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Use to package a completed Zava Learning weekly governance audit (NSG / network security, RBAC / least-privilege, or cloud cost) into a single branded, downloadable PowerPoint deck in the Zava house style. The calling audit agent passes its findings (a list of rows with severity) and a short posture summary; this skill renders the deck, applies redaction, and returns the attachment download link. Produces the artifact; it does not send it.

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Zava Learning — Branded Weekly Audit Report (PowerPoint)

This is the packaging layer for the proactive weekly audits. It is NOT for incidents — there is no PagerDuty, no 5-Whys, no before/after recovery. It turns the calling agent's audit findings into one downloadable, executive-ready .pptx deck in the Zava house style.

The three audit agents that call this skill are zava-nsg-auditor, zava-rbac-auditor, and zava-cost-analyst. Each hands you: the audit type, a 3–5 bullet posture summary, the findings rows (each with an impact-based severity SEV1/SEV2/SEV3), and a prioritized recommendations list.

Always load the standard first

Retrieve zava-brand (palette, typography, layout, footer) and zava-audit-report (the audit deck order and the per-type table columns) with SearchMemory and apply them exactly. The deck order is: Title → Posture summary → Findings at a glance (chart) → Findings detail (table) → Trend/context (optional) → Recommendations & next steps → Closing.

Redact before emitting (mandatory)

Sensitive data must never reach the deck. Retrieve the scrubber with SearchMemory("zava-redaction") and run its redact() function over every slide's text (titles, bullets, and every table cell) before writing the file. Resource names, NSG/rule names, role names, scopes, and resource IDs are NOT secret — keep them; they are needed for the narrative. Never place a Key Vault secret value, connection string, token, or learner PII on a slide.

Write the deck so it actually persists as a download

The .pptx is written into THIS thread's files directory — tmp/ThreadFiles/<threadId>/ — and the runtime persists it to blob storage so the operator can download it. The single most common defect is a link that 404s because the file was not actually on disk when persistence ran. The reliable recipe:

  1. Create the directory FIRST: mkdir -p tmp/ThreadFiles/<threadId>/ before writing the deck.
  2. Write the .pptx into that directory, then confirm it is really on disk and non-empty (e.g. ls -l shows a non-zero byte count). Never announce a deck you have not verified exists.
  3. Surface the link as /api/files/tmp/ThreadFiles/<threadId>/<file>.pptx — this /api/files/... path IS the correct, working download URL once the file has persisted.

Build the deck however is simplest (the ExecutePythonCode tool or terminal Python both work) — what matters is that the .pptx genuinely lands in tmp/ThreadFiles/<threadId>/ and is verified on disk before you share its link. If you are not certain it persisted, re-write it and re-share before finishing — a re-save reliably fixes a link that did not take the first time.

Surface the link as a clickable markdown hyperlink to the operator (and as the audit notification body) — render it as [Download the deck](/api/files/tmp/ThreadFiles/<threadId>/<file>.pptx), never a bare URL or plain text, because only [label](url) is clickable in the thread.

Deck builder reference (python-pptx)

Build the deck with python-pptx. The sandbox has it preinstalled; if an import fails, the very first lines of main may import subprocess, sys; subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "--quiet", "python-pptx"]) defensively, then from pptx import Presentation. Use the brand palette as RGB: Indigo 4B2E83, Teal 00A39A, Slate 2E3440, Mist F4F4F8, Success 2E8B57, Warning E8A317, Critical C0392B.

Follow this structure inside def main() (adapt the inputs to the calling agent's data):

def main():
    # 0. inline redact() from zava-redaction (paste its deterministic function here)
    # 1. import / ensure python-pptx
    from pptx import Presentation
    from pptx.util import Inches, Pt
    from pptx.dml.color import RGBColor
    from pptx.enum.text import PP_ALIGN
    import datetime, os

    INDIGO = RGBColor(0x4B,0x2E,0x83); TEAL = RGBColor(0x00,0xA3,0x9A)
    SLATE  = RGBColor(0x2E,0x34,0x40); MIST = RGBColor(0xF4,0xF4,0xF8)
    WHITE  = RGBColor(0xFF,0xFF,0xFF)
    SEVCOL = {"SEV1": RGBColor(0xC0,0x39,0x2B), "SEV2": RGBColor(0xE8,0xA3,0x17),
              "SEV3": RGBColor(0x2E,0x34,0x40)}

