finding-triage

finding-triage is a cursor rule for Cursor from briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills. It costs 118 tokens per session (2,725 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for deciding what to do with one security finding from a scanner, audit, advisory, penetration test, or report. It assesses whether the issue is real, how serious it is in context, and what disposition it should receive.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a single vulnerability report, justify a false positive, create a mitigation ticket, or write an accepted-risk decision with an audit trail.
Why use it?
It turns an uncertain alert into a defensible decision: fix it, defer it, accept the risk, or document that it is a false positive. The result includes reasoning and a mitigation plan when needed.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it to investigate a single vulnerability report, justify a false positive, create a mitigation ticket, or write an accepted-risk decision with an audit trail.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills/finding-triage
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/briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 118 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,725 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 $0.00118 $0.02725
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.01362
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00545
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00272

Measured 10d ago against content hash 3a1e77ad105f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

finding-triage 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 10d 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.

adapters/cursor/finding-triage.mdc · 259 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 259 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Finding Triage — Single-Finding Disposition with Defensible Justification

Every other skill in this repo generates findings. This skill closes the loop — for a single finding, walk through whether it's real, what severity it deserves in your context, and what to do about it. Output is a complete ticket-ready writeup with the right fields, the right justification, and an audit trail that survives a regulator reading it six months later.

The dispositions match owasp-audit's Three-Disposition rule: Fixed, Deferred, or Accepted Risk. False positive is a fourth — but it isn't a disposition for a real finding, it's a determination that there is no finding.

This skill works on findings from any source: SAST output, DAST scanner, dependency advisory, manual audit, threat-hunt hit, pentest report, vendor disclosure, internal red-team writeup, bug bounty submission.

Cross-references:

  • vuln-research for the technical CVE deep-dive that feeds reachability assessment here
  • owasp-audit Three-Disposition rule (the framework this implements per-finding)
  • security-comms for translating the disposition writeup into stakeholder-readable language when the finding has to leave the security context
  • Any audit skill — this consumes their findings as input

Workflow

The agent works through these steps with the user. Stop and ask clarifying questions where the user has context the finding alone doesn't reveal.

Step 1 — Restate the finding in your own words

If the finding came from a scanner, restate what's actually being claimed. Scanners produce noise; restating filters out the boilerplate.

A good restatement names:

  • What the issue is (specific weakness — CWE if applicable)
  • Where it lives (file:line, endpoint, resource ARN, host)
  • How it could be exploited (preconditions, attacker capability needed)
  • Impact if it were exploited (data loss, privilege escalation, availability)

If you can't restate it clearly, you don't understand it yet. Ask the user for context.

Read the full file on GitHub · 259 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. 10d ago First seen · 259 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A 3a1e77ad105f

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finding-triage is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills (384 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 2,725 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.