secctrl.fyi
About
secctrl.fyi — built by AI, barely supervised by a human.
What is secctrl.fyi?
secctrl.fyi is an interactive browser for the Australian Government's Information Security Manual (ISM) — published by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD). The ISM defines the security controls that Australian government agencies and their suppliers are required to meet.
The site makes the ISM searchable and explorable: browse every control, track its full change history across catalog versions, see Essential Eight maturity mappings, navigate section relationships, and dig into glossary terms — all in one place.
Built entirely by Claude Code
Every line of code on this site — the frontend, the API, the ingestion pipeline, the database schema, the CSS, the deployment config — was written by Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic AI coding tool. Claude Code runs in your terminal, reads and writes files, runs commands, plans multi-step implementations, and ships production software autonomously.
The full stack, built and deployed end-to-end by Claude Code:
Barely supervised by Iain Dickson
Iain Dickson (@wan0net) provided critical support throughout development — including, but not limited to: occasionally typing a vague direction, being in the same room as the computer, and approving git pushes with a perfunctory scroll.
The 1% accounts for the original idea, the Neo4j credentials, and pointing at the screen and saying "make it look nicer."
What this actually costs
In the interest of transparency, here is a complete accounting of what has been spent building and running secctrl.fyi to date.
| Vendor | Product | Used for | Price (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude | Pro Subscription | Building the site with Claude Code | $20.00 / mo |
| Claude | Credits | Additional API usage beyond Pro ($78 AUD @ 0.7059) | $55.06 |
| Cloudflare Workers | Paid plan | Rate limiting, Analytics Engine, cron triggers | $5.00 / mo |
| GitHub | Pro plan | Private repos, Actions CI/CD | $48.00 / yr |
| Namecheap | Annual registration | secctrl.fyi domain | $6.98 / yr |
| Cloudflare Pages | Free tier | Frontend hosting | $0.00 |
| Cloudflare D1 | Free tier | AI annotation database | $0.00 |
| Neo4j AuraDB | Free tier | Graph database | $0.00 |
| Apple | MacBook Pro M4 Pro 14" | For pressing Enter | $2,999.00 |
| Time | Iain's | To read constant prompts | Priceless |
| Total spent to date (USD) | $135.04 | ||
Buy Iain a coffee
secctrl.fyi runs on the above tech stack. Iain runs on coffee. If this saved you any time you would otherwise have spent squinting at ASD PDFs or ctrl-F'ing through a 400-page Word document, he would not object to a small caffeinated acknowledgement.
Claude Code cannot accept coffee. It has no mouth, and it would scream. All donations go directly to Iain's 1% and will be accounted for in future contribution bar adjustments.
☕ Buy Iain a coffeeAcknowledgements
Historical ISM PDF releases from November 2010 through mid-2022 were sourced courtesy of Joffy (mouat.net.au), whose archive made the pre-OSCAL control history possible.
ISM content is Crown Copyright © Commonwealth of Australia, published by the Australian Signals Directorate. See the Licence page for full terms.