Cis Benchmarks

What it does

Example prompts

• “/cis-benchmarks”

Requirements

• Docker
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires the relevant security tooling (scanners, vault CLIs) and an authorized scope for any active assessment. Docs-only; helper scripts and templates not bundled.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 680176d. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • apt
  • docker

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • github.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  Requires the relevant security tooling (scanners, vault CLIs) and an authorized scope for any active assessment. Docs-only; helper scripts and templates not bundled.

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Cis Benchmarks loads about 836 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 15 tokens; SKILL.md has 112 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~15

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~836

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills at commit 680176d, republished under its MIT licence (© sickn33). 112 words, ~836 tokens.

name

cis-benchmarks

description

Audit and remediate CIS benchmark violations.

compatibility

Requires the relevant security tooling (scanners, vault CLIs) and an authorized scope for any active assessment. Docs-only; helper scripts and templates not bundled.

category

security

risk

critical

source

https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills

source_repo

BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills

source_type

community

date_added

2026-09-20

license

MIT

license_source

https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills/blob/main/LICENSE

metadata.author

devops-skills

metadata.version

1.0

# Install
apt install openscap-scanner scap-security-guide

# Run CIS benchmark scan
oscap xccdf eval \
  --profile xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_profile_cis \
  --results results.xml \
  --report report.html \
  /usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content/ssg-ubuntu2204-ds.xml

# Install
apt install lynis

# Run audit
lynis audit system

# Generate report
lynis audit system --report-file /tmp/lynis-report.dat

# cis-profile/controls/ssh.rb
control 'cis-ssh-1' do
  impact 1.0
  title 'Ensure SSH root login is disabled'
  
  describe sshd_config do
    its('PermitRootLogin') { should eq 'no' }
  end
end

control 'cis-ssh-2' do
  impact 0.7
  title 'Ensure SSH password authentication is disabled'
  
  describe sshd_config do
    its('PasswordAuthentication') { should eq 'no' }
  end
end

# Run InSpec
inspec exec cis-profile -t ssh://user@target

# kube-bench
docker run --rm -v /etc:/etc:ro -v /var:/var:ro \
  aquasec/kube-bench:latest run --targets node

# Check specific sections
kube-bench run --targets master --check 1.1,1.2

workflow:
  1_scan:
    - Run automated assessment
    - Generate baseline report
    
  2_analyze:
    - Review findings
    - Identify false positives
    - Prioritize by risk
    
  3_remediate:
    - Apply fixes
    - Document exceptions
    - Verify changes
    
  4_validate:
    - Re-run assessment
    - Confirm remediation
    - Generate compliance report

# Read-only first: inventory before any active step.
which <tool> && <tool> --help | head -n 20

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/cis-benchmarks of sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 680176d

Used in 1 other repository

We found 5 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• lingxling/awesome-skills-cnantigravity-awesome-skills/skills/cis-benchmarksantigravity-awesome-skills/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills/skills/cis-benchmarks+1 more