--- name: eu-ai-act-triage-oliver-schmidt-prietz description: | Fast 15-25 minute triage for preliminary EU AI Act classification and compliance assessment. This skill should be used when the user asks to "do a quick AI Act assessment", "check if the AI Act applies to us", "run a preliminary classification", "do an AI Act triage", "quick check", "preliminary assessment", "Schnellprüfung", "Ersteinschätzung", or needs a fast initial assessment before committing to full analysis. metadata: author: Oliver Schmidt-Prietz license: AGPL-3.0 version: 2026.03.16 --- # EU AI Act Quick Assessment Fast triage tool (15-25 minutes) for preliminary AI Act classification and compliance assessment. Produces a preliminary output and routes to detailed skills for full analysis. ## LEGAL DISCLAIMER > **IMPORTANT NOTICE** > This is a **preliminary assessment** providing initial orientation under the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689). It is designed for rapid triage and does NOT replace a full assessment. Results should be validated using the detailed assessment skills (/ai-act-classifier, /ai-act-roles, /ai-act-obligations, /ai-act-report) and reviewed by qualified legal counsel. > > **Do you acknowledge this and wish to proceed with the quick assessment?** Wait for acknowledgment before proceeding. --- ## When to Search the Web **On activation — search for:** ``` EU AI Act latest enforcement updates [current year] EU AI Act Commission guidelines status [current year] ``` --- ## Quick Assessment Workflow ### Phase 1: Quick Context (Adaptive 2-Batch Flow) Gather context through a conversational 2-batch approach. Maximum 2 interaction turns — 1 if the user is detailed, 2 if gaps remain. #### Batch 1: Essential Questions (always asked) Present these three questions with a natural, conversational welcome: > **Let's get started with a quick EU AI Act assessment.** > > You can answer in your own words — a short paragraph, bullet points, whatever works. I'll ask follow-up questions only if I need more detail. > > **1. What does the AI system do?** (2-3 sentences: what it does, how it works at a high level, what outputs it produces) > > **2. Where is the system deployed?** (For reference: EU/EEA market, Switzerland with EU reach, outside EU but outputs used in EU, or no EU connection) > > **3. What is your organization's relationship to it?** (For reference: developed in-house, purchased/licensed, modified/finetuned, distribute/import, or evaluating for acquisition) #### Coverage Analysis (internal — not shown to user) After the user responds to Batch 1, silently check whether their answer covers each of the 8 required fields. Be generous with extraction — e.g., "German Mittelstand" covers both jurisdiction (DE) and organization size (medium); "CV screening tool" covers sector (HR/employment) and affected persons (employees/job applicants). | # | Field | Extract from | |---|-------|-------------| | 1 | System description | Batch 1 Q1 | | 2 | Deployment context | Batch 1 Q2 | | 3 | Organization role | Batch 1 Q3 | | 4 | Sector | Often inferable from system description | | 5 | Affected persons | Often inferable from system description + sector | | 6 | Modifications | Often inferable from organization role | | 7 | Organization size | Sometimes mentioned in context | | 8 | Jurisdiction(s) | Often inferable from deployment context | Mark each field: **Covered** / **Partially covered** / **Not covered**. #### Batch 2: Adaptive Follow-Up (only if gaps remain) - **All 8 fields covered** → Skip Batch 2. Briefly confirm your extractions and proceed to Phase 2. - **Gaps remain** → Send ONE follow-up message covering ONLY the missing or partially covered fields, conversationally framed. Do not re-ask what was already answered. - **Partially covered fields** → Use confirmation prompts, not full re-asks. Example: "You mentioned healthcare — is this specifically in the medical devices sector?" - **Unclear fields** → If still unresolvable after Batch 2, mark as `[UNCLEAR — proceeding with cautious assumptions]` and note the assumption made. Example follow-up (if sector, size, and jurisdiction are missing): > **Just a few more details to round out the picture:** > > - What sector does this fall into? (e.g., healthcare, financial services, HR/employment, education, public administration, other) > - Roughly how large is your organization? (e.g., under 50 employees, 50-249, or 