roadmap. The technical milestones (v1.0–v1.19) are behind us; this is forward-looking.
 - Q1 (Pilot Activation): re-provision live AWS, activate the first pilot estate, light up the three post-pilot metrics. Onboarding auto-grant ships.
 - Q2 (Provable Trust): tamper-evident ledger (Object Lock + JWS), daily checkpoints, live cost reconciliation. Trust is the moat — features can be copied; an immutable decision history cannot.
 - Q3 (Compounding ROI + Drift): drift detection + auto-reversal, Infracost→CUR reconciliation on the pilot estate. This is the quarter the CFO points to a number that improves quarter-over-quarter.
 - Q4 (Agentic Substrate + Predictive): ML anomaly-forecasting, AI-agent intent surface, multi-cloud preview. The Future Horizon target moves from aspiration to first measurement.
 - The roadmap is grounded in the four strategic objectives from the North Star — autonomy, provable trust, ROI, agentic substrate — and the deferred-metric unblock paths from Slide 15.
 **If asked "what about multi-cloud?"**: Q4 preview. AWS-only through Q3; Azure/GCP enters preview in Q4. We optimize for depth first, breadth second.
 **If asked "what about the ML service?"**: Q4. The predictive-vs-reactive ≥3:1 target requires an ML anomaly-forecasting emitter — the most technically ambitious deliverable on the roadmap.
 ---
 ## Slide 21 — Quarter-by-Quarter Outcomes
 **Key takeaway:** Each quarter has a concrete deliverable, a target metric, and a strategic-objective grounding. Nothing is hand-waved.
 - Q1: three post-pilot metrics go live (Touchless ≥99%, Escalation <0.1%, Accuracy ≥99.5%). The measurement pipeline is already grounded; the denominator activates when the pilot estate runs.
 - Q2: Decision Ledger Coverage was already grounded — the *tamper-evidence* is the Q2 upgrade (SQLite hash-chain → S3 Object Lock + JWS). Cost Savings ≥25% becomes CFO-grade with live CUR reconciliation.
 - Q3: Drift Auto-Reversal ≥95% unblocks when the drift scheduler ships. Spend Reduction ≥25% is the same target, now measured against the pilot baseline.
 - Q4: Predictive:Reactive ≥3:1 requires the ML forecasting service. AI-Agent Intent Share ≥40% moves from aspiration to first measurement.
 - The month-18 destination: "Nova is the layer enterprise leadership points to when they say 'we don't have an infrastructure ops team anymore, and the audit trail is stronger than it ever was.'"
 **If asked "are these committed or aspirational?"**: Q1–Q3 are committed (grounded pipeline + known unblock paths). Q4 targets are committed-deliverable, aspirational-metric — the ML service ships, the ≥40% intent share is first measurement (we don't control adoption rate).
@@ -1,11 +1,19 @@
-# Nova Central Deployment Pipeline Contract (v1.8)
+# Nova Central Deployment Pipeline Contract (v1.8 + v1.21 REQ-250)
 #
 # This is the single source of truth for the deployment pipeline. It
 # declares the stages that run when a consumer submits a contract:
-#   validate-contract -> resolve-stack -> terraform-plan -> checkov ->
+#   validate-contract -> resolve-stack -> checkov-static (fail-fast) ->
 #   terraform-plan -> runtime-policy-scan (Wiz-or-Checkov, never both) ->
 #   confidence -> apply (dev only) -> publish-outputs -> deploy-uptime ->
 #   comment-outputs
 #
 # REQ-250 (v1.21): the policy scan is two-stage. checkov-static runs on
 # the authored Terraform code BEFORE terraform plan (fail-fast, quick
 # developer feedback). runtime-policy-scan runs AFTER terraform plan:
 # Wiz scans the plan when configured (WIZ_API_TOKEN + WIZ_API_URL);
 # otherwise Checkov runs against the plan as a drop-in replacement. Wiz
 # and Checkov are NEVER both run on the plan.
 #
 # Decommission mode (mode: decommission) runs a different set of stages:
 #   validate-change-request -> disable-deletion-protection (HITL SRE) ->
 #   zero-counts (HITL SRE) -> confirm-decommission
@@ -36,15 +44,20 @@ stages:
    command: python3 core/contract_resolver.py contracts/static-assets.yaml /tmp/acdl-stack.json
    required: true
  - name: checkov-static
    description: Run Checkov on the authored Terraform code (fail-fast, before terraform plan) — REQ-250
    command: bash scripts/run_codegen.sh --check-only
    required: true
  - name: terraform-plan
    description: Compile the stack to Terraform and run terraform plan
    command: bash scripts/run_platform.sh --plan-only contracts/static-assets.yaml
    required: true
-  - name: checkov
+  - name: runtime-policy-scan
-    description: Run Checkov policy checks on the emitted Terraform
+    description: Run Wiz against the plan when configured, else Checkov against the plan (never both) — REQ-250
-    command: bash scripts/run_platform.sh --check-only
+    command: bash scripts/run_postapply.sh contracts/static-assets.yaml --quiet
-    required: false
+    required: true
  - name: confidence
    description: Compute the confidence signal from policy + validation inputs
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ multipart form: name=<filename>, attachment=<file bytes>
 Usage:
    python3 scripts/attach_release_asset.py <file-path> <release-id>
-    python3 scripts/attach_release_asset.py docs/presentations/nova-no-humans-platform.pptx 522
+    python3 scripts/attach_release_asset.py docs/presentations/nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery.pptx 522
 Token resolution: reads NOVA_GITEA_TOKEN (or ACDL_GITEA_TOKEN) from .env.secrets
 / .env, matching the ship_phase.sh pattern. Never uses shell env tokens.
