Compliance Policy Templates for AI Agents

Writing compliance policies from scratch is slow and error-prone. Policy templates provide a starting point that maps specific regulatory requirements to concrete policy rules. Teams customize templates for their environment rather than interpreting regulations from scratch.

What Templates Provide

A compliance template includes:

• Policy rules that enforce specific regulatory requirements
• Mappings from each rule to the regulation article it addresses
• Recommended monitoring thresholds for compliance-related metrics
• Documentation explaining the rationale for each rule

EU AI Act Template

The EU AI Act requires risk management, human oversight, transparency, and record keeping for high-risk AI systems. A template targeting these requirements includes:

name: "eu-ai-act-high-risk"
rules:
  # Article 9: Risk Management
  - action: "*"
    conditions:
      risk_score_above: 0.8
    effect: "deny"
    reference: "EU AI Act Art. 9"

  # Article 14: Human Oversight
  - action: "decision.final"
    conditions:
      impact_level: "high"
    require_approval: true
    reference: "EU AI Act Art. 14"

  # Article 12: Record Keeping
  - action: "*"
    audit: "required"
    retention: "5y"
    reference: "EU AI Act Art. 12"

SOC 2 Template

SOC 2 compliance focuses on security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. Template rules enforce access controls, audit logging, encryption requirements, and data handling restrictions.

HIPAA Template

HIPAA compliance for healthcare AI agents requires rules for protected health information (PHI) access, minimum necessary access, audit controls, and breach notification triggers.

Customization Guidelines

Templates are starting points, not complete solutions. Every organization has different agent architectures, data flows, and risk profiles. Customize templates by:

1. Reviewing each rule against your specific environment
2. Adjusting resource paths and action types to match your system
3. Adding rules for requirements specific to your use case
4. Removing rules for requirements that do not apply
5. Testing the customized policy against representative workloads

Maintaining Templates

Regulations change. Track regulatory updates and update templates when requirements change. Authensor maintains community-contributed templates that reflect current regulatory requirements, available in the documentation and the CLI scaffold commands.

Templates accelerate compliance. Expertise customizes them for your reality.