sota-devsecops SKILL.md skillA

sota-devsecops from martinholovsky/sota-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-devsecops@git:20261029.d379e82

Pins git:20261029.d379e82 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
martinholovsky/sota-skills
Path
skills/sota-devsecops/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
22
Latest version
git:20261029.d379e82, committed Oct 29, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 16, 2026
Size
16,668 bytes
Repository stars
26
License
CC-BY-4.0

State-of-the-art DevSecOps and software supply chain security (2026). Applies when building or auditing CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions workflows, supply chain controls, SBOM generation, SAST/secret-scanning gates, dependency management, container builds, container/artifact registries, IaC (Terraform), GitOps, deployment strategy, and a pre-commit hook that passes locally but fails in CI. Trigger keywords: CI/CD, pipeline, GitHub Actions, supply chain, SBOM, SAST, dependency, container build…

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

# SOTA DevSecOps & Supply Chain Security

## Purpose

This skill encodes the 2026 state of the art for securing the path from source code to
running workload: pipeline hardening, dependency and artifact supply chain, build integrity,
analysis gates, IaC/deployment security, and runtime policy enforcement. It is defensive:
every rule exists to prevent a real, named class of compromise (token theft, workflow
injection, dependency confusion, tag mutation, state leakage, bypassable gates).

Two operating modes. Pick one explicitly at the start of the task.

## BUILD mode

Use when creating or extending pipelines, Dockerfiles, Terraform, GitOps configs, or
dependency tooling.

1. Identify which stages of the source-to-production path the task touches (source → CI →
   build → artifact → deploy → runtime) and read the matching rules files from the index
   below BEFORE writing config.
2. Default to the most restrictive option that works: read-only tokens, OIDC over stored
   keys, SHA pins, digest pins, frozen lockfile installs, non-root distroless runtime.
   Loosen only with a written reason in a comment.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-devsecops@sha256:842b542ee5932a91

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261029.d379e82, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 22 versions of this file, between Jul 16, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, about one every 5 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (16668 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

GitHub

martinholovsky/sota-skills · 26 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_54nt7vgsgcfjoea6
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-devsecops
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/842b542ee5932a91fb09c5fa15d65a2182a738ce0380b6a3501efab537766fcf

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