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definition: Something you do or deploy to detect or mitigate a risk.
description: The mitigation side of the model - what an organisation does or deploys against a risk; served by the /control and /action endpoints.
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# Control / Action

A **control** (or **action**) is something you do or deploy to detect or mitigate a [risk](risk.md).

The key-concepts page introduces the two together as the mitigation side of the model. The ontology and the API keep them as separate entities, served by the `/control` and `/action` endpoints (`./ai control`, `./ai action`). Controls link back to the risks they address: `./ai control --related --hasRelatedRisk atlas-toxic-output` answers "which controls mitigate toxic output?".