---
title: "Holding statement"
description: "A short public statement prepared in skeleton before any incident: what happened as far as it is known, what has been done to contain it, what affected people should do, and when the next update…"
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/holding-statement
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
version: "0.5.0"
updated: 2026-09-25
---

# Holding statement

A short public statement prepared in skeleton before any incident: what happened as far as it is known, what has been done to contain it, what affected people should do, and when the next update will come. It never speculates about cause.

- Developed in: [ch. 15, External communications](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/governing-deployment#external-communications); [ch. 05, Pattern: Disclosure & Notification Pipeline](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/patterns/disclosure-notification-pipeline)
- Chapters: [ch. 05, Patterns](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/patterns) · [ch. 15, Deployment](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/governing-deployment)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-holding-statement

## Sources

Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source.