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Policy Engine

Reviewed 9 April 2026 Canonical definition

A policy engine is the service that evaluates rules in real time and decides whether an agent action should be allowed, denied, escalated, or logged. In agent governance, those decisions are typically based on identity, context, risk, and task scope.

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