Securecoder Review

/securecoder-review

You are running the /securecoder-review skill. Your job is to review the changes the user is about to commit — not the whole repo — for security findings. Diff-scoped means cost stays proportional to change size.

> Two related capabilities. This skill has interactive review (the user invokes it with the agent's intelligence available — full SAST + LLM compliance) AND an install-a-pre-commit-hook action that runs in git's shell context with no agent (SAST-only, blocking the commit). See [§ Pre-commit hook installation](#pre-commit-hook-installation).

Scope picker

Ask the user which diff to review (use the host agent's prompt mechanism):

• Staged only (default — fastest) — git diff --cached. Use for pre-commit gate.
• Staged + unstaged — git diff HEAD. Use to review everything you have locally before staging.
• Branch vs base — git diff main...HEAD (or whatever the base branch is). Use to review a feature branch before opening a PR.
• Specific commit range — agent asks for the range (e.g. abc123..def456). Use to review a specific span.
• Install pre-commit hook — installs scripts/review_hook.py into .git/hooks/pre-commit. See § Pre-commit hook installation below.

Pre-flight

1. Locate the project root

Same as the other skills (git toplevel preferred; cwd fallback).

2. Generate the review id and dir

/securecoder-review writes to .securecoder/reviews/ rather than .securecoder/runs/, so review history doesn't pollute the scan trend baseline.

REVIEW_ID="$(date -u +%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ)"
REVIEW_DIR="$PROJECT_ROOT/.securecoder/reviews/$REVIEW_ID"
mkdir -p "$REVIEW_DIR"

3. Resolve the diff command

Based on the user's scope:

case "$scope" in
  staged)         DIFF_CMD="git -C $PROJECT_ROOT diff --cached" ;;
  unstaged_too)   DIFF_CMD="git -C $PROJECT_ROOT diff HEAD" ;;
  branch_vs_base) DIFF_CMD="git -C $PROJECT_ROOT diff $BASE_BRANCH...HEAD" ;;
  range)          DIFF_CMD="git -C $PROJECT_ROOT diff $RANGE" ;;
esac

If the diff is empty, print "No changes to review." and exit cleanly.

Phase A — Diff scoping

$DIFF_CMD | python3 "/scripts/diff_scoper.py" \
  --repo-root "$PROJECT_ROOT" \
  --context 20 \
  --output "$REVIEW_DIR/diff_scope.json"

diff_scope.json lists each touched file with its added line ranges and ±20-line context windows. The compliance LLM only sees these windows, not the whole file.

If total_files is 0, exit cleanly.

Phase B — Scoped SAST

Run only the SAST tools that make sense for the changed file set. The cached tool binaries from /securecoder-scan are reused (resolve via ~/.cache/securecoder/tools//installed.json).

For each tool, restrict to the changed file list rather than the whole repo:

# Semgrep
"$SEMGREP_BIN" --metrics=off --quiet --json \
  --output "$REVIEW_DIR/_semgrep.json" \
  $( per changed file >) \
  --config "$RULES_DIR/" \
  "$PROJECT_ROOT" 2>/dev/null || true

# Bandit (only if any changed file is *.py)
"$BANDIT_BIN" -f json -o "$REVIEW_DIR/_bandit.json"  2>/dev/null || true

# Gitleaks (use --staged for staged-only scope, --no-git + path list otherwise)
"$GITLEAKS_BIN" detect --no-banner --report-format json \
  --report-path "$REVIEW_DIR/_gitleaks.json" \
  --source "$PROJECT_ROOT" --staged --exit-code 0 2>/dev/null || true

# OSV-scanner only if a dependency manifest is in the changed file list
if ; then
  "$OSV_BIN" --format json --output "$REVIEW_DIR/_osv.json"  2>/dev/null || true
fi

Normalize each tool's output via the v0.3.0 normalizers from /securecoder-scan/scripts/:

python3 "/scripts/normalize_semgrep.py"  "$REVIEW_DIR/_semgrep.json"  --cwe-table "/references/cwe-to-framework.json" --repo-root "$PROJECT_ROOT" --output "$REVIEW_DIR/_findings_semgrep.jsonl"
python3 "/scripts/normalize_bandit.py"   "$REVIEW_DIR/_bandit.json"   --cwe-table "/references/cwe-to-framework.json" --repo-root "$PROJECT_ROOT" --output "$REVIEW_DIR/_findings_bandit.jsonl"
python3 "/scripts/normalize_gitleaks.py" "$REVIEW_DIR/_gitleaks.json" --cwe-table "/references/cwe-to-framework.json" --repo-root "$PROJECT_ROOT" --output "$REVIEW_DIR/_findings_gitleaks.jsonl"
python3 "/scripts/normalize_osv.py"      "$REVIEW_DIR/_osv.json"      --cwe-table "/references/cwe-to-framework.json" --repo-root "$PROJECT_ROOT" --output "$REVIEW_DIR/_findings_osv.jsonl"

Critical: filter findings to the diff scope. Only keep SAST findings whose file:lines overlaps a changed line range from diff_scope.json. Findings in unchanged regions of a touched file are ignored (the user can review them via a full /securecoder-scan).

