Policy

A comprehensive security policy management toolkit for generating policies, checking compliance strength, rotating access controls, auditing configurations, and managing credential lifecycles. Works entirely offline with local storage, zero configuration required.

Why Policy?

• Works entirely offline — your data never leaves your machine
• 12 core security commands covering the full policy lifecycle
• Simple command-line interface, no GUI needed
• Export to JSON, CSV, or plain text anytime
• Automatic history and activity logging with timestamps

Commands

Each core command (generate, check-strength, rotate, audit, store, retrieve, expire, policy, report, hash, verify, revoke) works in two modes:

• Without arguments: shows recent entries from that command's log
• With arguments: records the input with a timestamp and saves to the command-specific log file

Data Storage

All data is stored locally at ~/.local/share/policy/. Each command maintains its own .log file (e.g., generate.log, audit.log, rotate.log). A unified history.log tracks all activity across commands with timestamps. Use the export command to back up your data in JSON, CSV, or plain text format at any time.

Requirements

• Bash 4.0+ (uses set -euo pipefail)
• Standard Unix utilities: date, wc, du, tail, grep, sed, cat, basename
• No external dependencies or API keys required
• Works on Linux, macOS, and WSL

When to Use

1. Security compliance audits — Run policy audit and policy report to document compliance posture and generate audit trails
2. Credential rotation workflows — Use policy rotate and policy expire to track and enforce regular credential rotation schedules
3. Password and key strength assessment — Run policy check-strength to evaluate the strength of passwords, keys, or security configs before deployment
4. Policy document generation — Use policy generate and policy policy to create, update, and maintain security policy documentation
5. Access control lifecycle management — Combine policy store, policy retrieve, policy verify, and policy revoke to manage the full lifecycle of credentials and access tokens

Examples

# Generate a security policy document
policy generate "SOC2 access control policy for production databases"

# Check password strength
policy check-strength "MyP@ssw0rd2024! — evaluate complexity and entropy"

# Rotate an API key
policy rotate "AWS IAM key for deployment-bot — rotated 2024-03-18"

# Audit firewall configuration
policy audit "iptables rules on prod-web-01 — check for open ports"

# Store credential metadata
policy store "GitHub PAT for CI/CD — expires 2024-06-01 — scope: repo,workflow"

# Verify a hash
policy verify "SHA256 checksum for release-v2.0.0.tar.gz"

# Revoke an expired token
policy revoke "OAuth2 refresh token for legacy-app — expired"

# View statistics across all commands
policy stats

# Export all data as CSV
policy export csv

# Search for a specific term
policy search "production"

Output

All commands return structured text to stdout. Redirect to a file with policy <command> > output.txt. Exported files are saved to the data directory with the chosen format extension.

Configuration

The data directory defaults to ~/.local/share/policy/. The tool auto-creates this directory on first run.

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