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Control remediation validation agent blueprint.

Compare a control finding and acceptance criteria with current evidence and prepare an independent validation result.

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01 · the contract

Start from a bounded job, not a blank chat box.

trigger

A control finding is submitted for retest.

owner

compliance owner

agent stops at

An independent control owner or auditor approves closure.

KPI · decrease

remediations reopened (percent). Measure approved closures later reopened for the same control gap.

inputs

Evidence the run may read

  • Original finding
  • Approved remediation criteria
  • Current implementation and test evidence
outputs

Artifacts the run must produce

  • Before-and-after comparison
  • Criteria test result
  • Closure or reopen recommendation
02 · topology

Small specialists. Named handoffs. One accountable decision.

Each stage produces an artifact another stage can inspect. The final node is a person, not an autonomous write to an external system.

  1. 01

    intake

    Validate and normalize the control remediation validation inputs.

  2. 02

    evidence comparator

    Produce the before-and-after comparison.

  3. 03

    criteria tester

    Produce the criteria test result.

  4. 04

    independent control reviewer

    Challenge the control remediation validation result and prepare an approval packet.

  5. 05

    compliance owner

    An independent control owner or auditor approves closure.

intakevalidated input packetevidence-comparator
evidence-comparatorBefore-and-after comparisoncriteria-tester
criteria-testerCriteria test resultindependent-control-reviewer
independent-control-reviewerapproval packet with evidence referenceshuman-approver
03 · authority

Grant the run only what this case needs.

Source material is read-only. Drafts land in a case-specific output path. Tools may read or propose; the human gate owns the external write.

read

case inputs

workspace/compliance/control-remediation-validation/inputs/**

Read only the evidence attached to this workflow instance.

write-output

case outputs

workspace/compliance/control-remediation-validation/outputs/**

Write drafts and evidence artifacts without modifying source records.

invoke-scoped-tool

approved tools

compliance:control-remediation-validation:read-or-propose

Invoke only tools explicitly granted for this run; external writes remain gated.

required human decision

An independent control owner or auditor approves closure.

Decision owner: compliance owner.

04 · implementation

A private, bounded starting manifest.

The blueprint starts private, caps its DAG, disables replanning, and exposes no public endpoint. Add only the tools and data adapters this workflow has approved.

a2a.yamlsafe starting point
name: compliance-control-remediation-validation
version: 0.1.0
entrypoint: agent:BlueprintAgent
expose:
  public: false
composition:
  planning: deterministic_dag
  max_nodes: 6
  max_parallel: 1
  max_replans: 0
05 · acceptance test

Pass only with evidence.

  1. 01

    Evidence traceability

    Every material conclusion cites an input artifact or a scoped tool result from this run.

  2. 02

    Every closure criterion has direct current evidence and unresolved residual risk remains visible.

    Every closure criterion has direct current evidence and unresolved residual risk remains visible.

  3. 03

    Approval boundary

    The run stops at a proposal and records the human decision before any external side effect.

failure containment

Stop small. Preserve the evidence.

Retest scope or evidence differs materially from the original finding.

Containment: Return a partial result with unresolved items; do not broaden scope or perform an external write.

Operator: Attach the missing evidence, narrow the brief, or explicitly approve a new scoped run.

A required input or tool grant is unavailable.

Containment: Stop the affected branch and preserve completed artifacts in the case output workspace.

Operator: Grant only the missing resource or continue with that branch marked out of scope.

06 · proof

Sign the run facts. Keep money in the billing ledger.

Current platform receipts sign caller identity or classification, skill, bounded input evidence, verified grant IDs when present, outcome or result preview, and timing. Optional file, tool, artifact, handoff, evaluation, and review fields require separate instrumentation and are not populated by default. Price, fees, payouts, and later human approvals remain separate platform records.

The example uses only fields populated by the current platform sealing paths. It is illustrative, not a record of a real customer run.

ExecutionReceipt · selected fieldsEd25519 token
{
  "receipt_id": "rcpt_01J...",
  "schema_version": 1,
  "agent_name": "compliance-control-remediation-validation",
  "caller": "user:workflow-owner",
  "task_id": "case_control_remediation_validation",
  "skill_name": "control_remediation_validation",
  "input_hash": "4d7c...9a2f",
  "grant_ids": [
    "grt_case_inputs",
    "grt_tool_propose"
  ],
  "status": "ok",
  "result_preview": "Output prepared: Before-and-after comparison. Human decision remains separate.",
  "elapsed_ms": 4218
}
put the pattern to work

Start private. Scope the authority. Require the decision.

Deploy the workflow as a bounded internal agent, verify its outputs and the receipt fields actually emitted, then expand only the scopes your acceptance test proves it needs.