> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.changeguard.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

> Every Kubernetes deploy scored before it ships

ChangeGuard is **change intelligence for Kubernetes**. It continuously tracks every deployment, config, and GitOps change across your fleet, correlates each failing workload to the change that caused it, explains the root cause with cited evidence, and helps your team decide what's safe to ship — before, during, and after production changes.

<Note>
  **Who these docs are for.** Platform/Kubernetes operators (install & operate) and developers / on-call engineers (day-to-day use). If you're evaluating ChangeGuard for your organization, start at [changeguard.ai](https://changeguard.ai).
</Note>

## What you get today

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  <Card title="Change Intelligence" icon="timeline">
    Every failing workload linked to the change — and the diff — that shipped it. **GA**
  </Card>

  <Card title="Incident investigation" icon="magnifying-glass">
    Root cause with cited evidence, a proposed fix, and how to verify it. **GA**
  </Card>

  <Card title="CSC Score & pre-flight" icon="gauge">
    A deterministic deploy-readiness score and a SHIP / HOLD / BLOCK verdict — advisory. **GA**
  </Card>

  <Card title="Autonomous Remediation" icon="arrows-rotate">
    Policy-governed detect → fix → verify → rollback, at the autonomy level you choose. **GA · opt-in**
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

<Info>
  **Maturity labels.** We mark capabilities **GA** (generally available), **Early Access** (design partners / on request), or **Roadmap**. The **Engineering Advisor**, **Engineering Opinion / Experience / Reasoning**, and **Multiplayer AI** are **Early Access** — powerful, but not yet self-serve. We never document an emerging capability as if it ships today. See [Product concepts](/concepts/overview).
</Info>

## How it works, in one line

A lightweight, read-only **collector** runs in your cluster (installed by the ChangeGuard **operator**) and pushes cluster state and your changes over HTTPS to the ChangeGuard control plane, which does the correlation, scoring, and analysis. Your source code, secret values, and workload data stay in your cluster. See [Architecture & data flow](/get-started/architecture).

## Time to value

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<Tip>
  ChangeGuard is **advisory by default** (autonomy level *Advise*). It changes none of your workloads until you explicitly opt into remediation and grant the RBAC.
</Tip>