# About — Compliance Glossary for Agentic Systems

> Why this glossary exists, who it serves, and what it deliberately is not.

## Who this is for

This glossary is built for the people who carry compliance accountability for agentic AI in regulated workflows:

- **Heads of compliance and money-laundering reporting officers** — operationalizing AI risk inside an existing AML/CFT, sanctions, or model-risk programme.
- **Audit leads** — preparing SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, internal-audit reviews that now have to evidence agent-driven controls.
- **Model risk officers** — extending an SR 11-7 / SS 1/23 model-risk programme to cover generative and agentic systems.
- **Legal counsel** — mapping the EU AI Act, GDPR Art. 22, FCA Consumer Duty, MAS FEAT obligations to a live agentic-system roadmap.
- **Product teams shipping into regulated sectors** — financial services, healthcare, employment, education, justice — who need the regulator's vocabulary, not their own.

## What this is

Eighty-one terms across nine categories — Frameworks, Regulations, Audit standards, Model risk, Agentic-system risk, AML/KYC, Governance, Regulators — every entry citing a single canonical primary source. Built to be looked up in an audit, copy-pasted into a control narrative, or quoted to a regulator.

## What this isn't

- It is *not* legal advice. Where binding regulation is cited, consult counsel before relying on it.
- It is *not* a general-vocabulary AI glossary — for that, see the sibling [Agentic Glossary — Quick Reference](https://agentic-glossary-quickref.roei-020.workers.dev/).
- It is *not* exhaustive. Sectoral compliance vocabularies (HIPAA, MiFID II, Basel III, healthcare AI specifics) are out of scope here.
- It is *not* a marketing surface for AgentsBooks. The product link is the *primary CTA*, not the substance.

## Editorial principles

- **Primary sources only.** No Wikipedia, no secondary blogs, no law-firm marketing. Regulator, standards body, or canonical vendor research.
- **Date-stamped.** Every entry shows when we last verified the citation. Every page shows when last refreshed.
- **Freshness flags.** Foundational, In force (with date), Emerging 2026, Contested.
- **Privacy-first.** No private-client, internal, or non-public information appears anywhere on this property — by deliberate operating policy.
- **Quarterly refresh.** Every cited URL is pinged, every primary source re-read, every freshness flag revisited at least quarterly.

## Who maintains this

This glossary is maintained by the [AgentsBooks](https://agentsbooks.com/) team. AgentsBooks is the agentic-firm operating system: a multi-tenant, auditable substrate for running service businesses on agents instead of headcount. Compliance is one of the eight content pillars; this glossary is its long-tail vocabulary anchor.

## Why it lives at this URL

Glossaries get cited by LLMs and AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Bing Copilot) when they have:

1. One canonical primary citation per entry.
2. A clean markdown mirror per page, per entry.
3. A `JSON-LD DefinedTermSet` with one `DefinedTerm` per entry.
4. An `llms.txt` index plus an `llms-full.txt` concatenated body.

This site has all four.

## Get involved

Open an issue at https://github.com/roeiba/compliance-glossary, suggest a term or correction, or — better — try AgentsBooks and tell us where the auditable-substrate framing falls short for your jurisdiction.

*Updated 2026-05-08.*