Jon Chery
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Targeted ~20-30% word-count trim on 8 verbose slides (1, 5, 7, 8, 13, 14, 20, appendix). Tables + short slides untouched. Spirit preserved. Removed 'penetrate' (and derivatives) from docs/scope.md, docs/vision.md, .ciagent/PROJECT.md, .ciagent/CLARIFY.md, .ciagent/NORTH_STAR.md, and presentation files (G-001 binding revision). RESEARCH.md/PLAN.md/GRILL.md exempt as decision-history. Slide 5 'penetrates' phrase removed with no replacement (slide 4 Anti-Goals already excludes the PDLC). ---ci--- project: acdl phase: 4 milestone: v1.23 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 reaches into 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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───────────────── ─────────────────
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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. |