cloudflare-waf-author SKILL.md skillA
cloudflare-waf-author from d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/cloudflare-waf-author@git:20260806.5d7f24bPins git:20260806.5d7f24b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook
- Path
skills/cloudflare-waf-author/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260806.5d7f24b, committed Aug 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 23, 2026
- Size
- 16,407 bytes
- Repository stars
- 20
- License
- MIT
Workflow for crafting Cloudflare WAF rules across all three authoring interfaces - Terraform (cloudflare_ruleset), the Cloudflare Dashboard, and the Rulesets API. Covers both Custom Rules (actions like block, managed_challenge, log, skip-as-allow) and Managed-Rule Exceptions (action skip). Forces a docs-first read, peer-rule survey, explicit rule-type branch, and guards-by-type checklist before any expression is drafted. Use when adding or editing any Cloudflare WAF rule, when the user asks…
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
# Cloudflare WAF Author **Companion rule:** `405-cloudflare-waf-rules.mdc` (file-scoped to Cloudflare ruleset Terraform / JSON; topic-discoverable for Dashboard authoring). The rule is the **gate**; this skill is the **workflow** through the gate. **Voice:** opinionated. Every WAF rule is a policy commitment that ships to production at the edge. Custom rules can DoS your own users; managed-rule skips can silently bypass OWASP signatures. The job is to make the predicate exactly the right shape and exactly traceable to a request. --- ## When to invoke this skill Invoke when: - The user asks to add or edit a Cloudflare WAF rule of **any** kind - custom block, allow, challenge, log, or a managed-rule skip / exception / OWASP child-rule bypass. - A diff touches a Cloudflare ruleset Terraform file (matches the file globs in `405-cloudflare-waf-rules.mdc`) or a JSON payload destined for the Rulesets API. - The user is authoring a rule via the Cloudflare Dashboard (UI clicks under Security → WAF) and mentions it in the conversation. - A user mentions a change ticket asking to "block country X", "allow IP range Y", "stop the WAF from blocking endpoint Z", or any equivalent. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/cloudflare-waf-author@sha256:919982ab69a249e3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260806.5d7f24b, 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 2 versions of this file, between May 23, 2026 and Aug 6, 2026, about one every 75 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260806.5d7f24b latest | 2026-08-06 | 5d7f24b | 16,407 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260523.0aae37c | 2026-05-23 | 0aae37c | 16,282 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 (16407 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
d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xfp7vebzufqnsart GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/cloudflare-waf-author GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/919982ab69a249e317ebd36795eb208d0d62010c6523b462f68624901b785cca
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