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description: Lifecycle Center Governance helps you maintain control and compliance across agentic development in your organization. It automatically enforces security and compliance policies, monitors coding agent activity in real time, and prevents violations before they reach your environment.
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# Get Started with Lifecycle Center Governance (Beta)

Lifecycle Center Governance helps you maintain control and compliance across agentic development in your organization. It automatically enforces security and compliance policies, monitors coding agent activity in real time, and prevents violations before they reach your environment.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience in <strong>Professional</strong> (API access required), <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Not Available in: <strong>Government Cloud Plus</strong>. Contact your Salesforce account executive for more details.</td></tr></tbody><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Not available in: <strong>EU Operating</strong> Zone. EU Operating zone is a special paid offering that provides an enhanced level of data residency commitment. DevOps Center <em>is</em> supported in orgs in the EU that aren't part of EU OZ, per standard product terms and conditions.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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Note This feature is a Beta Service. Customer may opt to try such Beta Service in its sole discretion. Any use of the Beta Service is subject to the applicable Beta Services Terms provided at [Agreements and Terms](https://www.salesforce.com/company/legal/agreements/). Governance supports Agentforce Vibes coding agents.

- **[What is Lifecycle Center Governance](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_governance_introduction.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Lifecycle Center Governance is a centralized policy enforcement layer built into the Lifecycle Center. Through policy controls, Governance defines what coding agents can do across your org—at the point of action, before violations reach your environment.
- **[How Lifecycle Center Governance Works](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_governance_how_it_works.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Policies are the foundation of how Governance works. Each policy consists of a set of rules—each rule targeting a specific risk area and defining what gets prevented.
- **[Enable Lifecycle Center Governance](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_governance_enable.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Enable Lifecycle Center Governance to unlock policy controls in your org and start enforcing policies across coding agents.
- **[Lifecycle Center Governance Policies](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_governance_policies.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Lifecycle Center Governance includes a catalog of predefined policies covering the risk areas of AI-assisted development—from security vulnerabilities and unauthorized deployments to code quality and compliance standards.