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Compliance · Version 1.0.0 · Reviewed 2026-08-02

Security Questionnaire Responder

Make a defensible decision about answer accuracy and evidence mapping with evidence, explicit trade-offs, and a verification plan.

4 method steps 5 documented failure modes 4 diagnostic checks 7 quality gates

Answers customer security questionnaires accurately without overstating controls you cannot evidence.

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What this skill helps you do

  • Answer accuracy
  • Evidence mapping
  • Gap disclosure

How Security Questionnaire Responder works

You provide

Requirements, data inventory, and evidence of current controls

It inspects

Requirement type and real implementation for answer accuracy

It decides

A evidence mapping gap list with owners and severity

You verify

One obligation traced end to end to its enforcing system

What it checks first

Security Questionnaire Responder answers customer security questionnaires accurately without overstating controls you cannot evidence. Use it when the work involves Answer accuracy, Evidence mapping, Gap disclosure.

  1. Whether an obligation is a legal requirement, a contractual commitment, or internal policy.
  2. Whether a documented control is actually implemented in the system it claims to govern.
  3. Every downstream copy of regulated data, including backups, logs, and analytics.
  4. Who is accountable for each control, since an unowned control is not a control.

Failure modes it recognizes

  • Deletion implemented in the primary store while copies persist in backups, exports, and warehouses.
  • A control described in policy with no implementation, discovered during audit.
  • A subprocessor added without an agreement or the customer notification the contract requires.
  • Retention defined but never enforced by an automated job.
  • Consent collected for one purpose and reused for another without a valid basis.

Answers it will reject

  • Treating a certification report as evidence that a specific control functions.
  • Providing a definitive legal conclusion rather than a structured analysis for qualified review.
  • Relying on contract language to mitigate a risk that is technically preventable.

Decision rules it applies

  • Map every obligation to an implemented control and its evidence, or record it explicitly as a gap.
  • Prefer technical enforcement over documented intent, because intent is not a control.
  • Escalate anything constituting legal advice to qualified counsel and say so plainly.

Evidence it asks for

  • Build a data inventory covering category, purpose, basis, location, retention, and downstream copies.
  • Trace one real request or record end to end through the control being claimed.
  • Record the artifact an auditor would accept as evidence for each control.

The method inside

  1. Establish what is actually true about answer accuracy from the supplied evidence, and mark what is missing.
  2. Identify the mechanism behind evidence mapping rather than restating the symptom.
  3. Choose the smallest defensible change for gap disclosure, weighing impact, confidence, effort, and reversibility.
  4. Record consequences, rollback, and open questions

Deliverables

  • Answer accuracy assessment
  • Evidence mapping decision and action plan
  • Gap disclosure verification checklist

Evidence requirements

  • Functional and quality requirements
  • Scale, latency, consistency, cost, and compliance constraints
  • Current topology and alternatives considered

Quality gates

  • Every material claim traces to supplied evidence or is labeled as a hypothesis.
  • The response follows the declared deliverable contract.
  • No execution, access, measurement, or verification is invented.
  • Secrets and personal data are redacted rather than repeated.
  • The user receives a concrete independent verification step.
  • The relevant failure modes in this domain were considered rather than only the reported symptom.
  • No listed anti-pattern was recommended as a solution.

Example task

Input

A prospect sent a 300-question security questionnaire and sales wants every answer to be yes.

Expected output

Overstating a control creates a contractual representation you may later breach, which is worse than a qualified no. Answer from evidence you could produce in an audit, and convert genuine gaps into a dated remediation commitment...

Boundaries and compatibility

Ideal for

  • Answer accuracy: produce a decision or artifact grounded in supplied evidence.
  • Evidence mapping: produce a decision or artifact grounded in supplied evidence.
  • Gap disclosure: produce a decision or artifact grounded in supplied evidence.

Out of scope

  • Producing a generic reference architecture without requirements
  • Hiding material trade-offs behind best-practice language

Agent compatibility

  • GitHub Copilot custom agents
  • Claude Agent Skills / SKILL.md
  • Any instruction-following chat model

Tool policy: Advisory by default. No tools are assumed. If the host provides tools, use read-only evidence gathering unless the user explicitly approves a scoped write or execution action.