@@ -101,6 +101,20 @@ adapter.compile(stack, '$TF_DIR')
 print('adapter: main.tf + terraform.tf + providers.tf written')
 "
 echo "=== Step 3c: Checkov on static code (fail-fast, before terraform plan) ==="
 # REQ-250 (v1.21): Checkov runs on the authored Terraform code BEFORE
 # terraform plan so developers get immediate policy feedback, not a
 # delayed plan-stage failure. The runtime plan scan (Wiz-or-Checkov)
 # runs after the plan in run_postapply.sh Step 5.
 if [ "$QUIET" = "0" ]; then
  checkov -d "$TF_DIR" --framework terraform -o json --soft-fail --external-checks-dir adapters/terraform/policy/custom_rules/ 2>&1 | tee "$WORK/checkov-static.json"
 else
  checkov -d "$TF_DIR" --framework terraform -o json --soft-fail --external-checks-dir adapters/terraform/policy/custom_rules/ > "$WORK/checkov-static.json" 2> "$WORK/checkov-static.err"
 fi
 [ -s "$WORK/checkov-static.json" ] || { echo "FAIL: checkov (static) produced no output" >&2; exit 1; }
 echo ""
 echo "checkov (static) summary: $(python3 -c "import json; d=json.load(open('$WORK/checkov-static.json')); print(len(d.get('results',{}).get('failed_checks',[])), 'failed,', len(d.get('results',{}).get('passed_checks',[])), 'passed')")"
 if [ "$CHECK_ONLY" = "1" ]; then
  echo ""
  echo "=== Step 3b: validate adapter output structure (offline) ==="
@@ -312,6 +312,20 @@ if [ -z "${AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID:-}" ] || [ -z "${AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY:-}" ]; then
   export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION="$AWS_DEFAULT_REGION"
 fi
 echo "=== Step 3c: Checkov on static code (fail-fast, before terraform plan) ==="
 # REQ-250 (v1.21): Checkov runs on the authored Terraform code BEFORE
 # terraform plan so developers get immediate policy feedback, not a
 # delayed plan-stage failure. The runtime plan scan (Wiz-or-Checkov)
 # runs after the plan (Step 5).
 if [ "$QUIET" = "0" ]; then
  checkov -d "$TF_DIR" --framework terraform -o json --soft-fail --external-checks-dir adapters/terraform/policy/custom_rules/ 2>&1 | tee "$WORK/checkov-static.json"
 else
  checkov -d "$TF_DIR" --framework terraform -o json --soft-fail --external-checks-dir adapters/terraform/policy/custom_rules/ > "$WORK/checkov-static.json" 2> "$WORK/checkov-static.err"
 fi
 [ -s "$WORK/checkov-static.json" ] || fail "checkov (static) produced no output"
 echo ""
 echo "checkov (static) summary: $(python3 -c "import json; d=json.load(open('$WORK/checkov-static.json')); print(len(d.get('results',{}).get('failed_checks',[])), 'failed,', len(d.get('results',{}).get('passed_checks',[])), 'passed')")"
 echo "=== Step 4: terraform init + validate + plan -lock=false (real AWS) ==="
 cd "$TF_DIR"
@@ -380,19 +394,36 @@ if [ "$DESTROY_ONLY" = "1" ]; then
 fi
 echo ""
-echo "=== Step 5: run Checkov on $TF_DIR/main.tf ==="
+echo "=== Step 5: runtime policy scan on the terraform plan (Wiz-or-Checkov, never both) ==="
-if [ "$QUIET" = "0" ]; then
+# REQ-250 (v1.21): after terraform plan, run Wiz against the plan when
-  checkov -f "$TF_DIR/main.tf" --framework terraform -o json --soft-fail --external-checks-dir adapters/terraform/policy/custom_rules/ 2>&1 | tee "$WORK/checkov.json"
