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# Control schema

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title: "Control Schema"
description: "Machine-readable representation of AIGO governance controls."
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# Control Schema

The Control Schema provides the machine-readable structure for AIGO governance controls.

It supports consistent representation of controls and their relationships to governance expectations, risks, assessments, evidence, assurance, and improvement activities.

## Purpose

The schema supports:

\* control identification
\* control description
\* ownership
\* applicability
\* implementation
\* assessment
\* evidence
\* assurance
\* improvement
\* governance traceability

## Control relationships

A control should be understood as part of a broader governance chain rather than as an isolated record.

A typical relationship is:

**governance expectation → risk → control → evidence → assessment → assurance**

Where applicable, rules and evaluation records can provide an additional machine-readable evaluation layer:

**requirement / condition → rule → evaluation → result**

## Control lifecycle

Controls can be considered across their lifecycle, including:

\* definition
\* applicability determination
\* implementation
\* operation
\* assessment
\* evidence collection
\* monitoring
\* assurance
\* improvement
\* retirement or replacement

## Validation

Control definitions and their relationships form part of the machine-readable AIGO repository.

The repository's validation tooling checks relevant structural and reference integrity. Control coverage validation also provides a repository-level view of control relationships and references.

A validation result indicates the state of the validated repository content; it does not itself establish legal compliance, certification, accreditation, or regulatory conformity.

## Canonical source

`schemas/03-control/03-AIGO-Control-Schema-v0.1.json`

Documentation:

`schemas/03-control/03-AIGO-Control-Schema-Documentation-v0.1.md`

Canonical control framework:

`framework/07-controls/AIGO-AI-Governance-Controls-v0.1.md`

Control assessment procedure:

`guidance/02-procedures/05-AIGO-AI-Control-Assessment-Procedure-v0.1.md`