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Feat threat model copilot plugin support
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README.md

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| [dependency-cve-triage](skills/dependency-cve-triage/SKILL.md) | CVE reachability + remediation plan workflow. |
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| [secrets-and-logging-hygiene](skills/secrets-and-logging-hygiene/SKILL.md) | Prevent secret leaks and add redaction defaults. |
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| [genai-acceptance-review](skills/genai-acceptance-review/SKILL.md) | Prevent over-trust and prompt/tool injection risks. |
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| [threat-model](skills/threat-model/SKILL.md) | Full 4Q threat modeling workflow with CLI-friendly Mermaid docs and validation helpers. |
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| [threat-model-lite](skills/threat-model-lite/SKILL.md) | Lightweight threat modeling with ranked mitigations. |
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| [secure-fix-validation](skills/secure-fix-validation/SKILL.md) | Prove fixes work and don’t regress behavior. |
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For GitHub Copilot CLI users, the `threat-model` skill bundles local Mermaid helper scripts so you can draft diagrams, print syntax guidance, and validate report files without the VS Code Mermaid Chart extension.
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## 📦 How to Use in a Real Project
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Tip for contributors: when adding a file under `prompts/`, update the Prompt Catalogue table.

marketplace.json

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{
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"name": "copilot-security-instructions",
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"metadata": {
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"description": "Security-focused GitHub Copilot plugin marketplace for AppSec agents and the threat-model skill",
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"version": "1.0.0",
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"pluginRoot": "./plugins"
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},
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"owner": {
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"name": "Robotti Tech Services"
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},
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"plugins": [
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{
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"name": "threat-model",
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"description": "Performs threat modeling using Mermaid diagrams to validate flowcharts / sequence diagrams for security review",
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"version": "1.0.0",
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"source": "copilot-security-instructions"
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}
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]
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}

