# GovOPlaN Approvals

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**Repository type:** module (domain).
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`govoplan-approvals` owns generic approval and sign-off chains with trusted delegation, separation of duties, escalation, and signature references. It persists immutable request revisions, append-only decisions and lifecycle evidence, exposes a tenant-scoped API and WebUI, and provides the `approvals.requests` capability for exact-subject approval checks.

## Initial Ownership

- approval requests
- sign-off chains
- delegation and substitution facts
- four-eyes constraints
- escalation state
- signature references

## Boundaries

This module does not own:

- module-specific business decisions
- workflow orchestration engine
- identity and RBAC primitives

Detailed boundary notes are in [docs/APPROVALS_DOMAIN_BOUNDARY.md](docs/APPROVALS_DOMAIN_BOUNDARY.md).

## Integrations

Optional integrations:

- workflow engine
- audit
- files
- notifications

## Development Install

From the core checkout:

```bash
cd /mnt/DATA/git/govoplan-core
./.venv/bin/python -m pip install -e ../govoplan-approvals
```

Focused runtime verification:

```bash
cd /mnt/DATA/git/govoplan-approvals
PYTHONPATH=src:/mnt/DATA/git/govoplan-core/src /mnt/DATA/git/govoplan-core/.venv/bin/python -m unittest discover -s tests
```

## Gitea Workflow

Issue templates are installed under `.gitea/`, and the shared label taxonomy is copied to `docs/gitea-labels.json` with the module label `module/approvals`.

From the core checkout, labels can be synced once a local `GITEA_TOKEN` is available:

```bash
cd /mnt/DATA/git/govoplan-core
/mnt/DATA/git/govoplan/tools/gitea/gitea-sync-labels.py --root /mnt/DATA/git/govoplan-approvals --apply
```