v1.7.0 — Local Organization Governance¶

Purpose: Feature specification for Policy Simulation and Compliance. Audience: product, architecture, engineering, security, operations, documentation, release, and AI coding agents Owner: Governance and Policy Maintainers Roadmap authority: docs/strategy/FORGEVENA_VERSIONED_PRODUCT_ROADMAP.md#10-v170--local-organization-governance Lifecycle: planned Review: before implementation and at every lifecycle promotion

Identity¶

Feature ID: policy-simulation-compliance
Classification: committed
Owner: Governance and Policy Maintainers

Purpose and Problem¶

Explain effective policy, detect bypass paths, and export metadata-only audit and compliance evidence.

Business and Developer Value¶

Reviewers can predict policy impact before enforcing changes.

Architecture¶

The simulator evaluates proposed bundles against recorded operation shapes without executing effects.

Dependencies¶

signed-organization-policy

Configuration and User Flow¶

Configuration is schema-validated, secret-reference-only, previewable, exportable without secrets, and governed by scope. The user flow is inspect, preview, validate, approve, apply, verify, and roll back.

CLI, Dashboard, and API Flow¶

CLI, dashboard, SDK, and API surfaces call the same domain service. Structured responses include operation ID, status, warnings, planned changes, policy result, and evidence references. No interface may bypass consent or policy.

Security, Privacy, and Reliability¶

Permissions, data classes, trust roots, external effects, timeouts, retries, cancellation, audit, recovery, and rollback are explicit. Prompts, responses, tokens, credentials, and unapproved source content are excluded from logs and diagnostics.

Testing and Acceptance¶

Simulation matches runtime decisions.
Bypass analysis covers every command family.
Exports contain no secrets or source content.

Performance Targets¶

The feature must publish an approved baseline, remain within the platform's 20% regression budget, and define tighter latency, throughput, resource, and cost targets before preview.

Migration and Documentation¶

Migration is preview-first, versioned, reversible, and compatible with the previous two stable releases where applicable. CLI help, schemas, examples, troubleshooting, operations, security, and migration guidance ship with implementation.

Risks¶

Simulation/runtime drift.
Misleading compliance claims.

Future Expansion¶

Expansion remains in the Evidence Funnel and requires a new feature ID or approved scope change; it cannot be inferred from this specification.