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Making Governance Exceptions Sanctioned, Owned, and Expiring

calendar_today July 18, 2026 domain programmableweb

I have been walking through the governance tools I build under API Commons one at a time, and today I want to talk about the one that addresses the messiest part of running an actual governance program: the exception. Every real program hits a rule it cannot satisfy yet. A legacy endpoint predates your tagging standard, a deadline lands before the fix does, or someone made a deliberate deviation for a reason that was good at the time.

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