Compliance Officer AgentAudit evidence that is current before anyone asks for it.
The Compliance Officer Agent walks your configured trace chains, checks V-model and control linkage, audits branch policies, verifies approval trails, flags missing or outdated records, and assembles source-linked evidence packs. It runs inside your Azure DevOps project. It prepares the evidence, and your qualified reviewer owns the conclusion.
No card required. Your data stays in your Azure DevOps tenant.
- trigger evidence request · release 2.4
- check trace walk · 2 broken links
- checkpoint awaiting reviewer sign-off
An evidence pack that assembles itself from the record.
The best first workflow for this agent. An auditor asks for the trace, and instead of weeks of screenshots and spreadsheets, the pack is built from the live Azure DevOps record with every gap stated plainly.
- 01Runs on an audit request, a release or stage gate, or a schedule you set.
- 02Walks the configured chain from requirement to design, code, test, result and deployment, and checks approvals, branch policies and supporting records.
- 03Lists every gap in the pack with its owner, instead of leaving it out, and opens remediation work for each one.
- 04Rule-shaped checks, such as required links and branch policies, can run as an Execution Agent: deterministic code, no model call, a flat 4 credits a run.
EVIDENCE PACK · AUDIT 2.4
- ! Requirements traced to tests
- ✓ Code changes have work items
- ✓ Approval trail complete
- ✓ Branch policies enforced
- ! SOPs and validation records
Ships with
- Audit Traceability
- Verify V-Model Linkage
- Generate Traceability Matrix
- Check Compliance Gaps
- Validate Regulatory Requirements
- Verify Electronic Signature Trail
- Research Compliance Standard
- Capture Compliance Baseline
- Generate Audit Evidence
- Generate Audit Evidence Package
Six jobs your compliance lead can hand over.
Each one runs the same controlled sequence and leaves source-linked output on the work item, wiki page or report the team already uses, ready for the qualified reviewer.
- JOB 01
Audit the trace chain.
Traverse the configured chain from requirements through design, code, tests and deployment, and report every missing, broken, stale or unsupported relationship, with a current traceability matrix and the owner of each gap.
dev.azure.com/contoso · Boards · Audit scoperun started · schedule: weekly trace audit
walking trace: 61 requirements → tests
2 broken links · 1 stale test result
matrix generated · owners assigned
record · findings linked to sources
- JOB 02
Verify every change is traceable.
Confirm that every code change in scope has a linked work item, a reviewer, and a traceable approval. Changes that arrived without one are flagged before the gap turns into an audit finding.
dev.azure.com/contoso · Repos · mainrun started · PR !418 completed → main
linked work item: STORY 4907 ✓
reviewer recorded · approval recorded ✓
PR !419: no linked work item
finding created · author asked to link
- JOB 03
Audit branch policies nightly.
Report protected-branch settings, mandatory reviewers, build policies, status checks and exceptions across your repositories, so a quietly relaxed policy is found the next morning, not at the next audit.
dev.azure.com/contoso · Repos · Policiesrun started · schedule: daily 02:00
checking 14 repos · protected branches
mandatory reviewers ✓ · build policy ✓
0 exceptions since last audit
record · audit completed clean
- JOB 04
Find compliance gaps against your standards.
Compare the current artifact set with the standards, objectives, controls or lifecycle expectations you configured, check that each obligation is represented and linked to implementation and evidence, and propose mappings for qualified review.
dev.azure.com/contoso · Boards · Controlsrun started · manual: gap check, payments
control catalog v4 · 42 controls in scope
3 controls without current evidence
gap report drafted · mappings proposed
checkpoint · awaiting qualified review
- JOB 05
Verify the approval and signature trail.
Check the available authenticated approvals for the records that need them: who signed, when, with what meaning, in what sequence, and against which change. Missing or out-of-order approvals are stated, never smoothed over.
dev.azure.com/contoso · Boards · REQ-207run started · release gate reached, 2.4
checking approvals on 18 controlled items
REQ-207 approved before its last change
re-approval requested from named owner
record · trail findings retained
- JOB 06
Catch missing and outdated records.
