Policy-as-Skill: Governed LLM Decision Support with Evidence, Deterministic Control, and Audit

arXiv:2609.27087 · cs.AI, cs.SC · Submitted 2026-09-22 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.SC

Submitted: 2026-09-22

Updated: 2026-09-22

Code: https://github.com/vtavakkoli/policy-as-skill

Terminology

• RAG — 20× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 19× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accountability — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Explainability — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Knowledge Graph — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Knowledge graphs — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Few-Shot Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hybrid System — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Conference on Learning Representations — 1× in this paper
• Modular Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Modularity — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 1× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes

Sources

• Policy-as-Prompt: Turning AI Governance Rules into Guardrails for AI Agents
• Privacy Policy Analysis through Prompt Engineering for LLMs
• Using LLMs for Automated Privacy Policy Analysis: Prompt Engineering, Fine-Tuning and Explainability
• Prompt Commons: Collective Prompting as Governance for Urban AI
• Ask more, know better: Reinforce-Learned Prompt Questions for Decision Making with Large Language Models
• Dynamic Prompt Learning via Policy Gradient for Semi-structured Mathematical Reasoning
• A Minimalist Prompt for Zero-Shot Policy Learning
• Do We Really Need SFT? Prompt-as-Policy over Knowledge Graphs for Cold-start Next POI Recommendation

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