---
title: Cutdown Governance Review Policy
Status: Active
Scope: Update process for governance policies
Related:
  - ./change-publication-policy.md
  - ./decision-authority-policy.md
---

# Cutdown Governance Review Policy

## Decision

Governance policies use scheduled review plus an emergency amendment path.

## Scheduled Review

- Conduct governance policy review on a fixed cadence (quarterly by default).
- Review must assess consistency across policy documents and unresolved contradictions.
- Outcomes: no change, clarification update, or proposed amendment.

## Emergency Amendment Path

Emergency path may be used for:

- critical compatibility risk,
- security/safety governance gap,
- policy contradiction that blocks release decisions.

Emergency amendments must include:

- incident/problem statement,
- temporary and final resolution plan,
- explicit effective date,
- follow-up review in next scheduled cycle.

## Publication and Authority

- Governance amendments follow staged publication lifecycle (`Draft` -> `Accepted` -> `Effective`).
- Final authority and appeals follow `./decision-authority-policy.md`.


## Related

- [`./change-publication-policy.md`](./change-publication-policy.md)
- [`./decision-authority-policy.md`](./decision-authority-policy.md)