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Corrective and preventive action, the output of an incident review. The corrective action fixes this instance; the preventive action stops the class of failure recurring across the fleet, typically as a regression eval, a policy change and a risk-register update, verified before the incident closes 1.

Developed in
ch. 17, CAPA: from incident to risk register and eval suite
Chapters
ch. 17, Incidents
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.

Patterns that use this term

One pattern page uses the term.

Sources

  1. [1] ISO/IEC 42001:2023, AI management systems (referenced by identifier only; requirements for an AI management system; clause 10.2 nonconformity and corrective action). ISO/IEC. 2023. https://www.iso.org/standard/81230.html (verified: secondary)

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Cite this term

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

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026capa,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{CAPA}},
  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/capa}
}