v0.2.1

This release reorganises the short-workshop narrative around a single AgentOps operating model, polishes the Agent Foundations section, and fixes several rendering bugs in the Marp -> PPTX pipeline.

Highlights

• New AgentOps operating model. The deck now tells one story end to end - Evaluate, Ship, Observe, Own - replacing the older six-step loop that confused learners.
• Stronger Agent Foundations section. New complexity vs anatomy slide and updated narrative make the why agents need a new operating model pitch land more cleanly.
• Cleaner slide rendering. Subtitles no longer show a stray >, the four-pillar diagram renders full-width instead of as a corner thumbnail, and diagrams no longer overlap their subtitles.

Content - Agent Foundations (Richard Healy)

• Add a new complexity vs anatomy slide and accompanying anatomy-complexity.png diagram, and re-order the surrounding slides so the foundations story flows from what an agent is into why production is hard. Narratives updated to match.
• Refresh production-gap.png to align with the new ordering.
• Polish speaker notes throughout the deck so each slide intros its topic cleanly and sets up the next one.

Content - Four-pillar operating model (Paulo Lacerda)

• Replace the six-step loop (Evaluate, Gate, Observe, Diagnose, Ship, Improve) with a single four-pillar model (Evaluate -> Ship -> Observe -> Own) as the primary AgentOps story across the short track.
• Retitle the operating-model slide and its visual, rename the section dividers to Evaluate/Ship/Observe/Own, rewrite affected speaker notes, and reframe the 30-day adoption path around the four pillars.
• Update speaker-script.md, agenda.md, run-of-show.md, and index.md so all delivery materials present the four-pillar model consistently.

Diagrams

• New agentops-four-pillars diagram in make_diagrams.py and rendered short/images/agentops-four-pillars.png. (Paulo)
• New model-lifecycle diagram and a full regeneration of every short/images/*.png without embedded headers, so the slide title no longer competes with the diagram title. (Richard)

Tooling - Marp -> PPTX converter (Paulo Lacerda)

• Strip the leading > from Markdown blockquote subtitles in _extract_body_text.
• Register agentops-four-pillars.png in DIAGRAM_IMAGES so it renders centered and full-width.
• Push diagram images down to Inches(2.3) whenever a slide has both a blockquote subtitle and an inline diagram, so the diagram no longer overlaps the subtitle textbox.

Artefacts

• Regenerated short/slides.pptx from the updated slides.md.

Follow-up

• short/agentops-short-video.mp4 is now out of sync with the revised script and should be re-rendered via build_production_video.py + compress_production_video.py.
• Mirror the deck to the upstream program repo at presentations/04-agentops/.

Contributors: @placerda, Richard Healy