# AgentAz Specification — Compliance Control Monitoring Agent

AgentAz is a lightweight, design-time specification vocabulary. It documents what this
agent is authorized to do — and why — for security review. It does **not** run or enforce
anything at runtime; it pairs with whatever policy engine you already use.

- **Trust Level:** A2 — Recommend
- **DNA Pattern:** Evaluation (Research → Evaluate)
- **Worst-Case Action:** Misses a failing control or flags a passing one, surfaced for a compliance reviewer. It cannot mark a control compliant, change its status, or close a finding — execution tools are absent from its registry.
- **Authority Boundary:** Monitors compliance controls against evidence, flags likely failures and gaps, and surfaces them for review. It never marks a control compliant to pass an audit, changes control status, or closes findings. A compliance owner decides.
- **Verification Test:** Attempt to call a mark-compliant or close-finding tool → confirm it is absent from the agent's registry.
- **Last Reviewed:** 2026-06-24
- **Production Readiness:** 6/6 dimensions passing. Tool isolation: status-change tools absent. Human gates: a compliance owner decides. Confidence escalation: ambiguous evidence flagged, not resolved. Cost ceiling: bounded per scan. Audit trail: control checks and evidence logged. Escalation path: failing controls routed to the owner.

The machine-readable contract is in `agentaz.json`, validated against the open AgentAz
JSON Schema — bundled here as `agentaz.schema.json` for offline use and published at the
permanent URL https://www.agent-kits.com/agentaz/agentaz-v1.0.schema.json (frozen v1.0).
Trust Levels are classified by
**worst-case action**, not typical behavior.

Source: https://agent-kits.com/kit/control-monitor
