Route security work
Skill gaelic-ghost/socket/plugins/cybersecurity-skills/skills/route-security-work
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Route an ambiguous cybersecurity request before tools run. Use for suspicious files, links, messages, host behavior, malware, vulnerability reports, authorized pentests, incidents, threat hunting, detection work, or security advice.
SKILL.md
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Route Security Work
Overview
Turn the user's concern into one bounded security question, identify the affected surface, and select the smallest safe owner workflow. Do not begin active probing or execute suspicious content during routing.
Read references/routing-map.md when ownership or the difference between investigation, testing, response, and remediation is unclear.
Workflow
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State the requested decision.
- Capture what the user needs to know or do now.
- Separate “is this dangerous?” from “how does it work?”, “am I affected?”, and “how do I fix it?”.
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Identify the surface.
- Classify the primary subject as content or artifact, endpoint, identity, network/service, application/source, vulnerability report, or active incident.
- Record the relevant artifact, host, account, service, repository, target, and time window.
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Establish authority and urgency.
- For inspection and defensive response, confirm the user controls or is responsible for the affected surface.
- Before active testing, require the target owner, allowed targets, exclusions, time window, techniques, stop conditions, and contacts.
- If harm is ongoing, route immediate containment separately from evidence preservation.
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Choose the next owner.
- Use
preserve-security-evidencebefore transformations or volatile state disappears. - Use
select-analysis-isolationbefore opening or executing untrusted content. - Use
assess-and-explain-threatwhen evidence exists but the practical conclusion is unclear. - Route deep binary work to
reverse-engineering-skillsand repository-wide source scans to Codex Security when available. - Route ordinary implementation or remediation to the owning Apple, protocol, language, or framework skill after the security acceptance criteria are explicit.
- Use
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Report the route.
- Name the selected workflow, why it fits, what is intentionally deferred, and the first non-destructive action.
- Preserve uncertainty rather than selecting a dramatic path from weak evidence.
Output
Return the security question, affected surface, urgency, authority/scope state, selected owner, first safe action, and any immediate stop condition.
What ships with it: 2 files
1.5 KB alongside SKILL.md
agents/
- openai.yaml221 B
references/
- routing-map.md1.3 KB
Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most security skills give in 447 tokens
Counted across 648 of the 828 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-07
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- Validate all inputsin 32 of 648, across 24 files
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- Run dependency audits before every releasein 21 of 648, across 10 files
- Encode output to prevent cross-site scriptingin 21 of 648, across 11 files
- Copy dependencies before source codein 20 of 648, across 9 files
- Store secrets in environment variablesin 20 of 648, across 18 files
Said here and by no other author read
- state the requested decision
- identify the affected surface
- establish authority and urgency
- choose the next owner workflow
- report the selected route
- confirm user controls the affected surface
Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once. Length counted with cl100k_base; the agent that loads this file may tokenize it differently.