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Review web applications against the OWASP Top 10 for Web Applications (2021). Use when auditing web apps, reviewing server-side code, or assessing web frameworks for the classic OWASP Top 10 risks including injection, broken auth, and XSS.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is a well-organized, lean overview of a sensible four-phase review workflow, but it functions as a stub: the full procedure and finding template it cites do not exist in the bundle, leaving the skill without its executable core. Checkpoints (e.g., verifying findings before reporting) are also missing.

Suggestions

Add the missing bundle files `plays/owasp-top10-web-review.md` and `templates/finding.md` (or remove the dangling references) so the deferred procedure and finding format are actually reachable.

Add a validation checkpoint to the workflow — e.g., 'Confirm each finding with concrete evidence (file:line or request/response) before assigning severity in the risk matrix' — between risk assessment and the remediation roadmap.

Move the per-category vulnerability enumeration (A01–A10 bullet details) into the `plays/` procedure file and keep only the category list inline, tightening token cost in the always-loaded SKILL.md.

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Conciseness

The body is tight and well-sectioned with no padded prose: each risk category is a single line of concrete vuln examples ("SQLi, NoSQLi, OS command injection..."). The main inefficiency is that the full A01–A10 enumeration largely restates the OWASP Top 10 categories Claude already knows, duplicating what the deferred `plays/` procedure should carry — minor over-explanation consistent with anchor 4, not the several padded sections of anchor 3.

4 / 5

Actionability

Guidance is concrete about what to examine ("IDOR", "CORS misconfigurations", "cloud metadata endpoints", specific frameworks and server types) but gives no how: no commands, tool invocations, grep patterns, or example finding entries — the executable detail is entirely deferred to `plays/owasp-top10-web-review.md`. That lands on anchor 3 (some concrete guidance but incomplete, missing key details) rather than anchor 4's mostly-executable guidance.

3 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear four-phase sequence exists (application mapping → per-risk assessment → framework-specific analysis → configuration review, then a defined output format), but checkpoints are entirely absent: no step to verify findings with evidence, calibrate severity, or dedupe before producing the risk matrix. Sequence present with missing checkpoints matches anchor 3; the destructive/batch cap is not triggered since this is a read-only review.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

References are clearly signaled ("the full procedure in `plays/owasp-top10-web-review.md`", "detailed findings using `templates/finding.md`"), but neither file exists in the bundle — no `plays/`, `templates/`, `references/`, `scripts/`, or `assets/` directories are present. The disclosure chain is broken in practice: the promised detail is unreachable, and the A01–A10 detail that was inlined belongs in the missing file. This matches anchor 2 (minimal structure / broken organization) rather than anchor 3's present-but-underorganized references.

2 / 5

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description: explicit what-and-when structure, natural trigger terms, and a well-defined OWASP niche. Its only weaknesses are a thin capability list (one review action rather than several distinct actions) and a few missing synonyms like 'pentest' or 'security audit'.

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Specificity

"Review web applications against the OWASP Top 10 for Web Applications (2021)" names the domain and one core action (review/audit against the standard), with risk examples ("injection, broken auth, and XSS") being the standard's categories rather than distinct capabilities the skill performs. It sits between anchor 3 (domain + 1-2 concrete actions) and anchor 4 (several specific actions) — the action list is really one action phrased as trigger contexts, so it stays at 3.

3 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers what ("Review web applications against the OWASP Top 10 for Web Applications (2021)") and when ("Use when auditing web apps, reviewing server-side code, or assessing web frameworks for the classic OWASP Top 10 risks...") with concrete trigger phrases. This matches anchor 5; it is clearly above anchor 4 because the 'when' clause lists three specific triggering scenarios rather than a single generic one.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural terms include "auditing web apps", "reviewing server-side code", "assessing web frameworks", "injection", "broken auth", and "XSS" — phrases a user would genuinely say. A few common synonyms are missing ("penetration test", "pentest", "vulnerability assessment", "security audit"), which matches anchor 4 (good coverage, a few natural terms missing) rather than anchor 5's comprehensive synonym list.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The OWASP Top 10 framing gives a clear niche with distinct triggers, but "reviewing server-side code" and "assessing web frameworks" could overlap with general code-review or security-review skills. That is minor overlap risk with closely related skills (anchor 4) rather than anchor 5's minimal conflict risk.

4 / 5

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Validation

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository

OWASP/secure-agent-playbook

Path

plugins/code-security-skills/skills/web-security-review/SKILL.md

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