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forget cannot remove snapshots from a repository mounted read only, whether by filesystem mount options, an object store bucket policy, or a storage appliance presenting a locked tier: determine which layer enforces the read-only state and move the maintenance operation to where writes are allowed, or adjust the mount…
Fixes a Kubernetes RBAC review that fails with a permission denied audit error by giving the audit identity read only cluster access and handling aggregated discovery errors. Use when an RBAC audit cannot enumerate bindings. Not for application pods failing their own RBAC checks.
Fixes a pentest agent's concurrent scans overwriting each other's output files, by giving every run its own output directory and filename namespace. Use when parallel scans of authorized targets produce missing or interleaved results. Not for sequential runs, where reuse of a working file may be deliberate and documen…
Debugs containerd 'failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed' by checking runc, the OCI config, mounts, and cgroup state. Not for image pull errors.
Fixes trufflehog 'too many open files' failures by raising the file-descriptor limit and narrowing the scan. It distinguishes fd exhaustion from memory issues and gives systemd, Docker, and CI variants. Not for OOM kills or scan-result tuning.
Constrains a test-healing agent's write access so it can never patch node_modules or other generated directories. It applies a filesystem allowlist (repo source and tests editable; node_modules, dist, build, .git read-only) enforced by the sandbox, plus diff-size limits. Use when an agent's fix touches vendored or gen…
Use when a base-image change made scanner findings vanish and the agent closed them as fixed. Covers reopening, requiring positive fix evidence before closure, and alerting on suspicious finding-count drops. Not for genuinely remediated CVEs.
Use when a kernel CVE found by an image scan sent the agent patching the application instead of the host. Covers the shared-kernel model, routing kernel CVEs to the host fleet, and teaching the agent the distinction. Not for userspace CVEs in the image.
Use when CVE tickets land on the wrong team because a multi-app image confused the agent's service mapping. Covers building an image-to-service map from deployment manifests and forcing the agent to look up instead of guess. Not for scanner false positives.
Use when a vuln-triage agent keeps re-scanning images it already scanned because its completion marker is unreachable. Covers fixing the marker path, writing markers only on success, and adding rescan-count alerts. Not for scanner timeouts or slow scans.
Use when a scan agent manages .trivyignore and the team's hand-curated suppressions disappeared. Covers restoring the curated file, switching the agent to append-only output, and locking the file against future overwrites. Not for trivy scan failures or for writing the initial ignore list.
Corrects the dangerous misreading of empty trivy results on Windows container images: trivy analyzes Linux package metadata it cannot find on Windows, so zero findings means unscanned, not clean. Covers marking coverage honestly and adding Windows-capable scanning. Use when trivy reports nothing on windows/amd64 image…
Recovers from trivy layer-not-found failures caused by registry garbage collection deleting blobs mid-scan: confirming the pruned blobs, re-pushing the image so the manifest resolves, and scheduling GC away from scan windows. Use when a previously scannable image suddenly fails with layer not found. Not for network ti…
Fixes trivy k8s cluster scans that fail to build a Kubernetes client for lack of credentials: checking the kubeconfig context, creating a dedicated ServiceAccount with a read-only ClusterRole, and binding it. Use when trivy k8s fails with the credentials error inside a cluster or from CI. Not for scanner timeouts or i…
Fixes GitLab Preparation failed: adding cache volume: permission denied, covering Docker socket permissions and user namespace mismatches. Reach for it when jobs die during preparation before any script line runs.
Fixes trivy fs scan's "failed to walk directory: too many open files" error on huge repos by raising the file descriptor limit or by excluding heavy directories. Use it when trivy dies walking a large repository tree. Key trigger: the too many open files walk failure.
Confines an agent's file edits to an allowlisted directory (typically tests/) during test healing, with a post-run diff audit and auto-revert on violations. Use when an agent touches source files or configs it was not supposed to modify. Not for agents with legitimate full-repo scope or human-authored changes.
A skill for container image scans killed by out-of-memory: confirm the OOMKilled event, raise the runner's memory limit, cache the vulnerability database between runs, and narrow the scan scope if still tight. Use when trivy or grype dies with exit 137. Triggers: 'image scan OOMKilled', 'trivy out of memory', 'scan ex…
Fixes syft's "permission denied on /proc" failure in locked-down containers by scanning the image from outside the container instead of from inside it. Use it when syft cannot catalog packages because the container runtime blocks /proc access. Key trigger: the no SBOM produced permission denied on /proc message.
Fixes trivy vulnerability-database download failures in CI by diagnosing the failing mirror URL, routing through the runner's proxy, or pre-caching the DB so scans run offline. Use when trivy fails in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI, in air-gapped builds, or on flaky nightly scans. Not for trivy reporting vulnerabilities,…
Fixes grype's distro detection failure on scratch or minimal base images. Use it when a scan dies because the image has no OS release metadata. Key trigger: a Dockerfile built FROM scratch with no os-release file.
Fixes a CVE that a rescan still flags after patching, because the patch bumped the package in the builder stage while the vulnerable copy ships in the final stage. Use it when the lockfile shows the fixed version but the scanner keeps reporting the CVE on the built image. Key trigger: the installed package version dif…
Shows how to run containers as a non-root user in Dockerfiles so a container escape does not hand over root. Use this when writing or reviewing Dockerfiles and you want the smallest possible privilege for the app process. Not for fixing file-permission errors by running everything as root again.
Fixes trivy failing a PR when the base image carries HIGH or CRITICAL CVEs. Use when the container-scan gate blocks review on base-image vulnerabilities. Rebases onto a patched image tag or a slimmer variant, and triages unfixable CVEs through a .trivyignore file only after verifying they are not exploitable. Trigger:…
Explains how to set read-only root filesystems in Kubernetes so compromised pods cannot write malware or modify binaries. Use this when hardening workloads and you want an extra layer that forces all writes into explicit volumes or tmpfs. Not for workloads that legitimately need to write to their root filesystem.