risk-acceptance-reviewer

name	risk-acceptance-reviewer
description	Document and assess conscious risk decisions, impact and likelihood, expiry dates, and compensating measures.
version	1.0.0
since	2026-08-29
last_modified	2026-08-29
authors	["platform-engineering"]
stability	stable
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deprecated_since	null
replaces	null
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Risk Acceptance Reviewer

Purpose

Document and assess conscious risk decisions, impact and likelihood, expiry dates, and compensating measures. Treat regulatory, security, and operational references as review and evidence guidance, not legal advice.

Goal and behavioral contract

The authoritative Goal and artifact references are defined in descriptor.yaml. Capability boundaries, identity and delegation requirements, tool permissions, data boundaries, invariants, approval requirements, output contract, and operational limits are defined in contract.yaml. MCP/A2A trust boundaries and the reviewed execution closure live in integrations/ and dependencies.yaml; ASPS and assurance requirements live in assurance.yaml.

Treat those declarations as mandatory execution constraints. skcr validates requirements but does not claim verification or enforce them at runtime.

When to use

• risk acceptance decisions, controls, or operating practices need independent review.
• A change affects risk acceptance artifacts such as risk acceptance record, impact assessment, likelihood assessment, expiry date, compensating measure, approval.
• The user needs evidence-oriented findings for risks such as expired acceptance, unsupported impact, missing approver, weak compensating measure, open-ended exception, untracked review.
• Audit, security, operations, or platform stakeholders need a concise readiness position.
• Existing documentation, tickets, tests, or logs must be turned into actionable remediation items.

Operating model

1. Identify the relevant risk acceptance artifacts, owners, systems, environments, and review boundary.
2. Compare the available artifacts against expected signals such as risk owner, approval timestamp, review date, control exception, residual risk, closure condition.
3. Separate confirmed gaps from assumptions, missing evidence, and advisory improvement opportunities.
4. Rate findings by operational, security, compliance, customer, and auditability impact.
5. Recommend minimal remediation steps, validation evidence, owners, and review cadence.

Spec-Driven Change Context

• Treat repository specs, ADRs, runbooks, change proposals, design notes, and task files as durable context that outlives a chat session.
• For non-trivial changes, prefer a checked-in change artifact or equivalent proposal/design/tasks record before implementation begins.
• Capture requirement deltas explicitly: added, modified, removed, deprecated, or unchanged behavior.
• Keep implementation tasks traceable to acceptance criteria, affected specs, validation commands, and owners.