nova-platform/.ciagent/STATE.md

STATE — Nova Platform

PDLC Phase 0 intake. Absolute ground truth as of 2026-08-28T19:09Z. Single-pass discovery for the Product Owner/Manager.

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1. Header

Project: nova-platform Initiative: PDLC Phase 0 — State Intake for next milestone planning Initiator: CIAgent (automated harness) Date (UTC): 2026-08-28T19:09:26Z Current Version: v1.0 milestone complete; release v0.1.6 on main; no active milestone in progress System Health: GREEN — 76/76 tests pass, engine boundary holds, zero OOS files, both happy paths green Raw Idea (≤ 3 sentences): Nova Platform v1.0 shipped a simplified infrastructure-delivery platform (contract → resolve → terraform adapter → apply) derived from the Nova/acdl reference, with security/audit/identity/CI-workflow machinery deliberately excluded. This intake was triggered by the PDLC system instruction to produce a STATE.md for the Product Owner to review before planning the next milestone. The desired outcome is a single-pass ground-truth snapshot enabling the PO to ask pointed Phase 1 questions without back-and-forth.

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2. Architecture State

Active Layers (which exist and are stable): [x] Core Primitives — 13 L1 modules: s3, vpc, ecs-cluster, ecs-service, iam-role, alb, ecr, cloudfront, waf, rds, kms-key, dynamodb, uptime [x] Domain Modules — 2 L2 patterns: microservice (vpc+ecs-cluster+ecs-service+iam-role+ecr+alb per D-038), static-assets (s3+cloudfront+kms-key per D-038) [x] API/Dev Surface — contract schema (array infrastructure D-015), stack schema (flat, no source D-037), environment schema (simplified D-017/D-018); resolver (core/contract_resolver.py), environment_check (core/environment_check.py), terraform adapter (adapters/terraform/adapter.py) [ ] UI/Agent Surface — N/A (no frontend, no agent UI; frontend-engineer persona deactivated per D-006)

Compute Topology (per environment): local: abstract (offline --check-only: contract → resolve → adapter → validate; no AWS, no terraform binary) dev: serverless (ECS Fargate + ALB + S3 + CloudFront via terraform apply; platform-managed VPC in terraform/platform/) staging: N/A — UNKNOWN — needs investigation (no qa.json environment file created; only dev.json exists) prod: N/A — UNKNOWN — needs investigation (no prod.json environment file created) dr: N/A — UNKNOWN — needs investigation (no dr.json environment file created)

Identity Stack in Force: auth: N/A — out of scope (Nova-idp, PAT lifecycle, ABAC evaluator explicitly OOS per D-007) token-vend: N/A — out of scope signing: N/A — out of scope (KMS signing, JWS attestation explicitly OOS) session: N/A — out of scope

Audit Stream: source of truth: N/A — out of scope (outbox writer, audit ledger, attestation matrix explicitly OOS per D-007) in-repo fallback: no retention policy: N/A

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3. Technical Stack (concrete, not aspirational)

Language(s) and runtime(s): Python 3.11 (>=3.11 required per pyproject.toml); Bash (shell scripts); HCL (Terraform 1.9.* pinned) Build / packaging: pyproject.toml (setuptools backend); no CLI package (D-027 — scripts invoked via shell, no [project.scripts]); requirements-test.txt pins 5 deps CI / CD: Local shell only (scripts/run_ci.sh: lint → test → check-only); NO .github/workflows (OOS per D-007); NO pipelines/ central contract (OOS) Infrastructure: AWS (S3 state backend, DynamoDB lock table, ECS Fargate, ALB, CloudFront, WAF, RDS, KMS, ECR, IAM); terraform/bootstrap/ scripts create S3 bucket nova-tfstate-- + DynamoDB nova-tfstate-locks (D-022); only dev.json environment exists (account_id placeholder 000000000000 for offline) Data stores: S3 (state backend, static assets), DynamoDB (state locking — nova-tfstate-locks; also L1 dynamodb primitive for consumer tables), RDS (L1 rds primitive) Secrets / KMS: Static AWS key only (NOVA_AWS_* in .ciagent/.env.secrets, chmod 600, gitignored); NO OIDC (OOS per D-025); KMS via L1 kms-key primitive (consumer-side, not platform-side); NOVA_FORGE_TOKEN for gitea release (currently blank in .env.secrets — release pending) External integrations in scope: gitea @ https://git.cloudinit.dev/continuous-intelligence/nova-platform (release forge; token NOVA_FORGE_TOKEN); AWS (boto3 for bootstrap scripts + terraform apply)

