Governance Built In, Not Added at the End
Every change in wakalix is attributable to a named role. Every pull request routes through an independent reviewer with veto authority — a separate role from the team doing the work. Every engagement ends with a published cost report. Every flagged defect joins a pattern library the engine will not repeat.
Book a stuck-problem reviewWhat governance looks like in practice
After every engagement, the independent reviewer signs a verdict. The shape is consistent: who authored, what was checked, what tripped, what's blocking. No prose, no investigation; the record speaks for itself.
Reviewer: independent reviewer Engagement: [engagement-id] Verdict: PASS-WITH-ADVISORY Findings: 2 F1 Change [hash] — attribution missing on a co-author merge Severity: advisory · Rule: attribution policy F2 AI spend ran ~10% above the role's budget envelope for this engagement Severity: advisory · Rule: cost-envelope policy Blocking: none — engagement may proceed
Three lines in the record: what tripped, who shipped it, which rule it violated. No investigation needed. The record is immutable. The reviewing role never touches the code — it can only read and veto.
What is governed and how
| What is governed | How wakalix does it |
|---|---|
| Code style | A dedicated review role applies your conventions against every output batch before merge |
| Cost | Tier-routing per role + per-cycle budget caps + published cost tab; hard-gate fires before the envelope is exceeded |
| Access | AI gateway brokers every call; role→skill→model matrix; no role can call outside its declared boundary |
| Audit | Every change attributable to a named role; the engagement record is immutable; one search finds the full history of any change |
AI tools are widely adopted; governance of how they are used has lagged. The patterns wakalix implements — automated review, role-based access, attributable commits — are what the broader governed AI engineering category will converge on.
See how cycles run under governance → built-in quality