Policies

A Policy is a deterministic rule the Policy Engine evaluates on every trace ingestion. The engine returns the highest-priority action across all matching policies and translates it into an HTTP status: 403 for block, 202 for flag-for-review, 201 for approved. Policies are workspace-scoped, soft-deletable, and auditable through the Operations Audit Log. Tested against API version v1. JWT auth on every endpoint; mutations require the admin or owner role.

The Policy object

Field	Type	Required	Description
`_id` / `id`	`string`	yes	MongoDB ObjectId (also exposed as `id` virtual)
`name`	`string`	yes	Operator-readable name; max 100 characters
`description`	`string`	no	Free-form context; max 500 characters
`enabled`	`boolean`	no	Default `true`; disabled policies are not evaluated
`priority`	`number`	no	Default `1`; lower numbers evaluate first
`conditions`	`Condition[]`	yes	All conditions must match (with AND/OR composition)
`actions`	`Action[]`	yes	One or more actions to apply when conditions match
`organizationId`	`string`	yes	Owning org
`workspaceId`	`string`	yes	Workspace scope
`matchCount`	`number`	no	Read-only; incremented on each match
`lastMatched`	`string` (ISO 8601)	no	Read-only; last match timestamp
`createdAt` / `updatedAt`	`string` (ISO 8601)	no	Standard timestamps

Condition

Field	Type	Required	Description
`field`	`string`	yes	Trace field path (e.g., `confidenceScore`, `outputDecision.action`, `tags`)
`operator`	`enum`	yes	One of `equals`, `contains`, `greater_than`, `less_than`, `regex`
`value`	`any`	yes	Comparison value; type matches the field
`logicalOperator`	`enum`	no	`AND` or `OR` — how this condition combines with the next

Action

Field	Type	Required	Description
`type`	`enum`	yes	One of `block`, `flag_for_review`, `notify`, `approve`
`config`	`object`	no	Type-specific configuration (e.g., notify channel)

Engine semantics

Every trace evaluates against every enabled policy in the workspace in priority order. Conditions on a policy combine via the per-condition logicalOperator (default AND). On match, the Policy Engine collects every matched action across every matched policy and resolves the winning verdict:

priority: block > flag_for_review > notify > approve

A trace with one matched block and three matched flag_for_review returns block. A trace with no matches returns approve (HTTP 201). The matched-policy name and reason ride along on the response so the agent can log the gate.

Endpoints

GET    /api/v1/policies/templates
POST   /api/v1/policies/from-template
GET    /api/v1/policies
POST   /api/v1/policies
PATCH  /api/v1/policies/:id
DELETE /api/v1/policies/:id

List policies

GET /api/v1/policies

Returns every non-soft-deleted policy in the caller's organisation. Workspace-scoped via x-workspace-id.

curl
curl https://api.adjudon.com/api/v1/policies \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADJUDON_API_KEY"

Errors: 401, 500 INTERNAL_ERROR.

Create a policy

POST /api/v1/policies

Body field	Required	Description
`name`	yes	Non-empty string
`conditions`	yes	Array of `Condition` objects
`actions`	yes	Array of `Action` objects
`description`	no	Free-form context
`priority`	no	Defaults to `1`
`enabled`	no	Defaults to `true`
`workspaceId`	no	Defaults to caller's active workspace

curl — block low-confidence loan denials
curl -X POST https://api.adjudon.com/api/v1/policies \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADJUDON_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name":     "Block low-confidence loan denials",
    "priority": 10,
    "conditions": [
      { "field": "confidenceScore",        "operator": "less_than", "value": 0.7,    "logicalOperator": "AND" },
      { "field": "outputDecision.action",  "operator": "equals",    "value": "deny" }
    ],
    "actions": [
      { "type": "block" }
    ]
  }'

Python
import os, requests
r = requests.post(
    "https://api.adjudon.com/api/v1/policies",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['ADJUDON_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "name":     "Block low-confidence loan denials",
        "priority": 10,
        "conditions": [
            {"field": "confidenceScore",       "operator": "less_than", "value": 0.7, "logicalOperator": "AND"},
            {"field": "outputDecision.action", "operator": "equals",    "value": "deny"},
        ],
        "actions": [{"type": "block"}],
    },
)

Errors: 400 VALIDATION_ERROR (missing name, non-array conditions/actions), 401, 403 (role gate), 500.

Update a policy

PATCH /api/v1/policies/:id

Partial update; any subset of name, description, enabled, priority, conditions, actions may be supplied.

curl — disable a policy
curl -X PATCH https://api.adjudon.com/api/v1/policies/65b1f2c4 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADJUDON_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "enabled": false }'

Errors: 401, 404 NOT_FOUND, 500.

Delete a policy

DELETE /api/v1/policies/:id

Soft-delete via the softDelete plugin: the row stays in the database, marked deleted; subsequent GET responses exclude it; the operations audit-log entry on policy.delete remains by Cardinal Rule 5.

Errors: 401, 404 NOT_FOUND, 500.

Templates

GET   /api/v1/policies/templates
POST  /api/v1/policies/from-template

GET /templates returns the library of pre-built policy shapes a new organisation can import without writing conditions by hand. POST /from-template clones the template into a real Policy attached to the caller's workspace, optionally overriding the name. Errors: 400 VALIDATION_ERROR (missing templateId), 404 NOT_FOUND (template id not in library), 500.

Common gotchas

Idempotency. POST /policies and POST /from-template are mutating endpoints but the Idempotency-Key middleware is currently wired only on POST /traces. A retried policy create produces a duplicate. Send a unique name per attempt and check the audit log if you suspect a duplicate.
workspaceId is required on the schema. Omit it on the body and the server falls back to the caller's active workspace; pass it explicitly when scripting cross-workspace creates.
Priority is ASCending. A policy with priority: 1 evaluates before priority: 100. The verdict order (`block > flag > notify

approve) is independent of priority` — priority only controls evaluation order, not which action wins.
Soft-delete. A deleted policy is invisible to GET but still in the database. There is no restore endpoint today; recreate.

The Policy object​

Condition​

Action​

Engine semantics​

Endpoints​

List policies​

Create a policy​

Update a policy​

Delete a policy​

Templates​

Common gotchas​

See also​