{"slug": "the-ai-skill-to-security-audit-your-codebase", "title": "The AI Skill to Security Audit Your Codebase", "summary": "Cloudflare released a security audit skill on GitHub that coding agents can run against a codebase to find and fix vulnerabilities, following a six-step process: map the codebase, hunt for vulnerabilities, challenge each candidate, record findings, verify findings, and report what is confirmed, rejected, or still needs validation. The skill installs via the Skills CLI with the command `npx skills add https://github.com/cloudflare/security-audit-skill --skill security-audit` and works in any harness that uses the Skill standard, including Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. The author cites a chart of CVEs showing 3% of all critical software bugs in history were found in the last month, and argues engineers need AI augmentation to keep up.", "body_md": "The past couple of weeks have really proven what some experts have been saying for years. AI is coming for everyone, and it’s coming through vulnerabilities in the software we use every day.\n\nDon’t believe me? Check out this chart of CVEs.\n\nOf all the “critical” software bugs in all of human history, 3% were found just in the last month. This is what AI is doing to software.\n\nSo how do software engineers stay ahead of this? There is legitimately only one way.\n\nWith **serious AI augmentation to help find and remediate security problems**, including ones that aren’t just CVEs inside a dependency.\n\n## Why Cloudflare’s security audit skill is useful\n\nCloudflare just [released a security audit skill](https://github.com/cloudflare/security-audit-skill) that you can turn loose on your own codebase to help you find and fix vulnerabilities.\n\nSure, you can just ask Claude “find any security problems in my app”. It might even find some! But that doesn’t compare to a methodical security audit.\n\nHere’s what the security audit skill does\n\n1. Map the codebase\n2. Hunt for vulnerabilities\n3. Challenge each candidate\n4. Record the findings\n5. Verify the findings\n6. Report what’s confirmed, rejected, or still needs validation\n\nI am running this on all my active projects, and I recommend you do the same. You can do it in any harness that uses the Skill standard, including Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. I’ll show you how.\n\nIf you’re deep enough into AI that you’re using it to run security audits, you’re obviously in the right spot. I spend dozens of hours researching each of these guides so you have a shortcut to building software with AI.\n\nI’d love to have you join us and get notified when we share more tutorials like this.\n\n## How to install the security audit skill from Cloudflare\n\nYou can [read all of the skill contents on GitHub](https://github.com/cloudflare/security-audit-skill). I actually recommend using [the Skills CLI](https://www.skills.sh/docs) to install the skill locally, which essentially copies the markdown files into a place on your computer that coding agents know to look for it.\n\nYou just have to run:\n\n```\nnpx skills add https://github.com/cloudflare/security-audit-skill \\\n  --skill security-audit\n```\n\nIf it’s your first time using the Skills CLI, it’ll ask you if you have any not-common harnesses you want to support.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-ai-skill-to-security-audit-your-codebase", "canonical_source": "https://www.augmentedswe.com/p/ai-skill-for-security-auditing", "published_at": "2026-11-09 11:56:28+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-09 12:22:39.353549+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "ai-safety", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Cloudflare", "Claude Code", "Codex", "Cursor", "Skills CLI", "GitHub"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-ai-skill-to-security-audit-your-codebase", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-ai-skill-to-security-audit-your-codebase.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-ai-skill-to-security-audit-your-codebase.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-ai-skill-to-security-audit-your-codebase.jsonld"}}