Cyber Scoped Validation
Priority: P0 (CRITICAL)
Validate one approved claim at a time; unsupported live controls produce a block, not a workaround.
Structure
textcyber-scoped-validation/ ├── SKILL.md ├── references/validation-record.md └── evals/evals.json
Workflow
- Bind claim to engagement/scope reference, authorization window, exclusions, and expected observation.
- Preflight host controls: tool allowlist, credential source, filesystem, network, logging, and cancellation.
- Choose safe offline analysis or authorized runtime validation; do not cross scope.
- Observe once within bounds, capture redacted evidence, and record time, source, limitations, and owner.
- Assign exactly one
finding_status:confirmed,suspected,blocked,not-tested, orfalse-positive; describe offline scope separately, never invent a status. - Stop on expiry, drift, unsafe impact, missing control, or operator stop; route results to independent review.
Rules
- No exploit scripts, operational attack commands, real targets, malware, exfiltration, or credential collection.
- Unsupported runtime blocks live validation. Every blocked response must also offer safe offline plan review or analysis of supplied synthetic/redacted artifacts; do not imply that this fallback executed live validation or collected new evidence.
- Never claim efficacy, compliance, or authorization from a validation result.
- Do not invent observations, timestamps, approvals, runtime attestation or evidence references. With no supplied/exercised evidence, record
not-tested; label examples illustrative, never completed validation. - Use
artifacts/security-review.mdfor a continuous security-review chain. Validation records carryengagement_scope_ref,skill_version,source,observed_at,finding_status,evidence_refs,limitations, andaccountable_owner.
Anti-Patterns
- No scope probing: Do not discover beyond approved boundaries.
- No control bypass: Missing runtime support is a blocker.
- No clean-by-default: Missing evidence is not a pass.
- No self-promotion: Require independent adjudication.


