threat-model-interview

threat-model-interview is a skill for Claude Code from alpha-omega-security/threat-model. It costs 122 tokens per session (1,300 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided interview process for gathering maintainer answers while creating a threat model, which is a document describing a project's security risks and protections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing between asking questions before drafting or drafting from public information first, then collecting unresolved security questions in waves of three to seven.
Why use it?
It prevents maintainers from facing a long questionnaire and focuses first on answers that affect many parts of the document.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the threat-model plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Choosing between asking questions before drafting or drafting from public information first, then collecting unresolved security questions in waves of three to seven.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alpha-omega-security/threat-model/threat-model-interview
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.

Any agent
npx skills add alpha-omega-security/threat-model --skill threat-model-interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alpha-omega-security/threat-model

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install threat-model, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,300 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00122 $0.01300
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.00650
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00130

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6cb45d9d8c82, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

threat-model-interview 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 8d 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.

skills/threat-model-interview/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Threat Model — Interview (question waves)

Phase 3.4. Iteration is mandatory and the model is finite — better a tight 3-page document than a sprawling 20-page one. Pull questions from the question bank; reword for the project — do not read them verbatim.

Choose a mode

  • Interview-first — ask, then draft. Best when a maintainer is actively engaged and answers return quickly.
  • Draft-first (usually more efficient) — write v1 entirely from public artifacts (recon + surface), tag every claim, and collect the unresolved questions in §1.18. Hand the maintainer a document to react to rather than a questionnaire to fill in. Best when maintainer time is scarce or asynchronous.

Wave discipline

  • Never dump every question at once — a maintainer will not answer 30 in one go, and the answers will be shallow if they do. Ask in waves of 3–7, prioritized by which answers most shape the rest of the model.
  • Wave 1 is always scope + intended use — everything depends on it — plus the two questions that reshape multiple sections and are almost never documented:
    • the configuration-support question (support posture for every security- relevant knob, especially a default that voids a §1.11 property, reshaping §1.6/§1.11/§1.13/§1.17);
    • the no-surprise side-effects question (the negative claims from the surface pass — sockets, spawning, signal handlers, env reads, global state). If a prior SECURITY.md/"threat model" doc exists, also ask the coexistence question in wave 1.
  • Subsequent waves drill into trust boundaries, adversary model, dependencies, properties provided/not-provided, and known misuses/non-findings. Prioritize any unresolved rows in the surface contract-dimension matrix by expected triage volume and impact; numeric boundaries, callback trust, serialization, and failure atomicity commonly outrank low-volume edge cases.

Frame every question as a proposed answer

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 8d ago First seen · 100 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 6cb45d9d8c82

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threat-model-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository alpha-omega-security/threat-model (54 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 1,300 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.