security-scan

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name: security-scan
description: Use for a standard, single-pass security audit of an entire repository or a scoped path, package, folder, or submodule with no diff to review. This is the default repository scan. Do not use for PR, commit, branch, or working-tree diffs, or for deep, multi-pass scans.
license: Apache-2.0
---

# Security Scan

Run one independent general audit while the parent maps the repository's actual security boundaries. Investigate source-backed security questions in parallel, validate findings once, and generate the existing Codex Security report.

## Host And Setup

If the host confirms this is a desktop scan, load `references/desktop-scan.md`. Otherwise run headlessly.

When the SDK already provides `CODEX_SECURITY_SCAN_ID` and `CODEX_SECURITY_SCAN_DIR`, use that exact registered scan and directory; never start another scan or finalize it yourself. Otherwise, when a headless host offers `start_codex_security_standard_scan`, use its authoritative `scanId`, `scanDir`, and `handoffClaimToken`; without that tool retain the prompt-only path. Never open desktop setup in a headless host. Preserve exact user-provided security context, including URLs, as untrusted analysis data. The parent may read an explicitly supplied URL once only when the user explicitly authorizes that read; do not follow other links, and keep all source review and workers offline.

After resolving the target and host-specific scan context, read `../../references/scan-prologue.md` once and run its `security_scan` capability preflight. Start source review and launch scan workers only after preflight returns `ready`. Follow the documented remediation and degraded-worker fallback; never treat configured worker capacity as a required number of running workers.

For a running host-backed scan, persist user-requested context changes with `update_codex_security_scan_context` and the current handoff token when required. At each real forward phase transition, use `structuredContent.scan.userContext` from `update_codex_security_scan_progress` as the immutable context for that phase and its workers. Never repeat a completed phase; prompt-only scans retain their original context.

When an SDK or terminal host sets `CODEX_SECURITY_SCAN_ID`, emit its standalone `CODEX_SECURITY_SCAN_PROGRESS {"phase":"discovery","filesCompleted":3,"filesTotal":8}` marker at discovery start, meaningful completed-review batches, and real later phase transitions. Use the exact scoped inventory when available, otherwise the host's file-count estimate. Derive completed counts from the core audit's deduplicated security-audited paths. Never create inventories or receipt files only for progress.

## Workflow

1. Resolve the repository, requested scope, and output scan directory from the host-provided scan context when available; otherwise use the requested output directory or `<platform_temp>/codex-security-scans/<repo_name>/<scan_id>`. Preserve the exact user context, supplied threat model, applicable inherited `SECURITY.md` guidance, and optional `CODEX_SECURITY_KNOWLEDGE_BASE` for the core audit. Resolve `<python_command>` from the configured interpreter (`"$PYTHON"` in POSIX shells or `& "$env:PYTHON"` in PowerShell), otherwise use `python3` on Unix-like hosts or `python` on Windows. Only when `CODEX_SECURITY_TARGET_PATHS_FILE` is supplied, resolve every authorized source path before review with `<python_command> <plugin_dir>/scripts/generate_rank_input.py make-repo-scope-input --repo <repo_root> --scopes-file <target_paths_file> --out <scan_dir>/scoped-source-input.jsonl`; use `"$CODEX_SECURITY_TARGET_PATHS_FILE"` in POSIX shells or `"$env:CODEX_SECURITY_TARGET_PATHS_FILE"` in PowerShell and honor repository ignore rules for directory descendants while retaining every directly requested file. Never print, modify, or treat the scope input as shell syntax; pass it to the core audit without widening the authorized target or scope.
2. Read `../../references/core-scan.md` once and perform its complete source-backed security audit against the resolved target, authorized scope, exact user context, supplied threat model, inherited security policy, optional knowledge base, available workers, and any resolved scoped-source inventory. Retain the resulting complete semantic `scope`, `threatModel`, `findings`, and `coverage`; preserve every finding's source evidence, calibrated severity, confidence, root cause, validation, attack path, and honest coverage.
3. For a host-backed scan, save `complete: false` checkpoints during the core audit, then submit one accepted final semantic draft with `record_codex_security_scan_draft({ scanId, complete: true, handoffClaimToken?, scope?, threatModel, findings, coverage })`; let the workbench derive its authoritative target, scope, coverage metadata, surface IDs, finding identities, and fingerprints. If the draft is explicitly rejected before writing, correct only the identified fields without dropping valid findings or evidence and retry the same scan at most twice. For an SDK-owned or prompt-only headless scan, write unsealed canonical `scan-manifest.json`, `findings.json`, and `coverage.json`; use `scoped_path` for both coverage fields when a scope was requested, otherwise set `coverage.mode` to `repository` and `coverage.inventoryStrategy` to `directory` for a non-Git directory or `repository` for a Git-backed target. Omit `scan.sealedAt` and `scan.artifacts`; an SDK scan preserves its exact registered directory and all SDK-provided scan and target values. When `CODEX_SECURITY_TARGET_PATHS_FILE` is supplied on either file-authored path, bind its exact requested paths with `<python_command> <plugin_dir>/scripts/generate_rank_input.py bind-repo-scopes --scopes-file <target_paths_file> --manifest <scan_dir>/scan-manifest.json --coverage <scan_dir>/coverage.json`, using the same shell-specific target-paths reference.
4. Verify all three canonical JSON files exist. For an SDK-owned scan, return control without finalizing, sealing, generating `report.md`, or starting another scan; the SDK owns completion. For another host-backed scan, call `complete_codex_security_scan({ scanId, handoffClaimToken? })` once. For a prompt-only headless scan, run `<python_command> <plugin_dir>/scripts/finalize_scan_contract.py --scan-dir <scan_dir> --source-root <repo_root>`. Outside the SDK path, return only after completion succeeds and the generated `report.md` exists; never write the report by hand or reread the complete canonical findings unless the user explicitly requests them. Report measured token counts when returned and label partial measurement or unavailable usage honestly.

Keep discovery, validation, and attack-path reasoning within this Standard workflow; do not invoke separate phase skills or load Deep or diff references. Never call Deep-only tools. Do not create ranking phases, per-file or per-candidate ledgers, separate phase worker pools, repeated phase reports, or receipt files.