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scripts calculate a score; the platform functions without AI'.

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- 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).

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ONBOARDING + terraform/onboarding: 'no-humans' → 'autonomous'.

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# Nova Onboarding — Autonomous Request Path (v1.16, REQ-182..184)
The v1.16 milestone implements the **request path** of the autonomous
onboarding flow (D-113). A consumer can submit an onboarding request
without contacting the platform team; the platform generates an
environment binding + (in a future milestone) provisions the AWS resources.
## The 3-step request path
### Step 1 — Submit an onboarding request (P18, REQ-182)
A consumer submits an onboarding request to the Nova platform Lambda:
```bash
# Via the Lambda Function URL (IAM auth):
curl -X POST "$NOVA_LAMBDA_URL" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"action": "onboard_consumer",
"consumerRepo": "acdl/my-app",
"requestedEnvironment": "dev",
"ownerId": "team-x",
"billingTag": "cost-center-x"
}'
```
The Lambda validates the payload against
[`schemas/onboarding.schema.json`](../schemas/onboarding.schema.json),
then writes a `pending` row to the `nova-contracts` DynamoDB table
(D-119). No AWS resources are created by this action (D-113).
### Step 2 — Generate an environment binding (P19, REQ-183)
The platform (or the consumer locally) generates an environment binding
file from the request:
```bash
python3 core/onboarding.py --request '{
"consumerRepo": "acdl/my-app",
"requestedEnvironment": "qa",
"ownerId": "team-x",
"billingTag": "cost-center-x"
}' --out core/environments/qa.json
```
This produces a `<env>.json` from the `dev.json` template, filling in
the `ownerId` + `billingTag` + a description. The `account_id` is a
placeholder (`000000000000`) for the platform team to fill with the real
account. The generated file validates against
[`schemas/environment.schema.json`](../schemas/environment.schema.json).
### Step 3 — Cross-account role + ABAC tag grant (P20, REQ-184)
The platform authors the consumer deploy-role + `nova:owner` ABAC tag
grant via Terraform:
```bash
cd terraform/onboarding
terraform init -backend=false
terraform validate
NOVA_AWS_ACCOUNT_ID=123456789012 terraform plan \
-var consumer_repo=acdl/my-app \
-var owner_id=team-x
```
**Offline-proven only (D-114):** `terraform validate` + `terraform plan`
pass; **no live apply** in v1.16. The live apply (creating the real
cross-account role + OIDC trust) is deferred to a future feature
milestone (D-113).
## What is NOT automated (deferred)
- **Real AWS account/network/state provisioning** — the request path
generates a binding file with a placeholder `account_id`; the actual
AWS account creation + VPC + state backend is a future feature (D-113).
- **Live cross-account role apply** — the Terraform is offline-proven
only (D-114); live apply is deferred.
- **OIDC trust policy** — the onboarding Terraform uses a placeholder
OIDC provider; real OIDC federation is blocked on
upstream forge OIDC support (carries forward from v1.1).
## See also
- [`schemas/onboarding.schema.json`](../schemas/onboarding.schema.json) — the request schema
- [`core/onboarding.py`](../core/onboarding.py) — the env-file generator
- [`terraform/onboarding/`](../terraform/onboarding/) — the role-grant Terraform
- [`core/environments/README.md`](../core/environments/README.md) — environment binding docs