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* chore(stdlib): add conformance tooling for the skills library
The library had no gate that could express what a valid skill is, so
malformed frontmatter, over-budget files and credential literals went
unnoticed. These scripts define and enforce that contract.
- validate-skills.py: extend with Agent Skills v1.0 conformance -
naming rules and directory agreement, an explicit activation trigger
in the description, canonical layout, the 500-line SKILL.md budget,
relative-link integrity, and two security rules (no unrestricted
Bash(*) grant, no credential literals). Structural checks now read a
skill as a whole so material moved into references/ still counts.
- split-skill-references.py: move the heaviest sections of an oversized
SKILL.md into references/. Verifies line by line that every source
line lands in exactly one output and refuses to write otherwise.
- generate-skill-inventory.py: derive SKILLS_INVENTORY.md and
DIRECTORY_STRUCTURE.md from the tree so they cannot drift.
- generate-skill-catalog.py: index the canonical layout only, count
references/ toward a skill's size, and stop truncating descriptions
at 200 characters - the catalog is the discovery surface and must
carry the activation trigger.
- .gitignore: Python bytecode from these scripts, and local .pcl state.
Reviewed-by: Security Analyst, Compiler Engineer, DevX Engineer
* fix(stdlib): bring all 174 skills to Agent Skills v1.0 conformance
No skill in the library was conformant. 41 of 175 failed the existing
validator outright, and none satisfied the spec. This pass fixes the
tree and records the result. See stdlib/CHANGELOG.md for the per-skill
versioning and migration notes.
BREAKING CHANGE: one skill removed, five moved, seven with a capability
withdrawn. Library version 2.0.0 -> 3.0.0.
Structure
- Convert 71 skills stored as flat files to <category>/<name>/SKILL.md,
the layout the spec requires and the only one able to carry companion
resources.
- Rename 5 directories that disagreed with their declared name:, so
resolution by path and by name stop giving different answers. The
repository docs already referenced the corrected paths.
- Merge the duplicate legal-technology skills into legaltech-expert and
delete legal-tech-expert, carrying over everything the survivor
lacked.
Metadata
- Repair 20 unparseable frontmatters: an H1 preceded the --- block and
the key was skill_id: instead of name:, so any parser reading
frontmatter at offset 0 saw no metadata at all. The objectives,
prerequisites and outcome they carried become real body sections.
- Add the missing version: to 21 skills, fold keywords into tags, move
expertise_level under metadata, and align 10 category: values with
their directory.
Discoverability
- Give all 174 descriptions an explicit "Use when ..." trigger, built
from each skill's own tags and section headings. 152 previously said
only what the skill was about, leaving an agent nothing to match on.
Progressive disclosure
- Split 127 oversized skills, moving bulk material into references/ read
on demand and leaving an index behind. A SKILL.md now averages 277
lines instead of 644 and none exceeds 500. Verified lossless line by
line against the previous revision.
Security
- Withdraw the unrestricted Bash(*) grant from 7 skills; none of the six
non-financial ones contained a single shell command. finance-expert
documents code that charges cards and reads bank accounts, so it now
grants no shell at all.
- Remove credential literals: Stripe keys, two JWT signing keys, an
Express session secret, a Redis password and WiFi credentials, all
inlined in examples. They load from the environment now.
- finance-expert: idempotency keys were documented but absent, so a
retry double-charged; webhook signature failures were not caught, so a
forged event raised uncaught instead of being rejected;
int(amount * 100) truncated fractions of a cent. All fixed, plus a
money-movement guardrails section.
- trading-expert: place_order routed without any pre-trade risk check
although a RiskManager sat unused in the next section. Risk validation
now runs before routing and raises rather than returning a boolean a
caller can ignore; live routing is opt-in.
- Correct an Ansible Vault example that showed plaintext under an
"encrypted" label.
Also fixes 8 broken documentation links and a prematurely closed code
fence in skill-creator-expert that leaked template content into prose.
Per the repository file-organization policy, four stale progress reports
(SKILLS_MANIFEST, COMPLETE_SKILLS_LIBRARY, COMPLETE_LIBRARY_MANIFEST,
PHASE_3_DATA_ANALYTICS) move out of stdlib/ into the gitignored
.roadmap/status/stdlib/; they claimed 31 of 100 skills complete. They
appear here as deletions because .roadmap/ is not tracked.