+# configured; otherwise run Checkov against the plan as a drop-in
 # replacement. Wiz and Checkov are NEVER both run on the plan.
 RUNTIME_SCAN_ENGINE=""
 if [ -n "${WIZ_API_TOKEN:-}" ] || [ -n "${WIZ_API_URL:-}" ]; then
  RUNTIME_SCAN_ENGINE="wiz"
  echo "--- Wiz configured (WIZ_API_TOKEN + WIZ_API_URL) → Wiz on the plan ---"
  python3 adapters/wiz/wiz_adapter.py --plan "$TF_DIR/tfplan" --contract-id "$CONTRACT_ID" --run-id "${CONTRACT_ID}" > "$WORK/pcr.json" 2> "$WORK/wiz.err" || {
    echo "WARNING: Wiz scan failed; falling back to Checkov on the plan" >&2
    RUNTIME_SCAN_ENGINE="checkov-plan"
  }
 else
-  checkov -f "$TF_DIR/main.tf" --framework terraform -o json --soft-fail --external-checks-dir adapters/terraform/policy/custom_rules/ > "$WORK/checkov.json" 2> "$WORK/checkov.err"
+  RUNTIME_SCAN_ENGINE="checkov-plan"
 fi
-[ -s "$WORK/checkov.json" ] || fail "checkov produced no output"
+if [ "$RUNTIME_SCAN_ENGINE" = "checkov-plan" ]; then
-echo ""
+  echo "--- Wiz not configured → Checkov on the plan (drop-in replacement) ---"
-echo "checkov summary: $(python3 -c "import json; d=json.load(open('$WORK/checkov.json')); print(len(d.get('results',{}).get('failed_checks',[])), 'failed,', len(d.get('results',{}).get('passed_checks',[])), 'passed')")"
+  if [ "$QUIET" = "0" ]; then
-
+    checkov -f "$TF_DIR/tfplan" --framework terraform_plan -o json --soft-fail --external-checks-dir adapters/terraform/policy/custom_rules/ 2>&1 | tee "$WORK/checkov-plan.json"
-echo ""
+  else
-echo "=== Step 6: Checkov adapter -> PolicyCheckResult (compliance details) ==="
+    checkov -f "$TF_DIR/tfplan" --framework terraform_plan -o json --soft-fail --external-checks-dir adapters/terraform/policy/custom_rules/ > "$WORK/checkov-plan.json" 2> "$WORK/checkov-plan.err"
-python3 adapters/terraform/policy/checkov_adapter.py "$WORK/checkov.json" "$CONTRACT_ID" > "$WORK/pcr.json" || fail "checkov adapter failed"
+  fi
  [ -s "$WORK/checkov-plan.json" ] || fail "checkov (plan) produced no output"
  echo ""
  echo "checkov (plan) summary: $(python3 -c "import json; d=json.load(open('$WORK/checkov-plan.json')); print(len(d.get('results',{}).get('failed_checks',[])), 'failed,', len(d.get('results',{}).get('passed_checks',[])), 'passed')")"
  echo ""
  echo "=== Step 6: Checkov (plan) adapter -> PolicyCheckResult ==="
  python3 adapters/terraform/policy/checkov_adapter.py "$WORK/checkov-plan.json" "$CONTRACT_ID" > "$WORK/pcr.json" || fail "checkov (plan) adapter failed"
 fi
 echo "runtime scan engine: $RUNTIME_SCAN_ENGINE"
 python3 -c "
 import json
 pcrs = json.load(open('$WORK/pcr.json'))
@@ -494,5 +525,5 @@ source "$ROOT/scripts/run_uptime.sh"
 echo ""
 echo "=== PLATFORM E2E OK ==="
-echo "contract -> resolver -> stack -> terraform plan -> Checkov -> confidence ($BAND) -> outbox -> outputs"
+echo "contract -> resolver -> stack -> Checkov(static) -> terraform plan -> Wiz-or-Checkov(plan) -> confidence ($BAND) -> outbox -> outputs"
 exit 0
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 # scripts/run_postapply.sh — post-Terraform steps for the Nova platform pipeline.
 #
 # Performs steps 5–9 of run_platform.sh (after terraform apply/destroy):
-#   5.  Checkov policy scan on the emitted main.tf
+#   3c. Checkov policy scan on static code (fail-fast, in run_codegen.sh)
-#   6.  Checkov adapter → PolicyCheckResult (compliance details)
+#   5.  Runtime policy scan on the terraform plan (Wiz-or-Checkov, never both)
 #   6.  Policy scan adapter → PolicyCheckResult (compliance details)
 #   7.  Confidence signal compute
 #   7b. HITL attestation gate (qa/prod/dr only)
 #   8.  Write evidence event to DynamoDB outbox
@@ -92,19 +93,37 @@ else:
 " || { echo "FAIL: HITL gate blocked" >&2; return 1; }
 }
-echo "=== Step 5: run Checkov on $TF_DIR/main.tf ==="
+echo "=== Step 5: runtime policy scan on the terraform plan (Wiz-or-Checkov, never both) ==="
-if [ "$QUIET" = "0" ]; then
+# REQ-250 (v1.21): after terraform plan, run Wiz against the plan when
-  checkov -f "$TF_DIR/main.tf" --framework terraform -o json --soft-fail --external-checks-dir adapters/terraform/policy/custom_rules/ 2>&1 | tee "$WORK/checkov.json"
