stride-methodology

stride-methodology is a skill for Claude Code from HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,228 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A security checklist based on STRIDE, a Microsoft method for grouping threats such as impersonation, data tampering, information leaks, service disruption, and unauthorized access. It includes threat patterns for web apps, APIs, databases, message queues, and cloud services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review components and data flows, ask the six STRIDE questions, and identify which security properties may be violated.
Why use it?
It gives developers a consistent way to look for different kinds of security problems in an architecture. This helps avoid overlooking threats at data flows and system boundaries.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the threat-modeling plugin — 3 skills, 1 command, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review components and data flows, ask the six STRIDE questions, and identify which security properties may be violated.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hermeticormus/libresecops-claude-code/stride-methodology
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 HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code --skill stride-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install threat-modeling, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 command, 2 agents.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,228 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00054 $0.02228
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00891
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00446
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00223

Measured 12d ago against content hash c33974049bb1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

stride-methodology scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Cloud metadata endpointhighServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

- Metadata service access (169.254.169.254) from compromised instances
plugins/threat-modeling/skills/stride-methodology/SKILL.md · 231 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

STRIDE Methodology

Detailed STRIDE analysis patterns with threat catalogs for common architectural components including web applications, APIs, databases, message queues, and cloud services.

Knowledge Base

STRIDE Overview

STRIDE was developed at Microsoft as a mnemonic for categorizing security threats. Each letter represents a category of threat that violates a specific security property:

Threat Violated Property Question
Spoofing Authentication Can someone pretend to be someone/something else?
Tampering Integrity Can someone modify data they shouldn't?
Repudiation Non-repudiation Can someone deny they did something?
Information Disclosure Confidentiality Can someone access data they shouldn't?
Denial of Service Availability Can someone prevent legitimate access?
Elevation of Privilege Authorization Can someone do something they're not permitted to?

STRIDE-per-Element Application

Different DFD element types are susceptible to different STRIDE categories:

DFD Element S T R I D E
External Entity X
Process X X X X X X
Data Flow X X X
Data Store X X X X

This matrix guides the analysis -- you don't need to consider Elevation of Privilege for a data store, but you do for a process.

Threat Catalogs by Component

Web Application (Process)

Spoofing:

  • Session hijacking via stolen session tokens (XSS, network sniffing)
  • Credential stuffing using leaked credential databases
  • Cookie theft via subdomain takeover
  • CSRF forcing authenticated users to perform unintended actions
  • OAuth token theft via redirect URI manipulation

Tampering:

  • SQL injection modifying database records
  • Parameter tampering (hidden fields, cookies, headers)
  • Mass assignment modifying protected model attributes
  • Request smuggling exploiting parser inconsistencies
  • Template injection executing server-side code

Read the full file on GitHub · 231 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 Changed · +5 lines · +54 tokens per session scan B → C c33974049bb1
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 226 lines · 0 tokens per session scan B 9ead363c16f9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stride-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code (4 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,228 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (cloud metadata endpoint). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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