wellman

Wellmanifest governance gate runtime — deterministic policy-as-code checker.

Distributes governance_check.py as an installable Python package instead of vendoring 187KB+ scripts into every adopting repository.

Install

uv add --group governance wellman
# or
pip install wellman

Usage

# CLI
wellman check --root /path/to/repo

# Module
python -m wellman check --root /path/to/repo

# Programmatic
from wellman.check import run_check
exit_code = run_check(root="/path/to/repo")

Pre-commit hook integration

# In .githooks/pre-commit:
REQUIRED=$(python3 -c "import tomllib; print(tomllib.load(open('pyproject.toml','rb'))['tool']['wellmanifest']['standard'])")
uv pip install "wellman==${REQUIRED}" --quiet
python -m wellman check --root . --preflight

CI reusable workflow

# .github/workflows/governance.yml
jobs:
  governance:
    uses: wellmanifest/new-project/.github/workflows/governance-gate-reusable.yml@v0.20.32

Source

Part of wellmanifest/new-project.