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Cycle Story B — At a Glance

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Governance v1 Scope

Why: One week of conversations with our CISO advisor reshaped the governance model, and the lab still showed the positions those conversations had overturned: snooze, named drafts with approval, required expiry dates, noisy findings.

In plain words: Think of a company's rules for its AI helpers as a set of light switches: off, watch, or block. This week we agreed each rule gets one switch, and if you ever loosen a switch you have to say why. Before you flip it, the screen tells you exactly who it affects. All the flips wait in one shared cart and go live together, like checking out. This cycle made every screen in the lab work that way.

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decisions
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conversations
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people credited
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What changed

Everything on the policy page

A policy now has one Off · Observe · Enforce switch with an optional end date, on the policy and on each exception.

MP
D6D7D1live →
See who a change affects, first

Every edit shows the people and teams it touches, and the findings it would resolve or reopen, before you stage it.

MP
D19live →
One shared draft, published whole

Edits collect in one Policy Config draft; publishing makes the whole file live as the next version, viewable and importable as JSON.

MPTFRG
D4D13D26live →
Findings without the noise

Observed findings hide by default, and resolving one records a decision instead of changing enforcement.

MPRG
D3D16live →
How special-snowflakey is each team?

The teams listing reads as a posture bar: each team's Enforced / Observed / Off against the organization.

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D20live →
Which laptops missed the update

Endpoints show how far each version has reached, so a laptop sitting offline on a shelf gets flagged.

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D24live →
Day one and the goal, side by side

Every lab page can show a new customer's onboarding stage or a mature deployment, and the docs explain both.

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D25live →

Decisions and where they came from

Solid = cited in the record. Dashed = matched by the draft from artifactRef, date and topic, waiting for review. Click a row for its sources.

IDDecisionRuled byCame fromLink
D1A reason is required when an edit loosens and when an exception is revoked. Tightening keeps it optional.Mark Parson
2026-10-23		Mark Petersonmatched · review
D3Observed findings are hidden by default, with a one-click filter and a zero state that names what is hidden.Mark Parson
2026-10-23		Mark PetersonRob Genovamatched · review
D4Local staging stays, in front of one shared draft. Publish makes the whole draft live. No named drafts, approvals or promotes.Mark Parson
2026-10-23		Mark PetersonTyler Flintcited
D6Mode is Off · Observe · Enforce with an optional Until, on the policy and on its exceptions. Snooze goes.Mark Parson
2026-10-23		Mark Petersoncited
D7Expiry is optional. Mark Parson proposed requiring an end date when loosening; Mark Peterson kept it optional.Mark Peterson
2026-10-21		Mark Petersoncited
D13Import validates a pasted or uploaded JSON into the staged edits. A support export strips tokens.Mark Parson
2026-10-23		Mark PetersonRob Genovacited
D16A finding's outcome, Enforced or Observed, is stamped at detection and never changes.Mark Parson
2026-10-23		Rob Genovamatched · review
D19A change's impact states the facts and stops ("Loosens P-MCP for 3 people in Finance."). "Blast radius" stays out of the UI.Mark Parson
2026-10-23		Mark Petersoncited
D20The teams listing defaults to the posture bar, with its "Against the organization" departures column.Mark Parson
2026-10-23		Mark Petersoncited
D24The propagation footprint goes on Endpoints, team endpoints, the Changes version rows, the tray and the policy mode note.Mark Parson
2026-10-23		Mark Petersoncited
D25The adoption stage is a lab switch plus a docs section.Mark Parson
2026-10-23		Mark Petersoncited
D26Changes is renamed Policy Config: Proposed Changes, History and Config File.Mark Parson
2026-10-23		Mark Petersonmatched · review
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