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Governance-as-code

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Governance rules expressed as executable code that evaluates pull requests, deployments and runtime calls and returns a decision; the umbrella term of which policy-as-code is the CI/CD subset.

Developed in
ch. 04, Layer 01: Govern-as-Code
Chapters
ch. 03, Values & Principles · ch. 04, The Stack
Contrast with
Policy-as-code
Source
Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source

Where it is used

One chapter of the Body of Knowledge uses the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Patterns that use this term

4 pattern pages use the term, most mentions first.

  • Policy verdict

    The structured record a policy engine emits each time it evaluates a rule: allow or deny, the versioned rule id, a hash of the input and a timestamp, signed…

Sources

No external source: the term is coined or used in a specific sense by this Body of Knowledge, and the section linked under "Developed in" is its source.

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Governance-as-code. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/governance-as-code. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026governanceascode,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Governance-as-code}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/governance-as-code}
}