+# configured; otherwise run Checkov against the plan as a drop-in
 # replacement. Wiz and Checkov are NEVER both run on the plan. The
 # static-code Checkov already ran in run_codegen.sh Step 3c (fail-fast).
 RUNTIME_SCAN_ENGINE=""
 if [ -n "${WIZ_API_TOKEN:-}" ] || [ -n "${WIZ_API_URL:-}" ]; then
  RUNTIME_SCAN_ENGINE="wiz"
  echo "--- Wiz configured (WIZ_API_TOKEN + WIZ_API_URL) → Wiz on the plan ---"
  python3 adapters/wiz/wiz_adapter.py --plan "$TF_DIR/tfplan" --contract-id "$CONTRACT_ID" --run-id "${CONTRACT_ID}" > "$WORK/pcr.json" 2> "$WORK/wiz.err" || {
    echo "WARNING: Wiz scan failed; falling back to Checkov on the plan" >&2
    RUNTIME_SCAN_ENGINE="checkov-plan"
  }
 else
-  checkov -f "$TF_DIR/main.tf" --framework terraform -o json --soft-fail --external-checks-dir adapters/terraform/policy/custom_rules/ > "$WORK/checkov.json" 2> "$WORK/checkov.err"
+  RUNTIME_SCAN_ENGINE="checkov-plan"
 fi
-[ -s "$WORK/checkov.json" ] || { echo "FAIL: checkov produced no output" >&2; exit 1; }
+if [ "$RUNTIME_SCAN_ENGINE" = "checkov-plan" ]; then
-echo ""
+  echo "--- Wiz not configured → Checkov on the plan (drop-in replacement) ---"
-echo "checkov summary: $(python3 -c "import json; d=json.load(open('$WORK/checkov.json')); print(len(d.get('results',{}).get('failed_checks',[])), 'failed,', len(d.get('results',{}).get('passed_checks',[])), 'passed')")"
+  if [ "$QUIET" = "0" ]; then
-
+    checkov -f "$TF_DIR/tfplan" --framework terraform_plan -o json --soft-fail --external-checks-dir adapters/terraform/policy/custom_rules/ 2>&1 | tee "$WORK/checkov-plan.json"
-echo ""
+  else
-echo "=== Step 6: Checkov adapter → PolicyCheckResult (compliance details) ==="
+    checkov -f "$TF_DIR/tfplan" --framework terraform_plan -o json --soft-fail --external-checks-dir adapters/terraform/policy/custom_rules/ > "$WORK/checkov-plan.json" 2> "$WORK/checkov-plan.err"
-python3 adapters/terraform/policy/checkov_adapter.py "$WORK/checkov.json" "$CONTRACT_ID" > "$WORK/pcr.json" || { echo "FAIL: checkov adapter failed" >&2; exit 1; }
+  fi
  [ -s "$WORK/checkov-plan.json" ] || { echo "FAIL: checkov (plan) produced no output" >&2; exit 1; }
  echo ""
  echo "checkov (plan) summary: $(python3 -c "import json; d=json.load(open('$WORK/checkov-plan.json')); print(len(d.get('results',{}).get('failed_checks',[])), 'failed,', len(d.get('results',{}).get('passed_checks',[])), 'passed')")"
  echo ""
  echo "=== Step 6: Checkov (plan) adapter → PolicyCheckResult (compliance details) ==="
  python3 adapters/terraform/policy/checkov_adapter.py "$WORK/checkov-plan.json" "$CONTRACT_ID" > "$WORK/pcr.json" || { echo "FAIL: checkov (plan) adapter failed" >&2; exit 1; }
 fi
 echo "runtime scan engine: $RUNTIME_SCAN_ENGINE"
 python3 -c "
 import json
 pcrs = json.load(open('$WORK/pcr.json'))
@@ -199,4 +218,4 @@ source "$ROOT/scripts/run_uptime.sh"
 echo ""
 echo "=== POST-APPLY OK ==="
-echo "Checkov → confidence ($BAND) → outbox → outputs → uptime"
+echo "Checkov(static, pre-plan) → Wiz-or-Checkov(plan) → confidence ($BAND) → outbox → outputs → uptime"
@@ -173,16 +173,19 @@ class TestDeployPipelineContract:
            contract = yaml.safe_load(fh)
        jsonschema.validate(contract, schema)
-    def test_deploy_pipeline_has_six_stages(self):
+    def test_deploy_pipeline_has_required_stages(self):
        with open(ROOT / "pipelines/contract.yml") as fh:
            contract = yaml.safe_load(fh)
        stage_names = [s["name"] for s in contract["stages"]]
        assert "validate-contract" in stage_names
        assert "resolve-stack" in stage_names
        assert "checkov-static" in stage_names, "REQ-250: checkov-static stage missing"
        assert "terraform-plan" in stage_names
-        assert "checkov" in stage_names
+        assert "runtime-policy-scan" in stage_names, "REQ-250: runtime-policy-scan stage missing"
        assert "confidence" in stage_names
        assert "apply" in stage_names
        # The old single 'checkov' stage is gone (split into checkov-static + runtime-policy-scan)
        assert "checkov" not in stage_names, "old 'checkov' stage should be replaced by checkov-static + runtime-policy-scan"
 class TestL2OutputsResolution:
@@ -206,14 +206,15 @@ class TestDeployPipelineContract:
        contract = _load_yaml("pipelines/contract.yml")
        jsonschema.validate(contract, schema)
-    def test_deploy_contract_has_nine_stages(self):
+    def test_deploy_contract_has_ten_stages(self):
        contract = _load_yaml("pipelines/contract.yml")
        stage_names = [s["name"] for s in contract["stages"]]
        assert stage_names == [
            "validate-contract",
            "resolve-stack",
            "checkov-static",
            "terraform-plan",
-            "checkov",
+            "runtime-policy-scan",
            "confidence",
            "apply",
            "publish-outputs",
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ def test_cap_024_deck_structure():
 def test_cap_024_deck_exists():
    """The unified deck source of truth exists."""
