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Catching risky dependencies after they reach production is expensive. PR-time policy gates stop them at the cheapest moment, with the right context and reviewer attention.
Hard-blocking a new policy on day one breaks builds and trust. A phased rollout from warn to block earns the right to enforce by proving the policy is correct first.
Admission control is the last cheap chance to refuse a non-compliant workload. The right policies turn supply chain attestations into deploy-time decisions.
Every policy needs a bypass path or it will be routed around. The trick is making the bypass auditable, time-bound, and rare enough to remain meaningful.
An admitted workload is not a static one. Runtime drift detection turns the SBOM into a living contract and surfaces supply chain changes before they become incidents.
Different gates with different rules create gaps and developer friction. A unified policy engine evaluates one definition at PR, build, admission, and runtime.
License risk that surfaces at release time is already too late. PR-time license policy turns an open-ended legal review into an automated, predictable check.
Signing artifacts is necessary but not sufficient. The policy that verifies signatures, attestations, and trust roots is what turns signing into a security control.
MCP servers expose tools that AI agents can call directly. Capability policy decides which tools each agent gets, with the same rigor as any other supply chain gate.
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