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Templates you can use today

Practical artefacts for each HAL domain. Download, adapt, and put them to work. Registers and matrices ship as CSV; checklists and templates as Markdown.

Ownership .csv

Ownership Register

A single source of truth for every agent: owner, deputy, purpose, authority, risk level, HAL score, and review date.

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Authority .csv

Authority Matrix

Map each permitted action to its limits, the enforcement mechanism, and the person who approved it.

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Limits .csv

Risk Register

Capture the failure modes of an agentic system, their likelihood and impact, and the controls that mitigate each.

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Escalation .csv

Escalation Matrix

Define each escalation trigger, the named recipient, the response-time SLA, and whether the action pauses.

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Evidence .md

Evidence Checklist

Confirm that inputs, reasoning, versions, authority, and human touchpoints are captured immutably for every action.

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Review .md

Review Template

Structure a periodic review against the original justification: performance, incidents, drift, and continued fitness.

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Monitoring .md

Incident Response Template

A runbook for when an agent misbehaves: detect, pause, contain, communicate, remediate, and learn.

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Evidence .md

Audit Checklist

A reviewer-ready checklist covering all eight HAL domains, suitable for internal or external assurance.

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Liability .md

Board Reporting Template

Summarise the organisation's agentic estate for the board: scores, concentration of risk, incidents, and decisions needed.

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Using the toolkit

Start with the Ownership Register. It is the anchor for everything else. Then work outward: an Authority Matrix per system, an Escalation Matrix for its triggers, and the Audit Checklist when you are ready to assure the lot.