Jon Chery
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Nova Slides Render / render (push) Failing after 1m4s
AUTONOMY_THESIS.md (git mv from NO_HUMANS_THESIS.md): reframe from 'removing humans' to 'autonomy in operations, human at stage gates'. Drop D-### citations + internal file paths; keep anti-claims, reworded. Anti-claim #1 now: 'decisions are NOT made by an LLM — deterministic scripts calculate a score; the platform functions without AI'. NORTH_STAR.md: - Vision: 'invisible' → 'visible' (operations become visible — recurring theme); polish for technical audience (security, remediation velocity, reliability, lead time). - Objective #2: 'provable trust in AI decisions' → 'provable trust in automated decisions' (deterministic scripts calculate a score; platform functions without AI). - Objective #3: four CTO-grade metrics (Lead Time PR→Prod, Infra Vuln Count trend, MTTR, Cloud Spend Reduction) → all flow into PowerBI. - Objective #4: 'default substrate for agentic consumption' → integrate with externally owned PDLC/SDLC/Agentic/Citizen Developer platforms regardless of source; Nova provides skills + MCP endpoints; all prod intents go through the same controls + quality gates. - Anti-goals: drop #1 (hyperscaler competitor), #4 (legacy untagged), #5 (sold to operators). Add: 'not an upstream development platform', 'not a replacement for the PDLC'. Reword #3 (no 'removes humans'). docs/raci.md: 3 roles → 4 roles. Add Quality Engineering column. Rename Release Management → SRE. Split release attestation into Quality attestation (QA) + Production readiness (SRE). Platform no longer holds A for attestation — reassigned to QE/SRE. docs/scope.md: add integration framing (skills + MCP endpoints, all sources go through same controls). Render scripts: default deck name → nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery. ONBOARDING + terraform/onboarding: 'no-humans' → 'autonomous'. ---ci--- project: acdl phase: 1 milestone: v1.21 status: execute phase_role: execution ---/ci---
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# Scope — Nova is Downstream of PDLC
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> This page is the citizen-developer-facing copy.
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## The Boundary
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The **Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC)** is **upstream** of Nova. The
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PDLC includes:
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- Product backlog / roadmap planning
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- Code authorship (via AI coding agent, IDE, or agentic SDLC platform)
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- Sprint planning / issue tracking
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- Application business logic
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- IDE workflows / developer experience
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Nova never penetrates the PDLC. Nova's domain is **infrastructure +
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delivery only**. Nova integrates with externally owned PDLC, SDLC,
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Agentic, and Citizen Developer platforms with no regard for the source
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of the intent: Nova provides a set of skills and MCP endpoints that help
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the developer or AI agent make their application production-grade, and
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all intents to deploy to production go through the same rigorous
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controls, quality gates, attestation, and evidence stream.
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## What Nova Does
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Nova governs the downstream half:
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- **Contract ingestion** — the validated entry point
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- **Submission-readiness gate** — what is acceptable to start
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(`schemas/submission-readiness.schema.json`)
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- **Policy enforcement** — the confidence signal, Checkov, tagging
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- **Cloud resource lifecycle** — Terraform plan/apply, state, IAM
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- **Environment progression** — dev (autonomous) → qa (QA attestation) →
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prod (SRE attestation) → dr (SRE attestation)
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- **Immutable audit + attestation** — the Decision Ledger, the evidence
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stream, the HITL gates
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## The Integration Point
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Integration between the PDLC and Nova is **only** through the validated,
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published contract boundary:
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```
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PDLC (upstream) Nova (downstream)
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product backlog contract ingestion
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code authorship (AI agent / IDE / SDLC) → submission-readiness gate
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sprint planning → policy enforcement
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application business logic → cloud resource lifecycle
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→ environment progression (dev→qa→prod→dr)
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→ immutable audit + attestation
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```
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The citizen developer's AI coding agent, an upstream agentic SDLC
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platform, or any upstream development platform may all produce
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submissions. **The source does not matter** — all are subject to the
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same compliance standards. Nova validates the submission, not the
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author.
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## What Nova is Not
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- Not an upstream development platform (no product backlogs, IDE, code
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authorship).
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- Not a general-purpose AI agent platform (autonomy is narrow, bounded
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by policy envelopes).
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- Not a legacy infrastructure bridge (no VMs/bare metal/OS).
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- Not a permissive delivery highway (no escape hatches past confidence
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or HITL).
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- Not a mutable audit log (VCS history ≠ regulatory evidence).
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These anti-goals (from `docs/vision.md` §7 and Core Tenet #2) are
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promoted here from buried tenets to an unmissable scope statement. |