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ThreatModel

Map sensitive data across the systems you manage, explore what a compromised asset could expose, and maintain a risk register. Record likelihood, impact, owners, mitigations, and review dates to support ongoing security planning.

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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. All real data stays in your private USER tree; this skill is code only. USE WHEN 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. 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).

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Good for

  • Locating sensitive data across managed systems
  • Assessing the impact of a compromised server or worker
  • Recording risk owners, mitigations, and review dates
  • Reviewing overdue risks and deciding next steps

Files included (6)

  • SKILL.md7.0 KB
  • Tools/RiskRegister.ts13.7 KB
  • Workflows/CompromiseScenario.md4.5 KB
  • Workflows/RiskRegister.md2.7 KB
  • Workflows/SensitiveDataMap.md2.5 KB
  • Workflows/ThreatModelTarget.md2.3 KB

SKILL.md (original)

Review the instructions the agent will receive before you install.

ThreatModel

Threat modeling for the estate you actually run. Three moves: classify where sensitive data lives, simulate compromise of the assets that hold it, and keep the resulting risks in a register that gets reviewed instead of forgotten.

Customization

Before executing, check for user customizations at: ~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/ThreatModel/

If this directory exists, load and apply PREFERENCES.md (data locations, sensitive-data class priorities, response runbook cross-references). If not, proceed with defaults.

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.

Voice Notification

When executing a workflow, do BOTH:

  1. Send voice notification:

    curl -s -X POST http://localhost:31337/notify \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
      -d '{"message": "Running WORKFLOWNAME in ThreatModel"}' \
      > /dev/null 2>&1 &
    
  2. Output text notification:

    Running **WorkflowName** in **ThreatModel**...
    

Workflow Routing

WorkflowTriggerFile
SensitiveDataMap"where is our sensitive data", "data classification", "which assets hold sensitive data"Workflows/SensitiveDataMap.md
CompromiseScenario"what if X got hacked", "compromise scenario", "blast radius of X"Workflows/CompromiseScenario.md
ThreatModelTarget"threat model X", "threat model the estate", "risk assessment of X"Workflows/ThreatModelTarget.md
RiskRegister"risk register", "add a risk", "risk review", "accept risk", "close risk"Workflows/RiskRegister.md

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

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