IRIS docs
IRIS governs what runs — not what deploys. These guides walk you through discovering agents, writing policy in plain English, compiling to Cedar, and enforcing governance on every LLM call at runtime.
Getting started
Getting Started
Install IRIS and govern your first agent in five minutes.
The Basics
Runtime governance vocabulary: discover, inventory, define, guard.
Build & integrate
Build an Agent with IRIS
Register an agent, set up governance files, and wire the SDK.
Runtime Enforcement
Drop-in LLM clients and @agent.guard() decorators.
Cursor MCP Setup
Connect IRIS to Cursor for inline compliance feedback.
SCM Scanning
Discover agents across GitHub orgs and repos.
Policy & compliance
Policy as Code
Plain English intent → Cedar policy → Git PR review.
Compliance Bundles
Free: Colorado bundles. Pro: CCPA/CPRA ADMT, China PIPL, HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, and more.
Model Governance
Kill switches, fallbacks, and export-control gates.
Regulatory Intelligence
Track AI law changes that affect your agents.
Operations
Monitoring & Witness
Status dashboard, live policy feed, drift, and cost.
Evidence Vault
Append-only signed ledger, retention lifecycle, CI/CD evidence recording, and auditor exports.
HITL & Delegation
Human approval queues and user delegation.
Reference
CLI Reference
All iris commands in one place.
Full README ↗
Extended reference on GitHub.
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