# Working with Policy Types

A policy is a template that encodes the information needed for specifying the rules that are checked/enforced before/after certain actions are performed on a cluster. The rules are encoded in a property named `spec`.

## List Policy Types

To examine the known policy types:

Full example: manage policy type

## Get Policy Type

To retrieve the details about a policy type, you need to provide the name of it.

Full example: manage policy type

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