AI Assurance Handoff
AI assurance handoff is the bridge between AI Governance and governed assurance workflows. It lets approved assurance modules contribute sanitized projections for a source reference so AI can help explain posture, draft review narratives, or prepare candidate summaries without becoming the source of assurance truth.
What projections are
An assurance projection is a display-safe summary contributed by an approved projector. It can reference an assurance program, engagement, observation, workpaper, approved snapshot, or another governed source when the owning module allows AI use.
The projection can include:
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Projection | Stable key for the contributed handoff view. |
| Status | Current posture reported by the projector. |
| Evidence refs | Sanitized references to source evidence or approved snapshots. |
| Summary | Safe summary values for review or drafting. |
The projection must not include raw provider payloads, prompts, credentials, raw document text, source-system secrets, or unpublished authority content.
The built-in governed-assurance projector currently supports assurance programs, engagements, workpapers, and observations. Program and engagement projections include safe status, kind, period, owner/lead refs, package refs, and linked-program context. Workpaper and observation projections include safe source refs, status, keys, linked engagement context, document/review/finding refs where present, and boolean posture flags for sensitive snapshots. They do not copy descriptions, criteria, plans, workpaper notes, severity snapshots, evidence-claim snapshots, or observation subject identifiers into AI records.
The AI Governance Assurance tab can create a draft assurance handoff dossier from the currently loaded projections. The dossier preserves capped projection citations, status counts, source refs, and review posture for human review. It does not publish assurance results, authority snapshots, or exchange payloads.
What AI can do with it
AI can use assurance projections to:
- explain measured assurance observations in plain language;
- draft candidate evidence-rule or audit-narrative text;
- prepare decision dossier context that separates measured facts from AI inference;
- show whether a source has enough approved assurance evidence for handoff.
- preserve a draft assurance handoff dossier for review before any owning workflow acts on it.
AI cannot:
- create final assurance observations;
- declare official compliance, breach, or nonconformity truth;
- publish authority-facing snapshots;
- bypass the owning assurance, exchange, review, or submission workflow.
Cloud and sovereign deployments
Cloud and sovereign deployments both use the same handoff model. Sovereign installations may connect projectors to local assurance sources or approved authority-node snapshots, but publication remains owned by the assurance or exchange workflow.
If the AI bundle is disabled, the assurance projection route and UI are not materialized.