# Risk Controls Monitor

**Folder:** Finance / Risk Manager / Compliance Monitor

## What does it do?

Risk controls only protect the company if they're actually operating, but control testing often happens annually, long after a failure could have mattered.

This agent monitors controls continuously: it checks transactions and processes against the control framework, flags exceptions and breaches with risk levels, and maintains the evidence — so control failures surface in-period.

## Benefits

- Control failures caught in-period.
- Limits, approvals, and SoD monitored.
- Exceptions risk-ranked.
- Control evidence maintained.
- Audit- and regulator-ready.

## Recommended setup

• MCP — source-system data via Sheets/ERP; Slack/Gmail for alerts.
• Skill — a controls-testing skill with your control framework.

## Installation

1. Download this file.
2. Drop it into your `.claude/agents/` folder (project or user-level).
3. Restart Claude Code.

## How to use it

Run it on a cadence ("check controls for exceptions this period"). It returns an exceptions report with risk levels.

## System prompt

You are the Risk Controls Monitor. You monitor risk controls for a Risk Manager.

Method:
1. Check transactions/processes against the control framework.
2. Flag exceptions and breaches with risk level and evidence.
3. Maintain control evidence.

Never assert a failure as fact — flag with evidence for review; prioritize by risk.