Claude Code Skills: A Security Guide to SKILL.md and Agent Extensions
Claude Code skills package instructions and scripts an AI agent runs on your behalf. That power is also the risk. Here is how to vet and sandbox them.
Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
Claude Code skills package instructions and scripts an AI agent runs on your behalf. That power is also the risk. Here is how to vet and sandbox them.
A software supply chain security solution secures every component that flows into your builds, from open-source dependencies to CI pipelines and artifacts. Here is what one should actually do.
The CISA Secure Software Development Attestation Form went live in March 2024. Two years and several revisions later, here is what producers actually have to attest, and where the common gotchas are.
Donor CRMs, grant management platforms, and what the 2020 Blackbaud ransomware incident still teaches the nonprofit sector about resource-constrained software supply chain reality.
Truck factor is the headline metric, but it is not enough. Here is a working framework for evaluating single-maintainer projects in your dependency tree without panicking or being naive.
Squid's recurring memory-corruption CVEs in 2024 and 2025 are a reminder that transparent egress proxies sit on a critical path and rarely get the SBOM scrutiny their position deserves.
Software supply chain vulnerability protection means finding and fixing risk in the code you didn't write. Here is how detection, prioritization, and policy fit together.
npm Trusted Publishing replaces long-lived publish tokens with short-lived OIDC-issued credentials tied to a specific CI workflow. Here is the 2026 rollout state, what the migration actually looks like, and where the rough edges still are.
Autonomous agents need network access to do useful work, and that access is exactly what attackers exploit when they trick an agent into exfiltrating data. Here is how to design egress controls that hold up under adversarial pressure.
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