threat-modeling-mcp-server: Skill for Kiro

.kiro/skills/phase-8-residual-risk/SKILL.md

phase-8-residual-risk is a skill for Kiro from awslabs/threat-modeling-mcp-server. It costs 30 tokens per session (983 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for assessing residual risk, meaning the risk that remains after safeguards or other mitigations are applied. It records how likely the remaining risk is, how serious its impact would be, and whether the business accepts it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing threats and mitigations, judging their effectiveness, recording residual likelihood and impact, documenting assumptions, and accepting or rejecting remaining risk.
Why use it?
It helps teams make remaining risks explicit instead of assuming that mitigations remove them completely. It also preserves the reasoning behind risk decisions.

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Written for Kiro: installed under .kiro/.

This is awslabs/threat-modeling-mcp-server's own configuration. It tells Kiro how to work on threat-modeling-mcp-server itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything threat-modeling-mcp-server configures →

About the project

Threat Modeling MCP Server is an MCP server that guides an AI coding agent through structured security threat modeling and code validation. It analyzes business context, architecture, assets, trust boundaries, and threat actors, then produces Markdown or JSON reports using a phased STRIDE-based process. The catalogue skills operate this workflow through compatible agent clients.

awslabs/threat-modeling-mcp-server · 101 stars · on GitHub

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 983 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 $0.00030 $0.00983
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00491
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00098

Measured 12d ago against content hash 09034c06c866, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

phase-8-residual-risk 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 12d 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.

.kiro/skills/phase-8-residual-risk/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Phase 8: Residual Risk Analysis

Objective

Assess what risk remains after all mitigations are applied. Make explicit risk acceptance decisions and document justifications.

Tools Reference

Review Tools

  • manage_threats(action="list", section="all") -- Get all threats and mitigations
  • manage_threats(action="get", section="threats", item_id=ID) -- Threat details and links
  • manage_threats(action="get", section="mitigations", item_id=ID) -- Mitigation details and links

Decision Tools

  • manage_threats(action="assess", section="threats", values=ASSESSMENT) -- Record one decision
  • manage_threats(action="assess", section="threats", items=ASSESSMENTS) -- Record an atomic batch
  • manage_assumptions(action="add", values=ASSUMPTION) -- Document risk acceptance

Risk Assessment Framework

For each threat, consider:

  1. Mitigations in place: What controls address this threat?
  2. Mitigation effectiveness: How well do the controls work?
  3. Residual likelihood: After controls, how likely is the threat?
  4. Residual impact: If it still occurs, what's the damage?
  5. Business tolerance: Can the business accept this level of risk?

An assessment contains threat_id, decision, residual_severity, residual_likelihood, and a non-empty rationale. Severity and likelihood are required except for Not Applicable.

Residual Risk Decisions

Decision Criteria Threat Composer status
Mitigated Controls reduce risk to the required level threatResolved
Accepted The business formally accepts the remaining risk threatResolved
Open Controls are absent or insufficient threatIdentified
Not Applicable The scenario does not apply to this system threatResolvedNotUseful

Decision Guide

Choose Mitigated when:

  • Preventive controls fully address the threat vector
  • Detective + corrective controls provide adequate response
  • Code validation confirmed implementation
  • Industry-standard controls are in place

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 12d ago First seen · 95 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 09034c06c866

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phase-8-residual-risk is a skill published in the GitHub repository awslabs/threat-modeling-mcp-server (101 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 983 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 2026-08-30.

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