AI Agent Production Approval Template

Use This After the Evidence Review

Start with the vendor security questionnaire to request evidence. Use this memo after reviewing the answers, not instead of reviewing them.

Record the exact product, deployment mode and tool configuration. Approval for a read-only sandbox does not cover a production agent with database writes or payment authority.

Select and copy the text below into your internal approval system. Replace every bracketed field. Keep sensitive evidence in your restricted repository, not in a public report or page.

Copy-Ready Approval Record

AI AGENT PRODUCTION APPROVAL RECORD

Record ID: [internal reference]
Decision date: [YYYY-MM-DD]
Client organisation: [organisation]
Subject company and legal entity: [vendor / entity]
Product, version and deployment mode: [agent / version / hosting]
Business purpose: [one specific workflow]
Business owner: [name / role]
Security reviewer: [name / role]
Authorised risk approver: [name / role]

1. DECISION AND BOUNDARY
Internal decision: [approve / approve subject to conditions / do not approve]
Permitted environment: [named environment]
Permitted data: [classes / excluded data / retention]
Permitted tools and actions: [systems / read or write / limits]
Explicitly prohibited actions: [list]
Human approval required before: [named high-impact actions]
Credential owner and expiry: [role / date / scopes]

2. EVIDENCE REGISTER
Independent report, if commissioned: [title / date / link / limitations]
Vendor documentation and terms: [version / retrieval date / links]
Private assurance material: [restricted internal references]
Authorised evaluation results: [scope / environment / date / reviewer]
Unverified claims and missing evidence: [list; do not mark as passed]

3. SIX-DIMENSION FINDINGS
For each dimension, record: evidence reference; residual risk; condition;
condition owner; closure evidence; deadline.
D1 Client data security: [entry]
D2 Prompt injection & tool-control exposure: [entry]
D3 Credentials & API-key security: [entry]
D4 Payment & financial-operation security: [entry]
D5 Operational continuity: [entry]
D6 Legal & liability security: [entry]

4. RELEASE CONDITIONS
Must close before access is granted: [condition / owner / proof]
Accepted residual risks: [risk / reason / authorised acceptor]
Conditions remaining after release: [owner / deadline / restriction]
No production release while a pre-release condition remains unverified.

5. STOP AND RECOVERY
Stop triggers: [unexpected action / data exposure / control failure]
Who can suspend the agent: [role / documented procedure]
Who revokes credentials: [role / documented procedure]
Recovery source and last successful restore check: [reference / date]
Incident escalation: [internal contact / vendor channel]
Who authorises reinstatement: [role / required evidence]

6. REVIEW AND SIGN-OFF
Next review date: [YYYY-MM-DD / reason for interval]
Approval expires on, if used: [YYYY-MM-DD]
Re-review triggers: [new tool / expanded data / model or terms change]
Approval applies only to the workflow and access boundary above.
Approver: [name / role / date / recorded approval reference]
Business owner acknowledgement: [name / date]

Write Conditions That Can Be Closed

“The vendor should improve security” is not a release condition. A condition needs a named owner, observable evidence and an access restriction until it is closed.

Illustrative condition: before enabling production database access, the security reviewer must verify read-only permissions with a dedicated identity. Write access remains disabled until separately approved.

Illustrative recovery condition: before the agent handles business-critical work, the operations owner records a successful restore check from a backup the organisation controls.

These are examples, not findings about a vendor. Your controls must match the workflow, threat model and evaluation you actually performed.

Attach the Report, Keep the Decision Yours

An independent verdict and an internal deployment decision are different records. Attach the report by title, date and link; preserve its limitations and remediations.

Do not translate CONDITIONAL GO STRICT into unrestricted approval. Identify which conditions are prerequisites, which require local verification, and which residual risks your authorised approver accepts.

The public Manus report shows recovery and restricted-authority conditions. The public Replit Agent report shows why environment boundaries belong in the decision record.

Both are based on publicly available information only. Neither verifies your configuration or replaces private contractual review, authorised testing, or a restore check.

Source Basis and Limitations

This template is TrustworthAgent’s practical synthesis, not a prescribed regulatory form. It does not establish compliance, transfer liability, or provide legal advice.

The NIST AI Risk Management Framework 1.0 supports documented responsibilities, deployment-risk decisions and residual risk through GOVERN 2.1, GOVERN 2.3 and MANAGE 1.4.

NIST GOVERN 1.5 supports periodic review. MANAGE 2.4 and MANAGE 4.1 address deactivation, recovery and change management. NIST does not prescribe this memo or a universal approval duration.

The OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications 2026 informs the access and recovery fields: ASI02 Tool Misuse, ASI03 Identity and Privilege Abuse, and ASI10 Rogue Agents.

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