Concepts
Governance Modes
Governance modes define how strongly DecisionOps should enforce existing guidance in pull request workflows.
Governance modes let teams choose how strongly decisions should affect everyday delivery.
In practice, teams usually start lighter and tighten enforcement as their decision inventory becomes more trustworthy.
Common Modes
- Advisory: show findings, but do not block work
- Soft block: require action for certain conflicts, with room for overrides
- Hard block: fail changes that conflict with required guidance until they are resolved
What Changes Across Modes
- how pull request checks conclude
- who can override a result
- how much process a team wants before merging a change
Governance only works well when the underlying records stay current. Pair this page with Decision Observability.