trestle-poam

trestle-poam is a skill for Claude Code from oscal-compass-lab/compliance-trestle-skills. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,455 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to OSCAL’s Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) model in Compliance Trestle. A POA&M records security weaknesses, their risks, the work needed to fix them, and due dates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and manage POA&M records, connect findings with observations and risks, and track remediation work and milestones.
Why use it?
It gives security findings a consistent place to track remediation instead of leaving weaknesses and deadlines scattered across documents.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the compliance-trestle plugin — 17 skills, 10 agents, 2 hooks, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it to create and manage POA&M records, connect findings with observations and risks, and track remediation work and milestones.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oscal-compass-lab/compliance-trestle-skills/trestle-poam
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 oscal-compass-lab/compliance-trestle-skills --skill trestle-poam
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oscal-compass-lab/compliance-trestle-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install compliance-trestle, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 10 agents, 2 hooks, 1 plugin.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,455 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 $0.00062 $0.01455
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00727
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00291
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00145

Measured 12d ago against content hash e55f92a69dd2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trestle-poam 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 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.

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/trestle-poam/SKILL.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OSCAL Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) in Trestle

Overview

The POA&M model tracks security findings that need remediation. A POA&M records:

  • What weaknesses were found
  • What risks they pose
  • What actions will remediate them
  • When remediation milestones are due

POA&M Structure

{
  "plan-of-action-and-milestones": {
    "uuid": "...",
    "metadata": {
      "title": "System POA&M",
      "version": "1.0"
    },
    "import-ssp": { "href": "#..." },
    "system-id": { "id": "..." },
    "poam-items": [
      {
        "uuid": "...",
        "title": "AC-1 Finding",
        "description": "Access control policy not fully documented",
        "related-observations": [],
        "related-risks": [],
        "origins": [],
        "remarks": "..."
      }
    ],
    "local-definitions": {
      "components": [],
      "inventory-items": []
    },
    "observations": [],
    "risks": []
  }
}

Key Components

POA&M Items

Each POA&M item is a finding that needs remediation:

Field Purpose
title Short description of the finding
description Detailed description of the weakness
related-observations Links to observations from assessment
related-risks Links to associated risk entries
origins Who or what identified this item
remarks Extra notes or context

Observations

Observations give evidence and context for findings:

{
  "uuid": "...",
  "title": "AC-1 Observation",
  "description": "Policy document was last updated 3 years ago",
  "methods": ["EXAMINE", "INTERVIEW"],
  "types": ["finding"],
  "subjects": [{ "subject-uuid": "...", "type": "component" }],
  "collected": "2024-01-15T00:00:00Z"
}

Assessment Methods

Method Description
EXAMINE Review of documentation, records, configurations
INTERVIEW Discussion with personnel
TEST Hands-on testing of systems and controls

Risks

Risk entries document the risk associated with findings:

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 216 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A e55f92a69dd2

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trestle-poam is a skill published in the GitHub repository oscal-compass-lab/compliance-trestle-skills (16 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,455 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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