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SecurityRisk AssessmentAuditAI Agent Skill

security-and-hardening

Structured threat modeling, attack surface audit, and risk mitigation proposals for technical leaders.

addyosmani/agent-skills
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Updated: 2026-07-02

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Install into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or Antigravity with:

$ npx skills add addyosmani/agent-skills@security-and-hardening

Real Work Situation Solved

Persuade leadership about an AI feature's risk - with evidence

You think this AI feature is risky but leadership wants to ship now - how do you get heard?

5-Step Action Framework

  1. 1Open with the conclusion (BLUF - Bottom Line Up Front): what the risk is, how severe, what you're proposing - in the first 1-2 sentences.
  2. 2Quantify the risk with a number or a concrete scenario, not a feeling ("this seems dangerous").
  3. 3State the cost if the risk materializes (money, reputation, legal) alongside the cost of delaying launch - so leadership compares a real trade-off.
  4. 4Propose a specific mitigation (e.g. a limited rollout, an added guardrail) instead of just saying "we shouldn't do this".
  5. 5End with one clear decision question for leadership to answer - don't let the meeting end without a decision.
Before

"I think this feature is kind of risky, we should think about it more."

After

"Risk: 12% of answers were wrong in internal testing, which could lead customers to bad financial decisions. Cost of a 2-week delay: losing first-mover advantage. Proposal: launch to 5% of traffic with a warning label, expand once the error rate drops below 3%."

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# Security and Hardening Skill

Quantify risk exposure, calculate blast radius, and structure executive trade-off summaries.