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# Governance RCA

# Governance RCA

## Purpose

Governance RCA produces bounded attribution evidence for material governance outcome differences.

Use Governance RCA when a customer needs to understand whether a candidate policy change is responsible for a changed runtime outcome.

## When To Use It

Use Governance RCA when:

* A valid `replay_reference` is available.
* Candidate policy setup is available.
* Comparison or simulation output indicates a difference that needs bounded attribution.
* The customer wants runtime evidence to support review, remediation, approval, rollback, or release decisions.

## Request Boundary

Governance RCA requires:

* `replay_reference`.
* `candidate_policy_setup`.

Governance RCA composes replay, simulation, comparison, and bounded governance attribution. It does not bypass those runtime paths.

## Response Evidence

A successful Governance RCA response may include:

* Status.
* `replay_reference`.
* Baseline outcome.
* Simulated outcome.
* Comparison summary.
* `root_cause`.
* Bounded errors.

The `root_cause` object may indicate:

* `status: "attributed"` when comparison reports a material governance outcome difference.
* `status: "no_material_difference"` when comparison reports no material governance outcome difference.
* Responsible governance change identity where attribution is available.
* Attribution type.

## Customer Responsibilities

Customers should:

* Store RCA evidence with related replay, simulation, comparison, governance, policy, review, and approval records.
* Decide remediation, approval, promotion, rollback, or governance evolution outcomes in customer-owned systems.
* Treat RCA as bounded runtime evidence, not as an automatic decision.

## Boundary

Governance RCA is limited to bounded governance attribution. It is not enterprise RCA, infrastructure RCA, organizational RCA, clinical RCA, financial RCA, or an explanation engine.

## Next Step

Use [Runtime API Reference](runtime-api-reference.md) for the customer-facing API surface summary, then consult `foxcommand-runtime` for exact request and response contracts.