| name | 21-ai-agent-iso27001-control-pack |
| description | Use when mapping an L1+ AI agent to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and applicable ISO/IEC 42001 controls, treatment, evidence, testing, sampling, and the SoA delta. Use SOC 2 or HIPAA packs for those regimes. |
| metadata | {"portable":true,"compatible_with":["claude-code","codex"]} |
AI Agent ISO/IEC 27001 Control Pack Skill
Use When
- Use when mapping an L1+ AI agent to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and applicable ISO/IEC 42001 controls, treatment, evidence, testing, sampling, and the SoA delta. Use SOC 2 or HIPAA packs for those regimes.
Do Not Use When
- Do not use as the sole framework if SOC 2 is also required — produce both control packs side by side. Do not use the 2013 control numbering; the 2022 edition (93 controls in 4 themes) is the operating reference.
- Do not use this skill to fabricate missing project facts, legal conclusions, test results, approvals, or certification claims.
Required Inputs
| Artefact | Source or provider | Required? | Missing-input behaviour |
|---|
| Target sources: AI_Agent_Feature_PRD_Spec.md, Action_Catalogue_Spec.md, AI_Agent_Architecture_Spec.md, AI_Agent_SLO_Doc.md, AI_Agent_Runbook.md, AI_Agent_Eval_Spec.md, AI_Agent_Red_Team_Test_Plan.md, AI_Agent_Responsible_AI_Addendum.md, AI_Agent_ADR_Catalogue.md, AI_Agent_Compliance_Policy_Pack.md, AI_Agent_Evidence_Pack_Spec.md, parent ISMS Statement of Applicability. | Project owner, approved workspace artefacts, or accountable control owner | Yes | Stop dependent claims; list the missing item, owner, and consequence. For review checks, record not assessed. |
| Scope, audience, baseline/version, and accountable decision owner | Requester or project context | Yes | Ask for or record the gap; do not infer authority or scope. |
Capability and permission boundaries
Default to read-only. Read and search access to the supplied artefacts are required. Editing is limited to an explicitly authorised requested draft or project files. Execute validation only when authorised; publishing, signature, certification, production mutation, destructive action, spending, and risk acceptance require explicit authority.
Degraded Mode
When files, tools, network, rendering, fonts, execution, or evidence are unavailable, return the narrowest useful qualified draft or finding set. Name every unavailable check and its consequence; an unassessed check is never a pass. Preserve evidence already gathered and provide the exact next verification step.
Decision Rules
| Condition | Action | Failure or risk avoided |
|---|
| A control is applicable but evidence or test procedure is absent | Record a gap; do not claim control effectiveness | Unsupported assurance |
| Control, owner, evidence, sampling, and test all align | Mark the row ready for independent assessment | Framework checkbox compliance |
Workflow
- Confirm the requested artefact, audience, scope, decision owner, and applicable baseline or version. Work read-only by default; source mutation, publication, signature, certification, production change, or risk acceptance requires explicit authority.
- Inspect every required input and record missing, stale, conflicting, or inaccessible evidence. Stop claims that depend on an unresolved required input.
- Apply the Decision Rules, then execute the existing Core Instructions below in order; preserve project terminology and trace each material statement to its source.
- Test the draft against the output acceptance conditions and domain quality standards. If a check cannot run, mark it
not assessed and never convert it into a pass.
- On failure, recover by preserving completed evidence, identifying the narrowest corrective action and owner, and rerunning only the affected checks before handoff.
- Produce the named artefact and evidence record; publish, sign, certify, mutate production, or accept risk only under explicit authority.
Outputs
| Artefact | Consumer | Observable acceptance condition |
|---|
| AI Agent ISO/IEC 27001 Control Pack | Accountable reviewer, control owner, auditor, or release authority | Every applicable Annex A control shall have an agent-specific treatment statement, an evidence row, an audit procedure, and a sampling note. The Statement of Applicability shall name every control as applicable, applicable-with-justification, or not-applicable-with-justification. ISO/IEC 42001 overlay controls shall be cited for every AI control. |
| Gap and decision record | Accountable owner and downstream reviewer | Every gap has status, impact, owner, next action, and no unsupported pass or approval. |
Evidence Produced
| Evidence | Contents | Acceptance condition |
|---|
| AI Agent ISO/IEC 27001 Control Pack evidence record | Source identifiers, scope/version, decisions, checks, exceptions, and approval state | A reviewer can reproduce each material conclusion from named sources. |
| Validation record | Check, result (pass, fail, or not assessed), evidence location, date, and actor | No required check is omitted or silently treated as passed. |
Quality Standards
- Every applicable Annex A control shall have an agent-specific treatment statement, an evidence row, an audit procedure, and a sampling note. The Statement of Applicability shall name every control as applicable, applicable-with-justification, or not-applicable-with-justification. ISO/IEC 42001 overlay controls shall be cited for every AI control.
- Use deterministic acceptance conditions and preserve traceability from source to decision and output.
- Separate facts, inferences, assumptions, and approvals; never present one as another.
- Apply
28-anti-ai-slop during authoring and 29-ai-slop-audit at major checkpoints and release.
Anti-Patterns
- Producing AI Agent ISO/IEC 27001 Control Pack from assumptions instead of named project sources. Fix: Cite the source or mark the item unverified.
- Treating a missing or inaccessible check as passed. Fix: Mark it
not assessed, state impact, and block dependent claims.
- Using vague gates such as
adequate, secure, or user-friendly. Fix: Replace each with an observable criterion, threshold, and evidence source.
- Copying a generic template without product, control, role, version, or jurisdiction detail. Fix: Ground every section in the supplied context and remove unused boilerplate.
