appsec-agent

An application-security workflow for OpenTaint, a tool that traces data through an entire program to find confirmed vulnerabilities and create project-specific analysis rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build and scan an application, investigate sources and dangerous data flows, validate findings, and produce reusable security-analysis results.
Why use it?
It organizes a full security scan and separates confirmed problems from approximate findings that need further checking.

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/seqra/opentaint/appsec-agent
Any agent
npx skills add seqra/opentaint --skill appsec-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/seqra/opentaint

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,865 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00047 $0.01865
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00932
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00373
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00186

Measured 2d ago against content hash f63e977514a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

appsec-agent 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 3 executable files (scripts/_common.py, scripts/generate.py, scripts/get_status.py), 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.

skills/appsec-agent/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AppSec Agent

Orchestrate an end-to-end OpenTaint security analysis. Keep the long project build and every full-project scan in this main session; delegate each bounded source, approximation, sink, triage, and PoC stage to an orchestrate-stage subagent, which owns its leaf fan-out and joins.

OpenTaint is a whole-program, interprocedural, field-sensitive alias analysis SAST. The run produces confirmed vulnerabilities plus reusable project-specific rules and approximations under one self-contained .opentaint/ directory at the project root.

Setup

1. Confirm the toolchain

Confirm opentaint is on PATH with opentaint -v. If it's missing, don't proceed silently — tell the user and offer the install command for their platform, run an install only on explicit confirmation:

  • macOS / Linux, in order: brew install --cask seqra/tap/opentaint · npm install -g @seqra/opentaint
  • Windows: npm install -g @seqra/opentaint

After installing, run opentaint health to confirm everything's resolved.

2. Confirm agent nesting

This workflow requires two subagent levels: MAIN → stage orchestrator → leaf. Confirm the harness permits depth 2 before starting; otherwise ask the user to enable it.

3. Determine the language

Read the project's build files to fix the target language — Maven/Gradle → java, go.mod → go, and so on. Record it at bootstrap; stage orchestrators pass it to language-coupled leaves.

4. Choose the workflow

Ask the user for both levels together:

  1. Scan level — lite · normal · deep
    • lite — build + scan (expected, when there are already existing artifacts)
    • normal — build + scan + custom approximations
    • deep — build + scan + custom approximations + custom rules
    • recommend by what's on disk: a cold start (no .opentaint artifacts) → deep; a prior run's artifacts already present → lite
  2. Triage level — static · dynamic
    • static — classify findings from the model, no running app
    • dynamic — static + PoC per confirmed TP. This launches a few test services on the user's machine (local instances and ports), torn down at the end of the run. Make that clear in the option

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 148 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A f63e977514a9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

appsec-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository seqra/opentaint (149 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,865 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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