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Iac Scan Checkov

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vchirrav·vlatest·cloud

This skill scans your IAC (Infrastructure as Code) files for Checkov findings, quickly identifying potential security and compliance issues.

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  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add vchirrav-eng/product-security-ai-skills --skill iac-scan-checkov -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

vchirrav

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Live repository

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Automated safety checks

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This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned vchirrav/product-security-ai-skills at 21f59e138a.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
21f59e138a
Manifest
iac-scan-checkov/SKILL.md
Scanned
1 file, 52 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill, iac-scan-checkov, allows AI agents to scan Infrastructure as Code (IaC) files for security misconfigurations using Checkov. It identifies potential vulnerabilities and policy violations within Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, and other IaC formats. The agent can then report these findings or even automatically remediate them based on defined rules.

When to use it

  • Automated Security Reviews: Integrate into CI/CD pipelines to automatically scan IaC code for security issues before deployment.
  • Compliance Checks: Verify that infrastructure deployments adhere to organizational security policies and industry best practices.
  • Vulnerability Remediation: Identify and fix misconfigurations proactively, reducing the attack surface of deployed infrastructure.
  • New Infrastructure Creation: Scan newly created IaC templates to ensure secure configurations from the start.

Key capabilities

  • Supports multiple IaC frameworks (Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, etc.)
  • Integrates with Checkov for security scanning.
  • Identifies potential vulnerabilities and policy violations.
  • Can report findings or remediate issues.

Example prompts

  • "Scan this Terraform file for security misconfigurations: [file content]"
  • "Run a compliance check on my CloudFormation template against CIS benchmark."
  • "Find all Kubernetes resources with exposed ports."

Tips & gotchas

  • Ensure Checkov is installed and configured correctly within the environment where the agent will operate.
  • The accuracy of findings depends on the quality and completeness of the Checkov ruleset being used.