Integration Governance and Accountability [INT-07]

Integration Governance and Accountability defines who may approve, change, pause, expand or retire AI participation in work. It applies decision rights and evidence to behaviour-changing configurations, ongoing health, shadow integration and readiness gates at increases in operating exposure.

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Why this matters

Prompts, permissions, thresholds, models and tool settings can change production behaviour without an application release. Governance must track their operational effect and remain active after deployment.

Questions to bring to the work

• Who may authorise this change in participation or exposure, and what evidence is required?
• Can the organisation reconstruct the configuration, approval and result of a material operating change?

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Keep one named outcome-accountable role while separating the people, agents and systems that prepare, approve, validate or execute the work.

Route prompts, models, thresholds, permissions and tool changes according to their potential operating effect, with clear approval and transition rights.

Design evidence around the questions reviewers must answer about material operating and governance events, with sensitivity and retention constraints.

Maintain post-deployment review with evidence, cadence or triggers, authority and follow-through for as long as material exposure remains.

Assign authority and a lifecycle decision to material ungoverned integration, based on its operating exposure rather than visibility alone.

Require proportionate fresh evidence before moving to production, broader populations, Act authority, wider tools or additional operating contexts.

What useful evidence looks like

• Change-class and approval records for prompts, models, tools, permissions and orchestration.
• Readiness and health-review evidence showing conditions, owners, follow-through and authority to narrow or stop expansion.

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Framework source

Editorial adaptation from the supplied AIDIVE Version 1 master documents.

• AIDIVE Integration Dimension Version-1.docx · I.7 Integration Governance and Accountability [INT-07]; AIDIVE Integration - Practices & Playbook Version-1.docx · AR-I16, AR-I17, AR-I18

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