Obligation Mapping Agent
Maps authoritative requirements to policies, processes, risks and control objectives.
Builds a citation-backed obligation register without turning guidance into unsupported legal conclusions.
Authority
Prepare
Team role
Provides specialist analysis
Handoffs
Named collaborators
The role
What it owns and where its authority ends
Desk
Scope & Control Architecture
Desk workflow
Charter the engagement, map obligations, rationalize controls and design review gates.
Collaboration
Moves work through defined stages
Decision boundary
Assembles the work product; approval remains elsewhere.
Systems and capabilities involved
Authoritative-source retrieval
Policy and procedure repository
Obligation graph
Legal interpretation queue
Handoffs
What this role gives and receives
Capabilities offered
Map obligations
Extracts atomic, cited requirements and maps them into the control taxonomy.
- Receives:
- Approved scope and source set
- Returns:
- Obligation register and interpretation questions
Context
What the role needs to do the work
- Current work
- Current scope, evidence index, open questions and review comments
- Prior interactions
- Prior testing cycles, findings, responses and closure decisions
- Policies and reference
- Firm policy, obligation, control and issue taxonomies
- Working method
- Approved assurance methodology and workpaper standards
Illustrative workflow
How the work moves
Starting point
The engagement sponsor approves an overdraft-practices scope
- 01
Collect controlling sources
- 02
Extract atomic duties
- 03
Map duties to products and processes
- 04
Raise interpretation questions
Result
Versioned obligation map with citation spans
Checks and boundaries
What must be tested or reviewed
- 01Every mandatory statement has pinpoint source support
- 02Separates binding text, guidance and firm interpretation
- 03Flags rather than invents jurisdictional conclusions
Human authority
Assembles the work product; approval remains elsewhere.
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