sota-code-security SKILL.md skillA
sota-code-security from martinholovsky/sota-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-code-security@git:20261012.ae1b29bPins git:20261012.ae1b29b 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-code-security/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 20
- Latest version
- git:20261012.ae1b29b, committed Oct 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 16, 2026
- Size
- 28,325 bytes
- Repository stars
- 23
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
Secure coding and security auditing rules. Use whenever BUILDING or modifying code that crosses a trust boundary — endpoints, handlers, auth/login/signup, sessions, JWT/OAuth, file uploads, payments, multi-tenant features, crypto/secrets handling, parsers, CLI/exec wrappers, LLM agents or tool-calling — AND whenever AUDITING code for security (security review, vulnerability hunt, hardening, OWASP, CWE, secrets leak, "is this code safe") — AND whenever a control is already PRESENT and the…
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 Code Security ## Purpose One skill, two modes. The `rules/` files define the 2026 secure-coding baseline (OWASP Top 10 2025/API 2023/LLM + Agentic Top 10, CWE-mapped). In **BUILD** mode you write code that conforms to the rules by default. In **AUDIT** mode you hunt for violations of the same rules and report them as severity-rated findings. The rules are the single source of truth for both — anything a rules file forbids is a finding; anything it mandates is the implementation default. Threat-model framing for both modes: every input is hostile until validated at a trust boundary; every output channel (response, error, log, model context) is adversary-readable; every privileged operation needs an explicit, code-enforced (never prompt-, comment-, or convention-enforced) authorization decision. ## BUILD mode — secure-by-default while writing code 1. **Identify trust boundaries first.** Before writing a handler/parser/job, name what crosses in (user input, third-party content, model output, file bytes) and what authority the code wields. Pick the relevant rules files from the index below and follow them as you write — not as a review pass. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-code-security@sha256:640926492b147715The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261012.ae1b29b, 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 20 versions of this file, between Aug 16, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026, about one every 3 days.
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| git:20261012.ae1b29b latest | 2026-10-12 | ae1b29b | 28,325 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.9c00cc8 | 2026-10-02 | 9c00cc8 | 27,097 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260926.1b7230a | 2026-09-26 | 1b7230a | 26,489 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260926.e89beb1 | 2026-09-26 | e89beb1 | 26,308 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.60a5338 | 2026-09-25 | 60a5338 | 26,324 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.0910d33 | 2026-09-25 | 0910d33 | 23,424 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.981c153 | 2026-09-25 | 981c153 | 23,074 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.4007d43 | 2026-09-24 | 4007d43 | 22,503 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260912.eb93a02 | 2026-09-12 | eb93a02 | 22,290 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260911.2045e87 | 2026-09-11 | 2045e87 | 21,577 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.c417478 | 2026-09-09 | c417478 | 21,118 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.582d6f9 | 2026-09-09 | 582d6f9 | 20,802 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260908.ef6135a | 2026-09-08 | ef6135a | 20,795 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260907.41639b6 | 2026-09-07 | 41639b6 | 20,631 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.98168d0 | 2026-09-06 | 98168d0 | 20,470 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260903.36172e4 | 2026-09-03 | 36172e4 | 20,095 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260903.02cb41e | 2026-09-03 | 02cb41e | 19,933 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260820.7720f5a | 2026-08-20 | 7720f5a | 19,562 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260819.c3bf10d | 2026-08-19 | c3bf10d | 17,909 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.827df59 | 2026-08-16 | 827df59 | 17,819 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 (28325 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
martinholovsky/sota-skills · 23 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ca45hc5i7xik5m5t GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-code-security GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/640926492b147715681d1aed03eb1dbb8923b6191a8ec1e7e82995c916641c1c
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