How do I audit my AI agents for SOC 2 compliance?

SOC 2 asks whether controls exist and operated. For an agent that means an authorization decision before each action, a record you can hand to an auditor, and a stop you can prove. Here is what the auditor will ask for and where each piece comes from.

A SOC 2 examination does not certify software. It examines whether your organization's controls exist, are designed to meet the Trust Services Criteria, and operated over the period. An AI agent that acts on your systems is inside that scope the moment it can create a consequence: read a record, send a message, move money, change a configuration. The auditor's questions about it are the same three questions asked of any actor with access: who authorized this, what did it do, and could you have stopped it.

What the auditor will ask for

• Authorization before the act: evidence that each agent action was checked against a policy before it ran, not reconstructed from logs afterward. Agentomy's tier-based authorization gate makes that decision on every action and records it.
• A record a third party can verify: a tamper-evident, hash-linked audit chain of every governance decision, exportable by time range and event type, with integrity that can be re-checked independently of the system that produced it.
• An emergency stop with proof: a halt that reaches every governed agent, returns a confirmed count, survives an infrastructure restart, and lands in the same record.
• Change and access discipline around the agents themselves: who may grant an agent authority, which tier each agent carries, and how a new agent enters governance (discovery first, read-only until registered).
• Monitoring that would have noticed: behavioural baselines per agent, so privilege probing, scope escalation, frequency spikes and identity drift are flagged or halted, with the flags in the record.

Where the mapping lives

The platform generates structured self-assessment reports that map its controls to SOC 2's Trust Services Criteria, alongside HIPAA, the EU AI Act, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS. These are readiness mappings stated as such: the report shows which criterion each control speaks to and what evidence the audit chain holds for it. Agentomy does not certify you. It gives you the evidence an examination needs and keeps producing it while the agents run.

Compliance readiness for agents is not a document. It is a decision before every action and a record after it, produced by the same layer.

Where to verify this yourself

• The published governance API, operation by operation: agentomy.com/docs/api (authorization, halt and audit export are published operations).
• The manual's answer on proving compliance, with where the capability lives, how it is proven and where it stops: agentomy.com/manual.
• The open benchmark whose audit and override suites exercise exactly these controls: agentomy.com/governancebench.