zava-reporting

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Use to package a completed Zava Learning incident analysis for the audience. First present a branded in-thread executive summary (markdown with the before/after visuals inline), then produce the downloadable deliverables — a PowerPoint deck, an HTML email, and a Teams notification — using the Zava corporate template. The calling agent may narrow this to a subset (e.g. only the HTML report). Produces content and artifacts; it does not send them. Assembles the output of rca-analysis, evidence-before-after, recommendations-next-steps, and pr-delivery.

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Zava Learning — Executive Reporting & Packaging

Assemble the final, branded incident deliverables. This is the packaging layer: it consumes the RCA (rca-analysis), before/after evidence (evidence-before-after), recommendations (recommendations-next-steps), and the PR / Change Request (pr-delivery, servicenow-change-management), and renders them in the Zava house style.

Deliverable-only: produce the artifacts and content; do not auto-send. Hand the email body and Teams card to the operator to send. Scope: by default produce all three deliverables; if the calling agent asks for a subset (e.g. only the HTML report), produce only those and skip the rest.

Always load the standard first

Retrieve zava-brand (style) and zava-report-template (structure, deck order, email/Teams formats) with SearchMemory and apply them exactly. Reuse the visual evidence already produced by evidence-before-after — whether that is a before/after path diagram or comparison charts — rather than re-rendering it.

Present the in-thread executive summary FIRST

The incident thread renders markdown + inline images, not raw HTML — so do not paste the HTML email into the thread. Instead, write the executive summary directly in the thread as brand-styled markdown so the operator sees the full story in place:

Use markdown structure: a symptom-only title line, then Summary, Customer impact, Timeline (compact table), Root cause (the rendered 5-Whys ladder from rca-analysis), What we did, Before/After, Recommendations, and an Artifacts & links section (see below). Apply the zava-brand tone and severity labels.
Show the visuals inline. The Plot* tools post their image straight into the thread — reuse the evidence-before-after charts (or call PlotBarChart / PlotPieChart for a summary visual) so they render inline next to the narrative. For a connectivity/config fault, include the before→after path diagram as a fenced code block (ASCII) directly in the markdown.
Keep every heading symptom-only; the root cause appears in the body, never in a title.

This in-thread summary is the primary, human-readable deliverable. The packaged artifacts below are the takeaways the operator distributes outside the thread — produce all of them by default, or only the subset the calling agent requests.

Redact before emitting (mandatory)

Sensitive data must never reach the operator. Retrieve the scrubber with SearchMemory("zava-redaction") and run its redact() function over the final HTML/markdown and any deck text before writing the file or posting the text. Apply the same masking to the in-thread markdown summary before posting. Never paste a Key Vault secret value, connection string, token, or learner PII into the thread or any artifact.

Write the report so it actually persists as a download

The downloadable artifacts (the HTML report, and a .pptx only if asked) are written into THIS thread's files directory — tmp/ThreadFiles/<threadId>/ — and the runtime persists them to blob storage so the operator can download them. The single most common defect is a link that 404s because the file was not actually on disk when persistence ran. The reliable recipe:

Create the directory FIRST: mkdir -p tmp/ThreadFiles/<threadId>/ before writing anything.
Write the file 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 file you have not verified exists.
Surface the link as /api/files/tmp/ThreadFiles/<threadId>/<filename> — this /api/files/... path IS the correct, working download URL once the file has persisted. Use the real thread id and the real filename, rendered as a clickable markdown hyperlink [label](url).

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

Render every artifact link as [label](url) (e.g. [Open the HTML report](/api/files/tmp/ThreadFiles/<threadId>/<file>)) — never a bare URL or plain text, because only [label](url) is clickable in the thread.

