cisco-talos-intelligence-setup

cisco-talos-intelligence-setup is a skill for Codex from chambear2809/splunk-cisco-skills. It costs 27 tokens per session (1,169 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup guide for adding Cisco Talos threat-reputation data to Splunk Enterprise Security Cloud. Talos is Cisco's service for checking indicators such as IP addresses against threat intelligence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install or validate the Talos integration and troubleshoot enrichment, adaptive-response, or threat-list problems in Splunk.
Why use it?
It helps verify that the required add-on, service certificate, and enrichment capability are ready before relying on reputation results or automated responses.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is bash skills/shared/scripts/write_secret_file.sh /tmp/talos_service_account.pem.

Good fit Use it to install or validate the Talos integration and troubleshoot enrichment, adaptive-response, or threat-list problems in Splunk.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chambear2809/splunk-cisco-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chambear2809/splunk-cisco-skills/cisco-talos-intelligence-setup

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,169 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 109
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00027 $0.01169
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00584
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00117

Measured 7d ago against content hash c7c3919c0138, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cisco-talos-intelligence-setup 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/configure_service_account.sh, scripts/setup.sh, scripts/validate.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/cisco-talos-intelligence-setup/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cisco Talos Intelligence Setup

Prerequisites

Tool or access Purpose Verify
Bash Run package and completion checks bash --version
ES Cloud admin access Install and validate Talos Confirm administrative access
Service certificate Authorize enrichment Verify without printing it

Workflow Overview

┌───────────┐   ┌────────────────┐   ┌───────────────────┐   ┌─────────────────────┐
│ Preflight │ → │ Install add-on │ → │ Verify capability │ → │ Validate enrichment │
└───────────┘   └────────────────┘   └───────────────────┘   └─────────────────────┘

When to Activate

  • Install or validate Splunk_TA_Talos_Intelligence in ES Cloud.
  • Check Talos service-account certificate and capability readiness.
  • Diagnose failed enrichment, adaptive response, or threat-list state.

Scope

This skill validates the supported ES Cloud integration surface. It does not mint certificates, enable deprecated blacklist collection silently, or claim support for an unverified self-managed topology.

Examples

Install the reviewed Talos package path:

bash skills/cisco-talos-intelligence-setup/scripts/setup.sh --install

Expected output: the package is installed through the supported topology path, or a precise ES Cloud administrative handoff is emitted.

Run the strict readiness gate:

bash skills/cisco-talos-intelligence-setup/scripts/validate.sh --completion

Expected output: package, certificate, get_talos_enrichment, adaptive action, and disabled-threat-list checks report [PASS] or exit nonzero.

Troubleshooting

Issue Cause Resolution
Enrichment capability is absent Role or package setup is incomplete Correct ES capability mapping and retest
Certificate fails Material is missing/expired Renew through its owner
Adaptive response fails Permissions/app state is incomplete Verify ES action setup
Legacy blacklist is enabled Unsupported threat-list state remains Review and disable it before completion

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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.

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. 7d ago First seen · 144 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A c7c3919c0138

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cisco-talos-intelligence-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository chambear2809/splunk-cisco-skills (37 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,169 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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