Introducing the Flow Legal GitHub Agent
Managing legal documents takes time. Privacy notices, terms of use, SaaS agreements and compliance assessments all need to accurately reflect how a product works.
However, products are constantly changing. New features are released, integrations are added and new data fields are collected. Each change can create new legal requirements or mean that existing documents are no longer accurate.
The reality is that legal documents and compliance often trails behind product development, resulting in a gap between what their product does and what their legal documents say, creating potential risk and liability. Keeping everything aligned shouldn’t require founders and product teams to manually review their legal documents after every release.
That’s why we built the Flow Legal GitHub Agent: an automated agent that monitors changes to your product, identifies developments that may have a legal impact and helps keep your legal documents and compliance assessments up to date.
It uses the best source of truth for understanding what your product actually does: your codebase.
How does it work?
1) Establishing a baseline
The agent begins by reviewing your production code to build a baseline picture of how your product works.
This can identify features or risks that may have been missed during onboarding, such as:
- The type of personal data is being collected
- What kind of features are deployed (e.g. AI, user-user features, etc)
- Analytics, cookies or tracking technologies
- Third-party integrations
2) Monitoring product development
Once configured, the agent periodically reviews changes being introduced through your development branches.
When it detects a feature that could affect your legal position, Flow Legal alerts you and explains why it may matter. For example, introducing a new analytics provider could require an update to your privacy notice or cookie disclosures.
You can then choose to:
- Review and action the change
- Confirm that no action is required
- Postpone it until later
3) Updating your legal documents
If you decide to action a change, Flow Legal will assess its impact on your legal documents and update them. Simple as that!
Instead of discovering months later that your privacy notice, terms or other documents no longer reflect your product, you can address the issue as part of the development cycle.
It’s legal compliance that evolves alongside your product.
How do I set up the GitHub Agent?
Getting started is simple:
- Request access - either by asking Flow Legal or emailing us.
- Open the “Ongoing Monitoring” tab and follow the installation instruction.
- Identify which branches represent your production and development environments.
- Run the scanner
- Review and confirm the findings.
Note: Selecting the correct production and development branches is important because ongoing monitoring uses the differences between them to identify upcoming product changes.
Is my code secure?
Yes. The Flow Legal GitHub Agent has been designed with privacy, security and confidentiality in mind.
The agent runs within your GitHub environment. Although it requires read access to analyse the selected codebase, your source code does not leave your repository.
Instead, the agent sends Flow Legal limited, high-level signals about relevant product features and changes. These signals allow Flow Legal to assess the potential legal impact without receiving or storing your underlying code.
As you would expect, information about your unreleased features, assessments and legal documents is treated as confidential.
From static documents to living legal infrastructure
Most legal documents provide a snapshot of a company at one moment in time. But products do not stand still—and their legal infrastructure shouldn’t either.
The Flow Legal GitHub Agent connects product development with legal operations, helping technology companies identify risks earlier and keep their compliance position aligned with what they are actually building.