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term: "Change management"
category: "Governance and model risk"
url: https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/change-management
source: AgenticOpenFinance glossary
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# Change management

> Controlling changes to a model or agent so each change is assessed, approved, recorded and reversible.

Change management is the control of changes to a model or agent so that each change is assessed, tested, approved, recorded and reversible. The EU AI Act treats an unplanned change that affects a high-risk system's compliance or intended purpose as a substantial modification, which can trigger a new conformity assessment. For agents, changes include a new model version, a new tool, an edited system prompt or a wider mandate, and each should be versioned so any action can be tied to the configuration that produced it.

Related terms: [System prompt](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/system-prompt.md), [Model inventory](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/model-inventory.md), [Conformity assessment](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/conformity-assessment.md), [Effective challenge](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/effective-challenge.md)