managing-policies SKILL.md skillA
managing-policies from tkhq/tk is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tkhq/tk/managing-policies@git:20261016.fd9d680Pins git:20261016.fd9d680 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tkhq/tk
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- git:20261016.fd9d680, committed Oct 16, 2026
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- 62
- License
- Apache-2.0
Write, apply, inspect, update, and debug Turnkey policies with tk, including consensus that requires a human approver and policy evaluations for a denied activity. Use to grant or restrict what a tagged user may do or to explain a denial; not for choosing an approval model, which the bootstrap workflow covers.
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What the file says
# Managing policies
Result: a policy set that grants the intended access and nothing more, tested
from a non-root credential, with denials explained by `policy evaluations`.
## Reference
- [resources](../../docs/resources.md): `policy` command records and update field names.
- [activities](../../docs/activities.md): `policy evaluations` and consensus votes.
## Rules
- Write policies against tag ids and secret static properties. Name a user or
resource id only where the reference says it is unavoidable.
- A DENY overrides every ALLOW. Never delete a containment DENY to make an
activity succeed.
- Consensus must contain a clause the submitter satisfies, or the activity is
denied at submission instead of waiting for approval.
- Test from the constrained credential. Root success proves nothing about
agent access.
- Keep expressions exactly as written; only the `${UPPER_SNAKE}` id
variables interpolate.
## Instructions
Inputs: the root profile (`admin`), `AGENT_TAG` and the other tag ids from
[bootstrapping-organization](../bootstrapping-organization/SKILL.md), and the
approval cell. Read [policy-language.md](../references/policy-language.md)
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tkhq/tk/managing-policies@sha256:73150d64911f27ddThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.fd9d680, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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| git:20260929.a1388c6 | 2026-09-29 | a1388c6 | 6,083 B | A | view · diff |
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Source
tkhq/tk · 62 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mm2gm6uwjc72uotd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tkhq/tk/managing-policies GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/73150d64911f27dd493f3da4dc111eeb8a4dae0c270930173624587d5ff32d9e
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