dbl-policy-gates 0.1.1

Deterministic gate algebra for dbl-policy

dbl-policy-gates

Deterministic gate algebra for dbl-policy.

This package provides the primitive gate operations used to build governance functions. It does not execute tasks, emit events, or observe runtime artifacts.

Position in the Stack

execution-without-normativity
    -> dbl-core
    -> dbl-policy
    -> dbl-policy-gates
    -> domain policies

dbl-policy defines the contract for policy decisions. dbl-policy-gates defines the algebra used to assemble them.

Model

There are two layers in this package:

• Gate: deterministic structure that evaluates to a gate-local decision
• RootPolicy: wrapper that stamps a gate decision into a dbl_policy.model.PolicyDecision

This split is intentional. Gates remain anonymous structure; only the root policy carries policy_id and policy_version.

Install

pip install dbl-policy-gates

Requires Python 3.11+ and dbl-policy>=0.3,<0.4.

Quickstart

from dbl_policy.model import PolicyId, PolicyVersion, PolicyContext, TenantId
from dbl_policy_gates import Bound, Match, RootPolicy, chain

root = RootPolicy(
    policy_id=PolicyId("chat.guardrails"),
    policy_version=PolicyVersion("1.0.0"),
    root=chain(
        Match("capability", "chat", label="chat_capability"),
        Bound("max_output_tokens", 1, 4096, label="output_token_limit"),
    ),
)

ctx = PolicyContext(
    tenant_id=TenantId("tenant-1"),
    inputs={"capability": "chat", "max_output_tokens": 512},
)

decision = root.evaluate(ctx)

Included Gates

• Require
• Match
• OneOf
• Bound
• Tenant
• Allow
• Deny
• Chain
• AnyOf
• Invert

Chain and AnyOf require at least one child gate. Empty combinators are rejected at construction time.

Describe and Drift

Every gate implements describe().

Use describe_digest(gate) to get a stable SHA-256 digest of the canonical gate description. This is intended for drift detection and replay tooling.

Structured Reason Detail

Gates produce structural reason_code values such as:

gate.bound.above:max_output_tokens

When a RootPolicy converts a gate denial into PolicyDecision, the gate detail dict is serialized into canonical JSON for reason_message.

Example:

{"actual":5000,"hi":4096,"key":"max_output_tokens","label":"output_token_limit"}

Development

python -m venv .venv
.venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1
python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest