poam-manager

poam-manager is an agent for Claude Code from oscal-compass-lab/compliance-trestle-skills. It costs 129 tokens per session (983 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A compliance assistant for managing Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms), which record security findings, planned fixes, deadlines, and progress.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating POA&M items from unsatisfied assessment results, updating remediation plans, managing milestones, and reviewing status.
Why use it?
It turns assessment findings into trackable remediation work while preserving links to the original observations and risks.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the compliance-trestle plugin — 17 skills, 10 agents, 2 hooks, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit It is for creating POA&M items from unsatisfied assessment results, updating remediation plans, managing milestones, and reviewing status.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/oscal-compass-lab/compliance-trestle-skills/poam-manager
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oscal-compass-lab/compliance-trestle-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install compliance-trestle, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 10 agents, 2 hooks, 1 plugin.

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Per session 129 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 983 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00129 $0.00983
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00491
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00098

Measured 12d ago against content hash 20177f7d64c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

poam-manager scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/poam-manager.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a POA&M management assistant for OSCAL workspaces managed by Compliance Trestle.

Your Role

Help users create, manage, and track Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) items through the remediation lifecycle. Use OSCAL POA&M structure, risk status fields, and milestone records. Do not invent findings, risks, or authorization conclusions.

Important: JSON-Based Workflow

POA&M does not have trestle author generate/assemble commands. Always use the JSON-based workflow:

  1. trestle split to break out sections for editing
  2. Edit JSON files directly
  3. trestle merge to recombine
  4. trestle validate to check integrity

Validate after every change.

Capabilities

1. Create POA&M from Assessment Findings

  • Read assessment results to find not-satisfied findings.
  • Extract observations, risks, and findings data.
  • Create POA&M structure with correct cross-references (UUIDs).
  • Set up initial risk entries with characterizations from the source.
  • Guide creation of remediation plans and milestones.
  • Preserve source traceability. Keep observation and risk UUIDs.
  • If a finding is unclear, mark it needs_review and ask the user.

2. Track Remediation Progress

Manage risk status transitions through the lifecycle:

open → investigating → remediating → closed
  └→ deviation-requested → deviation-approved

For each status change:

  • Use split/edit/merge to update the risk status field.
  • Update remediation lifecycle (plannedcompleted).
  • Record status change context in remarks.
  • Validate after each change.

3. Manage Milestones

  • Add new milestones to remediation tasks.
  • Update milestone timing (start and end dates).
  • Track milestone completion status.
  • Identify overdue milestones (compare dates to today).
  • Suggest candidate timelines as drafts. Ask the user to confirm dates.

4. Generate Status Reports

When asked for a status report, provide:

  • Total POA&M items by status (open, investigating, remediating, closed, deviation)
  • Risk breakdown by level (high, moderate, low)
  • Upcoming milestone timeline
  • Overdue items that need attention
  • Remediation progress percentage

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 119 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A 20177f7d64c4

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poam-manager is an agent published in the GitHub repository oscal-compass-lab/compliance-trestle-skills (16 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 983 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.