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summary: "Adds policy-backed doctor checks for workspace conformance."
read_when:
- You are installing, configuring, or auditing the policy plugin
title: "Policy plugin"
---
# Policy plugin
Adds policy-backed doctor checks for workspace conformance.
## Distribution
- Package: `@openclaw/policy`
- Install route: included in OpenClaw
## Surface
plugin
## Behavior
The Policy plugin contributes doctor health checks for policy-managed OpenClaw
settings and governed workspace declarations. Policy currently covers channel
conformance, governed tool metadata, MCP server posture, model-provider posture,
private-network access posture, Gateway exposure posture, agent workspace/tool
posture, configured global/per-agent tool posture, configured sandbox runtime
posture, ingress/channel access posture, and OpenClaw config secret
provider/auth profile posture.
Policy stores authored requirements in `policy.jsonc`, observes existing
OpenClaw settings and workspace declarations as evidence, and reports drift
through `openclaw policy check` and `openclaw doctor --lint`. A clean policy
check emits policy, evidence, findings, and attestation hashes that operators
can record for audit.
Tool posture rules can require approved profiles, workspace-only filesystem
tools, bounded exec security/ask/host settings, disabled elevated mode, exact
`alsoAllow` entries, and required tool deny entries. The evidence records
additive `alsoAllow` entries because they can widen effective tool posture.
These checks observe config conformance only; they do not read runtime approval
state or add runtime enforcement.
Sandbox posture rules can require approved sandbox modes/backends, deny host
container networking, deny container namespace joins, require read-only container
mounts, deny container runtime socket mounts and unconfined container profiles,
and require sandbox browser CDP source ranges.
These checks observe config conformance only; they do not read runtime approval
state, inspect live containers, or add runtime enforcement.
Named policy scopes under `scopes.<scopeName>` can add stricter normal policy
sections for the selector they list. `agentIds` supports `tools`,
`agents.workspace`, and `sandbox`; `channelIds` supports `ingress.channels`.
Runtime agent ids that are not explicitly listed in `agents.list[]` are checked
against inherited global/default posture rather than silently passing with no
evidence. Every scope present in `policy.jsonc` must be valid and enforceable
for its selector. Overlay rules are additional claims, so they do not weaken
top-level policy and can produce their own findings when the same observed
config violates both scopes.
## Related docs
- [policy](/cli/policy)