Governance Stack — Sentinel + Shield + Auditor
Governance Stack — Sentinel + Shield + Auditor
The Governance Stack is Tier 1 — three agents that enforce policy before anything executes
Start here. Every OpenClaw deployment needs this layer first.
The Governance Stack is the authority foundation your entire agent system runs under. Three Tier 1 agents — Sentinel, Shield, and Auditor — working in coordinated enforcement. Sentinel vetoes dangerous actions. Shield hardens your environment. Auditor validates every output before it propagates. Nothing in your execution layer operates outside the boundaries these three define.
One combined install. Coordinated enforcement from day one. The safety layer that turns "autonomous agents" into "auditable AI infrastructure."
Three agents. Complete Tier 1 authority.
🛡️ Sentinel — Veto & Enforcement Authority ($129 standalone)
The highest-authority agent in the stack. Watches every other agent, vetoes dangerous actions before execution, monitors file changes, catches exposed credentials, enforces constitutional rules. The only agent that can stop all the others.
🔒 Shield — Security Hardening Agent ($49 standalone)
Hardens your OpenClaw environment against misuse. Scans for vulnerabilities, enforces least-privilege access, monitors for anomalous behavior, and locks down attack surfaces before execution agents ever run.
📋 Auditor — Compliance & Validation Agent ($49 standalone)
Validates everything before it ships. Pre-commit checks, GIGO violation detection, agent output quality scoring, data integrity enforcement across every handoff. The agent that catches mistakes before they compound.
What you get: combined install, coordinated enforcement
- 3 complete agent packages — SOUL.md, skills/, TOOLS.md, install/uninstall/verify for each
- install-all.sh — installs all three in the correct dependency order
- Combined integration guide — how to wire the full governance layer into your AGENTS.md
- ClawHavoc safety protocols — incident response, boundary definitions, escalation procedures
- Coordinated enforcement config — pre-wired inter-agent communication so they work as a team, not three separate scripts
Install in 4 steps
- Download the ZIP
cd ~/.openclaw/agents && unzip governance-stack.zip./install-all.sh- Tell your Chief of Staff: "Sentinel, Shield, and Auditor are active — all agents operate under their authority"
Works with Claude 3.5/4 or GPT-5. Install this stack before any execution agents. The governance layer must be running first.
After ClawHavoc: governance is not optional.
Running autonomous agents without a governance layer is how incidents happen — not if, when. The Governance Stack is what responsible autonomous deployment looks like: three coordinated agents, policy enforced at every layer, every action bounded, every violation logged. This is the foundation. Everything else builds on top of it.
Pairs with the Execution Stack and Operations Stack. Get everything with the Full Constitutional Stack ($299 — best value).
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