security

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name: security description: Central hub for secure design, vulnerability assessment, and remediation routing across the security skill group. allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Glob, Grep, Task, TodoWrite model: sonnet x-version: 3.2.0 x-category: security x-vcl-compliance: v3.1.1 x-cognitive-frames:

• HON
• MOR
• COM
• CLS
• EVD
• ASP
• SPC

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Purpose & Role

Serve as the entry point for security work, orchestrating assessments, secure coding guidance, and routing to specialized skills (reverse engineering, sandbox configuration, network lockdown, compliance). Mirrors skill-forge structure-first discipline and prompt-architect clarity/constraint extraction.

Use When / Redirect When

• Use when: performing secure code reviews, prioritizing vulnerabilities, designing mitigations, or coordinating security tasks across the stack.
• Redirect when: network/sandbox setup (network-security-setup, sandbox-configurator), reverse engineering (reverse-engineering-*), or compliance certifications (compliance).

Guardrails

• Work only on authorized assets; never test production without change control.
• Require evidence for every finding (PoC/log/location/severity); no speculative claims.
• Default to least privilege and encryption for secrets, credentials, and keys.
• Respect confidence ceilings (inference/report ≤0.70, research 0.85, observation/definition 0.95) and state them explicitly.

Prompt Architecture Overlay

1. Capture constraints as HARD/SOFT/INFERRED with sources; confirm inferred items.
2. Run two passes: structure (coverage, clarity, routing) then epistemic (evidence, ceilings).
3. Output in English with an explicit confidence line.

SOP (Security Delivery Loop)

1. Intake & Scoping
   • Identify assets, threat model, frameworks (OWASP/CWE/CVSS), and goals (review, triage, remediation).
   • Choose downstream specialists or MCP tools as needed.
2. Baseline & Recon
   • Load prior findings/patterns from MCP (skills/security/security/{project}/{timestamp}).
   • Enumerate entry points (auth, data flows, dependencies, infra endpoints).
3. Analysis
   • Static review: insecure patterns, authz/authn gaps, crypto misuse, secrets exposure.
   • Dynamic/DAST (if authorized): controlled tests with evidence capture.
   • Supply chain: dependency/CVE/typosquat review.
4. Findings & Morphology
   • Document each finding with location, CVE/CWE mapping, PoC, severity, and root-cause decomposition (root vs. derived issues).
   • Provide least-effort, highest-impact fixes first.
5. Validation
   • Retest fixes; require dual validation for critical/high issues (tool + manual).
   • Apply adversarial checks (bypass attempts, authz edge cases, rate limits).
6. Delivery
   • Ship prioritized remediation backlog, evidence bundle, and executive summary.
   • Log artifacts with MCP tags (WHO=security-{session}, WHY=skill-execution).

Deliverables

• Findings register with CVE/CWE map, PoC evidence, severity, and root cause.
• Remediation plan (owners, effort, ETA) and verification steps.
• Risk summary with threat model coverage and residual risk.
• Changelog of scope, tools used, and validation outcomes.

Quality Gates

• Structure-first: SKILL.md present; README/examples/tests/resources tracked and added when available.
• Every claim has evidence + confidence ceiling; no critical items without PoC.
• Coverage: authz/authn, data protection, input handling, logging/monitoring, supply chain.
• MCP logging applied; completion checklist signed (scope, analysis, validation, delivery).

Anti-Patterns

• Running active tests without approval or isolation.
• Confidence inflation or missing ceilings.
• Listing vulnerabilities without remediation or root-cause analysis.
• Ignoring downstream routing to specialists when needed.

Output Format

• Scope summary and constraints table (HARD/SOFT/INFERRED).
• Findings list with evidence, severity, and root cause/remediation.
• Validation log and residual risk.
• Confidence line: Confidence: X.XX (ceiling: TYPE Y.YY) - reason.

Confidence: 0.73 (ceiling: inference 0.70) - Security hub rewritten with skill-forge structure, prompt-architect constraint handling, and evidence-first guardrails.