Robot access control and governance for robotic process automation

A computer-implemented method for performing access control and governance for automation, comprising:

• displaying a package management interface comprising packages that may be accessed by activities of a workflow, by a designer application;
• preventing a user of the designer application from modifying permitted packages or adding new packages that are not permitted based on the access control and governance policy rules, by the designer application;
• analyzing activities of the workflow of the designer application against the access control and governance policy rules by running a series of rules that inspect the activities of the workflow, by a code analyzer of a computing system, the workflow comprising an execution order and a relationship between the activities;
• and
• responsive to one or more analyzed activities of the workflow violating the access control and governance policy rules, preventing generation of the automation or publication of the workflow until the workflow satisfies the access control and governance policy rules, by the code analyzer of the computing system, wherein
• the code analyzer is computer code that automatically runs the access control and governance policy rules as a series of rules that inspect the code written by a user, and
• the access control and governance policy rules cannot be modified by a user of the designer application.

One or more computing systems, comprising:

• memory storing computer program instructions for performing access control and governance for automation;
• and
• at least one processor configured to execute the computer program instructions, wherein the computer program instructions are configured to cause the at least one processor to:
• display a package management interface comprising packages that may be accessed by activities of a workflow of a designer application;
• prevent a user of the designer application from modifying permitted packages or adding new packages that are not permitted based on access control and governance policy rules;
• analyze activities of the workflow of the designer application against the access control and governance policy rules by running a series of rules that inspect the activities of the workflow, the workflow comprising an execution order and a relationship between the activities;
• responsive to one or more analyzed activities of the workflow violating the access control and governance policy rules, prevent generation of the automation or publication of the workflow until the workflow satisfies the access control and governance policy rules;
• and
• responsive to the analyzed activities of the workflow complying with all required access control and governance policy rules, generate the automation implementing the workflow or publish the workflow, wherein
• the access control and governance policy rules comprise one or more application and/or universal resource locator (URL) restrictions, one or more package restrictions, one or more activity restrictions, one or more activity property requirements, or a combination thereof,
• the access control and governance policy rules are defined for the designer application based on an organization, a role, a group, an individual developer, or a combination thereof, and
• the access control and governance policy rules cannot be modified by a user of the designer application.