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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00034 | $0.02124 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.01062 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00425 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00212 |
Grade A, and why
building-patch-tuesday-response-process 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 4d 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.
Copies of this mod
2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- building-patch-tuesday-response-process — 91% identical, 7 lines differ
- building-patch-tuesday-response-process — 89% identical, 35 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Building Patch Tuesday Response Process
Overview
Microsoft releases security updates on the second Tuesday of each month ("Patch Tuesday"), addressing vulnerabilities across Windows, Office, Exchange, SQL Server, Azure services, and other products. In 2025, Microsoft patched over 1,129 vulnerabilities across the year -- an 11.9% increase from 2024 -- making a structured response process critical. The leading risk types include elevation of privilege (49%), remote code execution (34%), and information disclosure (7%). This skill covers building a repeatable Patch Tuesday response workflow from initial advisory review through testing, deployment, and validation.
When to Use
- When deploying or configuring building patch tuesday response process capabilities in your environment
- When establishing security controls aligned to compliance requirements
- When building or improving security architecture for this domain
- When conducting security assessments that require this implementation
Prerequisites
- Access to Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) update guide
- Vulnerability management platform (Qualys VMDR, Rapid7, Tenable)
- Patch deployment infrastructure (WSUS, SCCM/MECM, Intune, or third-party)
- Test environment mirroring production configurations
- Change management process (ITIL-based or equivalent)
- Communication channels for cross-team coordination
Core Concepts
Patch Tuesday Timeline
| Day | Activity | Owner |
|---|---|---|
| T+0 (Tuesday 10 AM PT) | Microsoft releases patches and advisories | Microsoft |
| T+0 (Tuesday afternoon) | Security team reviews advisories and triages | Security Ops |
| T+1 (Wednesday) | Qualys/vendor scan signatures updated | VM Platform |
| T+1-T+2 | Emergency patches deployed for zero-days | IT Operations |
| T+2-T+5 | Test patches in staging environment | QA/IT Ops |
| T+5-T+7 | Deploy to Pilot group (5-10% of fleet) | IT Operations |
| T+7-T+14 | Deploy to Production Ring 1 (servers) | IT Operations |
| T+14-T+21 | Deploy to Production Ring 2 (workstations) | IT Operations |
| T+21-T+30 | Validation scanning and compliance reporting | Security Ops |
What ships with it
7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 225 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A a6337a337124
building-patch-tuesday-response-process is a skill published in the GitHub repository 26zl/cybersec-toolkit (49 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 2,124 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.
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