> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.genie-app.de/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Governance: review projects and enforce compliance rules

> Review every project in your workspace, see what integrations and knowledge Genie AI has access to, and write natural-language compliance rules that check each project automatically whenever it ships.

**Governance** gives workspace owners and admins one place to review projects, see what Genie AI has access to across the workspace, and enforce compliance rules that re-check every project automatically whenever it ships a new version.

<Note>
  Governance is part of every workspace by default — there's nothing to turn on. A workspace that hasn't written any compliance rules simply has nothing to check yet.
</Note>

## Open Governance

Click the account row at the bottom of the workspace sidebar, choose **Workspace settings**, then open **Governance**.

Governance has three tabs: **Projects**, **Integrations & Knowledge**, and **Compliance rules**.

## Projects: review

The **Projects** tab lists every project in the workspace with its review status and compliance state. Open a project to set a verdict:

* **Approve** — marks the project reviewed and compliant on its current version.
* **Flag** — keeps the project running but records a note for other reviewers.
* **Disable** — blocks new builds and prompts from everyone except the project's owner. The owner sees your note, and once they publish a fixed version the verdict lifts automatically and the compliance rules re-run.
* **Clear verdict** — removes the current verdict.

You can attach an internal note to any verdict. It's visible to other reviewers, and — if you disable a project — to its owner.

<Warning>
  Disabling a project immediately blocks builds for everyone but the owner. Reach for **Flag** instead if you just want to record a concern without interrupting work.
</Warning>

## Integrations & Knowledge: shared-asset oversight

The **Integrations & Knowledge** tab is a read-only overview of everything shared workspace-wide that Genie AI can act with: every workspace-level MCP integration (server, auth type, and the tools it exposes) and every workspace-wide knowledge document. Use it to check what Genie AI has access to across all your projects at a glance.

## Compliance rules

Turn your organization's policies into automatic checks. Each rule is a plain-language **failure condition** — for example, "The project fails when it handles personal data without a visible lawful basis" — with a name, description, and severity (**Low**, **Medium**, **High**, or **Critical**).

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Compliance rules">
    From the Governance page, open the **Compliance rules** tab and click **New rule**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Start from a template or write your own">
    Genie ships with built-in templates you can start from: **EU AI Act — prohibited practices**, **GDPR — personal data handling**, **No internal data in public projects**, **Every project has a description**, **No unresolved security issues**, and **Third-party services are declared**. Or write your own failure condition from scratch.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set a severity">
    Choose Low, Medium, High, or Critical to reflect how serious a failure is.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Save">
    Tick **Check existing projects now** to run the new rule against every current project immediately, or leave it unchecked and it applies the next time each project ships.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Genie checks each project against every enabled rule by looking at its name, description, visibility, connected integrations, and what its most recently published version actually shipped — never the contents of your chat conversations. Checks run automatically every time a project publishes a new version, and you can also trigger them manually: **Run checks** on a single project, **Run checks on all projects** from the project list, or **Run on all projects** from a specific rule.

A rule's own page shows analytics — how many times it's run, how often it's failed, and its results across projects over time.

## Who can access Governance

Owners and admins always have full access. A non-admin member or editor can be individually granted **view access** — see reviews and rule results, but not change rules or settings — from the Governance settings section on the workspace settings page. Everyone else can't open Governance.

<Note>
  Owners and admins can also choose to **hide private projects** from the Governance view, from the same settings section.
</Note>

## Manage Governance from workspace chat

Ask the Genie workspace AI in plain language:

* *"Which projects are failing compliance right now?"*
* *"Flag the customer-portal project — it's handling PII without a policy"*
* *"Create a compliance rule that every project must have a description"*
* *"Run compliance checks on all projects"*

<Tip>
  Every Governance page has an **Ask Genie AI** button with a ready-made prompt for that page — including describing a policy in plain language and letting Genie draft the failure condition for you.
</Tip>

## Related pages

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  <Card title="Guardrails" icon="shield-alert" href="/workspaces/guardrails">
    Control what Genie AI will discuss in your workspace.
  </Card>

  <Card title="PII rules" icon="shield" href="/workspaces/pii-rules">
    Detect and block sensitive data in chat.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Genie MCP Server" icon="code" href="/workspaces/mcp-api">
    Manage governance programmatically from any MCP client.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Members and roles" icon="users" href="/workspaces/members">
    Grant view access to Governance for a non-admin member.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>