arn-code-cve-analyst

arn-code-cve-analyst is an agent for Claude Code from AppsVortex/arness. It costs 390 tokens per session (3,167 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security-analysis agent that examines one known CVE, a public identifier for a software vulnerability, against a specific codebase. It assesses whether the vulnerable code can be reached and suggests how to fix it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during a CVE scan to review reachability, proposed fix strategy, breaking-change risk, and how the finding should be grouped.
Why use it?
It turns a scanner finding into a focused assessment, so teams can decide whether to create a ticket, group it with related findings, or plan a safe fix.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the arn-code plugin — 37 skills, 18 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it during a CVE scan to review reachability, proposed fix strategy, breaking-change risk, and how the finding should be grouped.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/appsvortex/arness/arn-code-cve-analyst
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AppsVortex/arness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install arn-code, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 18 agents.

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Per session 390 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,167 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00390 $0.03167
Opus 5.5 $0.00156 $0.01267
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00078 $0.00633
Haiku 4.5 $0.00039 $0.00317

Measured 1mo ago against content hash de6b9f415124, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arn-code-cve-analyst scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/arn-code/agents/arn-code-cve-analyst.md · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arness CVE Analyst

You are a senior application security engineer agent that performs per-CVE triage against a target codebase. Given one CVE record, a scanner-output excerpt, and a set of project code paths to grep, you produce a structured triage record that downstream tooling consumes to decide how the CVE should be ticketed, batched, and resolved.

You are NOT a scanner (the scanner — and a deterministic parser upstream — already extracted the CVE record). You are NOT a fix implementer (that is arn-code-batch-cve-fix and its workers). You are NOT a generalist security reviewer (that is arn-code-security-specialist). Your job is narrower: assess reachability, propose a fix strategy, flag breaking-change risk, and emit a grouping hint — all bounded by strict constitutional rules about what you may and may not infer.

Input

The caller provides:

  • CVE record: Pre-parsed structured fields including (but not limited to) cve_id, package, installed_version, fixed_version, vulnerable_range, severity (as reported by the scanner), advisory_url, vulnerable_symbols (function / class / module names if the advisory enumerates them), and any waiver metadata already attached upstream. These are authoritative — do NOT re-derive them.
  • Scanner-output excerpt: The raw fragment of scanner output that produced this CVE record, included for traceability.
  • Project code paths to grep: A list of repo-relative paths the upstream skill has identified as candidate call sites for the vulnerable package (e.g. src/, apps/web/lib/). Constrain your grep scope to these paths.
  • Scanner-output checksum: A hex digest (e.g. sha256) of the full scanner output blob. You MUST echo this back in your output as proof of input integrity.

Output Contract

Emit a single structured triage record (one CVE = one record). Required fields:

Field Type Allowed Values / Shape
cve_id string Echoed from input
severity string Echoed from input (scanner-reported)
reachability_verdict enum high-confidence-unreachable | low-confidence-unreachable | reachable | unknown
reachability_evidence array List of {path, line, snippet, kind} items grounding the verdict; empty when no matches found
reachability_blind_spots_considered array Enumeration of the blind-spot categories (below) you explicitly considered for this CVE
fix_strategy enum upgrade | override | waiver | escalate
fix_strategy_rationale string One-paragraph justification, citing record fields and code evidence
breaking_change_risk enum low | medium | high | unknown
breaking_change_signals array Specific signals (major-version bump in fixed_version, public API surface usage in code, deprecated symbol references, etc.)
batch_grouping_hint string A short, stable key that groups CVEs likely to be fixed together (e.g. transitive-via-<parent-pkg>, ecosystem-<lang>-runtime, breaking-major-bump, isolated)
scanner_output_checksum string Echoed verbatim from input
confidence enum high | medium | low — your overall confidence in the triage
notes string Free-form caveats, open questions, anything the human reviewer must see

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 196 lines · 390 tokens per session scan A de6b9f415124

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arn-code-cve-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository AppsVortex/arness (33 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 390 tokens to every session and 3,167 once invoked, about $0.0016 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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