orca-impact-analysis

orca-impact-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from orcasecurity/orca-skills. It costs 79 tokens per session (7,749 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cloud security impact-analysis tool for Orca alerts. It examines what security findings, attack paths, compliance checks, services, and automation may be affected by fixing an alert.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess an alert's root cause, related findings, broken attack paths, compliance effects, and workflows that may depend on the current configuration.
Why use it?
It helps reveal both the security benefits and possible operational breakage before a remediation change is applied. This reduces the risk of fixing one issue while unexpectedly disrupting production.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the orca-skills plugin — 19 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess an alert's root cause, related findings, broken attack paths, compliance effects, and workflows that may depend on the current configuration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orcasecurity/orca-skills/orca-impact-analysis
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 orcasecurity/orca-skills --skill orca-impact-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/orcasecurity/orca-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install orca-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,749 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 Data Exfiltration · line 542
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00079 $0.07749
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.03875
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01550
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00775

Measured 9d ago against content hash c7fe6120230f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orca-impact-analysis 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 9d 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.

skills/orca-impact-analysis/SKILL.md · 724 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 724 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orca Impact Analysis Skill

Answers two questions:

  1. "If I fix this, what else closes?" — alerts, attack paths, compliance controls resolved
  2. "If I fix this, what might break?" — production workflows, automation, and services that depend on the current (insecure) state

Given a single Orca alert, this skill analyzes BOTH sides of remediation impact — the security improvements AND the operational risk of applying the fix.

Usage

/orca-impact-analysis <alert-id>
/orca-impact-analysis orca-3380725

Or natural language:

  • "what's the impact of fixing orca-3380725?"
  • "if I fix orca-3511464, what else closes?"
  • "impact analysis for orca-3213766"
  • "what does remediation of orca-3380725 resolve?"

What This Skill Does

  1. Fetches the alert and identifies the root cause and fix action
  2. Queries same-asset alerts to find co-located findings that share the same root cause
  3. Queries attack paths to find kill chains that break when this alert is fixed
  4. Queries similar alert type across the environment to find the same issue on other assets
  5. Checks compliance impact to find frameworks/controls that would pass after the fix
  6. Simulates breakage risk using CloudTrail/CDR events, effective permissions, and usage patterns to identify production workflows that depend on the current state
  7. Synthesizes a full impact report with security gains AND operational risks

Processing Logic

Step 1: Understand the Fix

Fetch the alert with get_alert and determine:

  • What is the root cause? (e.g., missing MFA, exposed service, overprivileged role)
  • What is the fix action? (e.g., enable MFA, add authentication, remove role assignment)
  • What asset is affected? (asset type, ID, account, cloud provider)

Categorize the fix type:

Fix Type              Examples                          Cascade Pattern
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Configuration fix     Enable MFA, restrict access        Closes same-asset alerts that depend on this config
Permission fix        Remove role, tighten policy        Breaks attack paths, closes privilege escalation chains
Exposure fix          Add auth, block port, restrict IP  Closes exposure alerts, breaks external attack paths
Patch/update          Apply CVE patch, upgrade version   Closes all CVE alerts for that package version
Removal               Delete unused resource             Closes ALL alerts on that asset

Read the full file on GitHub · 724 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. 9d ago First seen · 724 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A c7fe6120230f

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orca-impact-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository orcasecurity/orca-skills (49 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 7,749 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.