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Anybody know if `pulumi policy` is going to be supported for local execution?

`error: File state backend does not support resource policy`

hacking around things … but this isn’t promising:

```Previewing update (camus-infra):
panic: fatal: An assertion has failed: failed to convert err no analyzer plugin 'pulumi-analyzer-policy-python' found in the workspace or on your $PATH, install the plugin using `pulumi plugin install analyzer policy-python` to Error, did this come from an RPC endpoint?```

and
```$ pulumi plugin install analyzer policy-python
<https://pulumi.com/docs/reference/install/> for manual instructions and release notes.
error: 404 HTTP error fetching plugin from <https://api.github.com/repos/pulumi/pulumi-policy-python/releases/latest>. If this is a private GitHub repository, try providing a token via the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable. See: <https://github.com/settings/tokens>```

<@U030U90DVM0> it works already: `pulumi up --policy-pack`

`pulumi policy` is the mechanism to public server side policies to the pulumi service

hmmm. I’m probably doing something wrong.

I did:
```mkdir policy
pulumi policy new --dir policy gcp-python
pulumi preview -s camus-infra --policy-pack policy```

but the preview fails with:
```panic: fatal: An assertion has failed: failed to convert err no analyzer plugin 'pulumi-analyzer-policy-python' found in the workspace or on your $PATH, install the plugin using `pulumi plugin install analyzer policy-python` to Error, did this come from an RPC endpoint?```

I am running in a slightly nonstandard pulumi python env (`bazel` wrapped build targets and “pyenv” style python environment), which might be part of the problem. I’ll try to repro with a more minimal config

the other pulumi auto-fetched plugins work though … so policy is special in some way

also only running `3.37.0` but the release notes for `3.37.1` don’t seem relevant

`pulumi-analyzer-policy-python` should be in the same path as the binary

oh interesting. It’s there. probably an issue with my crazy `bazel` wrapper

I have `bazel` grab the release binary for the platform and bundle it with all the python libs, then have a wrapper script that finds the binary and executes it in the python environment.

This gets everyone running exactly the same `pulumi` environment with no local python lib wrangling or headaches

but at the expense of maintaining this weirdo sandbox :slightly_smiling_face:

thanks for the pointer for where to look for the leaky plumbing :slightly_smiling_face:

updated `$PATH` in my wrapper and it works! thanks <@UCWG26BH7>