# Channel Wiki: #cogarch-v1-shorts
_Channel ID: 1547923343905259601_
_Created: 2026-09-11 10:54 UTC_
_Last sync: 2026-09-26 03:02 UTC_
_Latest processed human message: 1552962884965761069_

## Purpose

Plan, create, review, and maintain concise short-form CogArch content. Specific formats, audiences, distribution channels, and publication targets remain to be decided in this channel.

## Canonical Resources

- Channel workspace: `/opt/data/cogarch-v1-shorts/`
- Channel skill repository: https://gitea.lego-cloud.eu/cognitive-architect-v1-skills-code-agent/cogarch-v1-channel-shorts
- Current verified deck: `/opt/data/cogarch-v1-shorts/workspace/vscode-local-setup-4-working-with-skills/release/2026-09-22-ibm-cognitive-architect-shorts-vscode-local-setup-4-working-with-skills-1.0.1.pptx`.
- Current verified preview: `/opt/data/cogarch-v1-shorts/workspace/vscode-local-setup-4-working-with-skills/release/2026-09-22-ibm-cognitive-architect-shorts-vscode-local-setup-4-working-with-skills-1.0.1-preview.png`.
- `Architecture in an AI World` current revised deck: `/opt/data/cogarch-v1-shorts/workspace/architecture-in-an-ai-world/release/2026-09-25-cognitive-architect-session-01-architecture-in-an-ai-world-1.9.1.pptx` (11 slides; SHA-256 `f93c98dd4ef40871b547e5de950d3ceb47a70eb7dcfff9d01523c8c881e3845d`).
- Current individual slide previews: `/opt/data/cogarch-v1-shorts/workspace/architecture-in-an-ai-world/preview/1.9.1/slide-01.png` through `slide-11.png`.
- Reproducible source is in `/opt/data/cogarch-v1-shorts/workspace/architecture-in-an-ai-world/source/`; v1.9.1 is built by `build_session_01_v191.py`.
- Deck decision: former slides 3–5 were consolidated into one slide based on slide 4. The combined slide places six participant questions around one shared architecture model and incorporates the architecture content of purpose, structure, qualities, decisions, ownership, and traceability.
- Deck decision: former slides 6–7 were consolidated into one slide based on slide 6. The combined slide preserves the Architect Curates / AI Accelerates split and adds a compact Encode → Act → Validate → Learn feedback loop.
- Deck decision: three visual reference slides were added after the shared-model slide: FINOS CALM, Structurizr, and ArchiMate. Each carries a verified, clickable link to its official documentation; the deck duration changed to 15–20 minutes.
- Opening-slide decision: address a top-tier architect audience with a substantive, debatable thesis rather than a basic orientation statement. Preserve design as a continuing hard problem; present AI as multiplying architectural decisions and the coherence burden, not replacing the design challenge. Do not mention cheaper code. Current thesis: “AI does not reduce the challenge of design. It multiplies the decisions architecture must keep coherent.”
- Presentation preview decision (supersedes the earlier composite-preview rule): always return every slide as its own image attachment, in slide order. Do not combine slides into a single vertical image or thumbnail contact sheet, because combined previews are difficult to view. When the user changes or reinforces this preview approach, immediately return the latest presentation version as separate slide images; do not only acknowledge or record the preference.
- Deck-content decision: remove “prompt enablement backbone” and “minutes” from the referenced deck location. The source message does not identify a slide number, so the exact target location remains **UNKNOWN** in this ledger rather than inferred.

## Action Items

- Verify the `powerpoint-cognitive-architect` remote repository/runtime installation separately; the current deck artifact is locally verified.

## Key Decisions

- The channel was assigned its own workspace, durable wiki, dedicated channel skill, and daily knowledge-sync coverage.
- Maintain a CogArch-specific presentation skill named `powerpoint-cognitive-architect` under the Cognitive Architect skills organization. It must reference the general PowerPoint skills instead of duplicating or overlapping their capabilities.
- The Shorts deck is a light, professional IBM presentation titled `IBM | Cognitive Architect | Shorts (Solution Factory)`; it omits the date, identifies presenter Oleg Lukasonok (`oleg.lukasonok@lt.ibm.com`, Slack nickname `lego`), and presents the Cognitive Architect, Solution Factory tutorial, and `cognitive-architect` Slack channel as clearly labeled links.
- The deck has three slides: title, Agenda, and links. The Agenda order is: “How to enable Solution Factory?”, “How to access Solution Factory?”, then “What is Solution Factory?”.
- The `VSCode Local Setup 4 Working With Skills` short uses the agenda `vscode-local-setup`, `skill-manager`, and `cognitive-architect`; its second link is `Documentation | Tutorial | Skills` at `https://pages.github.ibm.com/CTOTools/Documentation/docs/user-guide/services/agent-skills/`.
- Discord topic: `Plan, create, review, and maintain concise short-form CogArch content.`
- Pinned channel guidance: message `1547924959656157256`.
- Mutable channel history belongs in this wiki, not in Hermes gateway configuration or the reusable channel skill.

## Active Topics

- Define the initial short-form content format, audience, editorial style, and publication destination.

## Key Context

- CogArch architecture-format work follows the `cogarch-v1` skill and accepted project decisions.
- No publication destination or permission is implied by channel setup.

## People & Roles

- RootAtSkic (`1518725627845283888`) — channel owner and human authority.
- Hermes (`1526860732917088266`) — assisting bot.

## Action Items

- Decide the first short's subject, audience, format, and publication target.

## Evidence

- `1547923376725565491` — RootAtSkic requested: “Set up this channel.”
- `1552630471056302161` — RootAtSkic started the `Architecture in an AI World` short from the enablement-channel presentation.
- `1552631460748468336`, `1552644274615619595` — earlier full-deck preview approach used a numbered vertical composite; this was later superseded.
- `1552947379068731483` — RootAtSkic changed the preview rule: always return one separate image per slide because a single combined image is difficult to view.
- `1552948492727619615` — RootAtSkic clarified that this rule requires immediately returning the latest presentation-version slide images, not merely recording the preference.
- `1552949611071537164` — RootAtSkic rejected the opening slide’s cheap-code-centered statement and directed the session framing toward preparing architecture for an AI world; cheaper code is only one circumstance within the broader change.
- `1552955903546892342` — RootAtSkic clarified that cheaper code should not appear on the opening slide at all.
- `1552960206533562389` — RootAtSkic rejected the elementary “Preparing architecture for an AI world” line and required an opening worthy of top architects rather than language that talks down to them.
- `1552961770610622485` — RootAtSkic rejected wording that implied the design challenge disappears; the opening must preserve design as difficult while explaining the additional AI-era coherence burden.
- `1552962884965761069` — RootAtSkic directed: “Drop prompt enablement backbone and minutes from there”; exact slide/location was not stated in the message.
- `1552645349875777558`, `1552647879347142710`, `1552657484303568927` — consolidate former slides 3–5 using slide 4 as the basis and former slides 6–7 using slide 6 as the basis.
- `1552659377788420109`, `1552659408217968721` — include one linked documentation slide each for FINOS CALM, Structurizr, and ArchiMate.