Detect SOPs, design documents and validation records that are missing, past their review date, or no longer match the work they describe, and route each one to its owner before it becomes the weak link in a submission.
dev.azure.com/contoso · Wiki · Qualityrun started · schedule: monthly records
reading 37 SOPs, 12 design documents
SOP-14 past its review date
DD-09 does not cover FEATURE 512
follow-up tasks created · owners set
run started · schedule: weekly trace audit
walking trace: 61 requirements → tests
2 broken links · 1 stale test result
matrix generated · owners assigned
record · findings linked to sources
ILLUSTRATIVE RUNS · EVERY RUN LANDS IN YOUR JOB LOG
It runs when your controls say so.
Manual, event-based, or scheduled. Every run starts from a trigger a person on your team set. The agent cannot add its own, and a disabled agent does not run at all.
- EVENT
A gate is reached, or a requirement, design, code or test changes.
Run on PRs, pipeline stages and work item changes. Add conditions, such as State changes to Approved on a Requirement, so it runs only on controlled items and spends no credits on the rest.
- SCHEDULE
The control review comes round.
Schedule the branch-policy audit nightly, the trace audit weekly, the records review monthly. It still runs on demand at any time.
- MANUAL
An auditor asks for the trace.
Run it on a release, an audit scope, or a single requirement from the agent, or call it from Copilot4DevOps Chat.
Detected
- scanning…
Release 2.4, from evidence request to signed-off pack.
The seven stages every run follows, shown on one evidence-pack run. Click a stage or let it play.
01 Trigger
The compliance lead runs the agent manually on the audit scope for release 2.4. The scope is a saved query the team defined. Nothing else starts the run.
What it reads. What it writes.
The agent retrieves only the Azure DevOps context, and approved external context, that the control workflow needs. Scope it to a project, an audit query, or a release.
| Context | It reads | It writes, creates, or updates |
|---|---|---|
| The engineering chainrequirement to deployment | Requirements, designs, code changes, tests, results, risks, controls, releases, and documents | Traceability matrices, gap reports, and missing-link work |
| Delivery historywho did what, when | Work-item history, PR, build, test and release history, comments, ownership, and exceptions | Findings on the items concerned, and review requests to their owners |
| Approvalsthe trail | Approvals, timestamps, reviewers, and the changes they relate to | Approval-trail findings and re-approval requests |
| Your controlsknowledge you attach | Standards mappings, control catalogs, lifecycle models, baselines, policies, SOPs, and review criteria | Compliance baselines and configured status fields, when your policy allows |
| Findingsregulator, auditor, internal | Open findings and their remediation records | Tracked findings with their evidence and remediation tasks |
| The runevery time | The trigger and the scope it was given | An evidence package with sources, approvals, gaps, and limitations, and a run record with its verification result |
Run it as shipped, or fork it.
Every agent is a versioned definition. Edit its instructions in plain English, attach your trace model, control catalog and SOPs as knowledge, and re-version with rollback. You never write or see code.
Grounded in your own controls
With Bring Your Own Data, the agent retrieves from your uploaded documents, Azure DevOps queries, and wiki pages during the run, so gaps are measured against your control catalog and SOPs, in your terminology.
Your model, per agent
Choose the model this agent runs on and see its credit rate at selection. Put link and policy checks on an Execution Agent and keep reasoning for gap analysis. Enterprise brings your own LLM and key.
Versioned, with library updates
Restore any earlier version in one step. When the library version improves, compare yours with the new one, then keep yours or review and update. Every run records the version it used.
knowledge
- trace_model"REQ → DES → CODE → TEST"
- control_catalog"org controls v4"
- evidence_template"audit pack v2"
- naming"REQ- / HAZ- / TC-"
- use_byod"on · SOPs + wiki"
- approver"qualified reviewer, named"
KNOWLEDGE UPDATED · SOP v3 attached
Rules check. The agent assembles. Your reviewer concludes.
