Flags

Flags allow you to toggle functionality on or off based on conditions such as company, plan, traits, usage, or groups. They can be evaluated against a set of prioritized rules defined within each flag.

A significant difference between Schematic and other tools that offer flags is that context does not need to be provided at runtime. Schematic can store company and user context, such as plan, traits, allocation, usage, and more, and those values will be used to evaluate flag rules.

For example, if a company is a part of a beta cohort, you can asynchronously update their profile in Schematic and that context will be used when the flag is evaluated. The full example is here, and demonstrates how to check flags in your codebase.

Preflight checks

A flag check answers whether a company has access right now. A preflight answers whether an action of a given size would be allowed if it ran, so your app can refuse a bulk job or an agent run before it starts rather than after. See Preflight Checks.