A deterministic safety gate for IAM and privilege elevation requests in automated agent workflows.
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1. ClawHub CLI
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npx clawhub@latest install consensus-permission-escalation-guard
2. Manual Installation
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~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
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What is Consensus Permission Escalation Guard?
consensus-permission-escalation-guard acts as a critical pre-execution governance layer for identity and access management. It is designed to evaluate and validate requests to grant, expand, or assume higher privileges within a system, ensuring that no unauthorized or risky permission changes occur without proper oversight.
By integrating this tool into your Openclaw Skills, you gain a robust mechanism for enforcing strict security policies. It uses deterministic logic to provide clear ALLOW, BLOCK, or REQUIRE_REWRITE decisions, accompanied by audit artifacts that facilitate transparent compliance monitoring and incident response.
Consensus Permission Escalation Guard Use Cases
- Preventing wildcard permission assignments or broad administrative jumps during automated deployments.
- Enforcing ticket references for all privilege escalation requests to maintain a clear audit trail.
- Managing break-glass scenarios by requiring specific incident references before granting access.
- Resolving separation-of-duties conflicts where an agent might otherwise possess both creation and approval authority.
- Automating the review of justification quality and duration limits for temporary access grants.
How Consensus Permission Escalation Guard Works
- The skill receives an escalation request and validates it against a strict input schema, rejecting any unknown fields.
- It evaluates the request against predefined policy flags to identify hard-block risks like broad owner jumps or missing references.
- The logic runs a persona-weighted voting process or aggregates external agent votes to reach a consensus.
- A final decision (ALLOW, BLOCK, or REQUIRE_REWRITE) is issued based on the deterministic evaluation.
- Detailed decision artifacts are written to the filesystem for future replay and auditability within the Openclaw Skills ecosystem.
Consensus Permission Escalation Guard Setup
To begin using this governance tool, install the package via npm:
npm i consensus-permission-escalation-guard
Ensure your environment is configured with the necessary state paths:
export CONSENSUS_STATE_FILE=path/to/state.json
export CONSENSUS_STATE_ROOT=path/to/artifacts/
You can then run a quick validation check using the provided examples:
node --import tsx run.js --input ./examples/input.json
Consensus Permission Escalation Guard Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill manages state and audit trails through specific environment-driven paths. Data is organized into structured JSON artifacts for every decision made.
| File Type | Description | Key Metadata |
|---|---|---|
| State File | Tracks current consensus and voting history | CONSENSUS_STATE_FILE |
| Decision Artifacts | Detailed logs of ALLOW/BLOCK/REWRITE outcomes | CONSENSUS_STATE_ROOT |
| Input Schema | Strict validation template for IAM requests | JSON Schema |
Every decision includes a timestamp, persona weights, policy violations, and the final deterministic result required for professional Openclaw Skills audit trails.
Consensus Permission Escalation Guard Advanced Features
- Support for external_agent mode to consume and aggregate votes from multiple external sources.
- Persona-weighted voting logic for internal deterministic decision-making.
- Idempotent retry logic to ensure consistency across repeated execution attempts.
- Integration with consensus-guard-core for extended state helper functions and aggregation.
- Native support for board-level audit artifacts essential for enterprise-grade Openclaw Skills deployments.
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