Let p be a prime. The right-angled Artin pro-p group G Γ associated to a fnite simplicial graph Γ is the pro-p completion of the right-angled Artin group associated to Γ. We prove that the following assertions are equivalent: (i) no induced subgraph of Γ is a square or a line with four vertices (a path of length 3); (ii) every closed subgroup of G Γ is itself a right-angled Artin pro-p group (possibly infinitely generated); (iii) G Γ is a Bloch-Kato pro-p group; (iv) every closed subgroup of G Γ has torsion free abelianization; (v) G Γ occurs as the maximal pro-p Galois group G K (p) of some field K containing a primitive pth root of unity; (vi) G Γ can be constructed from Z p by iterating two group theoretic operations, namely, direct products with Z p and free pro-p products. This settles in the affirmative a conjecture of Quadrelli and Weigel. Also, we show that the Smoothness Conjecture of De Clercq and Florens holds for rightangled Artin pro-p groups. Moreover, we prove that G Γ is coherent if and only if each circuit of Γ of length greater than three has a chord.