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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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:
# 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,
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:
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.
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:
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— the request schemacore/onboarding.py— the env-file generatorterraform/onboarding/— the role-grant Terraformcore/environments/README.md— environment binding docs