GOVERN Developer

Integration options

GOVERN provides four paths to embed governance in your development workflow:

Option	Best for	Setup time
TypeScript SDK	Node.js and browser apps	5 minutes
Python SDK	ML pipelines, notebooks, FastAPI	5 minutes
Go SDK	High-performance services	5 minutes
CLI	CI/CD pipelines, scripting	2 minutes

TypeScript in 30 seconds

npm install @archetypal-ai/govern

import { GovernClient } from '@archetypal-ai/govern';

const govern = new GovernClient({
  apiKey: process.env.GOVERN_API_KEY,
  orgId: process.env.GOVERN_ORG_ID,
});

// Wrap any AI call
const result = await govern.assess({
  model: 'claude-sonnet-4-20250514',
  prompt: messages,
  response: completion.content,
});

if (result.action === 'block') {
  throw new GovernPolicyViolation(result.violations);
}

Python in 30 seconds

pip install archetypal-govern

from archetypal_govern import GovernClient

govern = GovernClient(
    api_key=os.environ["GOVERN_API_KEY"],
    org_id=os.environ["GOVERN_ORG_ID"],
)

result = govern.assess(
    model="claude-sonnet-4-20250514",
    prompt=messages,
    response=completion.content,
)

CI/CD in 2 minutes

.github/workflows/ci.yml

- name: GOVERN assessment
  uses: archetypal-ai/govern-action@v1
  with:
    api-key: ${{ secrets.GOVERN_API_KEY }}
    model: claude-sonnet-4-20250514
    test-prompts: tests/govern/prompts.json

What you get

• Inline assessment — assess any inference before acting on it
• Batch assessment — assess test datasets in CI
• Policy enforcement — block, flag, or log based on org policy
• Webhook events — receive real-time alerts in Slack, PagerDuty, or custom endpoints
• Audit trail — every assessment logged with full metadata