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Safe Autonomy Readiness Checklist
43 items across 8 sections and an appendix. 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.
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Role & Objectives(3 items)
Documented role and scope, measurable success criteria, and a named human owner.
Boundaries & Constraints(5 items)
Forbidden actions, documented blast radius, least privilege, escalation triggers, and a tested kill switch.
Observability & Audit(5 items)
Decisions logged with rationale, evidence packets, tamper-evident audit logs, and anomaly detection.
Availability Protection(5 items)
Resource budgets, hard timeouts, circuit breakers, and tested degradation paths.
Trust & Accountability(4 items)
Progressive trust, verified rollback, separation of duties, and expiring permissions.
Input / Output Security(7 items)
Tested prompt injection defenses, validated tool responses, output filtering, egress allowlists, and runtime secrets.
Learning & Improvement(5 items)
Staging validation, red-team testing, isolated learning, and gated model updates.
Governance & Compliance(4 items)
Regulatory mapping, leadership reporting, third-party audits, and authenticated agent-to-agent traffic.
Plus: Numeric scoring rubric and an appendix for external & shared environments.
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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.