risk-to-control-traceability-check SKILL.md skillA
risk-to-control-traceability-check from better-isms/grcskills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add better-isms/grcskills/risk-to-control-traceability-check@git:20261027.94f7f3ePins git:20261027.94f7f3e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- better-isms/grcskills
- Path
skills/tristan-roth/risk-to-control-traceability-check/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261027.94f7f3e, committed Oct 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 19, 2026
- Size
- 7,562 bytes
- Repository stars
- 56
- License
- MIT
Use this skill when the risk register and the statement of applicability were written separately and may not agree, and the team asks "do our risks link to our controls", "traceability between risk treatment and the SoA", "why is this control applicable", "the auditor could not trace a risk to a control", "check our risk treatment plan against the SoA" or "orphan controls". Checks in both directions that every treated risk points to controls and actions, and every applicable control traces…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
Use this after any update to the risk register, the treatment plan or the applicability statement, and before every external audit. You get two files in a new folder, `./risk-to-control-traceability-check/`: a spreadsheet you can open in Excel with one row per link between a risk and a security measure, showing where each link breaks (`traceability-matrix.csv`), and a short report of the broken links, each with a proposed fix and the person who decides it (`orphans.md`). This skill drafts for a human to review and sign; this skill never marks a control effective. Fixes are proposals for the risk owners and the statement approver. End `orphans.md` with `## Not checked`: what this run did not read or could not open, what it assumed and what it did not verify, specific to this run. ## Inputs to gather …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add better-isms/grcskills/risk-to-control-traceability-check@sha256:ae04368b3ff42ed4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.94f7f3e, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_kjgxvcxilb7s2trj)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Oct 19, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026, about one every 4 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261027.94f7f3e latest | 2026-10-27 | 94f7f3e | 7,562 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.20937b5 | 2026-10-19 | 20937b5 | 7,331 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.3c6cd53 | 2026-10-19 | 3c6cd53 | 7,194 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7562 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
better-isms/grcskills · 56 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kjgxvcxilb7s2trj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=better-isms/grcskills/risk-to-control-traceability-check GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ae04368b3ff42ed44ab527809bea6f204dc89f572314dfaabf74ba1e41a4ecc6
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