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VMware Policy

Author: Wei Zhou, VMware by Broadcom — wei-wz.zhou@broadcom.com This is a community-driven project by a VMware engineer, not an official VMware product. For official VMware developer tools see developer.broadcom.com.

Unified audit logging, policy enforcement, and sanitization for the VMware MCP skill family.

Install

pip install vmware-policy

Usage

from vmware_policy import vmware_tool

@vmware_tool(risk_level="high", sensitive_params=["password"])
def delete_segment(name: str, env: str = "") -> dict:
    ...

Reporting a failure the tool returns

Most tools signal failure by raising, and @vmware_tool records that. A tool that instead catches the exception and returns an error payload looks identical to a successful call — and for a long time was recorded as one, which also meant undo tokens were written for changes that never happened and the circuit breaker never saw a failure.

Dict-shaped payloads are now detected automatically. Nothing to do if a tool returns the family shape:

return {"error": msg, "hint": "Run 'vmware-nsx doctor'."}   # audited as a failure

A tool whose return type cannot carry that marker — one handing back console text, say — must say so explicitly:

from vmware_policy import report_tool_failure

except Exception as exc:
    report_tool_failure(str(exc))
    return f"Error: {msg}"

Strings are deliberately not sniffed: skills that return console output can emit text beginning with "Error:" as data, and marking those calls failed would be the same misreport in the opposite direction.

CLI

vmware-audit log --last 20
vmware-audit log --status denied --since 2026-03-28
vmware-audit stats --days 7

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