    AUDIT_TYPE = "Network Security Group"        # <- set per caller: NSG / RBAC / Cost
    RG = "<resource group>"
    today = datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
    posture = ["...3-5 executive bullets..."]    # <- from caller
    findings = [ {} ]                            # <- from caller (rows w/ 'severity')
    recs = [ {} ]                                # <- from caller
    counts = {"SEV1":0,"SEV2":0,"SEV3":0}
    for f in findings: counts[f["severity"]] = counts.get(f["severity"],0)+1

    prs = Presentation(); prs.slide_width = Inches(13.333); prs.slide_height = Inches(7.5)
    blank = prs.slide_layouts[6]
    SW, SH = prs.slide_width, prs.slide_height

    def title_bar(slide, text):
        bar = slide.shapes.add_shape(1, 0, 0, SW, Inches(1.05))
        bar.fill.solid(); bar.fill.fore_color.rgb = INDIGO; bar.line.fill.background()
        p = bar.text_frame.paragraphs[0]; p.text = redact(text)
        r = p.runs[0]; r.font.size = Pt(30); r.font.bold = True; r.font.color.rgb = WHITE
        r.font.name = "Segoe UI Semibold"
        wm = slide.shapes.add_textbox(SW - Inches(3.1), Inches(0.18), Inches(3.0), Inches(0.6))
        wp = wm.text_frame.paragraphs[0]; wp.alignment = PP_ALIGN.RIGHT
        wr = wp.add_run(); wr.text = "ZAVA Learning"
        wr.font.size = Pt(16); wr.font.bold = True; wr.font.color.rgb = WHITE

    def footer(slide):
        fb = slide.shapes.add_textbox(Inches(0.4), SH - Inches(0.45), SW - Inches(0.8), Inches(0.35))
        fr = fb.text_frame.paragraphs[0].add_run()
        fr.text = "Confidential — Internal Use Only · Generated by the Zava SRE Agent"
        fr.font.size = Pt(9); fr.font.color.rgb = SLATE

    # Slide 1: Title — Slide 2: Posture summary (bullets) — Slide 3: chart image (saved by
    # PlotBarChart of severity counts, add_picture) — Slide 4+: findings table (header row Indigo,
    # zebra Mist, severity cell colored via SEVCOL) — Slide: Recommendations table —
    # Slide: Closing (posture statement + read-only assurance + footer). title_bar + footer on every
    # content slide; apply redact() to EVERY string before placing it.

    out = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), f"zava-{AUDIT_TYPE.lower().split()[0]}-audit-{today}.pptx")
    prs.save(out)
    return out

Render the "Findings at a glance" chart by calling PlotBarChart (severity counts, or for cost the top spend drivers) so it posts inline AND save the image to embed it on slide 3 with slide.shapes.add_picture. Keep one idea per slide and ≤ ~8 table rows per slide (continue on a new slide titled " findings (cont.)").

Quality bar (must pass before handing off)

  • Deck order matches zava-audit-report; title is the audit type only (posture review, not an incident); Indigo title bars + ZAVA wordmark + confidentiality footer on every slide.
  • The findings-by-severity (or cost-driver) chart is really rendered, brand-colored, labeled.
  • Findings sorted SEV1 → SEV3; every row has a concrete recommended fix; counts consistent across the posture summary, the chart, and the table.
  • zava-redaction redact() applied to every slide string; no secret/PII anywhere.
  • The .pptx was written into tmp/ThreadFiles/<threadId>/ and verified on disk (non-zero bytes) before its link was shared, so it genuinely persisted. SELF-AUDIT: the deck file exists on disk and its /api/files/tmp/ThreadFiles/<threadId>/<file>.pptx link was surfaced as a clickable [Download the deck](url). If you are not certain it persisted, re-write the deck, re-verify it on disk, and re-surface the link before handing off.

Verification

A single branded, downloadable .pptx weekly-audit deck in the Zava house style, following the zava-audit-report order, with a real attachment download link returned to the operator, consistent with the calling agent's findings and posture summary.