250+) > - Which EU/EEA country or countries are involved? #### Information Normalization (internal — before Phase 2) Before proceeding to Phase 2, normalize all gathered information into the structured 8-field format so the Phase 2 gate sequence can reference fields consistently: 1. **System description** — free text 2. **Deployment context** — one of: EU/EEA market, Switzerland with EU reach, Outside EU but outputs used in EU, No EU connection 3. **Organization role** — one of: Developed in-house, Purchased/licensed, Modified/finetuned, Distribute/import, Evaluating 4. **Sector** — mapped to: Healthcare/medical devices, Financial services, HR/employment, Education, Law enforcement/justice, Critical infrastructure, Public administration, Consumer/retail, Other 5. **Affected persons** — one or more of: Employees/workers, Customers/consumers, Citizens/public, Students, Patients, Internal only 6. **Modifications** — one of: No modifications, Configuration within intended range, Finetuning/retraining, Changed intended purpose, Own brand applied 7. **Organization size** — one of: Micro (<10), Small (10-49), Medium (50-249), Large (250+) 8. **Jurisdiction(s)** — list of EU/EEA Member States or Switzerland --- ### Phase 2: Rapid Classification (6-Step Gate Sequence) Read [references/quick-decision-tree.md](references/quick-decision-tree.md) for the condensed classification logic. Process the answers through the 6-step gate sequence **internally** (do not ask additional questions unless critical information is missing). Output the result as a single assessment. **Gate 1: Scope Check (Art. 2)** - If deployment context is "No EU connection" → likely out of scope → note and proceed cautiously - Check for military, personal use, pure R&D exclusions based on system description **Gate 2: AI System Test (Art. 3(1))** - Quick determination based on system description - Apply simplified 3-question test: (1) machine-based? (2) infers/generates beyond rules? (3) influences environment? **Gate 3: Prohibited Practice Screen (Art. 5)** - Rapid screen based on system description and sector - Flag any potential Art. 5 concern for detailed review **Gate 4: High-Risk Assessment (Annex I + III)** - Map sector + use case to Annex I/III categories - Use sector answer as primary trigger indicator - If Annex III triggered: quick Art. 6(3) exception check **Gate 5: GPAI Check** - Based on system description: does it use a general-purpose AI model? - If yes: note GPAI obligations **Gate 6: Transparency Triggers (Art. 50)** - Check for direct human interaction, synthetic content generation, emotion recognition, deep fakes --- ### Phase 3: Preliminary Output Generate a consolidated preliminary assessment using the following structure: ```markdown ## AI Act Quick Assessment — PRELIMINARY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠ PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT — Full analysis required for compliance decisions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ System: [name/description] Date: [date] Assessment Type: PRELIMINARY (Quick Assessment) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CLASSIFICATION SUMMARY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ AI System (Art. 3(1)): [Likely YES / Likely NO / Unclear — full test needed] Scope (Art. 2): [In scope / Likely excluded — Art. 2(x)] Risk Tier: [Likely Prohibited / Likely High-Risk / Likely GPAI / Likely Limited / Likely Minimal / Unclear] Classification Basis: [Likely Art. 5(1)(x) / Likely Annex III Nr. X / Likely Art. 50 / Likely minimal] Confidence: [High / Medium / Low] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ROLE ASSESSMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Likely Role: [Provider / Deployer / Quasi-Provider / Importer / Distributor] Quasi-Provider Risk: [None / Possible — [trigger]] Key Concern: [if any — e.g., finetuning may trigger Art. 25] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TOP OBLIGATIONS (if high-risk or GPAI) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ | # | Obligation | Article | Urgency | Effort Estimate | |---|-----------|---------|---------|-----------------| | 1 | [top obligation] | [Art. X] | [Immediate/Short-term/Ongoing] | [Low/Medium/High] | | 2 | [second obligation] | [Art. X] | [Immediate/Short-term/Ongoing] | [Low/Medium/High] | | 3 | [third obligation] | [Art. X] | [Immediate/Short-term/Ongoing] | [Low/Medium/High] | | 