quorum: AI Code Governance Tool Enforces Independent Model Review

quorum is an AI code governance tool that addresses the governance gap in AI-assisted development where the same model that writes code also approves it. The tool enforces a consensus protocol: code must be independently reviewed by a different model before it can be committed. No quorum, no commit.

How It Works

The workflow follows this sequence: write code → submit evidence → independent audit → consensus → retrospective → commit. Micro changes skip audit automatically, while complex changes trigger a 3-role deliberative protocol with Advocate, Devil's Advocate, and Judge roles. If the audit loop keeps rejecting for the same reason, stagnation detection kicks in and escalates.

Governance Features

Unlike most AI orchestrators that coordinate agents without enforcing quality gates, quorum has three structural gates that actually block progress:

• Audit gate — evidence must be approved by an independent model
• Retro gate — team must reflect before committing
• Quality gate — lint/test must pass

Key Features

• Provider-agnostic — works with Claude, Codex, GPT, Gemini as auditors, allowing mix and match per role
• Standalone CLI — works without any IDE plugin (install via npm i -g quorum-audit)
• 9 deterministic analysis tools including code_map, dependency_graph, RTM tracking, and scope verification
• Ink TUI dashboard for real-time monitoring
• 356 tests with cross-platform CI/CD

Getting Started

Installation and setup commands:

npm install -g quorum-audit
quorum setup
quorum plan # track progress with RTM status
quorum daemon # real-time TUI dashboard

The tool was developed while building SoulFlow, a 141-node workflow engine, using this exact governance workflow. It's the successor to consensus-loop (v2.5.0).