Agent skill · security · trailofbits

vulnerability-triage-brocards agent skill by trailofbits

This skill should be used when the user asks to "triage a vulnerability report", "assess a CVE", "evaluate a bug bounty submission", "decide if a finding is valid", "review a security finding", "dismiss a vulnerability", "should we fix this CVE", "prioritize a vulnerability report", or needs to determine whether an incoming vulnerability report warrants investigation. Applies 7 brocards (rules of thumb) to systematically accept, dismiss, or request more information on vulnerability reports, or needs to filter raw findings from agentic vulnerability discovery pipelines before human review.

Source and license

Publishertrailofbits
Repositorytrailofbits/skills
LicenseCC-BY-SA-4.0
Snapshot2026-10-22
Last repository commit2026-10-15
Instruction size1,189 words; 194 lines
Bundled files2

Read the publisher’s SKILL.md

Suede Skill Check: 90/100 · A

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The rubric totals 100 points; published scores are capped at 99. Security scan: not scanned.

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ComponentPoints earnedAvailable
Structural checks5656
Description length55
Boundary clause04
Example request33
Instruction depth77
Reference files33
Bundled scripts02
Recent maintenance99
Curated-list citations77
Tool permissions declared02
Compatibility declared02

The published score is capped at 99. It measures the published files, documentation and maintenance signals. Security scan: not scanned. This assessment does not include a runtime test or a full installation-dependency review.

Install vulnerability-triage-brocards

The skills CLI works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents; the other routes copy the folder by hand.

Skills CLI
npx skills add https://github.com/trailofbits/skills/tree/main/plugins/vulnerability-triage-brocards/skills/vulnerability-triage-brocards
Claude Code, project-level copy
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trailofbits/skills.git "$tmp/repo"
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -R "$tmp/repo/"plugins/vulnerability-triage-brocards/skills/vulnerability-triage-brocards .claude/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"
Codex, project-level copy
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trailofbits/skills.git "$tmp/repo"
mkdir -p .agents/skills
cp -R "$tmp/repo/"plugins/vulnerability-triage-brocards/skills/vulnerability-triage-brocards .agents/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"

For a user-level install, copy the folder to ~/.claude/skills/ (Claude Code) or ~/.agents/skills/ (Codex). Inside Codex, $skill-installer can also fetch a skill from GitHub. New to skills? Read How to install agent skills in Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.

trailofbits/skills is third-party code. Read SKILL.md and any bundled scripts before you install it.

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