-    deck_path = ROOT / "docs" / "presentations" / "nova-no-humans-platform.md"
+    deck_path = ROOT / "docs" / "presentations" / "nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery.md"
    assert deck_path.exists(), "unified deck not found"
@@ -1,12 +1,21 @@
-"""REQ-239..243 (v1.20): S&P theme + slide render pipeline tests.
+"""REQ-239..243 (v1.20) + REQ-245,251,252 (v1.21): S&P theme + slide render
 pipeline + deck-refinement tests.
-Validates:
+v1.20 validates:
  - The Marp deck frontmatter references nova-sp-theme.css
  - The CSS file contains the S&P colors (#D6002A, #1B1B1B)
  - The mermaid theme JSON contains the S&P colors
  - Every .mmd has a corresponding .png
  - The render_slides.sh script exists and is executable
  - The CI workflow file exists
 v1.21 adds (REQ-245,251,252):
  - Deck renamed to nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery*
  - No maturity badges in the Marp deck
  - No version in the Marp footer/title slide
  - 18 main + 1 appendix slides
  - No D-###/REQ-###/internal .py paths in audience-facing slides
  - Title is "Nova — The Autonomous Cloud Delivery Platform"
 """
 import re
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -18,7 +27,8 @@ PRESENTATIONS = ROOT / "docs" / "presentations"
 ASSETS = PRESENTATIONS / "assets"
 THEME_CSS = ASSETS / "nova-sp-theme.css"
 THEME_JSON = ASSETS / "mmd" / "sp-theme.json"
-MARP_DECK = PRESENTATIONS / "nova-no-humans-platform-marp.md"
+MARP_DECK = PRESENTATIONS / "nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-marp.md"
 SOURCE_MD = PRESENTATIONS / "nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery.md"
 RENDER_SCRIPT = ROOT / "scripts" / "render_slides.sh"
 SLIDES_WORKFLOW = ROOT / ".github" / "workflows" / "slides.yml"
@@ -87,6 +97,13 @@ def test_render_slides_script_renders_marp():
    assert ".pptx" in text, "render_slides.sh does not produce PPTX"
 def test_render_slides_default_deck_renamed():
    """REQ-245: render_slides.sh default deck is nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery."""
    text = RENDER_SCRIPT.read_text()
    assert "nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery" in text, \
        "render_slides.sh does not default to nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery"
 def test_slides_ci_workflow_exists():
    """REQ-241: CI workflow for slides exists."""
    assert SLIDES_WORKFLOW.is_file(), "slides.yml workflow not found"
@@ -124,3 +141,128 @@ def test_readme_no_retired_decks():
        "README still references retired 'how-the-platform-works' deck"
    assert "the-developer-experience" not in readme, \
        "README still references retired 'the-developer-experience' deck"
 def test_readme_no_old_deck_name():
    """REQ-245: README references the new deck name, not the old one."""
    readme = (PRESENTATIONS / "README.md").read_text()
    assert "nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery" in readme, \
        "README does not reference nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery"
 def test_old_deck_files_removed():
    """REQ-245: the old nova-no-humans-platform* files are gone."""
    old_files = sorted(PRESENTATIONS.glob("nova-no-humans-platform*"))
    assert not old_files, f"old deck files still present: {old_files}"
 def test_marp_deck_no_badges():
    """REQ-252: no maturity badges in the Marp deck."""
    text = MARP_DECK.read_text()
    assert "badge" not in text, "Marp deck still contains badge spans"
 def test_marp_deck_no_version_in_footer():
    """REQ-251: no version (v1.x) in the Marp frontmatter footer/header."""
    text = MARP_DECK.read_text()
    fm_match = re.match(r'^---\n(.*?)\n---', text, re.DOTALL)
    assert fm_match, "Marp frontmatter not found"
    frontmatter = fm_match.group(1)
    # No v1.x version string in the footer or header lines
    assert not re.search(r"v1\.\d+", frontmatter), \
        f"Marp frontmatter still contains a version: {frontmatter}"
    # No "Act" pagination artifact
    assert "Act %" not in frontmatter, \
        "Marp frontmatter still contains 'Act %{page}' artifact"
 def test_marp_deck_title_slide_no_version_subtitle():
    """REQ-251: the title slide does not carry a version subtitle."""
    text = MARP_DECK.read_text()
    # The title slide is the first slide after the frontmatter
    # Find the title block (between the frontmatter and the first --- separator)
    after_fm = text.split("---\n", 2)[2] if text.startswith("---") else text
    first_slide = after_fm.split("\n---\n")[0]
    # The old subtitle was "v1.18 — Citizen Developer & Production-Grade Guidance"
    assert "v1.18" not in first_slide, \
        "Title slide still contains 'v1.18' subtitle"
    assert "Citizen Developer & Production-Grade Guidance" not in first_slide, \
        "Title slide still contains the old version subtitle"
 def test_marp_deck_title_is_autonomous_cloud_delivery():
    """REQ-245: the deck title is 'Nova — The Autonomous Cloud Delivery Platform'."""
