Branch policy

Your branch policy says which branches are protected, how work reaches them, and what must pass first. Jensen enforces it for agents, and the git guard backs it up.

Environments

Each environment names a branch and plays one role.

Environment	Role	Default branch
Production	What ships.	main
Staging	Where it is tried first.	None until you add one
Development	Where finished work lands.	develop, if it exists

With no develop branch, development falls back to production, so a project with only main still works. Task branches are separate: they carry one plan each.

Rules

Each environment carries rule chips.

Rule	Meaning
Allow direct commit	You can commit to the branch itself.
Allow direct push	You can push to it.
Pipeline green	Checks must pass before work lands.
Review approved	A merge request needs review.
Tests required	The project must declare checks.

Without the first two, a branch reads No direct commit and No direct push.

Defaults:

• Production and Staging: pipeline green and review approved.
• Development: pipeline green, tests required, direct push allowed.
• Task branches: commits and pushes allowed.

Edit the policy

Open Settings, Workspace, Git. Workflow rules has an accordion for Production, Staging, Development and Task branches. Set a Branch name, add or remove rules, then Save. The setup wizard asks for the same branches in its Git workflow step.

Task branch names follow Branch template, {type}/{number}-{slug} by default, with Feature word, Bug word and Max slug length beside it.

What agents cannot do

• Edit, commit or push on a branch bound to an environment.
• Move or delete an environment branch, or any other branch.
• Merge into an environment branch themselves. Jensen lands finished work for them.
• Remove a worktree.

Jensen refuses each one with a message saying what to do instead. See The git guard.

Branches Jensen never offers to delete

Cleanup in Source control skips main, master, develop, trunk, production, prod, stable, any release/*, your base branch, the remote’s default branch, the branch you are on, and any branch checked out in a worktree.