- Publishing, signing, certifying, changing production, or accepting risk without authority. Fix: Prepare a draft and route the decision to the accountable owner.
- Listing evidence without provenance or an acceptance result. Fix: Record source, period, integrity check, mapping, and pass/fail/not-assessed status.
Worked Example
Example: if a control is applicable but evidence or test procedure is absent, record a gap; do not claim control effectiveness. Record the evidence and result in the validation record; this avoids unsupported assurance.
References
Overview
ISO 27001:2022 reorganised the Annex A controls into 4 themes: A.5 Organisational (37 controls), A.6 People (8), A.7 Physical (14), A.8 Technological (34). For an agentic SaaS, many controls require agent-specific treatments that the parent ISMS does not articulate. ISO/IEC 42001:2023 sits alongside as the AI management system standard; this pack cites 42001 clauses where the AI overlay applies but the operating reference for evidence and audit is 27001:2022.
Quick Reference
| Attribute | Value |
|---|
| Inputs | Agent PRD, Action Catalogue, Agent Architecture, Agent SLO, Agent Runbook, Agent Eval, Agent Red-Team, Responsible-AI Addendum, ADR Catalogue, Policy Pack, Evidence Pack Spec, parent ISMS SoA |
| Output | AI_Agent_ISO27001_Control_Pack.md + iso27001-controls/*.md + Statement_of_Applicability_Agent_Delta.md |
| Standards | ISO/IEC 27001:2022; ISO/IEC 27002:2022; ISO/IEC 42001:2023 |
Core Instructions
Step 1: Statement of Applicability delta
For every Annex A control, declare:
- Applicability: applicable / not-applicable / applicable-with-justification.
- Reasoning that explicitly mentions the agent surface (planner, dispatcher, supervisor, memory, audit log, kill-switch).
- Cross-link to the parent ISMS SoA row.
Step 2: Per-control agent treatment
Default treatments for the most agent-relevant controls:
| Control | Agent treatment |
|---|
| A.5.1 Policies | Agent action governance policy in policy pack |
| A.5.7 Threat intelligence | Agentic CVE-style advisories monitored; new red-team scenarios added within 7 days |
| A.5.9 Inventory of information and assets | Agent service principals and action catalogue inventoried |
| A.5.12 Classification of information | Tool output classified; redaction in audit log |
| A.5.15 Access control | Agent service-principal least privilege; per-tenant scope at dispatcher |
| A.5.19 Information security in supplier relationships | Model provider supplier-risk; training-exclusion evidence; sub-processor notice |
| A.5.23 Information security for cloud services | Model gateway, vector store, orchestrator cloud-service controls |
| A.5.25 Assessment of security events | Agent-incident playbooks |
| A.5.27 Learning from incidents | Postmortems include agent-specific RCA taxonomy |
| A.5.30 ICT readiness for business continuity | Kill-switch, force-pause, replay-a-run drills |
| A.5.34 Privacy and PII protection | DPIA addendum; agent memory erasure |
| A.6.3 Awareness, education, and training | Agent on-call training; agent disclosure training |
| A.6.7 Remote working | Agent operators must use approved kill-switch console only |
| A.7.4 Physical security monitoring | Inherited from parent unless dedicated agent infra |
| A.8.1 User end-point devices | Inherited |
| A.8.2 Privileged access rights | Two-person rule for global kill-switch |
| A.8.3 Information access restriction | Per-tenant scope enforcement |
| A.8.5 Secure authentication | Agent service-principal credential rotation |
| A.8.7 Protection against malware | Tool-result sanitisers for indirect prompt injection |
| A.8.9 Configuration management | Planner template, supervisor prompt, action catalogue under change control |
| A.8.10 Information deletion | Memory erasure policy verification |
| A.8.12 Data leakage prevention | Cross-tenant tool-routing prevention; tenant data exfil red-team |
Step 3: ISO/IEC 42001 overlay
Cross-link the AI management system clauses for every AI control:
- Clause 4 Context / 5 Leadership / 6 Planning / 7 Support / 8 Operation / 9 Performance / 10 Improvement.
- Annex A of 42001 mapped to specific 27001 controls where they reinforce.
Step 4: Evidence and audit procedure
For each control: evidence artefact, source system, capture method, frequency, retention, sampling, audit procedure (the certification body's procedure: inquiry, inspection, observation, reperformance).
Step 5: Internal audit programme entries
Add agent-specific internal audit entries to the ISMS internal audit plan:
- Agent action audit-log integrity review quarterly.
- Agent kill-switch drill review quarterly.
- Agent change-management sample review semi-annually.
- Agent supplier (model provider) review annually.
Step 6: Management review inputs
The agent ISMS slice contributes the following to management review:
- Agent SLO performance vs targets.
- Agent incident summary by severity.
- Agent red-team findings and remediation status.
- Agent control test results.
- Agent supplier risk changes.
Step 7: Write the pack
AI_Agent_ISO27001_Control_Pack.md sections: 1) SoA Delta, 2) Per-control Treatments, 3) ISO/IEC 42001 Overlay, 4) Evidence and Audit Procedure, 5) Internal Audit Programme Additions, 6) Management Review Inputs, 7) Cross-Refs, 8) Sign-off Ledger.
Standards
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 (ISMS requirements)
- ISO/IEC 27002:2022 (control guidance)
- ISO/IEC 27007 (auditing guidelines)
- ISO/IEC 42001:2023 (AI management system)
- ISO/IEC 23894 (AI risk management)
Resources
logic.prompt, README.md, references/ai-agent-iso27001-control-matrix-template.md.
