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Compliance

LimaCharlie ships a compliance toolkit, lc-compliance, that maps seven major compliance frameworks directly onto your deployed sensors, detections, and case queue. It is delivered as a Claude Code plugin sourced from the public refractionPOINT/lc-ai marketplace, and is licensed under Apache 2.0.

The toolkit has two complementary halves that solve different parts of the compliance problem:

  • A case-reviewer agent that runs continuously inside your LimaCharlie organization, classifying every new case against the relevant control citations and writing audit-grade documentation directly into the case record. Built on AI Sessions.
  • A set of four Claude Code skills that an engineer runs on demand from their Claude Code session: control lookups, ad-hoc gap analysis, guided agent deployment, and full rule-baseline deployment.

The continuous half produces durable audit evidence. The on-demand half supports the engineering work that surrounds an audit — answering "how does LC cover this control?", "what am I missing before the audit?", and "deploy the recommended rule set to this new tenant."

Frameworks covered

Framework Authoritative source
CMMC v2 NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2
NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 NIST OSCAL catalog
PCI DSS v4.0 PCI Security Standards Council
HIPAA Security Rule eCFR 45 CFR §164
SOC 2 AICPA Trust Services Criteria
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 ISO (Annex A)
CIS Critical Security Controls v8 Center for Internet Security

Each framework ships with a control-to-capability mapping document, a set of deployable D&R / file-integrity / artifact-collection / exfil rules across Windows, Linux, and macOS, a recommended-rules baseline used by the gap-analysis skill, an attribution document declaring the verification level, and a case-reviewer agent manifest ready to deploy. See Frameworks.

The two shapes — when to use which

Use case Shape
Continuous per-case compliance classification Agent (<framework>-compliance-reviewer) — fires on every case_created
Ad-hoc "what does LC do for this one control?" Skill (compliance-lookup)
Ad-hoc "what am I missing?" before an audit Skill (compliance-gap)
First-time reviewer-agent deployment Skill (compliance-deploy)
Push the full framework rule baseline into an org Skill (compliance-baseline-deploy)

The agent owns continuous, event-driven evidence production — cases, notes, tags persisted in the LC org that auditors rely on. Skills own request-driven interactive work that engineers run during development without leaving artifacts behind in the org.

Gap analysis is skill-only

There is no backend gap-analyzer agent. A gap report is an engineering punch list, not audit evidence. If you want the report persisted in the LC org for an auditor to reference, create a Case yourself and paste the skill's output into it.

Quickstart

/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/refractionPOINT/lc-ai
/plugin install lc-compliance@lc-marketplace

Once installed, the four skills are immediately available:

/lc-compliance:compliance-lookup pci 10.2.1.4
/lc-compliance:compliance-gap hipaa --oid <your-oid>
/lc-compliance:compliance-deploy cmmc --oid <your-oid>
/lc-compliance:compliance-baseline-deploy pci-dss --oid <your-oid> --apply

For a step-by-step walkthrough of the first three commands, see Installation. For arguments and behavior of each skill, see Skills Reference. To deploy the case-reviewer agent into an organization, see Case-Reviewer Agent.

What lc-compliance does not do

  • Issue compliance attestations. The plugin reports evidence. The human auditor / QSA / ISSO decides compliance status.
  • Modify deployed configuration without confirmation. Every write (API key creation, secret staging, rule deployment) requires explicit confirmation. compliance-baseline-deploy defaults to a dry-run; --apply is required to write rules.
  • Replace your SOC. The case-reviewer agent runs in parallel to whatever Level-1 triage flow already exists in the organization, classifying for compliance impact, not security severity. It does not contain, isolate, or remediate.
  • Provide normative control wording. Mappings paraphrase. The normative text of each standard lives in the publisher's document, linked in every framework's attribution document.

See also

  • AI Sessions — the underlying mechanism the case-reviewer agent runs on
  • Cases — the case lifecycle the agent operates against
  • D&R-Driven Sessions — how the case-reviewer agent is triggered
  • Hive Secrets — where the agent's API keys are stored