Artifacts & links (always include, as a bulleted list — NOT a table)

Close the in-thread executive summary with an Artifacts & links section that lists every artifact created, each as its own bullet with a clickable link, so nothing is buried and the operator never has to ask for the links a second time. Present them as a markdown bulleted list, one artifact per line — do NOT put links inside a markdown table. The thread UI renders links inside table cells as plain (non-clickable) text; only inline/bulleted [label](url) links are clickable. Use exactly this shape:

Incident report (HTML): [Open the HTML report](/api/files/tmp/ThreadFiles/<threadId>/<file>)
Durable-fix PR: [PR #<n>](<github-pr-url>)
ServiceNow CR: [<CR number>](<servicenow-cr-link>) — use the clickable link returned by the CreateServiceNowChangeRequest tool
PagerDuty incident: [Incident #<n>](<pagerduty-incident-url>)
Deck / charts (if produced): [Download the deck](<download-link>)

Every bullet MUST be a clickable markdown hyperlink [label](url) — never a bare URL, a naked id/number, or plain text, and never wrapped in a table. The PagerDuty, ServiceNow CR, and GitHub PR URLs come from those skills (the ServiceNow CR link is returned directly by its tool); the HTML report (and deck) link is /api/files/tmp/ThreadFiles/<threadId>/<file> — correct once the file is verified on disk. If a real URL/link is not available for an artifact, omit that bullet rather than emitting a non-clickable placeholder. The HTML report download link is mandatory — never omit it. If the report file did not persist (its link 404s), re-write it into tmp/ThreadFiles/<threadId>/ and confirm it is on disk, then include the /api/files/... link as a markdown hyperlink.

Then produce the downloadable deliverables

Executive deck (.pptx) — build with ExecutePythonCode + python-pptx following the canonical deck order: Title → Exec summary → Customer impact → Timeline → Root cause → Before/After → What we did → Recommendations → Closing. Apply Zava Indigo title bars, the ZAVA wordmark, brand colors, and the confidentiality footer. Embed the real visual evidence from evidence-before-after (the before/after diagram or charts), adding PlotBarChart / PlotPieChart only for summary visuals. Emit the .pptx as a downloadable artifact.
Email (HTML) — the zava-report-template email layout: subject [ZAVA SRE] <symptom> — <SEVx> — <status>; Summary, Impact, Root cause (1–2 lines), What we did, Recommended actions checklist, and links to the full report / PR / CR / PagerDuty. Write the HTML into tmp/ThreadFiles/<threadId>/ and verify it is on disk so it persists as a downloadable.
Teams notification (Adaptive Card JSON) — FactSet (Severity, Status, Duration, Users impacted), one-line root cause, top 3 next steps, OpenUrl buttons for PR, ServiceNow CR, and PagerDuty incident.

If the calling agent restricts the deliverables (e.g. "only the HTML report"), produce just that subset — the in-thread summary above is always produced.

Quality bar (must pass before handing off)

Titles and alert references are symptom-only — no root cause in any heading.
The in-thread executive summary is rendered as markdown with the before/after visuals inline.
All visuals really rendered, brand-colored, labeled; every recovery claim backed by a Before/After number.
Consistent severity, duration, and impact figures across every deliverable produced.
No secrets or PII; apply the zava-redaction scrub (SearchMemory("zava-redaction") → redact()) to every deliverable and the in-thread summary; confidentiality footer present on the deck and email.
File-creation self-audit: the HTML report (and any deck) was written into tmp/ThreadFiles/<threadId>/ and verified on disk (non-zero bytes) before its link was shared; the Artifacts & links section is a bulleted list (never a table) and EVERY bullet is a clickable [label](url) — the HTML report (/api/files/tmp/ThreadFiles/<threadId>/<file>), the PR, the ServiceNow CR link, and the PagerDuty html_url — with no bare id/number and no plain-text placeholder.

Verification

An in-thread branded markdown executive summary with the before/after visuals shown inline, plus the requested on-brand deliverables (by default the .pptx deck + HTML email + Teams card JSON, or the subset the calling agent asked for) produced as artifacts/content, all consistent with each other and the source skills, ready for the operator to distribute.