GrowthBook

Feature flag governance can sound like adding more rules, more approvals, and more chances for someone to say “not yet.” That is not the goal. As AI increases the speed and volume of software delivery, teams need better ways to catch mistakes without turning every flag change into a ceremony. In GrowthBook 5.0, we added guardrails at three points in the workflow: • While someone is making the change • When that change interacts with the full rule set • When a person is deciding whether it is ready to publish That includes expanded schema validation, feature-scoped Custom Hooks, soft warnings, sparse JSON patches, broader rule-conflict detection, and a dedicated Review & Publish experience. The bigger story is not any one feature. It is that teams can catch simple problems earlier, understand complex changes more clearly, and make the final call with better context. Governance should help teams move quickly without making production the place where they discover what a flag actually does. #FeatureFlags #DeveloperTools #SoftwareEngineering #Experimentation