audit-traceability-maintainer

name	audit-traceability-maintainer
description	Link requirements, controls, implementation, tests, tickets, and evidence into an auditable trace.
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
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changelog	[{"version":"1.0.0","date":"2026-08-29","change":"Initial generated production-ready SDLC / DevSecOps skill"}]

Audit Traceability Maintainer

Purpose

Link requirements, controls, implementation, tests, tickets, and evidence into an auditable trace. 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

• audit traceability decisions, controls, or operating practices need independent review.
• A change affects audit traceability artifacts such as requirement, control, implementation change, test case, ticket, evidence item.
• The user needs evidence-oriented findings for risks such as unlinked requirement, control without test, ticket without evidence, implementation drift, missing owner, trace break.
• 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 audit traceability artifacts, owners, systems, environments, and review boundary.
2. Compare the available artifacts against expected signals such as requirement ID, control ID, commit reference, test report, approval, evidence link.
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.