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VCS Guardrails - Minimum Approvals

Minimum Approvals

vcs.minimum-approvals

Enforces a minimum number of approving reviews before merge (default 1). Configurable via the min_approvals input for stricter requirements.

code review approvals required reviewers

Compatible Integrations

This guardrail works with the following integrations. Click to see how to use Minimum Approvals with each collector.

Enable This Guardrail

Add the parent policy to your lunar-config.yml to enable this guardrail.

📄 lunar-config.yml
policies:
  - uses: github://earthly/lunar-lib/policies/vcs@v1.0.0
    include: [minimum-approvals]
    # with: ...

How This Guardrail Works

This guardrail is part of the VCS Guardrails policy. It evaluates data collected by integrations and produces a pass/fail check with actionable feedback.

When enabled, this check runs automatically on every PR and in AI coding workflows, providing real-time enforcement of your engineering standards.

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Integrations Gather Data
Collectors extract metadata from code, CI pipelines, tool outputs, and scans
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{ } Centralized as JSON
All data merged into each component's unified metadata document
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This Guardrail Checks Current
Minimum Approvals runs and provides pass/fail feedback

Configuration Options

These inputs can be configured in your lunar-config.yml to customize how the parent policy (and this guardrail) behaves.

Input Required Default Description
min_approvals Optional 1 Minimum number of required approvals (integer, or omit to skip check)
required_default_branch Optional main Required default branch name for the require-default-branch policy. Defaults to 'main'
allowed_merge_strategies Required Comma-separated list of allowed merge strategies for the allowed-merge-strategies policy (merge, squash, rebase). Only listed strategies will be allowed
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VCS Guardrails

This guardrail is part of the VCS Guardrails policy, which includes 14 guardrails for repository and ownership.

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