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Policy Has to Run Somewhere: What Policy-as-Skill Changes in Governed LLM Systems

TL;DR for operators A policy-aware LLM has to do more than retrieve the right document. It must know what evidence is mandatory, when evidence is insufficient, when a case requires human review, which policy version governed the decision, and what information must be retained so the decision can later be reconstructed. Policy-as-Skill: Governed LLM Decision Support with Evidence, Deterministic Control, and Audit1 turns those obligations into explicit runtime components rather than leaving them inside prompts or application glue code. ...

October 9, 2026 · 6 min · Zelina