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Safe Autonomy Readiness Checklist

43 items across 8 sections. Everything you need to evaluate before deploying an AI agent to production — from role definition to governance.

Built on the ROBOT framework and informed by NIST AI RMF, OWASP LLM Top 10, and ISO 42001.

What's inside

1

Role & Objectives(3 items)

Define who the agent is, what it's trying to do, and who's accountable.

2

Boundaries & Constraints(5 items)

Explicit limits, kill switches, and escalation triggers.

3

Observability & Audit(5 items)

Decision logging, evidence packets, anomaly detection.

4

Availability Protection(5 items)

Resource budgets, circuit breakers, degradation paths.

5

Trust & Accountability(4 items)

Progressive trust, rollback, separation of duties.

6

Input / Output Security(7 items)

Prompt injection, output filtering, secrets management, supply chain.

7

Learning & Improvement(5 items)

Staging validation, adversarial testing, approval gates.

8

Governance & Compliance(4 items)

Regulatory mapping, board reporting, audit schedules.

Plus: Numeric scoring rubric, an appendix for external & shared environments, and a direct connection to automated scanning.

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Who this is for

Security teams

Evaluating AI agent deployments and setting guardrails before production.

Engineering leads

Building agentic systems and need a pre-deployment validation framework.

CISOs & compliance

Mapping autonomous system controls to regulatory requirements.

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