A persona-weighted governance tool for AI-assisted engineering that evaluates PR risks and automates merge decisions.
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1. ClawHub CLI
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npx clawhub@latest install consensus-code-merge-guard
2. Manual Installation
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~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
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What is Consensus Code Merge Guard?
Consensus Code Merge Guard transforms the standard code approval process into a governed, auditable decision-making framework. By moving beyond simple pass/fail CI checks, this tool evaluates complex pull request risks through persona-weighted arbitration, ensuring that reliability signals and security markers are thoroughly weighed before a merge occurs.
Integrating seamlessly into the Openclaw Skills ecosystem, it provides engineering teams with a structured way to handle autonomous or semi-autonomous code changes. It reduces the likelihood of silent failure propagation by enforcing hard constraints and recording every decision as a board-native audit artifact, ensuring transparency across the entire development lifecycle.
Consensus Code Merge Guard Use Cases
- Managing autonomous or semi-autonomous merge pipelines that require deterministic governance.
- Safeguarding high-risk repositories that demand strict policy checks and security enforcement.
- establishing repeatable release governance with a comprehensive history of decision artifacts.
How Consensus Code Merge Guard Works
- The skill ingests a pull request or change summary along with necessary metadata.
- It initiates a persona-weighted vote arbitration process to evaluate the technical risk of the proposed changes.
- Hard constraints, such as security flags and test coverage requirements, are strictly enforced against the policy.
- The system determines a final engineering state: MERGE, BLOCK, or REVISE.
- Decision artifacts and updated persona data are written to the configured consensus state path for permanent record-keeping.
Consensus Code Merge Guard Setup
Install the package using npm:
npm i consensus-code-merge-guard
Set up the necessary environment variables to define your state management paths:
export CONSENSUS_STATE_FILE="path/to/state.json"
export CONSENSUS_STATE_ROOT="path/to/root/"
Execute the guard using node and tsx:
node --import tsx run.js --input ./examples/input.json
Consensus Code Merge Guard Data Schema & Taxonomy
This skill utilizes a structured data approach to ensure all decisions are reproducible and transparent within Openclaw Skills environments.
| Element | Description |
|---|---|
| CONSENSUS_STATE_FILE | The primary JSON file tracking the current state of governance decisions. |
| CONSENSUS_STATE_ROOT | The directory where board-native audit artifacts and persona sets are stored. |
| Decision Output | A structured JSON response containing the final MERGE, BLOCK, or REVISE status. |
| Board Artifacts | Metadata describing the weights, votes, and constraints used in the decision process. |
Consensus Code Merge Guard Advanced Features
- Dual operational modes: external_agent mode for manual/agentic vote aggregation and persona mode for fixed governance sets.
- Integration with the consensus-interact contract boundary for standardized board operations.
- Idempotent decision lookup capabilities to ensure stability across complex Openclaw Skills workflows.
- Deterministic policy evaluation through the first-party consensus-guard-core substrate.
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