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* feat(policy): add tool posture conformance

* fix(policy): attest tool alsoAllow posture
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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; CLI command: [`openclaw policy`](/cli/policy)
## 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, 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, and
required tool deny entries. The evidence also 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.
## Related docs
- [policy](/cli/policy)