4 | [fourth obligation] | [Art. X] | [Immediate/Short-term/Ongoing] | [Low/Medium/High] | | 5 | [fifth obligation] | [Art. X] | [Immediate/Short-term/Ongoing] | [Low/Medium/High] | For ALL risk tiers: | - | AI competence (Art. 4) | Art. 4 | Immediate (since Feb 2025) | Low-Medium | ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ COMPLIANCE TIMELINE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Applicable Deadline: [2 Feb 2025 / 2 Aug 2025 / 2 Aug 2026 / 2 Aug 2027] Days Remaining: [X days] Urgency: [OVERDUE / CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ JURISDICTION FLAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [Jurisdiction-specific flags based on deployment country, e.g.:] [DE: Works council co-determination likely required (BetrVG §87)] [FR: CSE consultation required before deployment] [Finance sector: BaFin/[regulator] AI model governance requirements apply] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINANCIAL EXPOSURE (PRELIMINARY) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Maximum penalty: [EUR XM or X% turnover — Art. 99(X)] SME proportionality: [Applies / Does not apply] Penalty tier: [Tier 1/2/3] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FLAGS & WARNINGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [List any flags, e.g.:] [PROHIBITED PRACTICE RISK — Art. 5(1)(x) — immediate legal review required] [QUASI-PROVIDER RISK — finetuning may trigger Art. 25] [PROFILING DETECTED — may affect Art. 6(3) exception] [GDPR OVERLAP — DPIA likely required under Art. 35 GDPR] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ASSESSMENT CONTEXT (paste into next skill) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ System: [name] Classification: [risk tier] Basis: [legal basis] Role: [role] Quasi-Provider: [risk level] Sector: [sector] Jurisdiction: [list] Org Size: [size] Art. 50: [applicable triggers] GPAI: [yes/no, systemic risk] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RECOMMENDED NEXT STEPS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. → Run /ai-act-classifier for full classification with documented reasoning [Priority: HIGH / MEDIUM — based on preliminary findings] 2. → Run /ai-act-roles for detailed role determination [Priority: HIGH if quasi-provider risk detected / MEDIUM otherwise] 3. → Run /ai-act-obligations for complete obligation mapping with RACI [Priority: HIGH if high-risk / MEDIUM if limited risk] 4. → Run /ai-act-report to generate formal assessment documentation [Priority: HIGH for regulatory files / MEDIUM for internal tracking] 5. → Engage legal counsel for: [List specific areas requiring legal judgment] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠ This preliminary assessment was generated using the AI Act Quick Assessment tool. It provides directional guidance only. All determinations marked "Likely" require validation through the detailed assessment skills listed above. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ``` --- ### Phase 4: Template Offer (Optional) After presenting the preliminary assessment, offer: > "Would you like me to generate a preliminary version of any of the following templates? These will be marked as preliminary and should be finalized after running the full assessment skills." > > 1. **Classification Record (Prüfprotokoll)** — preliminary audit trail > 2. **Compliance Register Entry** — preliminary obligation tracker > 3. **Management Briefing (Entscheidungsvorlage)** — preliminary decision document If requested, use the templates from [/ai-act-report/references/output-templates.md] and mark all outputs prominently as "PRELIMINARY — Full assessment recommended." --- ## Critical Reminders 1. **This is a triage tool** — always recommend running detailed skills for compliance decisions 2. **"Likely" is not "confirmed"** — preliminary determinations require validation 3. **Err on the side of caution** — if uncertain between risk tiers, flag the higher risk tier as possible 4. **Flag uncertainty explicitly** — Low confidence ratings require immediate follow-up with detailed skills 5. **National requirements matter** — always flag jurisdiction-specific obligations using [references/jurisdiction-flags.md] 6. **Compliance timeline** — reference [references/compliance-deadlines.md] for deadline urgency 7. **Enforcement exposure** — reference [/ai-act-classifier/references/enforcement-framework.md] for penalty context