title: Documentation Index description: Complete Guardrails documentation with guides and references.

Guardrails Documentation

Welcome to the Guardrails manual. Inside you’ll find everything you need to wire guarded attributes, design approval flows, expose the reviewer experience, and plug Guardrails into the rest of your Laravel stack – complete with practical copy‑paste examples.

Sections

• Getting Started
• Concepts & Overview
• Configuration Reference
• Model Guarding Guide
• Controller Interception Guide
• Flow Builder Reference
• Signing Policy Reference
• Common Patterns
• Use Cases
• Organization Playbook
• Advanced Flows
• Voting Models
• Bots & Automation
• Auditing & Changelog
• Config Recipes
• Custom Controllers
• External Document Signing
• Email & SMS Verification
• Ideas & Examples
• Extending Models & Migrations

How It Works

• Database & Migrations
• API Reference
• UI & Assets
• Permissions & Policies
• Testing & Local Dev
• FAQ

Key signals you can listen to:

• ApprovalRequestCaptured when a request is created.
• ApprovalStepApproved for every approval signature that gets recorded.
• ApprovalRequestCompleted once the approval threshold is met and changes are applied.
• ApprovalStepRejected for every rejection signature that gets recorded (check step->status for pending vs rejected).
• ApprovalRequestRejected once the rejection threshold is met and the request is halted.