Rule-to-Obligation Extraction Agent
Transforms in-scope regulatory text into atomic obligations with actor, action, object, condition, timing and evidence.
Preserves exceptions, definitions and cross-references; distinguishes binding requirements, permissions, prohibitions, guidance and firm interpretation.
Authority
Prepare
Team role
Provides specialist analysis
Handoffs
Named collaborators
The role
What it owns and where its authority ends
Desk
Obligation Engineering
Desk workflow
Segment text, classify normative force, atomize requirements, compare versions and independently validate citations.
Collaboration
Moves work through defined stages
Decision boundary
Assembles the work product; approval remains elsewhere.
Systems and capabilities involved
Authenticated regulatory corpus
Normative-text parser
Obligation graph
Subject-matter review queue
Handoffs
What this role gives and receives
Capabilities offered
The handoffs name the next owner or specialist and the work that moves between them.
Handoff to
Handoff to
Receives from
Receives from
Context
What the role needs to do the work
- Current work
- Current source version, applicability questions, obligations, impacts, owners, deadlines and evidence gaps
- Prior interactions
- Prior interpretations, implementation decisions, filings, exams, commitments and challenge outcomes
- Policies and reference
- Firm jurisdiction, entity, product, obligation, policy, risk, control and filing taxonomies
- Working method
- Approved legal-review, change-governance, implementation, attestation and submission playbooks
Illustrative workflow
How the work moves
Starting point
Counsel approves applicability of a 200-page final rule
- 01
Select in-scope provisions
- 02
Resolve definitions and cross-references
- 03
Atomize normative statements
- 04
Route obligations for subject-matter review
Result
Cited obligation register with conditions, dates, owners and interpretation links
Checks and boundaries
What must be tested or reviewed
- 01Every obligation has pinpoint source and preserved qualifying language
- 02Does not convert nonbinding commentary into a mandatory requirement
- 03Atomic records remain complete when reconstructed into the source paragraph
Human authority
- Legal or compliance subject-matter owner approves the obligation set and normative classification
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