Agentic GitHub Guardrails

Wartchflow is a release protection tool that lets you define custom rules in plain English and then detects operational violations like issues, PRs, deployments and more. It alerts you instantly within a PR when something breaks your team's standards, so you always know if things are running smoothly or going off track.

Watchflow understands context and reduces false positives by 90%.
Define custom rules in plain English, then get intelligent protection for PRs, deployments, and more - all within GitHub.

What can I do with Watchflow?

• Define custom protection rules for commits, merges, pull request reviews, and deployment approvals - at the repository level.
• Detect and track violations of your pull request policies, optionally blocking PR merges and deployment approvals.
• Acknowledge and triage events using context-aware, automated reasoning based on “ACK” metadata.

Here is an example:

rules:
  - description: "Require 2 approvals for PRs to main"
    enabled: true
    severity: "medium"
    event_types: ["pull_request"]
  - description: "Security team review for critical files"
    enabled: true
    severity: "high"
    event_types: ["pull_request"]
    parameters:
      critical_files: ["src/security/*", "config/secrets/*"]

How it works

1. Install Watchflow and connect your GitHub organization or user account.
2. Use the Watchflow app to create and manage custom rules.
3. Monitor policy violations and acknowledge remediations directly in your pull requests.

Which teams should use it?

• Engineering teams
  • Enforce code review requirements without friction
  • Ensure senior developer involvement for complex changes
• DevOps & Platform teams
  • Protect production environments intelligently
  • Require explicit approval for critical deployments
• Security teams
  • Detect security-sensitive changes automatically
• Require security team review for critical files

Want to try our preview setup?

Use our Rule Evaluator to describe your rule and instantly get a ready-to-paste config.

Watchflow is open source and maintained by the team at Warestack. Use it to scale quality and governance across your codebase.