cloud-security

Use when assessing cloud infrastructure for security misconfigurations, IAM privilege escalation paths, S3 public exposure, open security group rules, or IaC security gaps. Covers AWS, Azure, and GCP posture assessment with MITRE ATT&CK mapping.

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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.

A well-structured, highly actionable skill body dominated by executable commands, severity tables, and explicit workflow validation. Minor conciseness and reference-delegation gaps keep it just below maximum.

Suggestions

Move the full IAM/S3/SG check matrices into references/cspm-checks.md and keep only a representative subset inline to reduce token load and deepen progressive disclosure.

Trim the distinction-from-other-skills and provider coverage tables, or push them into the reference, since they are contextual rather than directly actionable.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Efficient table-driven layout with executable commands and minimal padding, though some explanatory prose (e.g., the distinction table and provider coverage matrix) could be trimmed slightly.	4 / 5
Actionability	Copy-paste ready commands throughout — concrete CLI invocations, severity matrices, and a bad/good Terraform example — fully cover the common IAM, S3, SG, and IaC cases.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Three clearly sequenced workflows with explicit validation checkpoints (exit code meanings, 'Exit code 2 = block deployment') and feedback loops for the CI/CD destructive/batch gating case.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Good structure with a table of contents and one-level-deep references to real files (references/cspm-checks.md, scripts/cloud_posture_check.py), though bulk check matrices are inlined rather than fully delegated to the reference.	4 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

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, concise description that explicitly pairs a 'Use when' trigger with a comprehensive list of concrete cloud security capabilities. It is specific, naturally triggered, and well-distinguished from neighboring security skills.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete capabilities — 'IAM privilege escalation paths,' 'S3 public exposure,' 'open security group rules,' and 'IaC security gaps' — giving comprehensive coverage of the skill's actions.	5 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both: 'when' via 'Use when assessing...' and 'what' via the enumerated capability list, with concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Natural trigger phrases users would say ('cloud infrastructure,' 'security misconfigurations,' 'IAM privilege escalation,' 'S3 public exposure') are present with comprehensive variation.	5 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Clear CSPM niche with distinct triggers ('cloud infrastructure,' 'posture assessment'), low overlap risk; the body further distinguishes it from incident-response and pen-testing skills.	5 / 5
	Total	20 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

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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 — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
relative_links	Relative link issues: 4 suspicious	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: alirezarezvani/claude-skills
Path: engineering-team/skills/cloud-security/SKILL.md
Commit: 19392f7

Reviewed: ~4 hours ago

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