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4. Active Constraints (the load-bearing ones)

Locked Decisions: D-001 (milestone type major, first release), D-002 (all 13 L1 + 2 L2 in v1.0), D-003 (branching_strategy phase), D-004 (auto_commit/auto_push true), D-005 (test_first false), D-006 (personas: lead+data+backend active, frontend deactivated), D-007 (config.policy removed, ideation drops security), D-008 (secrets.scopes keeps forge + model-backend), D-009 (ship.confirm_before_ship true), D-010 (telemetry.persist true), D-011 (resolver modules_dir param, file reads permitted), D-012 (L2 opaque, flat stack, no children/wires expansion), D-013 (L2 interface.json + terraform_dir in registry), D-014 (interface.json: no nfrs, no intra_refs), D-015 (infrastructure is ARRAY, version optional), D-016 (interpolation ${env.}/${contract.} kept), D-017 (environment.schema.json kept simplified), D-018 (env fields: name/account_id/region/state_backend/network; no runner_role_arn/autonomy/confidence_threshold), D-019 (check() returns dict, raises EnvironmentNotFoundError), D-020 (run_platform.sh stages: check-only/plan-only/apply), D-021 (run_ci.sh glob py_compile), D-022 (lock table nova-tfstate-locks, NOT nova-outbox), D-023 (platform/main.tf = ONLY shared VPC), D-024 (ci-vpc = short-lived test VPC), D-025 (onboarding = IAM role cross-account assume, NOT OIDC, NOT user), D-026 (runner policy account parameterized, NOT hardcoded), D-027 (no CLI package, scripts only), D-028 (docs/modules/index links to modules//README.md), D-029 (drop STANDARDS.md, keep README-TEMPLATE.md trimmed), D-030 (moto pinned, minimal use), D-031 (run_platform.sh flags: --check-only/--plan-only/--quiet/--help only), D-032 (NOVA_ env prefix, NOVA_AWS_* → AWS_* copy then unset), D-033 (per-env contract variants differ ONLY in environment field), D-034 (engine-boundary test scans .py stripped of docstrings/comments), D-035 (index_document is L2 static-assets input, NOT L1 s3), D-036 (L2 children: microservice=vpc+ecs-cluster+ecs-service+iam-role+ecr+alb, static-assets=s3+cloudfront+kms-key), D-037 (adapter loads registry, no source in stack — grill C-1 fix), D-038 (L2 compositions locked, grill C-2 fix)

Active Invariants: No INV-* IDs formally registered (v1.0 used D-* decisions, not INV-* invariants). Load-bearing invariants: (1) engine-agnostic core — no aws_*/terraform/module "/provider "/resource " in .py outside adapters/terraform/ (verified by tests/test_engine_boundary.py); (2) structural conventions preserved with 9 locked deviations (D-012, D-013, D-015, D-017, D-018, D-019, D-022, D-023, D-025, D-027); (3) no OOS-creep — zero files from the PROJECT.md/REQUIREMENTS.md OOS list exist in the repo.

Standing Capability Gate: N/A — no GATE-* IDs registered

Anti-Goals Touched: PROJECT.md §"Out of scope" + REQUIREMENTS.md §"Out of scope (locked — do NOT implement in v1.0)": security/policy (kyverno, Wiz, Checkov, PolicyEngine), confidence signal + evidence outbox, identity/ABAC (Nova-idp, PAT, JWS, KMS signing, SoD, HITL, attestation, submission_readiness), CI/CD pipeline (.github/workflows, pipelines/, pipeline schemas), metrics/telemetry, leadership decks, decommission/env_transition/mode_resolver/onboarding flow beyond bootstrap, multi-project mode, OIDC federation.