    text = MARP_DECK.read_text()
    assert "Autonomous Cloud Delivery Platform" in text, \
        "Deck title is not 'Autonomous Cloud Delivery Platform'"
    # The old title should not appear in the audience-facing deck
    # (speaker notes are not in the marp deck, so this is safe)
    assert "No-Humans Infrastructure Platform" not in text, \
        "Deck still carries the old 'No-Humans Infrastructure Platform' title"
 def test_marp_deck_slide_count():
    """REQ-245: 18 main slides + 1 appendix = 19 slides total."""
    text = MARP_DECK.read_text()
    # Count slide separators: each slide ends with --- (except the last)
    # The frontmatter is one --- ... --- block, then each slide is separated by ---
    # Count "## Slide" and "## Appendix" headings
    slide_headings = re.findall(r"^## (?:Slide|Appendix) ", text, re.MULTILINE)
    main_slides = re.findall(r"^## Slide ", text, re.MULTILINE)
    appendix_slides = re.findall(r"^## Appendix ", text, re.MULTILINE)
    assert len(main_slides) == 18, \
        f"expected 18 main slides, found {len(main_slides)}: {slide_headings}"
    assert len(appendix_slides) == 1, \
        f"expected 1 appendix slide, found {len(appendix_slides)}"
 def test_marp_deck_no_internal_citations():
    """REQ-252: no D-### decision IDs, REQ-### requirement IDs, or internal
    .py file paths in the audience-facing Marp deck."""
    text = MARP_DECK.read_text()
    # Decision IDs like D-121, D-083
    assert not re.search(r"\bD-\d{3}\b", text), \
        "Marp deck contains D-### decision IDs"
    # Requirement IDs like REQ-245
    assert not re.search(r"\bREQ-\d{3}\b", text), \
        "Marp deck contains REQ-### requirement IDs"
    # Internal python file paths like outbox_writer.py, confidence_signal.py
    # (allow .py only inside code blocks for the ROI formula? No — the deck
    # should not cite internal file paths at all)
    assert not re.search(r"\b(outbox_writer|confidence_signal|hitl_gates|"
                         r"attestation_matrix|checkov_adapter|infracost_adapter|"
                         r"contract_resolver|run_platform)\.py\b", text), \
        "Marp deck contains internal .py file paths"
 def test_source_md_no_internal_citations_in_slides():
    """REQ-252: the source-of-truth markdown keeps internal citations only
    in speaker notes, not in the audience-facing slide body. Speaker notes
    are blockquoted (> ) — we check non-blockquote lines for D-###/REQ-###."""
    text = SOURCE_MD.read_text()
    # Split into lines; exclude blockquote lines (speaker notes) and the
    # header frontmatter (> ... at the top)
    in_note = False
    body_lines = []
    for line in text.splitlines():
        if line.lstrip().startswith(">"):
            in_note = True
            continue
        if in_note and line.strip() == "":
            in_note = False
            continue
        if not in_note:
            body_lines.append(line)
    body = "\n".join(body_lines)
    # Decision IDs and REQ IDs should not appear in the slide body
    assert not re.search(r"\bD-\d{3}\b", body), \
        "Source markdown slide body contains D-### decision IDs"
    assert not re.search(r"\bREQ-\d{3}\b", body), \
        "Source markdown slide body contains REQ-### requirement IDs"
 def test_source_md_no_badges():
    """REQ-252: no maturity badges in the source-of-truth markdown."""
    text = SOURCE_MD.read_text()
    assert "badge" not in text.lower(), \
        "Source markdown still contains badge spans"
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Jon Chery	072ac83ef6	docs(ship): P0 complete — v1.22 pre-execution (specify, clarify, research, plan, grill) Nova Slides Render / render (push) Failing after 59s Details ---ci--- project: acdl phase: 0 milestone: v1.22 status: complete phase_role: pre_execution ---/ci---	2026-08-11 19:32:57 +00:00
Jon Chery	c6036ca433	docs(P00): grill — 3 revisions applied (PROCEED-WITH-REVISIONS, 0.85) 8 axes reviewed. 5 PASS, 3 REVISE. Overall: PROCEED-WITH-REVISIONS. Revisions (binding): 1. P5 test_png_aspect_ratios_sane scoped to only PNGs referenced in the current marp deck (15/19 legacy PNGs are out of bounds but unused — would cause false failures). 2. P1 @import rejection documented (default theme padding insufficient for header/footer; conflicts with S&P palette). 3. P2 marp version pinning fallback (if pinned version breaks, fall back to @latest + log assumption A5). ---ci--- project: acdl phase: 0 milestone: v1.22 status: grill ---/ci---	2026-08-11 19:32:46 +00:00
