application-security-testing SKILL.md skillA
application-security-testing from usestrix/strix is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add usestrix/strix/application-security-testing@git:20260901.42baa7cPins git:20260901.42baa7c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- usestrix/strix
- Path
skills/application-security-testing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260901.42baa7c, committed Sep 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 20, 2026
- Size
- 4,557 bytes
- Repository stars
- 74,096
- License
- Apache-2.0
Application security testing (AppSec) across a whole product with Strix — decide which asset needs which test (source code, running web app, API, CI pipeline), run it, and turn the results into a ranked remediation plan. Autonomous agents exploit and prove each issue instead of emitting static-analysis alerts, so the plan is ordered by what is actually reachable. Use when the user asks for an application security review or audit, an appsec assessment, vulnerability scanning across their stack…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Application security testing Entry point for "make my application secure" requests, where the target is not yet a single URL or repo. The job here is to pick the right test per asset, run it, and produce one ranked plan — not to run everything at maximum depth. Install, LLM setup, all CLI flags, and the managed-cloud path live in the **penetration-testing-with-strix** skill. Read it first if `strix --version` fails. For a run with no Docker and no LLM key, the same binary drives the managed platform: `strix cloud login`, then `strix cloud scans start ...` (details in **managed-pentesting-with-strix**). Only test assets the user owns or is authorized to test. Confirm authorization before the first run, and prefer staging over production, because the agents send real exploit payloads and can change data. ## 1. Map the assets Ask (or read from the repo) and write the answers down before scanning: - **Source** — one repo, a monorepo, several services? Which languages/frameworks? - **Running environments** — is there a staging deployment? A public production site? A local dev server only? - **APIs** — REST, GraphQL, gRPC? Is there an OpenAPI/GraphQL schema? …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add usestrix/strix/application-security-testing@sha256:b3041c800a9a1d34The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260901.42baa7c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_2jgiug62hlfzvyxd)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 20, 2026 and Sep 1, 2026, about one every 12 days.
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| git:20260901.42baa7c latest | 2026-09-01 | 42baa7c | 4,557 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260820.9099710 | 2026-08-20 | 9099710 | 4,367 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4557 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
usestrix/strix · 74,096 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2jgiug62hlfzvyxd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=usestrix/strix/application-security-testing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b3041c800a9a1d34e04164c5f700b6d12bbc237f098d760c09ec076c92d2a654
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