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Compliance Trestle Plugin for Claude Code

Disclaimer: This is an independent, community-driven project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially associated with Anthropic or Claude. The author is an independent developer contributing to open source and demonstrating how these tools can be used in real-world workflows. Claude, Anthropic, and any related marks are property of their respective owners.

v0.1.0

Manage OSCAL compliance packages using Compliance Trestle — a CNCF sandbox project for machine-readable compliance documentation (NIST OSCAL standard).

What's New in v0.1.0

Skill depth pass — all 10 skills now include worked examples, troubleshooting tables, and cross-references:

• Control implementation: Full AC-2 worked example, parameter precedence rules, multi-part and compensating controls
• Assessment & POA&M: Step-by-step SAP/SAR creation walkthroughs, finding-to-POA&M pipeline, milestone patterns (30/90/180-day)
• Task system: CSV column reference, task testing workflow, XCCDF/Tanium/CIS troubleshooting
• Validation: CI/CD patterns (GitHub Actions, pre-commit hooks), split-file validation, assessment/POA&M-specific issues
• Jinja & Governance: Assessment + POA&M report templates, security policy template example, versioned migration patterns

Prerequisites

• Python 3.9+
• Compliance Trestle installed: pip install compliance-trestle
• A trestle workspace (run trestle init or use the /compliance-trestle:workspace-init command)

Commands

Workspace (7)

Command	Description
/compliance-trestle:workspace-init	Initialize a new Compliance Trestle workspace
/compliance-trestle:workspace-status	Show the status of the current Trestle workspace
/compliance-trestle:workspace-validate	Validate OSCAL models in the Trestle workspace
/compliance-trestle:workspace-configure	Configure plugin settings for this project
/compliance-trestle:workspace-href	Resolve and validate href references in OSCAL models
/compliance-trestle:workspace-version	Show trestle version and OSCAL schema version info
/compliance-trestle:workspace-partial-validate	Validate a single element within a split OSCAL file

Author (15)

Command	Description
/compliance-trestle:author-catalog-generate	Generate markdown from an OSCAL catalog for editing
/compliance-trestle:author-catalog-assemble	Assemble edited catalog markdown back into OSCAL JSON
/compliance-trestle:author-profile-generate	Generate markdown from an OSCAL profile for editing
/compliance-trestle:author-profile-assemble	Assemble edited profile markdown back into OSCAL JSON
/compliance-trestle:author-profile-resolve	Resolve a profile to produce a flattened catalog
/compliance-trestle:author-profile-inherit	Generate an inheritance view from a profile and leveraged SSP
/compliance-trestle:author-component-generate	Generate markdown from an OSCAL component definition
/compliance-trestle:author-component-assemble	Assemble edited component markdown back into OSCAL JSON
/compliance-trestle:author-ssp-generate	Generate SSP markdown from a profile and optional component definitions
/compliance-trestle:author-ssp-assemble	Assemble SSP markdown into an OSCAL System Security Plan JSON
/compliance-trestle:author-ssp-filter	Filter an SSP by profile or components
/compliance-trestle:author-jinja	Render Jinja2 templates with OSCAL data substitution
/compliance-trestle:author-headers	Manage governed YAML headers in markdown documents
/compliance-trestle:author-docs	Manage governed document structure (headings + headers)
/compliance-trestle:author-folders	Manage governed folder structure enforcement

Model (8)

Command	Description
/compliance-trestle:model-create	Create a new OSCAL model in the workspace
/compliance-trestle:model-import	Import an existing OSCAL document into the workspace
/compliance-trestle:model-split	Split an OSCAL model into smaller sub-component files
/compliance-trestle:model-merge	Merge split OSCAL sub-components back into their parent file
/compliance-trestle:model-assemble	Assemble a split OSCAL model into a single file in dist/
/compliance-trestle:model-describe	Describe the structure and contents of an OSCAL model
/compliance-trestle:model-replicate	Replicate (copy/rename) an OSCAL model in the workspace
/compliance-trestle:model-remove	Remove a subcomponent (element) from an OSCAL model file

Task (3)