# Comply

> comply: legal is a gate, not a vibe

- Skill: `tradebaas/comply` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add tradebaas/comply`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/tradebaas/comply/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: Tradebaas (https://skillmd.com/u/tradebaas)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/tradebaas/comply

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# comply: legal is a gate, not a vibe

`docs/compliance/COMPLIANCE.md` holds the regimes and when they bite, the same in every project.
`docs/compliance/REGISTER.md` is *this* project's register: which of them apply here, status per
obligation, evidence per row. This skill fills and re-verifies both.

## 1. Determine what applies (per project, honestly)

Walk that trigger table against BRIEF.md and the actual system: personal data?
(almost always yes: an email address is enough) → GDPR/AVG. AI features → AI Act, at minimum
Art 50 transparency. Consumer-facing digital service/e-commerce → European Accessibility Act.
Product with digital elements sold in the EU → CRA. Software placed on the EU market, which is
virtually every shipped product → Product Liability Directive. Essential/important sector or
supplier to one → NIS2. The client is a financial entity → DORA. Connected product, or a
cloud/SaaS service a customer can switch away from → Data Act. Every dependency → its
license. The organization has rules on AI tooling (a regulated sector, government, confidential
data, or a client that asks) → `docs/operations/agent-security.md` is filled before the first
session on their data: where prompts go, what the agent can reach, who can stop it, what is kept.

## 2. Verify current state of the law

Regulations shift (every regime row carries its own last-verified date; they age). For each
applicable regime, confirm today's status via authoritative sources (EUR-Lex, the Commission's
pages, the AP (autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl) for NL) and update the dates in the regimes table.
Stamp today in `Dates verified` on the rows you actually checked, and leave the other rows'
stamps alone: a partial pass that stamps the whole table turns a stale row into a fresh-looking
one. Never assert a deadline or obligation from model memory. Deadline horizon: when any date
there falls within the next 60 days, re-verify that regime now instead of waiting for the
quarterly audit - rules move fastest just before they bite. No network in this environment: the
row keeps its old stamp and reads `open (unverified)` with the source it would check, never `n/a`.

## 3. Apply per obligation: build it in, don't bolt it on

- **GDPR/AVG**: lawful basis named per processing purpose; data minimization in the schema
  (collect nothing "for later"); records of processing (Art 30); the DPIA screened against the
  AP's list and the EDPB criteria and the outcome recorded as a register row, a negative one
  included (Art 35); a privacy notice at the point of collection (Art 13 and 14); cookies and
  similar storage only with consent where the Telecommunicatiewet asks it, verified at use time;
  data-subject rights executable (export, delete: actually implemented, not promised); the
  retention periods recorded here honored to the end, the product's own retirement included
  (`maintain` owns that step);
  processor agreements for every third-party service touching personal data; EU data residency
  checked per service; breach path known (72h to the AP).
- **AI Act**: users told they're interacting with AI; AI-generated content marked
  machine-readably (Art 50, binding from 2026-08-02); high-risk uses (Annex III) identified
  early. Obligations land 2027-12-02, design for them now, not then. Art 4 AI literacy:
  `docs/compliance/AI-LITERACY.md` is the evidence note; keep the register's literacy line true
  for this team and re-check the note at the quarterly audit.
- **Accessibility**: the level `docs/compliance/COMPLIANCE.md` names for new interfaces (EN 301
  549) as the working floor. Evidence: the `renders` scan in the stack's floor table and
  design-guard per delivery; this skill checks the claim holds product-wide, and where the EAA
  applies an accessibility statement is published with the product.
- **CRA**: scope before duties, because both the CRA and the PLD turn on the same test: supply in
  the course of a commercial activity. Free and open-source software its maintainer does not
  monetise is outside it, and paid services alongside a freely downloadable product or donations
  that do not gate access do not change that; a paid edition, updates behind a payment, or other
  services monetised through it do. A legal person sustaining such an unmarketed project intended
  for commercial use is an open-source software steward instead (Art 24). Inside scope:
  secure-by-default posture, and the vulnerability intake channel plus the support period
  published in the root `SECURITY.md` (ships as a working template; fill its marked TBD fields);
  actively exploited vulnerability → reporting duty via ENISA platform (from 2026-09-11). The
  regimes table's CRA row carries that scope test in full: settle it before writing a duty.
- **PLD**: software is a product with no-fault liability; defectiveness includes cybersecurity
  vulnerabilities, and damage covers users' destroyed or corrupted data. The CRA posture above
  plus a proven restore path (`docs/operations/backup-restore.md`) are the working defense.
- **DORA**: the obligations arrive through the financial client's contract (Art 30: security
  measures, incident support, audit and access rights, exit strategy); check those clauses
  against what the product actually delivers and record any gap in the register.
- **Data Act**: a connected product is designed so its data reaches the user by default, not
  bolted on as an export later; a cloud/SaaS offering carries no switching barriers and an exit
  the customer can actually walk, contract terms and egress included.
- **Licensing**: every dependency's license compatible with the product's use and distribution;
  copyleft obligations honored; the register lists anything non-trivial.

## 4. Verdict and record

Register updated: per obligation `met / open / blocked / n/a` + evidence link. Open items
that block delivery are named as blockers in STATE.md. Delivery waits, that's the point.
Report: what applies, what's green, what blocks, the one next step. ⚓