Reviewed-by: Security Analyst, Language Designer, DevX Engineer,
Documentation Specialist
* fix(skills): resolve standard library skills from their real layout
No stdlib skill was resolvable. SkillResolver looked for
`<stdlibDir>/<name>.md` with stdlibDir defaulting to `stdlib/skills`, a
directory that does not exist, and the path ignored the category level
the library actually uses. The two LSP providers had the same wrong
directory and scanned only one level deep, so neither completion nor
go-to-definition could see a skill either.
- skill-discovery.ts: enumerate skill entry points across the shapes in
use - a flat `<name>.md`, `<name>/SKILL.md`, and
`<category>/<name>/SKILL.md` - while skipping references/, scripts/
and assets/, which hold supporting material rather than entry points.
- skill-resolver.ts: point stdlibDir at `stdlib`, and look the name up
as a directory under any category as well as the two legacy shapes, so
existing custom stdlib directories keep working. The name is used as a
single path segment and rejected if it contains a separator or
traversal, so a reference cannot escape the stdlib root.
- Rewire both LSP providers onto the shared discovery helper.
Tests: 13 new cases covering the layouts, ordering, the references/
exclusion, path-traversal rejection, and an integration test that
resolves real shipped skills by bare name.
Reviewed-by: Compiler Engineer, Runtime Architect, Security Analyst
* feat(stdlib): add 17 skills covering the library's largest gaps
Selection was driven by cross-referencing coverage against observed usage
rather than by intuition: Stack Overflow and GitHub Octoverse data for
which technologies matter, and install rankings on public agent-skill
registries for the shape of skills people actually use.
That comparison found a mismatch of form, not only of coverage. The
most-installed skills in the ecosystem are procedures - tdd, refactoring,
frontend design, browser automation - while all 174 existing skills were
domain knowledge shaped as <domain>-expert. The new workflows/ category
closes that gap and introduces the <activity>-workflow convention.
New category workflows/ (4)
- tdd-workflow, refactoring-workflow, debugging-workflow,
code-review-workflow. code-review-workflow complements rather than
replaces code-review-expert: procedure versus judgement. Merge them if
the split proves confusing in use.
Applied AI (3) - the largest coverage gap
- llm-engineering-expert, rag-expert, agent-engineering-expert.
The library referenced LLMs in tags but covered none of it: pgvector
appeared zero times across 174 skills, LangChain once, MCP twice
despite the repository shipping an MCP integration guide.
Capabilities (2)
- document-processing-expert (PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX in one skill),
browser-automation-expert (a client against third-party sites,
distinct from playwright-expert which tests your own application).
Data (3)
- mysql-expert, the second most used database and previously absent
while rarer stores had skills; analytical-databases-expert;
stream-processing-expert.
Security (3)
- secrets-management-expert, supply-chain-security-expert (OWASP A03
2025), identity-access-expert (OWASP A01).
Interface and meta (2)
- accessibility-expert: design/ held only design-expert, which despite
its name covers software architecture, so WCAG had no home.
- skill-router: find and compose skills across 191, with a
disambiguation table for overlapping pairs.
Grouping by decision context rather than by technology keeps the growth
to 17 skills for roughly 50 topics. Five vector stores live inside
rag-expert; four document formats inside document-processing-expert.
Per-tool depth sits in references/, which the progressive-disclosure work
in 3.0.0 made cheap.
Four further gaps are better served by extending existing skills -
PyTorch and TensorFlow in ml-expert, OpenTelemetry in monitoring-expert,
Pulumi and Crossplane in terraform-expert - and are not in this change.
Library 3.0.0 -> 3.1.0, additive only. Adds the workflows label to the
inventory generator; catalogue, inventory, structure and CHANGELOG
regenerated.
Reviewed-by: Product Strategist, Security Analyst, DevX Engineer,
Documentation Specialist
* fix(test): create test directories with mkdtempSync
CodeQL flagged js/insecure-temporary-file (CWE-377) on both suites.
