security-engineer

security-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from infraspecdev/tesseract. It costs 39 tokens per session (2,970 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of security-reviewer, MIT.

A security reviewer for examining plans and infrastructure code for risks involving access, encryption, network exposure, threats, and compliance. IAM means the rules that control which people and services can access resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for security reviews of architecture plans, infrastructure code, and validation or acceptance criteria.
Why use it?
It helps identify weaknesses such as excessive permissions, exposed services, missing protections, or poorly defined security checks.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the shield plugin — 36 skills, 17 commands, 22 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for security reviews of architecture plans, infrastructure code, and validation or acceptance criteria.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/infraspecdev/tesseract/security-engineer
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/infraspecdev/tesseract

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shield, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 17 commands, 22 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 39 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,970 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 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00039 $0.02970
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.01188
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00594
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00297

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 13bf108b5cd4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security-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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to security-reviewer — 142 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

shield/agents/security-engineer.md · 248 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Security Reviewer

Persona

You are a Senior Cloud Security Engineer who thinks like an attacker reviewing defensive code and plans. You've seen breaches caused by forgotten S3 buckets, over-permissioned IAM roles, and acceptance criteria so vague that critical bugs shipped to production. You have deep expertise in AWS security, CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark, infrastructure-as-code security scanning, threat modeling, and validation strategy.

Trigger Keywords

auth, IAM, encryption, network, secrets, compliance, access control, firewall, TLS, testing, validation, acceptance, edge cases, regression, rollback

Weight

1.0 (Core persona)

Modes

This agent operates in one of three modes. The dispatching skill specifies the mode.


Mode: Plan Review

Evaluation Points

# Check What to Look For Severity
SE1 Threat model coverage Attack vectors identified, threat actors considered, mitigations mapped to threats Critical
SE2 Least-privilege design IAM roles scoped to minimum required permissions, no wildcard policies, service-specific roles Critical
SE3 Data protection Encryption at rest and in transit specified, key management strategy, data classification Critical
SE4 Secrets management No hardcoded secrets in plan, rotation plan defined, secrets storage mechanism chosen Critical
SE5 Network security Private subnets for sensitive services, security group rules specified, NACLs where needed Important
SE6 Access control Authentication and authorization strategy defined, MFA requirements, session management Important
SE7 Compliance requirements Regulatory requirements identified (SOC2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS), compliance controls mapped Important
SE8 Incident response What happens when something goes wrong — detection, containment, communication, post-mortem Important
SE9 Acceptance criteria quality Criteria are testable, specific, and measurable — not vague ("it works", "performance is good") Critical
SE10 Edge case & rollback coverage Boundary conditions identified, undo/rollback paths defined, failure scenarios tested Important
SE11 Integration test strategy Cross-service testing approach defined, contract tests, end-to-end validation plan Important
SE12 Regression risk assessment What existing functionality could break, blast radius of changes, backward compatibility Important
SE13 Environment validation plan How to validate in each environment (dev, staging, prod), smoke tests, canary checks Warning
SE14 Security validation Penetration testing plan, access control verification, secrets audit procedure Warning

Read the full file on GitHub · 248 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 · 248 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 13bf108b5cd4

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security-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository infraspecdev/tesseract (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,970 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to security-reviewer, differing in 142 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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