policy as code

Scattered permission checks drift apart until one is wrong. The scored answer weighs a central decision service against latency, availability and consistency, and keeps enforcement close to the data.

Most cloud breaches start with a setting, not an exploit. The scored answer moves those settings into reviewed code, checks them before deployment, and catches the drift that happens anyway.

RBAC decides who may create a pod; admission decides what kind of pod may exist. The scored answer layers the built-in options, handles webhook failure modes and remembers that the admission path is itself attack surface.

Separate proposal, verification and deployment authority. Bind approval to the executed artifact and environment, protect every policy dependency, and plan for drift, partial application and limited rollback.

A gateway is the one place every tool call passes, which makes it the natural home for policy. It is also blind to everything that does not pass through it, and that is the half of the answer most candidates skip.