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Garry Tan 3d1e8e0eac feat: /cso v2 — infrastructure-first security audit (v0.11.6.0) (#384)
* feat: /cso v2 — infrastructure-first security audit

Rewrite /cso from code-centric OWASP scanning to infrastructure-first
attack surface analysis. 15 phases covering secrets archaeology, dependency
supply chain, CI/CD pipeline security, webhook verification, LLM/AI
security, skill supply chain scanning, plus OWASP Top 10, STRIDE, and
data classification.

Key design decisions from eng review + Codex adversarial review:
- Soft gate stack detection (prioritize, don't skip)
- Error on conflicting scope flags (never silently ignore)
- Permission gate before scanning ~/.claude/skills/
- Graceful degradation when audit tools aren't installed
- Finding fingerprints for cross-run trend tracking
- Variant analysis: one verified vuln triggers codebase-wide search
- Dual confidence modes: daily (8/10 gate) vs comprehensive (2/10)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: /cso v2 acknowledgements — 10 projects that informed the design

Credits: Sentry (confidence gating), Trail of Bits (mental model + variant
analysis), Shannon/Keygraph (active verification validation), afiqiqmal
(framework detection + LLM security), Snyk ToxicSkills (skill supply chain),
Miessler PAI (incident playbooks), McGo (report format), Claude Code
Security Pack (modular validation), Anthropic CCS (500+ zero-days), and
@gus_argon (v1 blind spot identification).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: /cso v2 E2E tests — full audit, diff mode, infra scope

Three E2E test cases with planted vulnerabilities:
- cso-full-audit: hardcoded API key + .env tracked by git
- cso-diff-mode: webhook without signature verification on feature branch
- cso-infra-scope: unpinned GitHub Action + Dockerfile without USER

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: /cso E2E tests — correct logCost and recordE2E signatures

logCost requires (label, result), recordE2E requires (collector, name,
suite, result). Fixed all 3 test cases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: /cso infra E2E test — increase timeout to 360s

The infra scope test runs Agent sub-tasks for parallel finding
verification which can take longer than 240s. Increased maxTurns
from 25 to 60 and timeout from 240s to 360s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: /cso infra E2E test — sharper prompt to prevent exploration waste

The agent was burning 30+ turns exploring a 3-file repo (18 Glob calls,
Explore subagent, 4 SKILL.md reads) before starting the audit. Two Agent
verification subagents then ate ~100s, causing the 240s timeout.

Fix: tell the agent the repo is tiny, list the exact files, skip the
preamble, remove Agent from allowed tools, reduce maxTurns 60→30.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.11.6.0)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: address Codex adversarial findings in /cso v2

Six fixes from Codex adversarial review:

1. Phase 2: Use `git log -G` (regex) instead of `-S` (literal) for
   patterns with alternation (ghp_|gho_|github_pat_, etc.)

2. Phase 12 exclusion #5: Add exception so CI/CD pipeline findings
   from Phase 4 are never auto-discarded when --infra is active

3. Phase 12 exclusion #6: Add exception that unpinned actions and
   missing CODEOWNERS are concrete risks, not "missing hardening"

4. Phase 12 exclusion #15: Add exception that SKILL.md files are
   executable prompt code, not documentation — Phase 8 findings
   in SKILL.md must not be excluded

5. Phase 12 exclusion #1: Add exception that LLM cost/spend
   amplification from Phase 7 is financial risk, not DoS

6. E2E tests: Add exitReason === 'success' assertion to all 3 tests;
   move finalizeEvalCollector to file-level afterAll

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-23 06:57:22 -07:00

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Acknowledgements

/cso v2 was informed by research across the security audit landscape. Credits to:

  • Sentry Security Review — The confidence-based reporting system (only HIGH confidence findings get reported) and the "research before reporting" methodology (trace data flow, check upstream validation) validated our 8/10 daily confidence gate. TimOnWeb rated it the only security skill worth installing out of 5 tested.
  • Trail of Bits Skills — The audit-context-building methodology (build a mental model before hunting bugs) directly inspired Phase 0. Their variant analysis concept (found one vuln? Search the whole codebase for the same pattern) inspired Phase 12's variant analysis step.
  • Shannon by Keygraph — Autonomous AI pentester achieving 96.15% on the XBOW benchmark (100/104 exploits). Validated that AI can do real security testing, not just checklist scanning. Our Phase 12 active verification is the static-analysis version of what Shannon does live.
  • afiqiqmal/claude-security-audit — The AI/LLM-specific security checks (prompt injection, RAG poisoning, tool calling permissions) inspired Phase 7. Their framework-level auto-detection (detecting "Next.js" not just "Node/TypeScript") inspired Phase 0's framework detection step.
  • Snyk ToxicSkills Research — The finding that 36% of AI agent skills have security flaws and 13.4% are malicious inspired Phase 8 (Skill Supply Chain scanning).
  • Daniel Miessler's Personal AI Infrastructure — The incident response playbooks and protection file concept informed the remediation and LLM security phases.
  • McGo/claude-code-security-audit — The idea of generating shareable reports and actionable epics informed our report format evolution.
  • Claude Code Security Pack — Modular approach (separate /security-audit, /secret-scanner, /deps-check skills) validated that these are distinct concerns. Our unified approach sacrifices modularity for cross-phase reasoning.
  • Anthropic Claude Code Security — Multi-stage verification and confidence scoring validated our parallel finding verification approach. Found 500+ zero-days in open source.
  • @gus_argon — Identified critical v1 blind spots: no stack detection (runs all-language patterns), uses bash grep instead of Claude Code's Grep tool, | head -20 truncates results silently, and preamble bloat. These directly shaped v2's stack-first approach and Grep tool mandate.