You might want to adjust a rule’s severity in Clayton if it’s firing too frequently and cluttering your PRs, enforcing something that’s valid but not critical, better suited as a suggestion than a requirement, or out of sync with your team’s current approach allowing you to keep code quality high without slowing down your workflow.

Click the Admin Tools (spanner icon) in the bottom-left corner of the Clayton interface.

Select “Policies” from the menu. You’ll see all your defined policy sets.

Find the policy you'd like to update (e.g., “Intentional”) and click “Edit action” to open its rules.

Scroll through the list of rules and locate the one you'd like to modify.

Click the “Edit” button next to the rule. You’ll see an option to change the severity level such as from “Error” to “Warning” or “Critical”.

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If changing the severity isn’t a good fit, you can disable the rule entirely from the same screen. This is helpful if a rule just doesn’t apply to your project or you’re experimenting with new patterns.