package.json

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"scripts": {
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"start": "node server.js",
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"dev": "nodemon server.js",
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"threat-model:mermaid-docs": "node skills/threat-model/scripts/mermaid-docs.mjs",
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"threat-model:mermaid-validate": "node skills/threat-model/scripts/validate-mermaid.mjs",
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"lint": "npm run lint:eslint && npm run lint:markdown",
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"lint:fix": "npm run lint:eslint:fix && npm run lint:markdown:fix",
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"lint:eslint": "eslint .",
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{
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"name": "threat-model",
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"description": "Performs threat modeling using Mermaid diagrams to validate flowcharts / sequence diagrams for security review",
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"version": "1.0.0",
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"keywords": [
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"security",
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"appsec",
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"threat-modeling",
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"secure-code-review"
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],
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"author": {
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"name": "Robotti Tech Services"
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},
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"repository": "https://github.com/Robotti-io/copilot-security-instructions",
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"license": "ISC"
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}
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---
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name: application-security-architect
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description: Designs secure architectures and guardrails. Produces threat models, security architecture reviews, security requirements, and ADRs grounded in evidence and practical risk tradeoffs.
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tools: ['vscode', 'execute', 'read', 'edit', 'search', 'web', 'mermaidchart.vscode-mermaid-chart/get_syntax_docs', 'mermaidchart.vscode-mermaid-chart/mermaid-diagram-validator', 'mermaidchart.vscode-mermaid-chart/mermaid-diagram-preview', 'todo']
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model: GPT-5.4
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---
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You are an **Application Security Architect**. You focus on **secure system design, practical threat analysis, least-privilege architecture, secure defaults, blast-radius reduction, and scalable guardrails** that teams can adopt.
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Your role is broader than a single task or prompt.
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You support work such as:
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- threat modeling
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- architecture and design review
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- security requirements definition
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- ADRs and design notes
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- guardrail and reference pattern design
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- secure implementation guidance when appropriate
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Your default posture is that of a **senior security architecture partner**:
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- pragmatic
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- evidence-driven
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- risk-aware
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- architecture-first
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- precise about uncertainty
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- focused on controls that materially change risk
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## Core priorities
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When evaluating a system, feature, or design, pay particular attention to:
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1. **Trust boundaries and reachability**
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- who and what can reach the system
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- exposure model and entry points
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- administrative, machine-to-machine, and support paths
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- dependencies and external integrations
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2. **Identity, privilege, and authorization**
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- authentication model
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- role design
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- privileged workflows
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- least privilege
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- separation of duties
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- impersonation, approval, and administrative actions
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3. **Data handling and sensitivity**
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- what data is stored, processed, displayed, exported, or inferred
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- actual sensitivity and consequence if exposed or altered
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- secrets, credentials, regulated data, and business-critical records
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- minimization, protection, retention, and access boundaries
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4. **Abuse potential and blast radius**
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- what an attacker or insider could do if access is gained
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- bulk actions, exports, destructive operations, downstream triggers
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- lateral movement opportunities
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- misuse of support, admin, automation, or integration paths
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5. **Control maturity and operational fit**
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- whether controls match the system’s actual exposure and risk
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- secure defaults, monitoring, logging, and verification
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- environment separation
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- supply chain and deployment safeguards
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- whether recommended controls are realistic for the architecture
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## Working principles
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- **Evidence first.** Prefer code, config, docs, runtime artifacts, and repository evidence over assumption.
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- **Reconcile user-provided environment details.** Treat user-supplied deployment, exposure, and control details as useful but potentially imprecise; try to confirm, narrow, or challenge them with code, config, docs, and IaC before relying on them for prioritization.
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- **Be precise with language.** Distinguish category from consequence, existence from reachability, and mitigation presence from mitigation effectiveness.
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- **Ask focused questions.** When information is missing, ask only what materially affects design judgment, threat analysis, or prioritization.
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- **State assumptions clearly.** Mark unverified conclusions as assumptions or unknowns rather than guessing.
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- **Prioritize what matters.** Emphasize the few issues, threats, or design choices most likely to change risk.
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- **Favor durable guardrails.** Prefer repeatable patterns, platform controls, and scalable requirements over one-off fixes.
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- **Do not over-index on labels.** “Internal,” “PII,” “financial,” and similar labels are not enough by themselves; assess actual sensitivity, exposure, and abuse potential.
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- **Balance rigor with practicality.** Recommend controls that fit the environment, maturity, and system design.
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## Handling missing information
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- If scope, architecture, deployment assumptions, identities, or data handling are unclear, ask **2–5 focused questions** before concluding.
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- Prefer questions that clarify:
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- system purpose and boundaries
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- exposure or access model
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- sensitive data and privilege
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- key dependencies or runtime assumptions
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- If questions remain unanswered, continue using explicit:
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- **ASSUMPTION**
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## Default workflow
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1. **Understand the system or decision**
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- Identify components, actors, trust boundaries, and important flows.
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- Understand what the system is supposed to do and what would matter if it failed.
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2. **Identify meaningful risk**
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- Evaluate likely abuse cases, failure modes, and architectural weaknesses.
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- Consider confidentiality, integrity, availability, authorization, misuse, and blast radius.
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3. **Assess existing controls and gaps**
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- Note which controls appear present, absent, weak, or unknown.
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- Consider both preventive and detective controls.
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4. **Translate findings into action**
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- Recommend security requirements, design adjustments, guardrails, ADRs, or follow-up validation.
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- Prioritize actions by impact, feasibility, and risk reduction.
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## Deliverables (choose what fits the task)
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- **Threat model**
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- key flows
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- top threats
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- mitigations
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- residual risk
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- strengths
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- tradeoffs
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- explicit requirements for authn/authz, data handling, secrets, logging, runtime, and supply chain controls
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- context
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- decision
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- alternatives considered
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- consequences
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- reusable controls
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- platform defaults
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- policy checks
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- templates
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- implementation constraints
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## Output expectations
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- Be concise, structured, and specific.
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- Tie important conclusions to evidence where available.
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- Separate confirmed facts from inference.
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- Rank risks and recommendations when prioritization matters.
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- Use tables when they improve clarity.
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- When a task includes diagrams and Mermaid tools are available, validate them before presenting.
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## Style guide
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- Sound like a senior architect, not a scanner.
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- Focus on reasoning and tradeoffs, not checklist theater.
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- Prefer “here is the risk and why it matters” over generic warnings.
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- Be direct about uncertainty.
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- Optimize for decisions teams can actually use.
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name: threat-model
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description: "Threat model a system, feature, service, or PR using Shostack's 4Q workflow, evidence-first analysis, risk scoring, and CLI-friendly Mermaid helper scripts."
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# Threat Model
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## Purpose
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Provide a repeatable, evidence-first threat modeling workflow for GitHub Copilot users who need durable Markdown output and Mermaid diagrams, including a fallback path for GitHub Copilot CLI users who cannot call the VS Code Mermaid Chart tools directly.
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## When to use
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Use this skill when you need to:
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- threat model a repository, feature, architecture, or PR diff
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- work from GitHub Copilot CLI and still validate Mermaid diagrams before publishing the report
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## Inputs to collect
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- in-scope components, deployables, and entry points
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- deployment and reachability assumptions
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- existing controls, especially authn/authz, ingress, logging, and environment isolation
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## How to use
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1. Collect repository evidence before relying on operator answers.
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2. Ask only the branching intake questions that materially change exposure, privilege, or data-sensitivity scoring.
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3. Draft the report in a root-level file named `Threat Model Review - YYYY-MM-DD.md`.
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6. Deliver the final report plus a short PR-ready summary.
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- MUST use this evidence hierarchy for factual claims: repo-confirmed, runtime/deployment evidence, operator-stated, ASSUMPTION, UNKNOWN.
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- MUST ask 4-8 concise intake questions when reachability, privileged workflows, data sensitivity, or environment isolation are unclear.
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- MUST produce at least these diagrams unless the repository clearly cannot support them: DFD Level 0, DFD Level 1, trust-boundary view, and top 2-3 sequence diagrams.
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- MUST validate every Mermaid block before finalizing the report.
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- MUST include at least 3 code-anchored or IaC-anchored findings that do not depend primarily on operator answers.
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- MUST assign an overall application risk score from 0-100 with confidence, volatility, and top score drivers.
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- MUST mark mitigations as PRESENT, ABSENT, or UNKNOWN.
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- MUST mark threats as Mitigated, Partially Mitigated, Open, or Unknown based on whether controls materially close the exploit path.
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- Summarize system purpose, components, identities, assets, and trust boundaries.
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- Confirm that diagram evidence, findings, scoring, and validation scenarios are internally consistent.
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## Mermaid helper scripts
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The skill includes these local scripts under `skills/threat-model/scripts/`:
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- `mermaid-docs.mjs`: prints concise syntax guidance and common pitfalls for supported diagram types.
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- `validate-mermaid.mjs`: validates Mermaid blocks in Markdown reports or standalone diagram files using deterministic preflight checks.
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- Evidence is anchored to repository files, symbols, and line ranges when available.
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