eu-ai-act-compliance

name	eu-ai-act-compliance
description	Assess whether a codebase or app complies with the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) — detect AI usage, classify the risk tier, determine provider/deployer role, map obligations, and produce a grounded, citation-backed gap report. Grounding pack current to 22 June 2026.
user-invocable	true
requires	{"bins":["node"]}
metadata	{"hybridclaw":{"category":"compliance","short_description":"EU AI Act conformity review for codebases and apps, grounded in the current regulation text and guidance.","tags":["eu-ai-act","compliance","governance","risk-assessment","regulation","audit"],"stakes_tiers":{"green":["scan","classify","assess","report","explain"]},"escalation":{"writes":"none","route":"human-legal-review"}}}

EU AI Act Compliance

Use this skill to check a codebase or application against the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) and produce a structured, citation-backed compliance assessment. The skill is read-only and analytical — it inspects code and documents and writes a report; it never changes the target system.

Not legal advice. Output is a technical/organisational assessment and a set of signals for human review, not a legal determination. Say this to the user, and route classification and prohibited-practice calls to qualified counsel.

Grounding — read the references first

All substantive claims must be grounded in the bundled reference pack and tagged with the Article/Annex relied on. Start at references/00-index.md and read the file(s) relevant to the question. Always check references/02-timeline-and-status.md before quoting an application date — the high-risk timeline is being postponed by the Digital Omnibus, which (as of the 22 June 2026 snapshot) is agreed but not yet law. The pack is dated; when material time has passed, re-verify via references/09-sources.md.

Default workflow

Follow the five passes in references/08-codebase-audit-playbook.md:

1. Detect AI/ML usage — run the scanner (below), then confirm by reading code.
2. Determine the role(s) — provider, deployer, importer/distributor (Art. 3).
3. Classify the risk tier — prohibited (Art. 5) → high-risk (Art. 6 / Annex III) → transparency (Art. 50) → GPAI (Ch. V) → minimal. Stop at the highest match; record every tier that applies.
4. Map obligations & find gaps — for each tier, evidence each control in the repo (path:line) or mark it Missing / Needs-legal-review.
5. Report — fill assets/compliance-report-template.md: summary, inventory, classification with reasoning, gap table, prioritised remediation (tie each gap to its Article and fine tier), disclaimer + dates.

Scanner — command contract

A dependency-free Node helper that sweeps a target directory for AI Act signals. It surfaces signals to investigate, not verdicts.

# Show usage
node skills/eu-ai-act-compliance/eu-ai-act-scan.cjs --help

# Scan a repository (human-readable summary)
node skills/eu-ai-act-compliance/eu-ai-act-scan.cjs scan /path/to/repo

# Scan and emit structured JSON (preferred for building the report)
node skills/eu-ai-act-compliance/eu-ai-act-scan.cjs --format json scan /path/to/repo

# Verify the helper against its built-in fixtures
node skills/eu-ai-act-compliance/eu-ai-act-scan.cjs self-test

The scanner groups hits by AI Act relevance: AI/ML frameworks, model identifiers, prohibited-practice keywords (Art. 5), high-risk domain keywords (Annex III), GPAI/training signals (Ch. V), and transparency signals (Art. 50, including whether any "this is AI" disclosure strings exist). Treat every hit as a lead to confirm by reading the code in context — it has no knowledge of purpose, context, or harm, which is where the legal tests actually turn.

Working rules

• Cite the provision for every obligation and finding (e.g. "Art. 14 human oversight: Missing").
• Signals, not verdicts. Reserve "violation" for clear Art. 5 matches; phrase the rest as "likely / investigate" and flag low-confidence calls for legal review.
• Never fabricate an Article number, date, or standard. If the references don't cover it, say so or re-verify against the primary sources.
• Surface the timeline honestly: what is in force now vs. what applies in 2026/2027, and the pending Omnibus postponements.
• The skill performs no writes to the target and needs no credentials or network access to run the core review; live web access is only for re-verifying dates/standards against the official sources.

Validation

node skills/eu-ai-act-compliance/eu-ai-act-scan.cjs --help
node skills/eu-ai-act-compliance/eu-ai-act-scan.cjs self-test
node skills/eu-ai-act-compliance/eu-ai-act-scan.cjs --format json scan skills/eu-ai-act-compliance/evals/fixtures