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* refactor(config): consolidate media model lists

* refactor(config): unify memory configuration

* refactor(config): consolidate TTS ownership

* refactor(config): move typing policy to agents

* refactor(config): retire product-level config surfaces

* refactor(config): share scoped tool policy type

* chore(config): refresh generated baselines

* fix(config): honor agent typing overrides

* fix(config): migrate sibling config consumers

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* fix(config): strip invalid legacy TTS values

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* feat(config): add fast mode default symmetry

* refactor(config): key agent entries by id

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* fix(config): finalize config projection proof

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* docs(release): preserve historical config names

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* fix(config): finish full-branch review

* fix(config): complete runtime secret detection

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* refactor(env): isolate test-only controls

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* docs(env): define the operator-facing allowlist

* ci(env): ratchet production variable count

* fix(env): remove stale provider helper import

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* test(env): keep test seam in dead-code audit

* test(env): cover ratchet growth and boundary; document surface budgets

* docs(config): document tier-eval consolidations

* docs(config): clarify speech preference ownership

* test(memory): align retired tuning fixtures

* refactor(memory): freeze engine heuristics

* refactor(config): apply tier-eval tranche

* refactor(tts): move persona shaping to providers

* refactor(compaction): move prompt policy to providers

* test(config): align hookified prompt fixtures

* chore(deadcode): classify test-only exports

* chore(github): remove unused spawn helper

* chore(deadcode): classify queue diagnostics

* chore(deadcode): remove unused lane snapshot export

* chore(plugin-sdk): ratchet consolidated surface

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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
<!-- openclaw-plugin-reference:manual-start -->
## 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, data-handling 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.
`openclaw policy compare --baseline <file>` compares one policy file to another
policy file. It is config-level conformance only: it uses policy rule metadata
to verify that the checked policy is not missing or weaker than the authored
baseline, and it does not inspect runtime state, credentials, or secret values.
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.
Data-handling rules can require sensitive logging redaction, deny telemetry
content capture, require session retention maintenance, and deny session
transcript memory indexing. These checks observe config conformance only; they
do not inspect raw logs, telemetry exports, transcripts, memory files, secrets,
or personal data.
Named policy scopes under `scopes.<scopeName>` can add stricter normal policy
sections for the selector they list. `agentIds` supports `tools`,
`agents.workspace`, `sandbox`, and `dataHandling.memory`; `channelIds` supports
`ingress.channels`.
Runtime agent ids that are not explicitly listed in `agents.entries.*` 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.
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## Related docs
- [policy](/cli/policy)