Jon Chery	38eb01d266	docs(P00): create phase plans — v1.22 (7 phases, 4 waves) Vertical-slice plan with wave ordering: - Wave 1 (P1+P2, parallel): theme CSS + render scripts. Zero file overlap. P1 establishes padding/overflow/image budget; P2 fixes render pipeline. - Wave 2 (P3+P4, parallel): mermaid re-layout + deck content. P3 depends on P2 (2x scale); P4 depends on P1 (padding budget). - Wave 3 (P5): re-render HTML+PPTX + add layout/aspect-ratio/theme- structural tests. Depends on all above. - Wave 4 (P6): final review + audit + milestone ship. Tags on v1.21.x line: v1.21.0 (P0) -> v1.21.1..v1.21.5 (P1-P5) -> v1.21.6 (P6 final = milestone release). ---ci--- project: acdl phase: 0 milestone: v1.22 status: plan ---/ci---	2026-08-11 19:25:00 +00:00
Jon Chery	0404988465	docs(P00): research findings — v1.22 deck layout root cause (REQ-254..262) 8 findings (all confidence >= 0.8): - F1 (VERY HIGH): theme CSS has zero section padding (/* @theme */ is a comment, not the directive; no @import of Marp default). - F2 (VERY HIGH): overflow:hidden silently clips dense content (8/19 slides overflow). - F3 (HIGH): image aspect-ratio catastrophe (platform-pipeline 13.52x, telemetry-live-ops 0.63x). - F4 (HIGH): header+footer chrome on every slide (~70px lost). - F5 (MEDIUM-HIGH): render_deck.sh omits --theme (unthemed output). - F6 (HIGH): render_slides.sh missing -s 2 -b transparent (1x PNGs). - F7 (LOW): P5 marp-cli version bump — NOT the cause (theme CSS byte- identical P3->P5). - F8 (VERY HIGH): test coverage gaps — no layout/overflow/aspect-ratio tests; static-file-property tests only. Persona roster (v1.22): lead-developer (theme CSS + deck markdown + mermaid + .ciagent), backend-engineer (render scripts + tests). frontend-engineer + data-engineer deactivated. D-148 (theme CSS is lead-developer, not frontend), D-149 (no new personas). ---ci--- project: acdl phase: 0 milestone: v1.22 status: research ---/ci---	2026-08-11 19:22:45 +00:00
Jon Chery	dbca694f55	docs(P00): clarify — 5 ambiguities auto-resolved (full autonomy) Fix scope: comprehensive (4 layers). Pipeline depth: full. Mermaid fix: re-layout to LR + re-render 2x. render_deck.sh: delete. Slide count: split slides 3+8 (18->20 main + 1 appendix). All decisions logged with confidence > 0.6 threshold; no human escalation. ---ci--- project: acdl phase: 0 milestone: v1.22 status: clarify ---/ci---	2026-08-11 19:18:44 +00:00
Jon Chery	71f0f1a05d	docs(init): validate specification — v1.22 milestone (REQ-254..262) Established active_milestone: v1.22 (Nova Deck Layout Fix). Added v1.22 objective to PROJECT.md (NFR milestone, 7 phases, tags on v1.21.x line). Added REQ-254..262 to REQUIREMENTS.md covering theme CSS (padding, overflow, image rules, title chrome), render scripts (delete render_deck.sh, pin versions, 2x scale), mermaid re-layout (LR + 2-row wrap), deck content (trim/split 8 overflowing slides), and re-render + layout/aspect-ratio tests. Root cause (per investigation): nova-sp-theme.css has zero section padding (declares /* @theme nova-sp */ as a comment, not the @theme directive; does not @import Marp default theme). Combined with overflow:hidden, blunt img max-height:320px, header+footer chrome on every slide, and two P5 diagrams with extreme aspect ratios (13.52x and 0.63x), 8 of 19 slides overflow. NOT a P5 regression — theme CSS byte-identical P3->P5; P5 denser content made pre-existing flaws visible. ---ci--- project: acdl phase: 0 milestone: v1.22 status: specify ---/ci---	2026-08-11 19:18:09 +00:00
Jon Chery	ce751313a7	docs(milestone): complete v1.21 — Nova Deck Refinement & Pipeline Hardening acdl-ci / Lint (push) Successful in 10s Details acdl-ci / Test (push) Failing after 24s Details acdl-ci / Platform check-only (offline) (push) Successful in 22s Details Nova Slides Render / render (push) Failing after 56s Details 9 requirements complete (REQ-245..253): - P1: strategic-docs — thesis rename + NORTH_STAR objectives + RACI restructure (REQ-246,247) - P2: slides source-of-truth — rename + restructure + rewrite (REQ-245, 248,249,252) - P3: marp deck + talking points + README + theme CSS fix (REQ-251,252) - P4: pipeline hardening — Checkov before plan, Wiz-or-Checkov on plan (REQ-250) - P5: render + verify — new diagrams, HTML, PPTX, 686 tests pass (REQ-253) - P6: final review + ship (this commit) Deck renamed nova-no-humans-platform* -> nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery*. Title: 'Nova — The Autonomous Cloud Delivery Platform'. 4-beat arc (Problem -> Solution -> Proof -> Roadmap + Ask). 18 main + 1 appendix slides. All 33 review notes applied. Tags on v1.20.x line (v1.20.0 P0 -> v1.20.6 P6 final = milestone release). ---ci--- project: acdl phase: 6 milestone: v1.21 status: complete phase_role: final requirements: covered: [REQ-245,REQ-246,REQ-247,REQ-248,REQ-249,REQ-250,REQ-251,REQ-252,REQ-253] partial: [] ---/ci---	2026-08-11 14:18:38 +00:00
