detection-engineering

detection-engineering is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Miosa-osa/OSA. It costs 40 tokens per session (438 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for creating and checking rules that alert on signs of cyber attacks. It uses both malicious and harmless test examples, documents required telemetry, and controls false alarms.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps write Sigma rules, investigate missing alerts, test detection logic, and measure detection coverage.
Why use it?
It helps teams avoid alerts that are too broad, too noisy, or impossible to trigger because the needed data is missing. Testing also shows how much activity the rules cover.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps write Sigma rules, investigate missing alerts, test detection logic, and measure detection coverage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/miosa-osa/osa/detection-engineering
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 Miosa-osa/OSA --skill detection-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Miosa-osa/OSA

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 438 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.
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 $0.00040 $0.00438
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00175
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00044

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 076a222edd11, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

detection-engineering 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.

priv/skills/detection-engineering/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Detection Engineering

Workflow

  1. Define the behavior, required log source, field mapping, and alert threshold before writing a rule.
  2. Read references/workflow.md for an original Sigma-format example and controls. Check optional sigma CLI availability and installed backend; conversion is not execution.
  3. Replay positive, benign, and missing-field fixtures against the actual chosen backend. Record observed alerts, not just query syntax validity.
  4. Use cyber_defense to exercise embedded lab detection where relevant; never equate its alerts with a real SIEM alert.
  5. Tune exclusions narrowly, rerun all fixtures, and retain rule version plus evidence. Roll back the rule if detection loss or false positives exceed the agreed threshold.

Worked example and prerequisites

Read references/workflow.md before execution. Use only registered OSA tools named in the frontmatter; command examples run through shell_execute. Check command -v for each external executable on the actual target. Optional packages, external collectors and vendor accounts are not bundled or presumed installed.

Evidence and completion

Return scope, prerequisites, exact checks, observed results, evidence paths, limitations, remediation, rollback and retest status. Mark unavailable checks as blocked or unverified. Preserve original evidence and report redacted copies where needed. Work within the authorized environment; do not silently expand to external targets.

Sources

Original OSA workflow and examples. Primary references are linked in the bundled workflow reference, so they remain available when this skill is installed separately. No third-party skill collection or rule pack is vendored.

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 1mo ago First seen · 39 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 076a222edd11

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detection-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository Miosa-osa/OSA (78 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 438 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 2026-09-15.