Out-of-Scope (hard): kyverno-json adapter, Wiz adapter, Checkov custom rules, core/policy_engine.py, core/confidence_signal.py, core/outbox_writer.py, schemas/policy_check_result.schema.json, schemas/metrics_.schema.json, audit ledger, attestation matrix, core/abac_evaluator.py, core/auth_store.py, core/jws_attestation.py, core/kms_signing.py, core/pat_lifecycle.py, core/separation_of_duties.py, core/hitl_gates.py, core/attestation_matrix.py, core/submission_readiness.py, .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/deploy.yml, pipelines/, schemas/pipeline.schema.json, schemas/deploy-pipeline.schema.json, metrics/, core/metrics/, core/regression_verify.py, modules/STANDARDS.md, PPTX/marp slides, core/env_transition.py, core/decommission_transform.py, core/mode_resolver.py, core/onboarding.py, OIDC federation.

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5. Recent History & Quality Gates (last 1-2 milestones)

Last Shipped: v1.0 milestone — 2026-08-25 (tag v0.1.6 on main); delivered: simplified infrastructure-delivery platform with 13 L1 + 2 L2 modules, contract surface, resolver, terraform adapter, engine boundary, 5 terraform roots, bootstrap scripts, shell reproducibility, 76 tests, docs; 38 REQ-IDs all complete; 38 decisions (D-001..D-038) In Progress: No active milestone in progress (v1.0 complete; checkpoint cleared; next /ci-run starts a new milestone) Coverage Floor: UNKNOWN — needs investigation (pytest-cov not installed; no coverage measurement configured in pyproject.toml addopts; D-030 dropped pytest-cov as OOS) Recent Incidents: none Known Tensions: (1) NOVA_FORGE_TOKEN blank in .ciagent/.env.secrets — v0.1.6 shipped local-only (tag + merge complete, gitea release pending); the forge repo was created during this intake but the token must be set before releases can be created. (2) Only dev.json environment exists — qa/prod/dr environment files were not created in v1.0 (contracts reference them via enum but environment_check will raise EnvironmentNotFoundError for qa/prod/dr). (3) Coverage measurement is absent — pytest-cov was dropped as OOS but this means no coverage floor is enforceable.

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6. Agent Context & Assumptions (Agent Initiators Only)

Missing Context: (1) qa/prod/dr environment JSON files — not created in v1.0 (only core/environments/dev.json exists); the contract schema allows these environment values but no environment record exists for them. (2) Coverage percentage — pytest-cov is not installed; no coverage data available. (3) NORTH_STAR.md — not created (the reference acdl has one; nova-platform deferred it to a future /ci-run specify stage). (4) Live AWS verification — bootstrap scripts + terraform roots were authored but never applied against real AWS (offline-only verification via --check-only).

Agent Assumptions: (1) Assumed the gitea forge token from the acdl reference repo (/home/opencode/acdl/.env.secrets) is valid for the nova-platform org — verified via API (200 auth). (2) Assumed the next milestone is v1.1 (incrementing from v1.0) — no ROADMAP.md entry exists for a next milestone yet. (3) Assumed PDLC Phase 0 STATE.md work belongs on a new milestone/phase-0 branch hierarchy (milestone/v1.1-pdlc-state → phase/00-pre-execution) per the branch gate convention. (4) Assumed "merge to the forge upstream but DO NOT perform a release" means: push main + branches to origin, do NOT create a gitea release (no tag push, no release API call).

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7. Canonical State References (Version/Hash)

Vision/Strategy doc: UNKNOWN — needs investigation (NORTH_STAR.md not created; PROJECT.md §"Vision / Core Value" serves as the de facto vision but is not versioned as a strategy doc) Architecture document: v0.1.6 (tag on main commit fe9ab7e); .ciagent/ARCHITECTURE.md + docs/architecture.md are the architecture source of truth Last approved SPEC: N/A — no SPEC-ID system in use; REQUIREMENTS.md (38 REQ-IDs, REQ-01..REQ-38) is the requirements source of truth at commit fe9ab7e Decision log: fe9ab7e (last synced commit on main); decisions D-001..D-035 in .ciagent/CLARIFY.md; D-036..D-038 (grill fixes) in .ciagent/CLARIFY.md §"Grill fixes"; D-001..D-010 also in .ciagent/PROJECT.md Invariants catalog: N/A — no INV-* IDs formally registered; load-bearing invariants documented in STATE.md §4 above