Security

ThreatModel

Defensive threat modeling and risk management for your own estate — map where sensitive data lives across your asset graph, run compromise scenarios (what a hacked asset exposes, its blast radius, how you'd respond), and maintain a persistent risk register with likelihood×impact scoring, owners, mitigations, and review cadence via a deterministic CLI.

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Workflows
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Tool
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References
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Triggers

Key Points

  • All real data stays in your private USER tree; this skill is code only
Not for active pentesting or exploitation (use an offensive-security skill), world-scale futures stress-testing of ideas (use WorldThreatModel), or executing incident response (use your incident-response runbooks — this skill plans them)

Inside the Skill

The thinking, frameworks, and architecture that distinguish this skill from a generic version of the same task.

Data/Code Separation (safety gate)

This skill directory is public code. It must never contain data.

  • Every artifact a workflow produces — scenario docs, data classifications, register entries — is written to the private data directory, never into this skill tree.
  • Default data dir: ~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/SECURITY/THREATMODEL/ (release-excluded USER tree). Override with THREATMODEL_DATA_DIR.
  • Tools/RiskRegister.ts structurally refuses any data dir that resolves inside a skills/ path.
  • Register entries reference credentials by env-var NAME only — never values. No tokens, keys, or cookies anywhere in threat-model output.

Asset Graph Integration

If the install has Atlas (~/.claude/LIFEOS/ATLAS/Atlas.ts), workflows use it as the current-state source of truth:

bun ~/.claude/LIFEOS/ATLAS/Atlas.ts blast <key> # what relies on this asset
bun ~/.claude/LIFEOS/ATLAS/Atlas.ts owns <key> # what deleting/losing it orphans
bun ~/.claude/LIFEOS/ATLAS/Atlas.ts exposed <key> # which credentials it would leak, priority-ordered
bun ~/.claude/LIFEOS/ATLAS/Atlas.ts sql "SELECT..." # read-only census queries

exposed makes the "one hop of trust" step deterministic instead of a judgment call: it returns the credentials an asset holds, transitively through what it owns, compromise-tier first. Pair it with a DEPENDS_ON query for the data stores an asset can reach:

bun ~/.claude/LIFEOS/ATLAS/Atlas.ts sql "SELECT a.kind, a.canonical_key FROM edge e JOIN asset a ON a.id=e.dst WHERE e.kind='DEPENDS_ON' AND e.status='active' AND e.src=(SELECT id FROM asset WHERE canonical_key='<key>')"

Without Atlas, workflows fall back to what the user enumerates plus repo/config inspection — and say so in the output. Never invent an inventory.

Risk Scoring

score = likelihood (1-5) × impact (1-5)Low 1-4 · Medium 5-9 · High 10-14 · Critical 15-25.

Impact is anchored to data classes and blast radius, not vibes: an asset whose compromise exposes credentials or customer data starts at impact 4+. Likelihood is anchored to exposure (public URL, auth boundary, patch state, credential hygiene).

Gotchas

  • The register markdown is a generated view. The JSON store is the system of record; edit via the CLI, never by hand-editing the exported RiskRegister.md — the next export overwrites it.
  • Unclassified ≠ safe. An asset with no sensitive-data tag is unclassified, never clean. Absence of classification is not evidence of absence of data (the absence-metric rule). SensitiveDataMap output must list unclassified assets explicitly.
  • Graph blast radius is derived evidence. Asset-graph queries show what the graph knows; before treating a blast radius as complete for a high-stakes decision, confirm against the provider's authority API (the graph can lag or under-model edges).
  • Scenario impact includes what the asset can REACH, not just what it stores. A box with no data but with credentials/bindings to data-bearing systems inherits their impact. Walk the trust hop with atlas exposed (credentials) plus a DEPENDS_ON query (data stores) before scoring impact; don't eyeball it.
  • Credential concentration is its own finding, not a sum of parts. An asset holding two credential classes that each reach a different domain is worse than the two risks added together, because it collapses a boundary that was supposed to exist. Scenario writing should name concentration explicitly when exposed shows more than one compromise-tier class on one asset.
  • Don't let the register rot. Every risk gets a review_by date at creation; the review command lists overdue ones. A register nobody reviews is worse than none — it manufactures false assurance.

Examples

Example 1: Sensitive data sweep

User: "Which of our assets have sensitive data?"
→ SensitiveDataMap: census the asset graph, classify each data-bearing asset
→ Writes EstateDataMap.md to the private data dir
→ Returns the classified map + explicit unclassified list

Example 2: Compromise scenario

User: "What happens if our analytics worker gets popped?"
→ CompromiseScenario: blast radius via asset graph, data exposed, attacker next-steps,
 detection signals, response plan
→ Scenario doc to private data dir; risks added to register with scores

Example 3: Risk review

User: "Run a risk review"
→ RiskRegister: lists overdue + open risks by score, walks disposition
 (mitigate / accept / close), updates review dates

Workflows & Routing · 4

Each workflow is one job the skill runs. The trigger phrases route your request to the right one — this is the skill's routing table.

  1. 01
    SensitiveDataMap Workflows/SensitiveDataMap.md

    where is our sensitive data, data classification, which assets hold sensitive data

  2. 02
    CompromiseScenario Workflows/CompromiseScenario.md

    what if X got hacked, compromise scenario, blast radius of X

  3. 03
    ThreatModelTarget Workflows/ThreatModelTarget.md

    threat model X, threat model the estate, risk assessment of X

  4. 04
    RiskRegister Workflows/RiskRegister.md

    risk register, add a risk, risk review, accept risk, close risk

Tools · 1

Deterministic executables the workflows call — the code that does the real work, not prompt scaffolding.

  • RiskRegister.ts

How to Invoke

Say any of these to your DA and LifeOS activates the ThreatModel skill automatically:

  • "threat model"
  • "threat modeling"
  • "risk register"
  • "risk assessment"
  • "what if X got hacked"
  • "compromise scenario"
  • "blast radius"
  • "sensitive data map"
  • "where is our sensitive data"
  • "data classification"
  • "risk review"
  • "add a risk"
  • "accept a risk"
  • "security risk posture"

Or invoke explicitly:

Skill("ThreatModel")

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