Secure Software Engineering
Build security into software decisions before they become expensive defects.
Why Install This Skill
This skill helps an agent turn "make it secure" into concrete design choices: what must be protected, who may do what, where trust changes, and how a team can verify the result. It covers everyday engineering work such as APIs, credentials, dependencies, multi-tenant services, release artifacts, and AI features without assuming a cloud provider or framework.
Instead of treating a checklist or scanner as a security guarantee, the workflow asks for evidence, assumptions, misuse cases, and accountable residual-risk decisions. It complements an assessment skill: use this one while building and changing software, then assess or scan separately when that is the actual task.
What You Get
| Path | What it provides |
|---|---|
SKILL.md |
A five-phase, prevention-oriented workflow and routing guide. |
references/source-index.md |
Version-pinned primary sources and the decisions they inform. |
references/ |
Focused guidance for threat modeling, controls, review, release, incident learning, and AI systems. |
templates/ |
Adaptable threat-model, acceptance-criteria, and review-checklist starting points. |
Quick Start
Install or expose this directory through your Agent Skills-compatible client. Then ask, for example:
Threat-model this multi-tenant document API before implementation.
The resulting model should name assets, boundaries, assumptions, abuse cases, mitigations, evidence, and residual risk rather than simply declare the API secure.
Triggers
- Design or implement a feature securely.
- Threat-model a system, API, integration, tenant boundary, or AI capability.
- Define security acceptance criteria or review a security-sensitive change.
- Choose authentication, authorization, secret handling, dependency, logging, or release-evidence practices.
Requirements
No runtime dependency, API key, or platform-specific tool is required. The included sources are decision aids; adopt the controls that apply to your organization, contract, regulator, and threat model.