Scan for vulnerabilities, secrets, and license violations — from local dev to running cluster.

Read references/trivy.md before responding. It contains all mode logic, bootstrap steps, severity gating, output formats, .trivyignore patterns, and the Trivy Operator install via Flux HelmRelease.

Ownership boundary (enforced at the menu)

Mode dispatch

Parse the first word of $ARGUMENTS as the mode. When $ARGUMENTS is empty, run the three-layer interactive wizard.

Three-layer interactive wizard

Layer 1 — Developer question (intent in their language)

What are you trying to find out?
  1. "Is this image safe to ship?"              → image CVE scan
  2. "Are there secrets in this repo/code?"      → secret scan
  3. "What's the full risk of this checkout?"    → fs scan (vuln + secret + license)
  4. "What's running vulnerable in my cluster?"  → live cluster scan (Operator)
  5. "Is this SBOM vulnerable?"                  → SBOM scan (Syft output)

  IaC misconfig?              → /platform-skills:checkov
  Will this manifest pass admission? → /platform-skills:kyverno apply
  Image signing / SBOM generation?   → /platform-skills:supply-chain

Enter 1–5 or mode name:

Layer 2 — End goal (decides execution shape)

What do you want out of it?
  a. A quick answer right now        → CLI one-shot, table output
  b. A pass/fail gate in CI          → exit-code gate + SARIF upload to code scanning
  c. Continuous monitoring           → Trivy Operator via Flux HelmRelease (cluster only)

Enter a, b, or c:

Layer 3 — Concerns (surface trade-offs; ask only where a wrong default causes harm)

A few quick settings (press Enter to accept the recommended value):

  • Severity floor [HIGH,CRITICAL]: CRITICAL-only is quieter but misses HIGH exploitables.
    Recommended: HIGH,CRITICAL — enter to accept or type CRITICAL to narrow.

  • --ignore-unfixed [off]: suppresses CVEs with no upstream fix — cuts noise but hides
    un-patchable risk. Enter to keep off, or type 'on' to enable.

  • .trivyignore: every CVE you suppress needs an expiry date and justification, or the
    gate rots silently. Want a template .trivyignore with expiry headers? [y/N]

Detected-only prompts (ask silently, only if needed):

• Private registry credentials: if the image ref contains a private host, ask for TRIVY_USERNAME / TRIVY_PASSWORD or registry token.
• Large image warning: if docker inspect shows > 2 GB, warn before pulling.

Do not pepper with questions. Only prompt where getting it wrong causes real harm.

Mode: image

Scan a container image for OS package and library CVEs.

trivy image \
  --severity HIGH,CRITICAL \
  --exit-code 1 \
  --format table \
  [--ignore-unfixed] \
  <image-ref>

Reference: references/trivy.md → Mode: image — bootstrap, auth, output formats, SARIF, .trivyignore

Mode: fs

Scan a local filesystem directory for CVEs, secrets, and license violations in one pass.

trivy fs \
  --scanners vuln,secret,license \
  --severity HIGH,CRITICAL \
  --exit-code 1 \
  .

Reference: references/trivy.md → Mode: fs

Mode: repo

Scan a remote git repo URL (Trivy clones internally; no local clone needed).

trivy repo \
  --scanners vuln,secret,license \
  --severity HIGH,CRITICAL \
  --exit-code 1 \
  https://github.com/<org>/<repo>

Reference: references/trivy.md → Mode: repo

Mode: secrets

Scan for hardcoded secrets only (API keys, tokens, credentials) across the entire repo.

trivy fs \
  --scanners secret \
  --exit-code 1 \
  .

Reference: references/trivy.md → Mode: secrets — secret rule sets, .trivyignore for false positives

Mode: sbom

Scan an existing Syft-generated SBOM file (CycloneDX or SPDX) for known CVEs. Trivy does not generate SBOMs here — generation is owned by /platform-skills:supply-chain (Syft + Cosign attest).

trivy sbom \
  --severity HIGH,CRITICAL \
  --exit-code 1 \
  sbom.spdx.json

Reference: references/trivy.md → Mode: sbom

Mode: k8s

Continuous image-CVE monitoring across all cluster workloads via Trivy Operator, deployed through Flux HelmRelease. This mode is NOT manifest posture scanning — that is owned by /platform-skills:kyverno apply.

# One-shot cluster scan (requires kubectl context)
trivy k8s --report summary cluster

For continuous monitoring, deploy the Trivy Operator via Flux HelmRelease. Reference: references/trivy.md → Mode: k8s — Trivy Operator Flux HelmRelease, VulnerabilityReport CRDs, Prometheus metrics

Agent behavior

Intent classification

Before asking any question, classify from the user's free-text request:

Ask only for missing high-risk inputs

Never ask about: output format (default table for CLI, sarif for CI), or whether to bootstrap (always do it). Never add .trivyignore to .gitignore — it must be committed so the suppression policy is shared and reviewable across the repo.

Cross-references

• /platform-skills:checkov — IaC source and plan-level security scanning (Terraform, GHA, Helm)
• /platform-skills:kyverno — Kubernetes admission policy; kyverno apply for manifest posture scanning
• /platform-skills:supply-chain — image signing (Cosign), SBOM generation and attestation (Syft), SLSA provenance
• /platform-skills:runtime-security — Falco syscall-level threat detection (complements CVE scanning)
• /platform-skills:kingfisher — live validation, blast-radius mapping, and revocation for anything this command's secrets mode flags as a pattern match; also covers platform-wide scanning (GitHub org, S3, Slack, Jira) this command does not