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title: "Policy Assistant"
date: "2025-02-10T11:01:15+00:00"
summary: "Create custom policies effortlessly with the Acquia Web Governance AI-powered Policy Assistant. Generate tailored policies through conversation and apply them to your domains."
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Introduction
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The Web Governance Policy Assistant is an AI-powered tool that helps you create custom policies. Because you engage in a conversational interface with the AI Assistant, you can quickly generate policies that are tailored to your needs. When the policy is created, select the domains that you want to apply the policy to.

How to access Policy Assistant
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This section provides instructions on how to access Policy Assistant.

Note

The Policy Assistant is available only if the _Policies_ module is enabled for your Web Governance account.

1.  Click **Global Policies Overview** on the top navigation bar.
    
    ![The Global Policy Overview button on the top page menu bar.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/773c313e-353d-4f74-8968-823b4fd53480/web/WebGov_MainMenu-GlobalPolicyOverview.png)
    
2.  Click **Policy Assistant**, a sparkle icon, on the tab bar on the page menu.
    
    ![The location of the Policy Assistant tab at the top of the Global Policies page.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/fca317a9-b56b-430e-a880-ee0fbce40270/web/WebGov_Policies-PolicyAssistantButton.png)
    

How to use Policy Assistant
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This section provides instructions on how to create a policy with the Policy Assistant.

1.  Click **Policy Assistant** on the _Global Policies_ page menu bar.
2.  Click **Agree** to agree to the terms on the start page and open the assistant.
3.  On the _Policy Assistant_ page, you can do one of the following actions:
    *   Type a custom prompt into the input field at the bottom.
    *   Click on one of the pre-made suggestions to start a conversation.
4.  The assistant asks follow-up questions to refine your policy requirements. Enter answers to the prompts in the text box at the bottom of the page.
5.  Once enough information is gathered, the assistant provides a policy summary and asks for your confirmation. If the summary meets your expectations, confirm in order to proceed with policy generation. 
6.  After the policy is generated, click **View Policy** to review it.
    
    ![The location of the View Policy button.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/92096e7c-5d9e-4122-9add-aba01c5a4832/web/Mon_Opt_Policies-PolicyAssistant-ViewPolicyButton.png)
    
    If you need to make any edits at this point, visit [Create a custom policy](/node/58751).
    
7.  The _New Policy_ page opens. Select the domains that you want to apply the policy to and then click **Save**. You have the option at this stage to rename the policy if needed (a suggested name is provided by the assistant).
8.  The _Policy List_ page opens. Policies that are created with the Policy Assistant are marked with a sparkle icon for easy identification.

Your new policy runs immediately after it is saved for the first time. It will also run each time a domain scan is done.

Reset the conversation
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This section provides instructions on how to reset the conversation.

1.  Click `Reset conversation`, a recycle icon, in the dialog box.
2.  A dialog asks, "Are you sure you want to clear this conversation and start a new one? Please note that all previous messages from this conversation will be cleared." Select one of the following options:
    *   **Yes, start a new chat**
        
        *   The current conversation is disregarded and the dialog begins from the start.
            
    *   **No, don't clear this chat**
        
        *   The message `No, don't clear this chat` is displayed in the chat conversation. Type a new message in the dialog box to continue the conversation.
            

Additional resources
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Visit the [AI-assisted policy generation](https://app.getreprise.com/launch/dnbW0eX/) clickable walkthrough.