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Frame a mission with governance

Governance in arka-deck has two complementary faces:

  • Mission Guardian — gates and evidence for structured missions (which block or allow a transition).
  • Gouvernance Lite — local Cortex-compatible policies (which rules are injected into turns, which budgets, which followup).

Mission Guardian — when the agent cannot proceed

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For a structured mission (squad or phase chain), Mission Guardian lets you define:

  • The phases the mission must traverse (e.g. Analysis → Plan → Execution → QA → Delivery).
  • The evidence expected at each phase (a report, a QA verdict, etc.).
  • The gates: an agent cannot move to the next phase until the evidence is present and validated.

Mission Guardian view in the project: visual phase stepper, captured evidence, visible refusals.

Gouvernance Lite — local execution rules

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With gouvernance-lite, you define a project policy that decides:

  • Which Cortex rule families are injected into turns.
  • Which token budget is allocated to rules (no more than N rules, no more than M characters).
  • When (before turn, after turn, on error) rules apply.

Before each turn, the addon selects relevant Cortex snippets and adds them to the agent’s context.

Governance view in the project: active policy, snippets, simulation, followup.

Step-by-step configuration

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  1. Open the project’s Governance view.
  2. Enable a policy.
  3. Choose a path:
    • Manual: you select families and budgets.
    • Assisted: for compatible projects, the governance-policy-designer worker proposes an adapted configuration (worker-ready, live call conditioned on Cortex delivery).
  4. Simulate before saving: you see the injection plan for a given turn.
  5. Save.

Followup

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All relevant events (chat.tool.called, memory.entry.captured, etc.) feed a structured local followup: decisions, actions, risks, deliverables, drift, audit trail.

The followup can be synced to Cortex for cross-cutting use (e.g. feeding a project review).

Public boundaries

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  • Mission Guardian is in beta — automatic report integration still in progress.
  • Gouvernance Lite is in beta — Cortex remains the rule source of truth, arka-deck is the executor.
  • No autonomous governance. arka-deck does not invent rules; it applies those provided by Cortex.

Going further

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