# Policy Approval and Retirement Workflow

This diagram shows the dynamic workflow used to create, review, approve, publish, supersede, and retire controlled policy documents in the Kell Creations platform.

## Purpose

This view explains how the Policy Repository, notifications, audit logging, evidence retention, and version-controlled source history work together to support controlled policy lifecycle management.

## Diagram Source

The source for this diagram is maintained as architecture code in:

`architecture/workspace/dynamic-policy-approval-retirement.puml`

## Diagram

![Policy Approval and Retirement Workflow](../../images/dynamic-policy-approval-retirement.svg)

## Included Workflow Participants

- Business Owner
- Operations Staff
- Policy Repository
- Notification Service
- Audit & Logging Service
- Compliance Evidence Repository
- Forgejo Git

## Notes

This dynamic workflow establishes the governance pattern for controlled policy lifecycle management in the Kell Creations platform. Future refinements should distinguish between draft creation, formal review states, approval-required publication, superseded version handling, retirement triggers, and evidence-retention policies.