acdl/.ciagent/archive/GRILL-v1.30.md

GRILL — v1.30 Single-shot Leadership Deck

Adversarial review of the v1.30 SPECIFY + CLARIFY + RESEARCH + PLAN. Griller: lead-developer (acting as ci-griller at full autonomy). All 9 axes reviewed; every claim verified against the live codebase.

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Overall verdict: PROCEED · Confidence 0.88

The plan is sound — this is a low-complexity, single-shot presentation artifact milestone. The scope is narrow (1 execution phase, 4 waves, no runtime code), the render pipeline extension is minimal (D-242), the discrete-artifact discipline is clear (D-241), and the environment prerequisites are resolved (python-pptx installed). No critical conditions. 4 tracked conditions (all advisory, none block P1).

The lower confidence vs. a "clean 0.95" reflects two residual risks: (1) the python-pptx user-site install is environment-fragile (it works now but is not reproducible in a fresh CI runner without the same --break-system-packages path); (2) the PPTX footer textbox is a new renderer behavior that needs visual confirmation. Both are mitigated — (1) by the smoke-test hard-fail gate (8f) which forces render success before ship, and (2) by the verify stage's visual review (REQ-372.7).

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Axis verdicts

Axis	Verdict	Confidence	Tracked condition
§1 Feasibility	PROCEED	0.90	T-1.1 footer textbox overlap
§2 Scope	PROCEED	0.92	T-2.1 single-shot discipline enforcement
§3 Cost	PROCEED	0.95	(none — smallest milestone in project history)
§4 Schedule	PROCEED	0.93	(none — 1 execution phase)
§5 Technical Depth	PROCEED	0.86	T-5.1 speaker notes word-band parsing; T-5.2 → bullet rendering
§6 Operational Readiness	PROCEED	0.90	T-6.1 render env reproducibility
§7 Security Posture	PROCEED	0.95	(none — static artifact, no runtime surface)
§8 Dependency Risk	PROCEED	0.84	T-8.1 python-pptx user-site install
§9 Re-mapping Integrity	PROCEED	0.92	T-9.1 STATE.md intake override applied

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Tracked conditions (advisory — none block P1)

T-1.1 — Footer textbox overlap with content

Claim: The footer textbox at SLIDE_H - 0.3" (7.2") won't overlap content (content area tops out at ~6.5").

Verification: python-pptx test rendered a textbox at Inches(7.2) on a 7.5" slide — succeeds, no overlap with content ending at ~6.5". The render_content_slide accumulates cur_top per body block; a 7-slide deck with the Slide Content Map's body volume (titles + 3-5 body blocks per slide) tops out at ~5.5-6.0". Verdict: Safe. The verify stage visual review (REQ-372.7) is the backstop.

T-2.1 — Single-shot discipline enforcement

Claim: The deck is not wired as a CI gate, not integrated with publish.yml, not auto-regenerated.

Verification: workflows-src/slides.yml triggers on docs/presentations/** but render_slides.sh hardcodes DECK="nova-autonomous-cloud-delivery" — the leadership deck is NOT rendered by CI. No publish.yml reference to the leadership deck. The smoke test is a standalone script (no workflow integration). Verdict: Discipline enforced by absence — no CI plumbing references the new artifact.

T-5.1 — Speaker notes word-band parsing in bash

Claim: The smoke test extracts <!-- ... --> per slide and counts words with wc -w.

Verification: Bash awk/sed can extract HTML comment content per slide (split on ---, then extract <!-- ... --> within each slide block). Multi-line comments are supported by the spec convention ("placed within the slide body, before the next ---"). Verdict: Feasible. The ci-cli-engineer implements + tests this in W3.

T-5.2 — → bullet rendering

Claim: Use - → ... bullets so the renderer treats → lines as bullet blocks.

Verification: The renderer's unordered-list regex ^(\s*)([-*+])\s+(.*) matches - → ... → bullet level 0, text → .... The → is preserved in the rendered text. Verdict: Correct. The ci-doc-writer uses - → ... for the arrow lines.

T-6.1 / T-8.1 — Render environment reproducibility

Claim: python-pptx is installed via user-site pip install --user --break-system-packages.

Verification: Confirmed in this session: python-pptx 1.0.2 + pytest 9.1.1 installed. python3 -c "import pptx" succeeds. The install path is environment-specific (Debian/Ubuntu without system pip/venv). In a fresh CI runner, the slides.yml workflow uses pip install -e ".[slides]" (system pip in the runner image) — reproducible there. For local on-demand renders, the user-site install is the documented path. Verdict: Acceptable. The smoke-test hard-fail gate (8f) forces render success before ship; if the environment can't render, ship blocks until resolved.

T-9.1 — STATE.md intake override applied

Claim: D-241 overrides the stale STATE.md intake assumption 3.

Verification: STATE.md line ~526 assumption 3 was edited in CLARIFY to read "OVERRIDDEN by D-241 (v1.30 CLARIFY): the leadership deck is a discrete, hand-authored artifact — NOT a compression." The override is recorded in CLARIFY.md (D-241) + this grill. Verdict: Applied + verified.

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Binding decisions (grill-level, full autonomy)

ID	Decision	Rationale	Confidence
G-1	All 7 slides use ## H2 titles (content slides, white bg) — slide 1 is NOT a title-class slide.	The Slide Content Map's slide 1 is content-rich (3 friction patterns + closing). A black-bg title slide would hide the arrows in white-on-black, differing from the map's framing. White-bg content slides give visual consistency across all 7. The map doesn't specify background; visual review accepts either.	0.82
G-2	The → arrow lines are authored as - → ... bullets (not bare → plain text).	The renderer parses [-*+] as bullets (proper indentation + bullet glyphs). Bare → lines parse as plain paragraphs (no bullet formatting). The Slide Content Map shows → as distinct arrow lines — bullets with the arrow glyph preserve the visual intent in the PPTX.	0.88
G-3	The style: block in the leadership deck frontmatter replaces #2E2E2E (blockquote color in the existing deck) with #1B1B1B.	REQ-372.6 allows only 4 hex colors in the source. The existing deck's style: uses #2E2E2E for blockquote text — this must not appear in the leadership deck source. #1B1B1B is the closest S&P token (black).	1.0
G-4	The render_pptx.py extension parses the Marp frontmatter to extract the footer: value (for the footer textbox), but does NOT parse paginate:, theme:, size:, or style:.	Minimal extension scope per D-242. Only the footer is needed for REQ-372.5. The other directives are source-only (smoke test checks source; the python-pptx path ignores them).	0.90

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Escalations

None. All axes ≥ 0.84 confidence. No human escalation required at full autonomy.