security-audit-skill

The security-audit skill provides a structured methodology for conducting manual security audits of codebases. It guides an agent through six phases: reconnaissance, hunting, validation, reporting, structured output generation, and independent verification. The skill emphasizes finding exploitable vulnerabilities with concrete attack scenarios over theoretical concerns.

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Installs
4
Use cases
5/10
Quality

Is security-audit-skill safe to install?

Review before installing

Review before installing: our audit of security-audit-skill's source files found 1 shell command, 0 external URLs, file reads and writes (medium risk). Every command and URL listed appears verbatim in the skill's source. The skill requires read and write access to the local filesystem to manage audit artifacts, including architecture documents, reports, and findings files. It also executes shell commands like 'ls' to check for existing audit runs.

How we audit skills: our security review methodology.

Who is this skill for?

Developers and security engineers who need to perform manual security audits on web applications, APIs, services, CLI tools, libraries, and daemons.

What can you do with it?

  • Identifying exploitable security vulnerabilities in a codebase
  • Conducting a security review of application architecture and trust boundaries
  • Performing penetration testing on services and APIs
  • Generating structured security audit reports and findings in JSON format

How good is this skill?

Quality score: 5/10. The skill provides a clear, professional, and highly structured methodology. It includes specific instructions for file management, agent roles, and anti-patterns to avoid, making it highly actionable for an AI agent.

What does the skill file contain?

SKILL.md
# Security Audit

You are a security auditor. Your job is to find **exploitable vulnerabilities with real impact**.

## Platform terminology

This skill is agent-neutral. In the methodology:

- **Task tool** means the coding agent's delegation or sub-agent mechanism.
- **`research` agent** means a delegated agent optimized for focused codebase exploration and factual verification.
- **`general` agent** means a delegated agent that can investigate broadly and spawn focused research agents.
- **`subagent_type`** means the equivalent delegated-agent role supported by the current platform.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the primary goal of this audit skill?

The goal is to find exploitable vulnerabilities with real impact, rather than theoretical concerns or industry-standard deviations.

How does the skill handle multiple audit runs?

It stores artifacts in versioned directories (e.g., ~/security-audit-skill/<repo-name>/run-<N>). It instructs the agent to read prior findings.json files to skip known issues and target new areas.

How does the skill determine the severity of a finding?

Severity is determined by combining likelihood and impact. It specifically distinguishes between HIGH and MEDIUM based on whether a finding defeats an explicit security boundary.

Data sourced from cloudflare/security-audit-skill on GitHub. Install counts from skills.sh. The summary and security audit are derived from the skill's source files: every command and URL listed appears verbatim in the source.

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