# Monitoring policies — Listing rules

> Use sbx policy ls to see all active policies and their current status Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```console $ sbx policy ls POLICY SOURCE APPLIES TO SUMMARY local-policy local all network: 42 allow, 1 deny; filesystem read: 1 allow; filesystem write: 1 allow

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Use sbx policy ls to see all active policies and their current status

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ sbx policy ls
POLICY                                 SOURCE   APPLIES TO          SUMMARY
local-policy                           local    all                 network: 42 allow, 1 deny; filesystem read: 1 allow; filesystem write: 1 allow
1b2633ea-e604-48bb-a5e6-3ac86ba383fe   kit      sandbox:my-sandbox  network: 3 allow
```

POLICY: the policy name. SOURCE: where the policy came from. local means your local configuration — a preset or rules you added with sbx policy. kit means a kit. org means your organization. APPLIES TO: which sandboxes the policy applies to. all means the policy is global. sandbox: scopes it to a single sandbox; a profile name scopes it to sandboxes using that profile. SUMMARY: a count of rules by type and decision — for example, network: 5 allow, 1 deny.

To see full rule-level detail including rule IDs and resources, pass --wide. To inspect a single policy or rule, use sbx policy inspect

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ sbx policy inspect Balanced
```

Use --source to filter by origin (local, org, or kit) and --decision to filter by outcome (allow or deny).

A STATUS column also appears when you pass --include-inactive; see Showing inactive rules.

When organization governance is active, the output starts with a summary line showing which organization manages the policy, the sync state, and how many inactive rules are hidden

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ sbx policy ls
Governance: Managed by my-org | Sync: OK, last synced 08:21:01 | Hidden: 9 inactive rules. Show with: sbx policy ls --include-inactive

POLICY               SOURCE   APPLIES TO   SUMMARY
default filesystem   org      all          filesystem read: 2 allow; filesystem write: 7 allow, 2 deny
default network      org      all          network: 38 allow, 4 deny
```

Governance shows which organization manages the policy, and Sync confirms the daemon has pulled the latest rules. If the sync state shows an error or a stale timestamp, the daemon may not have the most recent org policy. Run sbx policy reset to force a fresh pull. Hidden reports how many inactive rules are suppressed and how to reveal them.

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