soa-exclusion-justification-review SKILL.md skillA
soa-exclusion-justification-review 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/soa-exclusion-justification-review@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/soa-exclusion-justification-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261027.94f7f3e, committed Oct 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 19, 2026
- Size
- 8,395 bytes
- Repository stars
- 56
- License
- MIT
Use this skill when a statement of applicability already exists and the team wants its exclusions to survive the audit, and asks "review our SoA exclusions", "is this a valid justification", "can we exclude physical security if we are fully remote", "the auditor challenged our not applicable controls", "rewrite our exclusion justifications" or "we outsource it, so it does not apply, right". Tests every excluded control against scope, assets, activities, suppliers, risks and commitments, gives…
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 before every certification or surveillance audit, and whenever the scope, the product or the supplier list changes. You get two files in a new folder, `./soa-exclusion-justification-review/`: a spreadsheet you can open in Excel with one row per control the company says does not apply, the tests it passed or failed, a verdict and a better-worded reason (`exclusion-review.csv`), and a short note summarising what should change and the questions for each owner (`review-notes.md`). This skill drafts for a human to review and sign; this skill never marks a control effective. Reversing or keeping an exclusion is the approver's decision. End `review-notes.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. Then add a blank `## Review record` for the approver: reviewer role and competence basis, items sampled and the source each was traced to, what was changed or rejected, one item the draft did not flag and what checking it showed, decision, date and draft version reviewed. `review-notes.md` is the review companion of `exclusion-review.csv` and travels with it; the Review record names… …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add better-isms/grcskills/soa-exclusion-justification-review@sha256:d0093050b38837d0The 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_tkgafurssji2nlkw)
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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 | 8,395 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.20937b5 | 2026-10-19 | 20937b5 | 7,654 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.3c6cd53 | 2026-10-19 | 3c6cd53 | 7,505 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 (8395 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_tkgafurssji2nlkw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=better-isms/grcskills/soa-exclusion-justification-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d0093050b38837d069d6418646295d0145e715fa431236e8b6eb587ccf661827
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