threat-modeling

threat-modeling is a skill for Claude Code from bdfinst/agentic-dev-team. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,103 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured security review based on STRIDE, a method for classifying threats such as impersonation, data changes, and information leaks. It examines trust boundaries and data flows during system design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before adding an API, service, authentication change, or data flow that crosses a trust boundary.
Why use it?
It helps find security risks before implementation rather than after an incident or code review. It also records mitigations, verification methods, and accepted risks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the dev-team plugin — 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it before adding an API, service, authentication change, or data flow that crosses a trust boundary.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team/threat-modeling
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 bdfinst/agentic-dev-team --skill threat-modeling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,103 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 33
    Skill allows unbounded resource consumption (API calls, storage, compute). Without rate limits or quotas, a compromised or misbehaving agent can cause denial-of-service or cost overruns.
    Fix: Set explicit rate limits, timeouts, and resource quotas for API calls, file operations, and compute. Implement circuit breakers for runaway loops.
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 $0.00051 $0.01103
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00441
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00110

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9204bdd86d9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

threat-modeling 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 1mo 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.

plugins/dev-team/skills/threat-modeling/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Threat Modeling

Role: worker. This command performs STRIDE analysis directly and documents threats/mitigations — it does not implement the mitigations it identifies.

Overview

Structured security analysis for identifying threats, attack surfaces, and mitigations during design or review phases. Ensures security considerations are addressed before implementation, not after.

Constraints

  • Focus on trust boundaries, not implementation details
  • Every mitigation must map to a verifiable test or verification method
  • Document accepted risks explicitly with rationale; do not silently ignore threats
  • Revisit the threat model when architecture, authentication, or data flows change

Core Concepts

STRIDE Classification

Category Definition Example Threats
Spoofing Pretending to be something or someone else Forged authentication tokens, impersonated services
Tampering Modifying data or code without authorization Altered request payloads, modified configuration files
Repudiation Denying an action was performed Unlogged administrative actions, unsigned transactions
Information Disclosure Exposing data to unauthorized parties Leaked credentials in logs, verbose error messages
Denial of Service Making a system unavailable Resource exhaustion, unbounded queries
Elevation of Privilege Gaining access beyond authorization Broken access control, privilege escalation via injection

Trust Boundaries

Points where data crosses privilege levels. Every trust boundary is a potential attack surface. Common boundaries:

  • Client to server
  • Service to service (internal)
  • Application to database
  • System to external dependency
  • User role transitions

Attack Surface

Entry points exposed to untrusted input: API endpoints, file uploads, message queues, configuration inputs, user-supplied queries. Smaller attack surface means fewer threats to mitigate.

Patterns

Threat Identification Procedure

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 1mo ago First seen · 109 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 9204bdd86d9f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

threat-modeling is a skill published in the GitHub repository bdfinst/agentic-dev-team (295 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,103 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-05.

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