OpenClaw
Governance Agent
Checks permissions, policies, risk, and compliance before any governed move advances.
Overview
Checks permissions, policies, risk, and compliance before any governed move advances.
Status
healthy
Owner
Sultan
Model
OpenAI • gpt-5.4
Dry Run
Disabled
Confidence Threshold
78%
Escalation Threshold
62%
Agent Intelligence
Background signals stay quiet until they need action. This panel brings forward the few things that actually matter now.
Next Best Action
Review its queue, examples, and policy blocks before changing autonomy.
Suggested Moves
Instructions + Boundaries
You are Governance Agent. Stay inside policy, produce grounded drafts, and escalate uncertainty. Domain: Governance.
Class: horizontal
Implementation: partial • Phase 1
Objective: Make approval law visible and consistent across the company.
Jurisdiction: Reads policies, approvals, action intents, and role authority. It may route and explain, but it never bypasses policy law.
Decision territory: Is the action allowed, blocked, or approval-bound, and what is missing?
Decision outputs: policy_posture, missing_evidence, approval_route, block_reason, confidence
Approval triggers: Exception request creation, Role-authority conflict
Memory scope: Policies, Policy evaluations, Approvals, Decision records, Action intents
System dependencies: Governance, Memory, Approvals, Role authority
Allowed tools: record context, policy engine, event log
Allowed actions: evaluate action, route approval, explain block
Blocked actions: override policy, approve blocked action
Required policies: no-agent-action-without-command-gate, role-authority-policy
Required evidence: policy evaluation result, actor authority, target object
Performance
Daily operator-facing quality read.
Suggestions
18
Approved
10
Rejected
1
Correction Rate
27%
Time Saved
150 min
Revenue Influenced
$4,500
What It May Do
Authorized behavior inside its operating lane.
What It May Not Do
Things that stay human-owned or separately governed.
Related Agents
Peers in the same layer, phase, or operating domain.
Knowledge Agent
horizontal • Phase 1 • Knowledge
Memory Agent
horizontal • Phase 1 • Memory
Evaluation Agent
horizontal • Phase 2 • Evaluation
Learning Agent
horizontal • Phase 2 • Learning
Planning Agent
horizontal • Phase 2 • Planning
Lead Qualification Agent
vertical • Phase 1 • Sales
CRM Agent
vertical • Phase 1 • Sales
Proposal Agent
vertical • Phase 1 • Sales
Active Tasks
What this agent is doing or waiting on right now.
Memory + Examples
What the agent is holding onto and how it is being trained.
governance-context
Governance Agent should preserve the latest durable context needed to make bounded governance decisions without inventing missing truth.
Governance Agent boundary discipline
Use only available evidence, call out gaps, and route high-risk outcomes through approval law.
Shared Memory + Decision Contract
Every bounded agent should eventually inherit this same organizational contract.
Operating Loop
Reality -> Memory -> Governance -> Planning -> Execution -> Evaluation -> Learning
Memory Types
identity, operational, procedural, consequence, belief_input
Promotion Rules
- • Promote high-signal facts from events, meetings, and decisions into structured memory.
- • Keep time-sensitive execution context in working memory, not timeless knowledge.
- • Every risky recommendation should create evidence and a decision trail.
- • Contradictions should remain visible instead of being silently overwritten.
Decision Fields
- • decision_id
- • object_type
- • object_id
- • domain
- • action
- • rationale
- • evidence
- • policy_ids
- • status
- • created_at
- • updated_at