sota-network-security SKILL.md skillA
sota-network-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-network-security@git:20261024.8dd2b0aPins git:20261024.8dd2b0a 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-network-security/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 11
- Latest version
- git:20261024.8dd2b0a, committed Oct 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 17, 2026
- Size
- 14,637 bytes
- Repository stars
- 26
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
State-of-the-art network security as a discipline (2026) for BOTH designing/building secure networks AND auditing segmentation and exposure. Use for zero-trust architecture, network segmentation and blast-radius control, Kubernetes NetworkPolicy/CiliumNetworkPolicy depth, service mesh and mTLS, edge/ingress/egress security (WAF, egress allowlisting, metadata-endpoint blocking), DNS/TLS/PKI transport and certificate lifecycle, and remote access (WireGuard, ZTNA, bastion vs identity-aware proxy).
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 Network Security ## Purpose This skill encodes the 2026 state of the art for **network security as a discipline**: how to verify rather than trust, contain blast radius, encrypt traffic in motion, control what enters and leaves, and secure the naming and transport plumbing (DNS, TLS, PKI). Every rule exists to prevent a real failure class — lateral movement after one foothold, plaintext credentials on the wire, an over-broad rule that exposes a secrets store to the world, a renewal nobody automated, or an SSRF that reaches the cloud metadata endpoint. **Ownership — reference siblings, do not duplicate:** - **[sota-cloud-infrastructure](../sota-cloud-infrastructure/SKILL.md)** ([rules/03](../sota-cloud-infrastructure/rules/03-networking.md) networking) owns cloud-provider network *setup*: VPC/subnet layout, CIDR/IPAM, route tables, LB/CDN provisioning, registrar hygiene, DNS zone setup. **This skill owns the security posture layered on top** and the on-prem / Kubernetes / mesh side. - **[sota-kubernetes](../sota-kubernetes/SKILL.md)** owns admission control and RBAC — *where NetworkPolicy is admitted and CNI …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-network-security@sha256:484c2919090c94a9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.8dd2b0a, 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_dq3vharpjupahrw2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 11 versions of this file, between Jun 17, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026, about one every 13 days.
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| git:20261024.8dd2b0a latest | 2026-10-24 | 8dd2b0a | 14,637 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261012.ae1b29b | 2026-10-12 | ae1b29b | 14,396 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.0eafce3 | 2026-09-25 | 0eafce3 | 13,373 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.467e225 | 2026-09-25 | 467e225 | 13,320 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.054c2cb | 2026-09-25 | 054c2cb | 12,636 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260916.296902d | 2026-09-16 | 296902d | 12,375 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260911.9cd2dc7 | 2026-09-11 | 9cd2dc7 | 12,389 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260710.68ad780 | 2026-07-10 | 68ad780 | 11,946 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260709.b463c3c | 2026-07-09 | b463c3c | 11,858 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260629.bacf523 | 2026-06-29 | bacf523 | 11,722 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260617.c5d2c7b | 2026-06-17 | c5d2c7b | 11,886 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 (14637 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 · 26 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dq3vharpjupahrw2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-network-security GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/484c2919090c94a931c511bae5a4126038ae329426e51111f2582aecbb3ca67e
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