Governance

Open Policy Agent

Evaluate policy as code for access and operational decisions across applications and infrastructure.

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Where it fits

What you can use it for

Central policy rules for agent actions and services.

Apply policy, document risks and check system behaviour.

Before you adopt

What to check for your team

OPA is a general policy engine. Your application must call it and enforce its decisions.

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Licence and scope

Apache-2.0

Applies to this repository. Dependencies, models, and hosted services can have separate terms.

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Use the project's contribution guidance to report issues, help with documentation or contribute code. Follow any published funding links if you want to support the maintainers financially.

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