mima-governance 0.3.6

Mima AI Governance SDK — runtime attestation, GRC evidence, and compliance testing for AI systems

mima-governance

Attest AI executions, push GRC evidence records, and run governance policy tests — one call maps to EU AI Act, ISO 42001, SOC 2, and NIST AI RMF simultaneously.

Four frameworks, one attestation call

Framework	What it covers
EU AI Act	Art. 9–15 (risk management through accuracy), Art. 17 (quality management system), Art. 26 (deployer obligations), Art. 72–73 (post-market monitoring, incident reporting)
ISO 42001	AI management system controls — A.6.x risk treatment, A.9.x performance evaluation
SOC 2	CC3.x risk assessment, CC5.x control activities, CC7.x–CC8.x change and incident management
NIST AI RMF	GOVERN, MAP, MEASURE, MANAGE functions

One @mima.attest() call earns controls across whichever frameworks apply — no per-regulation wiring, no separate pipelines. human_oversight earns EUAIA_ART14, EUAIA_ART13, ISO42001_A.6.6, and NIST_AIRF_GOV_1 in a single write. Your readiness score updates across all four.

What mima does not cover: EU AI Act Art. 1–5 (scope and prohibited practices — legal determinations), Art. 51–56 (GPAI obligations — foundation model providers only, not application builders), and Art. 57–101 (regulatory apparatus, conformity assessment, EU database registration). Those require lawyers, structural decisions, or third-party conformity bodies — not SDK calls. mima covers the articles that require technical evidence from code.

No account needed to start

pip install mima-governance
mima init .                             # scan codebase, generate tests/test_governance.py
mima test tests/test_governance.py      # run immediately — no API key, no network

mima scan and mima test are fully local. A Mima account unlocks mima push (evidence records), mima status (readiness scores), and the compliance dashboard.

Install

pip install mima-governance

Quick Start — SDK attestation

from mima_governance import MimaGovernance

mima = MimaGovernance(
    api_key="mima_ext_...",
    system_name="my-ai-pipeline",
)
# workspace_id is resolved automatically from the API key.

# Decorator — wraps a function; every call writes a GRC evidence record
# and maps to applicable controls across EU AI Act, ISO 42001, SOC 2, NIST AI RMF
@mima.attest(tool_name="generate_report")
def generate_report(data):
    return call_llm(data)

Each @mima.attest() call writes a row to v2.grc_evidence_records with source = 'sdk'. The cross-framework control mapping is automatic — the same record that evidences EUAIA_ART13 also earns ISO42001_A.6.2 and the relevant NIST AI RMF function. That compounding is what makes mima different from a per-regulation tool.

Framework Integrations

LangChain

from mima_governance.integrations import MimaLangChainCallback

chain = my_chain.with_config(callbacks=[MimaLangChainCallback(mima)])
# Every LLM call, tool invocation, and chain step is auto-attested

LlamaIndex

from mima_governance.integrations import MimaLlamaIndexHandler
import llama_index.core

llama_index.core.global_handler = MimaLlamaIndexHandler(mima)

Sync vs Batch

# Sync (default) — immediate push, blocks ~50ms
@mima.attest(tool_name="credit_decision")
def decide(app): ...

# Batch — buffered, flushed every 30s or 100 items
@mima.attest(tool_name="classify_email", mode="batch")
def classify(email): ...

Ed25519 Signing

Records are stored as append-only rows in Postgres. Workspace admins can purge records via the dashboard. To detect deletion or tampering in a signed chain, use Ed25519 signing:

from nacl.signing import SigningKey

key = SigningKey.generate()

mima = MimaGovernance(
    api_key="...",
    system_name="...",
    signing_key=key.encode(),  # 32-byte seed
)
# Attestations are cryptographically signed → trust_tier: "verified"
# A deleted or modified record breaks the chain and is detectable

Keep the private key outside the Mima account (local HSM or secrets manager). The signature is stored alongside the record; Mima cannot forge or reconstruct it.

Delegation Chain

from mima_governance import MimaGovernance, AuthorisedBy

mima = MimaGovernance(
    ...,
    authorised_by=AuthorisedBy(
        identity="[e-mail]",
        role="credit-analyst",
        session_id="sso_abc123",
    ),
)
# Every attestation records WHO authorised the agent to act

Inferred vs attested evidence

Evidence records have a source field. Two values matter for audit weight:

• sdk — written by your code via @mima.attest() or a GRC method. Full audit weight. Required for formal submissions.
• estate_auto — written by the Mima platform based on system registrations already in your workspace. Marked "indicative only" in the dashboard until a workspace admin validates the control list.

Controls covered only by estate_auto records are counted in your readiness score but flagged as inferred. A control needs at least one sdk-sourced record to be fully evidenced for audit purposes.

Scan limitations

mima scan uses AST-based analysis (with a tokenizer fallback for files that can't be parsed). It correctly detects:

• Direct usage: openai.chat.completions.create()
• Aliased imports: from openai import OpenAI; client = OpenAI(); client.chat.completions.create()
• Constructor-assigned handles: client = OpenAI() → client.chat.completions.create()
• Function-scope attestation: @mima.attest() covers every AI call in the decorated function body, not just the nearest lines

It does not detect:

• Wrapper abstractions: my_llm.generate() where my_llm is not a direct AI constructor assignment
• Runtime-constructed calls or non-Python code

When mima scan reports zero unattested calls, the AST scanner found none in reachable call sites — not that none exist. Use --strict as a CI gate; complement with code review for deep wrapper abstractions it cannot reach.

Readiness score — how it's calculated

overall_pct is the controls-weighted average across all frameworks: sum(controls_covered) / sum(controls_required) × 100. A framework with more required controls has proportionally more influence on the overall score.

Per-framework score_pct = controls_covered / controls_required × 100.

Use per-framework scores to identify which framework is dragging your overall number — the dashboard shows this breakdown directly.

Credential storage

mima login saves your API key to ~/.mima/config.json with 0o600 permissions (owner read/write only). The file is plaintext — keep your home directory encrypted (FileVault on macOS, LUKS on Linux) if this is a shared or managed machine.

For CI/CD, use environment variables instead of the config file:

export MIMA_API_KEY=mima_ext_...
export MIMA_WORKSPACE_ID=ws-...
mima push change_event \
  --by [e-mail] \
  --description "Deploy v1.2.3" \
  --environment production \
  --system api-service \
  --no-delta   # skip readiness fetch in CI