Every output is review support. Deterministic rules govern links, policies, and required approvals. Planner-based analysis handles gaps, stale evidence, and standards mapping. Standards content and mappings always go to qualified review.
Deterministic rules
- Required links in the configured chain
- Branch policies, mandatory reviewers, and protected branches
- Work item, reviewer, and approval on every change
Drafts, then waits for review
- Evidence packs and traceability matrices
- Gap reports and proposed standards mappings
- Compliance baselines and status field updates
Never does
- Makes or signs an ASIL, DAL, GxP, SOX, certification, or audit conclusion
- Claims a control without current source evidence
- Trains models on your project data
Permissions
Allow and deny, per group.
Who can manage, delete, and inspect agents follows Allow and Deny per team or security group, set at project level with organization inheritance.
| Permission | Allow | Deny |
|---|---|---|
| Manage Agents | ||
| Delete Agents | ||
| Job Explorer | ||
| Manage Skills |
PROJECT LEVEL · ORGANIZATION INHERITANCE
Job log · per run
Every run, reconstructable.
- trigger
- work item 4821 updated
- checked
- criteria · links · fields
- changed
- +1 follow-up task
- approval
- awaitedgranted
- output
- draft accepted · verified
The same agent, against your industry's standards.
Industry variants apply the lifecycle model, standards mapping, approval expectations, and evidence structure of the domain.
- Variant 01
Automotive
- Variant 02
Medical Devices
- Variant 03
Aerospace & Defence
- Variant 04
Pharma / Life Sciences
- Variant 05
Banking & Finance
- Variant 06
Telecommunications
Plus Compliance & Risk Officer personas for defence, oil & gas and energy, hardware and electronics, rail, construction, and nuclear: 13 role-based agents per industry.
All industries
Agents prepare, check, and assemble evidence. The responsible organization, its qualified personnel and its auditors determine compliance, certification, and the acceptability of any evidence.
Hands off, explicitly.
Evidence is only as current as the links behind it. Complex workflows coordinate several agents with explicit handoffs and approval boundaries.
Compliance Officer Agent
TraceRequirements Engineer Agent
Keeps trace links and baselines current, so the chain the audit walks reflects the latest approved change.
TestQA Engineer Agent
Links test cases to requirements, finds coverage gaps, and produces the test summary that goes into the pack.
ReleaseRelease Manager Agent
Verifies the approval trail and assembles the release package the evidence pack points to.
ShipDevOps Engineer Agent
Audits environment checks and pipeline policies, and tags build artifacts by version and release status.
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Questions about the Compliance Officer Agent.
No. It applies your configured checks and prepares the evidence. Compliance depends on your organization, system, process, implementation, and operation, and on qualified assessment.
Treat it as source-linked, review-ready working evidence. Every claim links to the artifact behind it and every gap is stated. Your organization and your auditor decide what is acceptable.
It can research and summarize the standards you configure, and propose mappings from requirements and controls to them. Source licensing, version, jurisdiction, and the final mapping stay with qualified reviewers.
An evidence pack for one release, or a nightly branch-policy audit. The scope, the checks, the reviewer, and the result are clear, and both show their value in the first week of the trial.
What your evidence template asks for. Typically the trace from requirement to design, code, test, result and deployment, the approvals, policy findings, supporting records, and an explicit list of gaps and limitations. It can be saved as PDF, Word, or Markdown.
No. The agent runs inside your Azure DevOps environment on the same security and trust model as Copilot4DevOps, with no separate login. Your project data is not used to train models.
Credits are $0.01 each, pooled across your organization with no per-user fees. A rule-based branch-policy or link check on an Execution Agent costs a flat 4 credits a run, about $0.04. Walking a full release scope and assembling a pack is a deeper Assisted Autonomous run, and its credits scale with the context it reads. Agents pause cleanly at zero.
Compliance Officer variants exist for automotive, medical devices, aerospace and defence, pharma, finance, and telecommunications, with Compliance & Risk Officer personas for further regulated industries in the library.
Put it on your next audit.
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