ObsidianWall
The first implementation
of Programmable Assurance.
The belief: Intent should align with outcomes.
Engineering documentation for ObsidianWall — the first platform built to make that belief operational.
Discipline vs. Implementation
Programmable Assurance is an open discipline independent of any single vendor. ObsidianWall is the first platform built to implement it. The discipline exists independently of ObsidianWall.
Learn about the discipline at programmableassurance.org →Discipline
Programmable Assurance
The open discipline ObsidianWall implements. Continuously aligning intent with outcomes through executable governance, accountability, evidence, and feedback.
programmableassurance.org →Vocabulary
Category Language
The Alignment Principle, Intent-Reality Gap, Governability Boundary, Governance Drift, and the full Programmable Assurance vocabulary.
Browse vocabulary →Architecture
Platform Architecture
The three-layer governance operating system. Two-plane doctrine. Verdict, Sentinel, Compass, Forge, and the Risk Ledger.
View architecture →Get Started
Install Verdict
Pre-deployment infrastructure governance for Terraform and CloudFormation. Install in two minutes.
Installation guide →Docs
Verdict Quickstart
Write a policy, simulate decisions, evaluate a real plan, and wire into GitHub Actions.
Quickstart guide →Platform
Roadmap
v0.5.0 shipped. v0.6.0 and Compass Alpha on the horizon. Track where ObsidianWall is going.
View roadmap →Design Principle
AI may advise. AI may explain. AI may optimize.
AI may NOT authoritatively govern.
Every governance decision in ObsidianWall is produced by deterministic evaluation of human-authored policies. Decisions are reproducible, explainable, and attributable to a named policy and a named human who wrote it.
The Ecosystem
The discipline. Open. Vendor-agnostic. Independent of ObsidianWall.
The product. ObsidianWall implements Programmable Assurance.
obsidianwall.dev
Engineering documentation for ObsidianWall specifically.