Policies

Business law, machine law, approval gates, and governed workflow constraints.

Policies

Governance Brain

Business law, machine law, approval gates, AI boundaries, and workflow constraints now live in one governed policy experience.

Current Home

The current policy surface lives under Settings > Policies.

Unified

Use the policy command center for hard blocks, approvals required, recent evaluations, exceptions, and governed operator fixes.

What Policies Means

Readable operating law instead of hidden rule code.

Operator view

What is blocked

Why it matters

What evidence is missing

Who can approve

How to fix it

No Commitment Without Quote Token

Customer-facing commitments must be linked to a quote token or validated promise event.

high

Quotes

Failure code: COMMITMENT_WITHOUT_QUOTE_TOKEN

Active • v1.0.0

No Output Without System Signature

Approved outputs require a signed system envelope for traceability.

high

System Truth

Failure code: OUTPUT_UNSIGNED

Active • v1.0.0

No Money Without Validation

Refunds, credits, discounts, and settlement actions require finance validation.

high

Finance

Failure code: MONEY_ACTION_UNVALIDATED

Active • v1.0.0

No Execution Without Ledger Event

External execution requires a ledger event or action intent before side effects begin.

high

OpenClaw Execution

Failure code: EXECUTION_WITHOUT_LEDGER_EVENT

Active • v1.0.0

No Agent Action Without Command Gate

Agents cannot execute side effects unless the command gate and policy engine have approved the action.

high

AI Governance

Failure code: AGENT_ACTION_WITHOUT_GATE

Active • v1.0.0

No Exception Without Expiration

Overrides must declare reason, approver, expiration, affected object, and review date.

high

Policy / Exceptions

Failure code: EXCEPTION_WITHOUT_EXPIRATION

Active • v1.0.0

Capability Envelope Policy

Agents must stay inside their declared domain and action envelope.

high

AI Governance

Failure code: OUTSIDE_CAPABILITY_ENVELOPE

Active • v1.0.0

Conflicting Data Kill Switch Policy

Critical source conflicts should pause autonomous execution.

high

AI Governance

Failure code: CONFLICTING_SOURCE_CHANNELS

Active • v1.0.0

Action Intent Required Policy

External execution requires a staged action intent.

high

OpenClaw Execution

Failure code: ACTION_INTENT_REQUIRED

Active • v1.0.0