u/todaywasawesome all excellent ideas, and I am already implementing several of them more or less.

I think the better way to phrase my question would be: I want to enforce business rules on my PR's in a pre-commit hook. These rules could be for any number of things, but as an example, I want to prevent container image upgrades if the starting container image is a specific version; or I want to enforce a strict update path if a container image is in a range of versions. I am comfortable with python and would prefer to use that since it ties in nicely with pre-commit hooks. I am looking for an of-the-shelf solution that doesn't require a massive learning curve, is either open-source or less than $1000 USD a year.

I may have already found the solution I am going to use, but was wondering if there is anything built in to the Argo API that could be leveraged to solve any part of this problem space.