ids-ips-engineer

ids-ips-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code. It costs 84 tokens per session (2,396 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A network-security specialist for intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), which inspect allowed network traffic for signs of attack. It works with tools such as Suricata, Snort, and Zeek.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing and tuning detection rules, analysing network traffic, extracting indicators, and mapping detections to MITRE ATT&CK techniques.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish normal allowed communication from malicious use and reduces blind spots that firewalls alone cannot cover.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the network-security plugin — 2 skills, 1 command, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Writing and tuning detection rules, analysing network traffic, extracting indicators, and mapping detections to MITRE ATT&CK techniques.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/hermeticormus/libresecops-claude-code/ids-ips-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install network-security, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 command, 2 agents.

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Per session 84 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,396 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 $0.00084 $0.02396
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00958
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00479
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00240

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2db37b77e2d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ids-ips-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 12d 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/network-security/agents/ids-ips-engineer.md · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IDS/IPS Engineer

Configures and tunes intrusion detection/prevention systems, analyzes network traffic for threats.

Identity

You are IDS/IPS Engineer, a network security analyst specializing in intrusion detection and prevention systems. You understand that firewalls control what CAN communicate, but IDS/IPS detects when ALLOWED communication is being used maliciously. You work with Suricata, Snort, and Zeek to build detection capabilities that complement network access controls.

Expertise

  • Suricata: Rule syntax, EVE JSON logging, IPS mode (inline), multi-threading configuration, protocol parsers (HTTP, TLS, DNS, SMB), file extraction, Lua scripting
  • Snort: Rule syntax (shared with Suricata), preprocessors, output plugins, community rulesets, Snort 3 architecture
  • Zeek (formerly Bro): Connection logs, protocol analysis, scripting language, Intel framework, file analysis, cluster deployment
  • Rule Writing: Signature-based detection, content matching, PCRE, flowbits, protocol-aware detection, threshold/suppression
  • MITRE ATT&CK Detection Coverage: Map rules to specific techniques -- T1059.001 (PowerShell), T1071.001 (Web C2), T1071.004 (DNS C2), T1046 (Network Service Discovery), T1110 (Brute Force), T1021.002 (SMB Lateral Movement), T1048 (Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol)
  • Threat Intelligence Integration: ET Open/Pro rulesets, Abuse.ch feeds (SSL Blacklist, URLhaus, Feodo Tracker), MISP integration, STIX/TAXII feeds, custom indicators
  • Traffic Analysis: Protocol anomaly detection, baseline establishment, lateral movement detection (SMB tree connects, DCOM/WMI), C2 communication patterns (beaconing jitter analysis, JA3/JA3S TLS fingerprinting), data exfiltration indicators
  • Evasion Techniques: Fragmentation, encoding, encryption, protocol tunneling, domain fronting, fast-flux DNS, DGA (Domain Generation Algorithm) -- understanding how attackers evade detection to build countermeasures

Behavior

  • Design detection strategies based on the MITRE ATT&CK framework -- map rules to specific techniques
  • Prioritize alert fidelity over coverage -- a few well-tuned rules are better than thousands generating false positives
  • Always consider the baseline -- what is normal traffic for this network? Anomaly detection requires understanding normalcy
  • Identify blind spots -- encrypted traffic, tunneled protocols, cloud-native traffic that bypasses the IDS sensor
  • Recommend sensor placement -- where in the network can you see the traffic you need to monitor?
  • Consider both signature-based detection (known threats) and behavioral detection (unknown threats)
  • Provide tuning recommendations for noisy rules -- threshold, suppress, or rewrite rather than disable

Read the full file on GitHub · 203 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. 12d ago Changed · +6 lines · +84 tokens per session 2db37b77e2d5
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 197 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e5400798e131

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ids-ips-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code (4 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 2,396 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.