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AI RMF Playbook

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NIST's online companion to the AI RMF. For each subcategory it gives an About note, suggested actions, transparency and documentation questions and references 1. It is voluntary material to tailor, not a checklist; its documentation questions work well as acceptance criteria.

Developed in
ch. 22, How a Playbook entry is structured
Chapters
ch. 22, Principles & Standards
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

2 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

AI RMF Playbook: mentions per chapter3 mentions of the term across 2 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Cross-referenced chapterOther chapter10 Reading List: 2 mentions10 Reading List222 Principles & Standards: 1 mention22 Principles & Standards1No mentions in the other 21 chaptersSource: the Body of Knowledgev0.5.0
AI RMF Playbook: mentions per chapter3 mentions of the term across 2 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Cross-referenced chapterOther chapter00010203040506070810 Reading List: 2 mentions210111213141516171819202122 Principles & Standards: 1 mention12223Source: the Body of Knowledge v0.5.0
Mentions per chapter How often each chapter names the term, with the chapters the glossary cross-references drawn solid. The longest bar is where to read the term in use; bars spread across many chapters mark a term that runs through the discipline.
Mentions as a table
Mentions of AI RMF Playbook per chapter
ChapterMentionsCross-referenced
00 Preface0No
01 Definition0No
02 Why Now0No
03 Values & Principles0No
04 The Stack0No
05 Patterns0No
06 The Role0No
07 Maturity Model0No
08 Regulatory Map0No
10 Reading List2No
11 AI Defined0No
12 Governance Program0No
13 Risk Management0No
14 Development0No
15 Deployment0No
16 Fairness & XAI0No
17 Incidents0No
18 EU AI Act0No
19 Privacy & AI0No
20 Existing Law0No
21 AI Laws Worldwide0No
22 Principles & Standards1Yes
23 AI Agents0No
  • Transparency

    In NIST's framing, how far information about an AI system and its outputs reaches the people who interact with it: what happened.

  • NIST AI RMF

    The NIST Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework 1.0 (NIST AI 100-1, January 2023): voluntary guidance organised as a Core of four functions…

Sources

  1. [1] NIST AI RMF Playbook, GOVERN (per subcategory: About, Suggested Actions, Transparency and Documentation, References; GOVERN 1.7 decommissioning and phasing out safely). NIST Trustworthy and Responsible AI Resource Center. 2026. https://airc.nist.gov/airmf-resources/playbook/govern/ (verified: primary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). AI RMF Playbook. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/ai-rmf-playbook. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026airmfplaybook,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{AI RMF Playbook}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/ai-rmf-playbook}
}