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Context. The EU AI Act requires providers and deployers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems to implement documentation, risk management, and human oversight. Agile teams that ship AI features in short iterations lack specific artifacts to discharge these duties, since the regulation’s abstract provisions do not map onto agile practices such as the Definition of Done, Sprint Reviews, or working agreements. Objective. We provide agile teams with an actionable compliance instrument: an evaluated guideline that operationalizes EU AI Act obligations as activities integrable into existing agile practices. We further document the translation method to make its potential adaptation to other regulations examinable. Method. Following Design Science Research, we assessed each EU AI Act article along three dimensions (technical, normative, organizational). We subsequently classified the articles using a traffic-light scheme and mapped those deemed highly relevant to previously documented pain points of agile teams working with AI. We evaluated the resulting catalog by eliciting practitioners' perceptions through a survey followed by semi-structured interviews with the same participants (N=11) and analyzed the data via qualitative content analysis. Results. The guideline comprises 12 items covering roles and responsibilities, risk and quality management, transparency and traceability, monitoring, and regulatory sandboxes. Practitioners rated the catalog as understandable and relevant; feasibility varied with organizational maturity. Participants associated perceived adoption feasibility with collective ownership across roles and integration into existing agile events rather than parallel compliance processes. Conclusions. The catalog gives agile teams a starting point to transform their delivery practices towards EU AI Act compliance without dismantling agile practices. A replication package is publicly available.