firewall-best-practices-audit SKILL.md skillA
firewall-best-practices-audit from mechubsec/fwskillsshare is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mechubsec/fwskillsshare/firewall-best-practices-audit@v1.3.1Pins v1.3.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mechubsec/fwskillsshare
- Path
skills/firewall-best-practices-audit/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v1.3.1, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 25, 2026
- Size
- 17,615 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- MIT
Audit normalized Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Juniper firewall rulebases for security hygiene. Use when finding any-any, shadowed, redundant, or orphaned rules, missing deny or logging, exposed management, weak VPN crypto, hardening gaps, or unused objects. Parse raw configs first.
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
# Firewall Best-Practices Audit ## Contents - [Overview](#overview) - [Scope and routing](#scope-and-routing) - [Runtime intake](#runtime-intake) - [Policy population contract](#policy-population-contract) - [Input Handling](#input-handling) - [Severity & Confidence](#severity--confidence) - [Audit Workflow](#audit-workflow) - [Reference Material (load on demand)](#reference-material-load-on-demand) - [Output Templates](#output-templates) - [Common Pitfalls](#common-pitfalls) - [Verification Checklist](#verification-checklist) ## Overview Use this skill to audit a firewall or NGFW rulebase for security and operational hygiene, vendor-neutrally, over the `parsing-*` intermediate JSON schema. The audit reads normalized `security_policies`, `nat_rules`, address/service objects and groups, `zones`, `vpn_tunnels`, `system`, and `admin_users`, then emits prioritized findings across the security and operational check families (full catalog: `references/check-catalog.md`). Each finding carries a severity, a confidence, the affected references, why it matters, and remediation. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mechubsec/fwskillsshare/firewall-best-practices-audit@sha256:87dbc5c753a40a9eThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.3.1, 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 6 versions of this file, between Jul 25, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 14 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.3.1 latest | 2026-10-05 | 6f059ec | 17,615 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3.0 | 2026-09-12 | 8fb5a72 | 17,112 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2.0 | 2026-08-27 | d129523 | 17,112 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2.0 | 2026-07-31 | f4f130a | 16,657 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.4 | 2026-07-25 | 25bdf45 | 15,432 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.2 | 2026-07-25 | 1eb49a3 | 11,956 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 (17615 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
mechubsec/fwskillsshare · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-09 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ow43cs7a5pnq3rus GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mechubsec/fwskillsshare/firewall-best-practices-audit GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/87dbc5c753a40a9ece471e845a56536ae838b1f84f8c45fde782c5e6116e4623
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