Governance

Governance is the control layer that sits above all execution in matic. It defines what agents are allowed to do, when humans must approve, how resources are consumed, and what evidence the system retains. Every governance primitive, including policies, guardrails, HITL checkpoints, budgets, and audit records, is filesystem-native, scope-aware across org, project, team, and agent boundaries, and designed so consequential actions are never invisible.

This section covers the full governance surface: declarative rules, runtime enforcement, human approval gates, resource controls, risk characterization, quality assessment, and the immutable records that tie them together.

Policies

Declarative rules that govern agent behavior, resource usage, communication, and decision boundaries. See Policies.

Guardrails

Runtime enforcement mechanisms that intercept tool invocations, file writes, and content generation before they commit, including the grounding class for inline factual-claim evaluation. See Guardrails.

HITL

Human-in-the-loop checkpoints built into the work lifecycle at defined gates, including permission-level routing, pause-resume flows, escalation on timeout, preview surfaces, and the dual-write rule for recording both decisions and audit entries. See HITL.

Decisions

Immutable records of consequential choices: what was decided, by whom, why, and what followed. Decisions are scoped to the entity they affect, queryable by agents for future reference, and created automatically during HITL checkpoints, charter amendments, and conflict resolutions. See Decisions.

Audit

Tamper-evident, append-only logs of consequential system actions, including policy applications, guardrail interventions, HITL interactions, budget changes, agent state transitions, dead-letter events, and remit-bloat quarantines. See Audit.

Budgets

Resource consumption tracking and gating across the scope hierarchy, covering cost estimation, continuous meters, per-period ledgers, bandwidth probes for agent availability, and budget gates that block execution when estimates exceed ceilings. See Budgets.

Risk and Quality

Risk characterization and quality assessment for work items, tasks, and projects, including risk profiles that drive HITL checkpoint placement and dry-run requirements, an org-level risk registry, quality scoring dimensions, and an evals subsystem for agent competence against charter alignment. See Risk and Quality.