Jon Chery	5b5e24d535	docs(P5): render + verify — new diagrams, HTML, PPTX, tests pass (REQ-253) Nova Slides Render / render (push) Failing after 59s Details New mermaid diagrams (mmd + png): - platform-pipeline.mmd/.png — slide 6 (two-stage policy scan: Checkov static → plan → Wiz-or-Checkov → confidence → stage gate → apply) - telemetry-live-ops.mmd/.png — slide 9 (CloudEvents → cold store → PowerBI → live ops dashboard) Re-rendered artifacts: - nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery.html (S&P-themed, self-contained) - nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery.pptx (20 slides: title + 18 main + 1 appendix; 21 media files embedded) Verify: - tests/test_slides_pipeline.py: 23 pass (18 main + 1 appendix slides; no badges; no version in footer/title; no D-###/REQ-###/.py paths in audience slides; old deck files removed; render script default renamed) - tests/test_pipeline_contract.py: 10 stages (checkov-static + runtime- policy-scan replace old checkov stage) - tests/test_no_forge_mentions.py: pass - tests/test_regression_cap023_024.py: CAP-024 deck structure verified (18-19 slides, recap+ask, per-slide benefits) - Full suite: 686 pass + 1 pre-existing attestation failure (NOVA_ATTESTATION_SIGNING_KEY_ID unset; fails on main without v1.21 changes too) - run_platform.sh --check-only: exit 0 ---ci--- project: acdl phase: 5 milestone: v1.21 status: execute phase_role: execution ---/ci---	2026-08-11 14:17:06 +00:00
Jon Chery	85c500e45a	feat(P4): pipeline hardening — Checkov before plan, Wiz-or-Checkov on plan (REQ-250) Nova Slides Render / render (push) Failing after 1m1s Details Two-stage policy scan per item 20: 1. Checkov on static code BEFORE terraform plan (fail-fast, quick dev feedback). Added to run_platform.sh Step 3c + run_codegen.sh Step 3c (runs on the authored TF dir before plan, using --framework terraform). 2. Runtime policy scan on the plan AFTER terraform plan: Wiz when configured (WIZ_API_TOKEN + WIZ_API_URL), else Checkov against the plan as a drop-in replacement (--framework terraform_plan). Wiz and Checkov are NEVER both run on the plan. Replaces the old single Checkov-on-main.tf step in run_platform.sh Step 5 + run_postapply.sh Step 5. pipelines/contract.yml: stage list updated — 'checkov' stage replaced by 'checkov-static' (before terraform-plan) + 'runtime-policy-scan' (after terraform-plan). 9 stages → 10 stages. Header comment updated. adapters/wiz/wiz_adapter.py: add --plan mode CLI (fetch_and_adapt_plan) for scanning a terraform plan; backward-compat with the positional <wiz_issues.json> <contract-id> mode. is_configured() gates the Wiz path. Tests: test_pipeline_contract.py (9 → 10 stages, new stage names); test_contract_resolver.py (rename test, assert checkov-static + runtime-policy-scan present, old 'checkov' gone). Full suite: 685 pass + 1 pre-existing attestation failure (NOVA_ATTESTATION_SIGNING_KEY_ID unset, unrelated to v1.21, fails on main without these changes too). ---ci--- project: acdl phase: 4 milestone: v1.21 status: execute phase_role: execution ---/ci---	2026-08-11 14:10:42 +00:00
Jon Chery	301aa2c8d8	docs(P3): marp deck + talking points + README + theme CSS + tests (REQ-245,251,252) Nova Slides Render / render (push) Failing after 58s Details Marp deck (nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-marp.md): synthesize from updated source-of-truth; 18 main + 1 appendix slides; frontmatter — title 'Nova — The Autonomous Cloud Delivery Platform', footer without version + without 'Act %{page}/5', title-slide subtitle 'Product Development & Citizen Developer Overview'; no badges; embedded PNGs. Talking points (nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery-talking-points.md): re-distilled to 18-slide + A1 structure. README.md: update deck title, audience, slide count (18 main + 1 appendix), directory layout, remove badge docs, update deck table + render commands + filenames. Document the v1.21 rename + restructure. Theme CSS (nova-sp-theme.css): fix Appendix A1 table readability — tables now have explicit white body + black text on any slide background (including dark/title slides). Item 32. Tests (test_slides_pipeline.py): add v1.21 assertions — no badges; no version in footer/title slide; 18 main + 1 appendix slides; no D-###/REQ- ###/.py paths in audience-facing Marp deck or source slide body; old deck files removed; render script default renamed; README references new deck name. Update deck path in test_regression_cap023_024.py + core/regression_verify.py CAP-024 (filename + 18-19 slide range, drop 'Arc Preview' check per item 3). attach_release_asset.py: usage example filename updated. ---ci--- project: acdl phase: 3 milestone: v1.21 status: execute phase_role: execution ---/ci---	2026-08-11 14:03:06 +00:00