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docs(P1): strategic docs — thesis rename + NORTH_STAR objectives + RACI restructure

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'.

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Nova — The Autonomous Cloud Delivery Platform: Autonomy Defensibility Brief

Strategic direction, leadership metrics & unified story Last refined: v1.21 — reframe from "no-humans" to "autonomous operations"

The thesis

Nova is the autonomous infrastructure layer that lets product teams ship without engaging an operator, and lets executives trust the platform not because it never fails but because every decision is captured, scored, and accountable.

Autonomy in operations; human at stage gates. Normal operations — provisioning, healing, remediation — run without an operator in the loop. Human attestation remains required at stage gates: QA signs off for production, SRE greenlights based on operational readiness. The absence of an operator in the loop is never the absence of a record.

Grounded proof (measurable today)

Proof	Source	Status
Capabilities verified, none broken (live-AWS caps honestly skipped, resources torn down to zero-cost steady state)	regression report	grounded
Decision Ledger captures 100% of automated decisions with outcome backfill	decision ledger store	grounded
Attestation coverage: 100% of prod/dr promotions attested by a human	attestation gates + outbox	grounded
Confidence-gated policy engine (deterministic, not an LLM) — weighted inputs, band outcome	confidence signal	grounded
Attestation matrix with separation-of-duties on prod	attestation matrix + separation-of-duties	grounded
Pre-apply cost estimates (offline)	cost adapter	grounded
Test suite passes	test results	grounded

Deferred proof (measurable when blocking work lifts)

Proof	Blocking work	Unblock requirement
Touchless resolution rate across production estates	0 consumers today	Pilot estate activation
Live infrastructure health (ECS, ALB, RPS)	Live AWS torn down	Live AWS re-provisioning
Onboarding funnel: requested → granted	Auto-grant not built	Auto-grant implementation
Drift auto-reversal rate	No drift scheduler	Drift detection scheduler
Predictive vs reactive ratio	No emitter	ML anomaly-forecasting service
Tamper-evident ledger checkpoints (S3 Object Lock + JWS)	Audit ledger build-out	Audit ledger build-out

Anti-claims (what Nova is NOT)

Nova's decisions are NOT made by an LLM. They are made by a confidence-gated policy engine: deterministic scripts calculate a score, and a band outcome gates the action. The platform functions without AI. The Decision Ledger captures this real decision path — not a fabricated "AI agent." When an LLM planner is added, it will emit richer alternatives_considered without schema breakage.
Nova does NOT remove humans from accountability. Only from normal operations. Every stage-gate promotion (qa/prod/dr) requires a human attestation recorded with approver identity, separation-of-duties check, and the evidence matrix.
Nova is NOT for legacy, untagged, or freeform infrastructure. It requires Terraform-managed, policy-aligned, fully-tagged inputs.
Nova does NOT fabricate metrics. Every metric is grounded (cites a source), derived (documented formula), or deferred (cites the blocking work). No fabricated numbers in any deck slide or metrics entry (the "no fabrication" hard constraint).

What "won" looks like

By month 18, Nova is the layer enterprise leadership points to when they say "we don't have an infrastructure ops team anymore, and the audit trail is stronger than it ever was" — and it is the layer their AI engineering teams reach for first when an agent needs to deploy.

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