`join(tmpdir(), <predictable name>)` followed by mkdirSync creates a
world-readable directory at a guessable path, so another local user can
pre-create it or plant a symlink between the name being computed and the
directory being created.
mkdtempSync creates the directory atomically with a random suffix and
0700 permissions, which closes both the disclosure and the race.
One occurrence is new in this branch (skill-discovery); the other
pre-dates it in skill-resolver and is fixed in the same pass rather than
left as a known finding in a file this branch already touches.
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Cybersecurity Expert
Build comprehensive cybersecurity solutions including threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, and security compliance monitoring.
Learning Objectives
- Master security information and event management (SIEM)
- Understand threat detection and incident response
- Implement vulnerability management programs
- Apply security compliance frameworks
- Navigate security operations center (SOC) workflows
Prerequisites
- Understanding of network security fundamentals
- Knowledge of security frameworks and standards
- Familiarity with common attack vectors
- Experience with security tools and technologies
Core Concepts
Security Information & Event Management (SIEM)
Centralized platforms that aggregate, analyze, and correlate security logs and events from across infrastructure to detect threats, investigate incidents, and maintain compliance.
Threat Detection & Intelligence
Proactive identification of security threats using behavioral analysis, indicators of compromise (IOCs), threat feeds, and machine learning to detect anomalies and potential attacks.
Incident Response
Structured approach to handling security breaches and cyberattacks including preparation, detection, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident analysis.
Vulnerability Management
Systematic identification, classification, prioritization, remediation, and mitigation of security vulnerabilities in systems, applications, and infrastructure.
Security Compliance
Ensuring organizational adherence to security standards and regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001 through controls, audits, and documentation.
Best Practices
SIEM Operations
- Centralize log collection from all critical systems
- Normalize and enrich event data
- Define clear alert escalation criteria
- Tune correlation rules to reduce false positives
- Maintain threat intelligence feeds
- Regular review and update of detection rules
- Archive logs for forensic analysis
Incident Response
- Maintain documented IR playbooks
- Conduct regular tabletop exercises
- Establish clear escalation procedures
- Preserve forensic evidence properly
- Document all actions taken
- Conduct post-incident reviews
- Update procedures based on lessons learned
Vulnerability Management
- Continuous asset discovery and inventory
- Regular vulnerability scanning
- Risk-based prioritization (not just severity)
- Track remediation progress and SLAs
- Coordinate with change management
- Verify remediation effectiveness
- Exception handling for accepted risks
Security Compliance
- Map controls to regulatory requirements
- Maintain evidence documentation
- Automate compliance monitoring where possible
- Regular internal audits
- Track control effectiveness
- Prepare for external audits
- Continuous improvement of security posture
Anti-Patterns
Poor Practices
- Alert fatigue from untuned detection rules
- Lack of documented incident procedures
- Ignoring low/medium severity vulnerabilities
- No asset inventory or ownership
- Compliance as checkbox exercise
- Inadequate logging and monitoring
- No security awareness training
- Reactive vs proactive security
Common Mistakes
- Not validating security alerts
- Delayed incident response
- Inadequate forensic preservation
- Patch management without testing
- Security tools without proper configuration
- Ignoring insider threats
- Insufficient privilege management
- No security metrics or reporting
Reference Documentation
Detailed material lives alongside this skill and is read on demand:
- Code Examples — SIEM Event Processing System, Incident Response System, Vulnerability Management System
Resources
Security Platforms
- Splunk - SIEM and security analytics
- IBM QRadar - Enterprise SIEM
- Palo Alto Networks - Next-gen firewalls
- CrowdStrike - Endpoint protection
- Tenable - Vulnerability management
- Rapid7 - Security analytics
Frameworks & Standards
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- ISO 27001/27002
- CIS Controls
- MITRE ATT&CK Framework
- PCI-DSS
- GDPR, HIPAA, SOX
Threat Intelligence
- MISP - Threat intelligence platform
- AlienVault OTX
- VirusTotal
- STIX/TAXII standards
Learning Resources
- SANS Institute training
- (ISC)² - CISSP certification
- EC-Council - CEH certification
- GIAC certifications
- CISA, CISM certifications
Part of the PCL Standard Library - Master cybersecurity operations and protect organizational assets from evolving threats.