regelrepository

Regelrepository, literally “rule repository,” is a centralized or distributed storage system for formalized rules and related artifacts used to guide automated decisions, business processes, and policy enforcement. It stores machine-readable rule definitions, decision models, constraints, and the metadata that describes their purpose, applicability, authorship, and version history.

Purpose and scope: It provides a single source of truth for rules across applications, enabling consistent decisioning, traceability, governance, and compliance. It supports rule authoring, review, versioning, testing, deployment, and auditing.

Architecture and components: Core is the rule store. It is complemented by a metadata catalog, version control, access control and authentication, rule validation and testing tools, change management workflows, and audit logs. It integrates with rule engines and decision-management systems and can expose APIs for retrieval and execution.

Lifecycle: Rules are authored, reviewed, approved, and stored in the repository; changes create new versions while preserving history; promotions move rules from development to testing to production; incidents or audits can trigger revalidation or rollback.

Interoperability and standards: Regelrepositories often support standards like DMN for decision models or use standard formats such as DMN XML, JSON, or domain-specific languages. They may provide import/export, semantic tagging, and lineage information to support governance and compliance programs.