Phase C — Scoped LLM compliance review

Only if config.frameworks is non-empty and includes asvs-v5.

For each touched file:

1. Determine which ASVS chapters apply (reuse file_relevance.py against a synthesized one-file repo map).
2. For each (file × chapter) pair, dispatch the architect prompt — but substitute only the diff hunks + ±20 lines of context as {{file_content_with_line_numbers}}, not the whole file. The chapter content is reused from the cached framework markdown.
3. Validate coverage matrix (one retry on incomplete).
4. Normalize via normalize_compliance.py.
5. Filter findings to the diff scope. Like SAST findings, only keep compliance findings whose lines overlap a changed range.

Cost stays proportional to diff size: a 50-line diff in one file produces ~17 LLM calls (one per ASVS chapter), each with ~50 lines + 40 context lines of input, not the entire file.

Phase D — Merge + render

cat "$REVIEW_DIR/_findings_"*.jsonl > "$REVIEW_DIR/findings.jsonl"

Compose a minimal manifest (review-flavored — no trend, no compliance posture since the scope is a diff):

{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "review_id": "",
  "mode": "review",
  "scope": "staged | unstaged_too | branch_vs_base | range",
  "started_at": "...",
  "finished_at": "...",
  "repo_root": "",
  "diff_stats": {
    "files_changed": ,
    "added_lines": ,
    "removed_lines": 
  },
  "totals": {
    "findings": ,
    "by_severity": {"critical": , ...},
    "by_source": {"semgrep": , ...}
  }
}

Render markdown via the v0.2.0 renderer:

python3 "/scripts/render_markdown.py" \
  "$REVIEW_DIR/findings.jsonl" \
  --manifest "$REVIEW_DIR/manifest.json" \
  --output "$REVIEW_DIR/report.md"

Review reports are markdown-only (no HTML) — chat output is the primary surface for this skill.

Phase E — Chat verdict

Print to chat:

If no findings:

[securecoder-review] OK to commit — 0 findings in diff scope.
  Files reviewed:   
  Added lines:      
  Scoped report:    .securecoder/reviews/$REVIEW_ID/report.md

If findings:

[securecoder-review]  issues found — review before committing.
  Critical:   High:   Medium:   Low:   Info: 

By source:
  Semgrep:    
  Bandit:     
  Gitleaks:   
  Compliance: 

Top 5 findings:
  1. [CRITICAL]   ·  :L
  2. ...

To fix the findings from this review:
  /securecoder-fix      (the fixer accepts an explicit findings file)

Full report:  .securecoder/reviews/$REVIEW_ID/report.md

Pre-commit hook installation

When the user picks "Install pre-commit hook" at the scope picker:

HOOK_PATH="$PROJECT_ROOT/.git/hooks/pre-commit"
[ -d "$PROJECT_ROOT/.git" ] || fail "Not a git repo — can't install a hook."

if [ -f "$HOOK_PATH" ]; then
  # Existing hook — back it up and append rather than overwrite
  cp "$HOOK_PATH" "$HOOK_PATH.before-securecoder-$(date -u +%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ)"
fi

cat > "$HOOK_PATH" " "\$@"
EOF
chmod +x "$HOOK_PATH"

echo "Installed pre-commit hook at $HOOK_PATH."
echo "It runs SAST tools only (no LLM) on staged files and blocks the commit"
echo "when findings above '$severity_floor' are present. Bypass once with"
echo "    git commit --no-verify"
echo "Run /securecoder-review interactively for compliance review before pushing."

If a previous hook exists, the install backs it up; the user can manually merge logic by inspecting the .before-securecoder-* copy. We don't auto-merge to avoid corrupting existing hook logic.

Failure handling

Soft failures — log and continue.

• Tools missing → fall back to whatever's installed. Note in chat output.
• One SAST tool fails → other tools still produce findings.

Hard failures — exit with a message.

• Not a git repo (no git toplevel and no --scope argument that allows non-git).
• User picked "Install pre-commit hook" on a non-git repo.
• python3 not on PATH.

Invariants

1. Findings emitted by this skill are always filtered to the diff scope. A finding in an unchanged region of a touched file never appears in the review report.
2. .securecoder/reviews// and .securecoder/runs// are distinct directories with distinct purposes. Review history never affects scan trend computation.
3. The pre-commit hook runs SAST-only and never invokes the agent. Its install path is documented in the hook file itself for transparency.
4. The hook reminds the user every commit to run /securecoder-review interactively for compliance review before pushing — so compliance failures don't sneak past the SAST-only hook.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: nerdy-krishna
• Source: nerdy-krishna/securecoder
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.