security-alert-triage

A workflow for investigating and recording Elastic Security alerts, which are warnings from Elastic’s system that may indicate a security threat.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review individual alerts, classify possible threats, run searches in Elastic, and create or update cases for security investigations.
Why use it?
It gives alert investigation a consistent order: collect context, judge the threat, document the result, and acknowledge the alert.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elastic/cursor-plugins/alert-triage
Any agent
npx skills add elastic/cursor-plugins --skill alert-triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elastic/cursor-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,197 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00039 $0.03197
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01598
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00639
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00320

Measured 2d ago against content hash 36f09bd6f24f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security-alert-triage 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/acknowledge-alert.js, scripts/es-client.js, scripts/fetch-next-alert.js, …), 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to security-alert-triage — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

elastic/skills/security/alert-triage/SKILL.md · 285 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 285 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Alert Triage

Analyze Elastic Security alerts one at a time: gather context, classify, create a case, and acknowledge. This skill depends on the case-management skill for case creation.

Prerequisites

Install dependencies before first use from the skills/security directory:

cd skills/security && npm install

Set the required environment variables (or add them to a .env file in the workspace root):

export ELASTICSEARCH_URL="https://your-cluster.es.cloud.example.com:443"
export ELASTICSEARCH_API_KEY="your-api-key"
export KIBANA_URL="https://your-cluster.kb.cloud.example.com:443"
export KIBANA_API_KEY="your-kibana-api-key"

Quick start

All commands from workspace root. Always fetch → investigate → document → acknowledge. Call the tools directly — do not read the skill file or explore the workspace first.

node skills/security/alert-triage/scripts/fetch-next-alert.js
node skills/security/case-management/scripts/case-manager.js find --tags "agent_id:<id>"
node skills/security/alert-triage/scripts/run-query.js --query-file query.esql --type esql
node skills/security/case-management/scripts/case-manager.js create --title "..." --description "..." --tags "classification:..." "agent_id:<id>" --severity <level> --yes
node skills/security/case-management/scripts/case-manager.js attach-alert --case-id <id> --alert-id <id> --alert-index <index> --rule-id <uuid> --rule-name "<name>" --yes
node skills/security/alert-triage/scripts/acknowledge-alert.js --related --agent <id> --timestamp <ts> --window 60 --yes

Common multi-step workflows

Task Tools to call (in order)
End-to-end triage fetch_next_alertrun_query (context) → case_manager create (case) → acknowledge_alert
Gather context run_query (process tree, network, related alerts)
Create case after classification case_manager create → case_manager attach-alert
Acknowledge after triage acknowledge_alert (related mode for batch)

Read the full file on GitHub · 285 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. 2d ago First seen · 285 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 36f09bd6f24f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

security-alert-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository elastic/cursor-plugins (31 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 3,197 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to security-alert-triage, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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