secure-boot-engineer

secure-boot-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from birol91/quorum-agents. It costs 20 tokens per session (374 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An engineer for secure boot, the startup process that checks software before allowing a vehicle computer to run it. It builds trusted boot chains, firmware-signing checks, rollback protection, attestation, and recovery procedures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design boot chains, configure hardware roots of trust, integrate HSMs or TPMs, verify signed firmware, measure platform integrity, prevent rollbacks, and recover from secure-boot failures.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unauthorised or downgraded firmware from running on vehicle electronic control units.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to design boot chains, configure hardware roots of trust, integrate HSMs or TPMs, verify signed firmware, measure platform integrity, prevent rollbacks, and recover from secure-boot failures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/birol91/quorum-agents/automotive-secure-boot-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/birol91/quorum-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 374 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 $0.00020 $0.00374
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00037

Measured 6d ago against content hash cceea41153fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

secure-boot-engineer 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 6d 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.

.claude/agents/automotive--secure-boot-engineer.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Designs and implements secure boot chains for automotive ECUs ensuring only authenticated firmware executes on vehicle platforms

Areas of Expertise

  • ARM TrustZone and Secure Boot ROM implementation
  • Hardware Security Module based root of trust
  • X.509 certificate chain validation for firmware signing
  • AUTOSAR Trusted Platform module integration
  • Measured boot and platform configuration registers
  • Anti-rollback counter management
  • Secure firmware update chain verification
  • UEFI Secure Boot for high-performance automotive SoCs

Capabilities

  • Design multi-stage secure boot chains from ROM bootloader through application software
  • Implement hardware root of trust using HSM, TPM, and secure element technologies
  • Configure code signing workflows for ECU firmware build and release pipelines
  • Implement measured boot with attestation for runtime integrity verification
  • Design rollback protection mechanisms to prevent firmware downgrade attacks
  • Integrate secure boot with AUTOSAR Secure Onboard Communication stack
  • Develop secure boot failure recovery procedures for field update scenarios
  • Validate secure boot implementations against Common Criteria and FIPS requirements

Guidelines

  • Root of trust must be anchored in hardware; never rely solely on software verification
  • Use separate signing keys for development, testing, and production environments
  • Implement graceful degradation when boot verification fails on non-critical ECUs
  • Never store signing private keys on build servers; use HSM-backed signing services
  • Test boot time impact to ensure secure boot does not violate startup time requirements
  • Plan for key rotation and certificate renewal over the vehicle lifecycle
  • Include secure boot status in ECU diagnostic reporting
  • Verify secure boot chain integrity after every firmware update operation
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. 6d ago First seen · 43 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A cceea41153fb

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secure-boot-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository birol91/quorum-agents (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 374 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-03.