Once you've connected the Vanta MCP, here's what you can do with it. This article covers available use cases and workflows.
For ready-to-use prompts, see the Vanta MCP Prompt Library.
At a glance
⚠️ Note: Some capabilities require specific Vanta features or integrations to be enabled. Rows marked with * depend on features that may not be active in your account.
The table below summarizes the most common use cases and will grow as new capabilities ship:
Use Case | Who Benefits | What They Ask the AI | What Vanta Returns |
Prioritize failing compliance tests | Security engineer / GRC manager | "Show me the failing tests most likely to block my SOC 2 audit" | Failing tests ranked by audit impact, mapped to your active SOC 2 controls |
Assess audit readiness | CISO / Security lead | "Where do we stand on ISO 27001 readiness?" | Control status and evidence gaps across the framework, synthesized into a single summary |
Triage open issues* | Compliance manager | "Which issues have been open the longest and don't have an owner?" | Filtered, ranked issue list with age and ownership gaps flagged |
Create a risk from a failing control | GRC manager | "Draft a risk entry for the top failing control in my SOC 2 program" | AI-drafted risk record written back into Vanta |
Investigate vulnerabilities* | Security engineer | "What are my critical vulnerabilities and which assets are affected?" | Vulnerabilities ranked by severity with CVE details and impacted asset inventory |
Identify vendor review gaps | TPRM lead | "Which of my high-risk vendors haven't been reviewed in the last 12 months?" | Vendor list filtered by risk level and last review date, with overdue reviews flagged (requires review dates to be populated on vendor records) |
Check access review completion* | IT / Security manager | "Who hasn't completed their access review yet?" | List of outstanding reviewers by name and which systems they still need to review |
Find policy gaps | Compliance manager | "Which controls in my active frameworks reference a policy I don't have?" | Cross-referenced list of framework requirements vs. your current policy library |
Understand your data privacy posture* | Privacy / DPO | "What data processing activities do we have and which involve high-risk vendors?" | Data processing activity list with associated vendor privacy posture |
Check questionnaire status* | Security / Sales | "What open security questionnaires do we have and what's their status?" | Full questionnaire list with completion status and outstanding items |
Surface impact assessment status* | GRC / Privacy | "What impact assessments are in progress or overdue?" | Impact assessment list with status, owners, and outstanding tasks |
Search the knowledge base* | Anyone | "What does our knowledge base say about our encryption policy?" | Relevant knowledge base articles and compliance insights surfaced in plain language |
Audit a person's access | Security / IT | "What systems does [employee] have access to?" | Access footprint for that individual across all connected systems in Vanta |
Diagnose a broken integration | DevOps / Security engineer | "Which integrations are failing and what controls are affected?" | Disconnected or erroring integrations with downstream control and framework impact mapped out |
Example Queries
The following are examples of the types of queries you can run with the Vanta MCP. Results will vary depending on your Vanta configuration and connected integrations.
Audit preparation
Audit preparation
Ask the MCP to surface open audit requests, cross-reference them against your current control and document status, and identify what's missing without navigating multiple pages in Vanta. You can also use it to produce plain-language audit summaries to share with your auditor, leadership, or control owners.
Framework and Compliance Status
Framework and Compliance Status
Pull a cross-framework snapshot such as completion percentages, passing vs. failing control counts, frameworks most behind, etc., in a single query. You can also drill into a specific framework to surface patterns behind failures (e.g., failures concentrated in a specific integration or domain) and generate compliance digests to share with engineering or executive stakeholders.
Vulnerability Management
Vulnerability Management
Get a count of open vulnerabilities by severity, then drill into specific CVEs by identifier to surface affected asset details. Useful for understanding your overall vulnerability posture and whether specific open vulnerabilities are creating compliance exposure.
Issue and Risk Management
Issue and Risk Management
For issues that rise to the level of a risk, the MCP supports a read → write workflow: identify a failing control, draft a full risk record, and submit it to Vanta. For accounts with Issue Management enabled, you can also query open issues by priority and ownership to triage a backlog quickly.
Vendor and Third-Party Risk
Vendor and Third-Party Risk
Query your full vendor portfolio for review status, risk level, and overdue assessments. The MCP also surfaces discovered vendors (i.e. vendors Vanta has detected in your environment that haven't been formally onboarded to your TPRM program).
Data Processing and Privacy
Data Processing and Privacy
Query data processing activities and associated vendor privacy data to support GDPR and other privacy framework requirements. Useful for identifying activities that involve high-risk vendors, are missing documentation, or haven't been reviewed ahead of a privacy audit.
Questionnaires and Impact Assessments
Questionnaires and Impact Assessments
Query the status of open questionnaires and impact assessments which are in progress, which are overdue, and which have outstanding items without navigating to each one individually in Vanta.
Access Reviews and Personnel
Access Reviews and Personnel
Query access review completion by reviewer and system, audit a specific employee's full access footprint, or surface incomplete offboarding tasks across recent departures.
Policy Management
Policy Management
Query your policy library to find unapproved policies and identify gaps between your active framework requirements and your current policy library.
Knowledge Base
Knowledge Base
Search your Vanta knowledge base to retrieve compliance insights, past responses, and documentation in plain language. Use this to quickly surface past responses, existing policies, or documented procedures without digging through Vanta manually.
Integration and Test Monitoring
Integration and Test Monitoring
Query failing tests grouped by integration or cloud provider to understand which failures are cascading into control failures downstream. Any MCP-connected coding tool can use this context to generate targeted IaC fixes for failing tests. If using the Vanta Claude Code plugin, you can also open draft pull requests directly from your terminal using built-in slash commands