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chore: add Cursor Bugbot security review rules for skill files - #63
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I would fix the ambiguous domains/** scope before merge so Bugbot reliably reviews nested executable support files, not only Markdown. I would also remove the existing-endpoint exemption because it creates a meaningful exfiltration blind spot.
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| ## Scope | ||
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| Changed files under `domains/**` (skills/knowledge/checklists markdown), `tools/**`, `bin/**`, and CI workflow changes. |
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issue (blocking) (security): Expand the path scope to include executable files nested inside skills
The rule scopes review to domains/, tools/, bin/, and CI workflows, which correctly includes nested skill scripts under domains/. However, the wording describes domains/** specifically as “skills/knowledge/checklists markdown.” That qualifier can lead Bugbot to interpret non-Markdown files within domains/** as out of scope, even though the repository contains executable shell scripts under paths such as domains/web3-tools/skills/oh-my-opencode/scripts/run-ulw.sh and doctor.sh.
Suggestion:
Explicitly state that all changed files under domains/** are in scope, including nested scripts, binaries, configuration, references, and Markdown.
| Changed files under `domains/**` (skills/knowledge/checklists markdown), `tools/**`, `bin/**`, and CI workflow changes. | |
| Changed files under `domains/**` — including skill instructions, knowledge, checklists, scripts, configuration, references, and other supporting files — plus `tools/**`, `bin/**`, and CI workflow changes. |
| ### 2. Credential access & data exfiltration | ||
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| - Instructions to read credential material: `~/.ssh`, `.env`, keychains, cloud credential paths, browser profiles, wallet/keyring data | ||
| - Sending repo content, environment values, or user data to external endpoints not already used by the repo (webhooks, pastebins) |
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issue (security): Avoid excluding dangerous changes merely because the endpoint already exists
The exfiltration rule only flags external endpoints “not already used by the repo.” Reuse of an existing endpoint is not necessarily safe. A malicious skill could send new credential material or repository content to an approved analytics, webhook, or API domain. The relevant security property is whether the changed data flow is expected and appropriately constrained, not whether the hostname previously appeared in the repository.
Suggested improvement:
Flag new or materially expanded transmission of sensitive data, while allowing clearly documented, expected use of existing integrations.
| - Sending repo content, environment values, or user data to external endpoints not already used by the repo (webhooks, pastebins) | |
| - Sending repo content, environment values, credential material, or user data to external endpoints, including new or materially expanded data flows to endpoints already used by the repo, unless the transmission is clearly required and documented |
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@abretonc7s I agree with Nicholas suggestion. I will made the same changes in my PR in Consensys/skill |
Step 2 of docs/processes/releasing.md — "review the generated CHANGELOG.md section and keep entries consumer-facing". The generated section needed it in two places. `### Uncategorized` held ten merged PRs that never got a hand-written entry. Since `package.json` `files` ships `domains/` alongside `bin/` and `tools/`, skill content reaches consumers on upgrade, so most of these are genuinely user-facing and belong in the notes rather than being dropped. Rewritten from the consumer's point of view and grouped by theme rather than one line per PR: the component-view testing work (#109, #115, #132) reads as one change, as does the Mobile testing default plus the Appium playbook move (#70, #54). Dropped #63 and #77 — `.cursor` review rules and `.github`/`CONTRIBUTING` changes are not in the published package, so an upgrading consumer sees nothing of them. `### Added` had the same problem less visibly: around a dozen raw conventional-commit titles (`feat: add ...`, `feat(cli): ...`) that read as commit log rather than release notes. Prefixes stripped, past tense applied. Three were duplicates of curated entries for the same PR (#136, #75, and the component-view flakiness line now covered by the #109 entry) and were removed. Verified: `lint:changelog` passes, 69/69 tests, lint clean, `pack:dry-run` ok. No `Uncategorized` section and no conventional-commit prefixes remain. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Bugbot already reviews every non-draft PR update. This checked-in
.cursor/BUGBOT.mdfocuses those runs on skill-file security: hidden/overriding instructions (prompt injection), credential access & data exfiltration, unsafe execution & safety-control bypass, and remote instructions fetched at runtime. Scope is changed lines only, with advisory comments that escalate to the full security review when needed.This is the same mechanism already used by metamask-mobile and metamask-extension.
A marked merge point in the file takes the security team's tailored OWASP LLM Top 10 prompt when it is delivered.