building-patch-tuesday-response-process

building-patch-tuesday-response-process is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up. It costs 80 tokens per session (2,176 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of building-patch-tuesday-response-process, MIT.

A repeatable monthly process for reviewing, testing, deploying, and validating Microsoft's Patch Tuesday security updates. Patch Tuesday is Microsoft's regular release of security fixes for products such as Windows, Office, Exchange, SQL Server, and Azure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building patch-management procedures around Microsoft advisories, vulnerability scanners, and deployment tools such as WSUS or SCCM.
Why use it?
It turns a recurring stream of security updates into planned work with testing and risk-based deadlines, reducing the chance that critical fixes are missed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Building patch-management procedures around Microsoft advisories, vulnerability scanners, and deployment tools such…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/youngmaidainon/agent-level-up/building-patch-tuesday-response-process
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 Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up --skill building-patch-tuesday-response-process
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/youngmaidainon/agent-level-up/building-patch-tuesday-response-process"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/youngmaidainon/agent-level-up/building-patch-tuesday-response-process.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,176 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 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00080 $0.02176
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.01088
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00435
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00218

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2b3a73fd360d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

building-patch-tuesday-response-process 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/agent.py, scripts/process.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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to building-patch-tuesday-response-process — 7 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

cyber-security/ctf/building-patch-tuesday-response-process/SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Building Patch Tuesday Response Process

Overview

Microsoft releases security updates on the second Tuesday of each month ("Patch Tuesday"), addressing vulnerabilities across Windows, Office, Exchange, SQL Server, Azure services, and other products. In 2025, Microsoft patched over 1,129 vulnerabilities across the year -- an 11.9% increase from 2024 -- making a structured response process critical. The leading risk types include elevation of privilege (49%), remote code execution (34%), and information disclosure (7%). This skill covers building a repeatable Patch Tuesday response workflow from initial advisory review through testing, deployment, and validation.

When to Use

  • When deploying or configuring building patch tuesday response process capabilities in your environment
  • When establishing security controls aligned to compliance requirements
  • When building or improving security architecture for this domain
  • When conducting security assessments that require this implementation

Prerequisites

  • Access to Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) update guide
  • Vulnerability management platform (Qualys VMDR, Rapid7, Tenable)
  • Patch deployment infrastructure (WSUS, SCCM/MECM, Intune, or third-party)
  • Test environment mirroring production configurations
  • Change management process (ITIL-based or equivalent)
  • Communication channels for cross-team coordination

Core Concepts

Patch Tuesday Timeline

Day Activity Owner
T+0 (Tuesday 10 AM PT) Microsoft releases patches and advisories Microsoft
T+0 (Tuesday afternoon) Security team reviews advisories and triages Security Ops
T+1 (Wednesday) Qualys/vendor scan signatures updated VM Platform
T+1-T+2 Emergency patches deployed for zero-days IT Operations
T+2-T+5 Test patches in staging environment QA/IT Ops
T+5-T+7 Deploy to Pilot group (5-10% of fleet) IT Operations
T+7-T+14 Deploy to Production Ring 1 (servers) IT Operations
T+14-T+21 Deploy to Production Ring 2 (workstations) IT Operations
T+21-T+30 Validation scanning and compliance reporting Security Ops

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 3d ago First seen · 228 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 2b3a73fd360d

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building-patch-tuesday-response-process is a skill published in the GitHub repository Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up (3 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 2,176 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to building-patch-tuesday-response-process, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.