delimit_gov_health
Check governance engine availability by confirming kernel boot status and policy load; ensures downstream gates fail-closed instead of silent no-ops.
Instructions
Report whether the governance kernel and policy are reachable.
When to use: at session start as part of the standard orchestrator ritual (delimit_revive + delimit_ledger_context + this + inbox daemon), or as a CI smoke check before a gated deploy. Confirms the governance backend is reachable and the policy kernel is loaded so downstream gates will fail-closed correctly rather than silently no-op. When NOT to use: to evaluate whether a specific candidate action requires gating (use delimit_gov_evaluate), to read the rules themselves (delimit_gov_policy), or to check per-repo task state (delimit_gov_status).
Sibling contrast: delimit_gov_status reports per-repo workload (open tasks, recent decisions); this reports the engine layer itself (kernel boot status, policy load, backend integration). If a deploy gate is failing, run this first to rule out "engine down" before debugging policy logic.
Side effects: read-only and not license-gated. Invokes backends.governance_bridge.health and wraps the response through _with_next_steps. No ledger write, no notification, no evidence file. Safe to call on every session start without rate concern.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| repo | No | Filesystem path to the repository. Default "." (cwd). | . |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
No arguments | |||