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NIST Compliance Implementation - Quick Context Recovery

🎯 One-Line Summary

Built an LLM-friendly system to automatically tag NIST 800-53r5 controls in code as developers write it, enabling automatic SSP generation and continuous compliance.

🚀 What's Ready to Use NOW

  1. Tag Your Code
/**
 * @nist ia-2 "User authentication"
 * @nist ia-5 "Password management"
 */
  1. Install Git Hooks
./scripts/setup-nist-hooks.sh
  1. Generate SSP
cd standards/compliance
npm install
npm run generate-ssp

📋 What Was Built (Phase 1-2 Complete)

Core Platform (/standards/compliance/)

  • ✅ OSCAL-native compliance engine
  • ✅ Semantic analysis for control mapping
  • ✅ SSP generator
  • ✅ Evidence harvester
  • ✅ TypeScript interfaces for all OSCAL types

Developer Integration

  • ✅ COMPLIANCE_STANDARDS.md - How to tag
  • ✅ Pre-commit hooks - Validate & suggest
  • ✅ GitHub Actions - CI/CD automation
  • ✅ CLAUDE.md updates - LLM knows NIST

Key Innovation

"Shift-Left Compliance" - Tag security controls when writing code, not during audits.

🔴 What's Left (High Priority)

  1. VS Code Extension - Real-time suggestions
  2. Annotation Parser - Formal tag processing
  3. Update Standards - Add NIST to existing docs
  4. LLM Context System - Enhanced descriptions

💡 For LLMs Picking This Up

Load context:

@load COMPLIANCE_STANDARDS.md + NIST_TAGGING_PROPOSAL.md + /standards/compliance/README.md
Task: Continue NIST 800-53r5 implementation
Status: Infrastructure complete, need developer tools
Next: VS Code extension for real-time tagging

🏃 Quick Commands

# Check what's tagged
grep -r "@nist" . --include="*.ts" | wc -l

# Validate current branch
./scripts/nist-pre-commit.sh

# Generate compliance docs
cd standards/compliance && npm run generate-ssp

# See all NIST files
find . -name "*NIST*" -o -name "*nist*" -o -path "*/compliance/*"

Key Files:

  • Strategy: NIST_TAGGING_PROPOSAL.md
  • How-to: COMPLIANCE_STANDARDS.md
  • TODO: NIST_COMPLIANCE_TODO.md
  • Code: /standards/compliance/