incident-triage

incident-triage is a cursor rule for Cursor from briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills. It costs 147 tokens per session (2,817 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for the first response to a suspected cybersecurity incident, such as malware, unauthorized access, or a data breach. It follows NIST SP 800-61, a widely used incident-response framework.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports incident classification, containment, evidence preservation, investigation, documentation, and coordination with related security and compliance work.
Why use it?
It helps teams make urgent decisions in the right order: protect people, limit damage, preserve evidence, find the cause, and record what happened.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit It supports incident classification, containment, evidence preservation, investigation, documentation, and coordination with related security and compliance work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills/incident-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 147 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,817 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 $0.00147 $0.02817
Opus 5.5 $0.00059 $0.01127
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00563
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00282

Measured today against content hash 2c69c0a0f0fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

incident-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 today.

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/incident-triage.mdc · 237 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 237 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Incident Triage — Security Incident Response

Guide rapid triage and initial response to security incidents. Follow NIST SP 800-61 Rev. 3 (April 2025), which replaced Rev. 2's four-phase lifecycle with the CSF 2.0 Functions: Govern, Identify and Protect are the preparation that happens before an incident; Detect, Respond and Recover are the response. This skill covers the first hours — Detect through the start of Respond — and hands off the rest. Each step names the CSF 2.0 outcomes it produces, so the report maps straight onto the organization's CSF profile (see csf-mapping).

Cross-references: siem-detection for the rules that produced the alert this triage is responding to, disk-forensics for deeper disk and memory analysis once a host is contained, breach-patterns for the post-incident pattern extraction that hardens against recurrence, soc-operations for the operational layer above this skill (runbooks, escalation, handoff), security-comms for the stakeholder / customer notifications the response generates, privacy-engineering / hipaa-audit / pci-audit for the regulatory-clock determination when personal data, PHI, or cardholder data is involved, ai-risk-management for AI-specific incident classes (model failure, fairness drift, jailbreak exploitation in production), agent-supply-chain-audit when the suspected entry point is an AI coding-agent extension (a skill, plugin, hook or MCP server), log-watch for the scheduled log review that often raises the first alert on small teams, secrets-audit for its exfiltration-collector domain list (webhook.site, requestbin, ngrok, Discord / Telegram / Slack webhooks) to check egress logs against when credential theft is suspected.

Authorization

Act only for the system owner or the incident lead, on systems in scope. The read-only commands below (process, network, user and file listings) are pre-approved. Every containment action — blocking, isolating, disabling an account, stopping a service — changes production: name the action and its blast radius, and get the incident lead's go-ahead before running it. Never touch systems outside the declared scope, even if indicators point there; report them instead.

Read the full file on GitHub · 237 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. today Changed · +78 lines · +67 tokens per session 2c69c0a0f0fa
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 159 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A b8941406942f

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incident-triage is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills (435 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 2,817 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.