HIOP AGENT GOVERNANCE CONFORMANCE

Evaluate the organization's control system.

Company-level assurance should assess the governance system used to inventory, approve, monitor, change and retire agent deployments—not imply that every model output is correct.

Agent inventory
Named owner, purpose, model, tools, deployment, risk tier and current status for material agents.
Risk & authority classification
Consequential effects are classified and tied to approval, policy and evidence requirements.
Deployment gates
No material agent enters production without defined testing, authority boundaries and responsible approval.
Change management
Model, prompt, tool, connector, permission and policy changes are reviewed according to materiality.
Incident response
Organization can revoke agent authority, investigate evidence, notify affected parties where required and implement corrective action.
Continuous assurance
Periodic surveillance checks that the evaluated governance system remains operational instead of treating certification as a one-time badge.

Long-term, this organization-level track should be crosswalked to ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF, while certification decisions remain independent from implementation consulting.