- name
- magpie-security-issue-import
- family
- security
- mode
- Triage
- description
- Scan <security-list> for reports that have not yet been
copied into <tracker> as tracking issues, present the proposed
imports to the user, and — defaulting to *import unless the user
rejects upfront* — create the tracking issues with the
`Needs triage` project-board status and draft a receipt-of-
confirmation reply to each reporter. This is the first step of the
handling process: the entry point that converts an inbound email
thread into a tracker the rest of the skills (security-issue-sync,
security-issue-fix, generate-cve-json) operate on.
- when_to_use
- Invoke when a security team member says "import new reports", "check
for unimported security@ messages", "import #<threadId>", or when
they start a morning-triage sweep and want to see what has landed on
security@ overnight. Also appropriate as a recurring check — the
skill is cheap to run against the default 14-day Gmail window and a
no-op when every recent thread is already tracked or already
answered-and-closed on-thread. Use `import last 30d` / `import all`
(= disclosure_governance.window_days, default 90d) for a wider backlog
sweep when genuinely warranted.
- argument-hint
- [import] [last Nd|all] [skip threadId]
- capability
- capability:intake
- license
- Apache-2.0
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# security-issue-import
This skill is the **on-ramp** of the security-issue handling process.
It converts an inbound `<security-list>` email thread into
an `<tracker>` tracking issue that follows the repo's issue
template, then drafts the receipt-of-confirmation reply to the reporter.
It never sends email. It never creates a tracker for a candidate the
user has explicitly rejected. It never assumes a report is valid —
the validity / invalid / CVE-worthy decision still happens later in
the discussion on the created tracker (Step 3 of
[`README.md`](../../README.md)).
**Golden rule — propose, then default to import.** Every import this
skill performs is a *proposal* that lists the candidate emails, the
extracted fields, and the draft confirmation reply. The user's
default disposition for any `Report` or forwarder-relayed
candidate (the latter classified by the optional
[`security-issue-import-via-forwarder`](../security-issue-import-via-forwarder/SKILL.md)
sub-skill when `forwarders.enabled` is non-empty) is
**"import as a new tracker landing in `Needs triage`"**;
the user only has to type back when they want to *deviate* from that
default — `skip NN` to reject a candidate upfront with no reply, or
`NN:reject-with-canned <name>` to reject upfront *and* draft a
specific canned negative-assessment / out-of-scope reply. A bare
`all` (or no reply at all to the proposal — the user typing
*"go"*, *"proceed"*, *"yes, all"*) means *"import every
non-rejected candidate as proposed"*. The skill must still surface
each candidate one-by-one in the proposal so the user can scan and
override if needed; what the skill must *not* do is sit on a report
waiting for an explicit per-candidate green light. The bias is
toward landing trackers — a wrongly-imported report is cheap to
close at Step 5 / 6 of the handling process; a wrongly-skipped one
gets buried in the inbox and the reporter is left without a
disposition.
**Golden rule — rejection means no tracker, ever.** When the user
rejects a candidate upfront — any of `skip NN`,
`NN:reject-with-canned <name>`, an explicit *"reject 1"*,
*"mark 1 invalid"*, *"don't import 1"*, or a `cancel` / `none` /
*"hold off"* on the whole proposal — the skill **must not** create
a tracker for that candidate. This holds even when the user also
asks for a canned reply to be drafted: the draft is a courtesy to
the reporter, the absence of a tracker is the disposition. There is
no "create the tracker so the team can close it as invalid later"
path; if the team has decided pre-triage that the report is
invalid, the audit trail lives on the Gmail thread and on the
`canned-responses.md` precedent, not in a tracker that exists only
to be closed. A tracker is created **only** when the candidate is
imported as a real `Report` (or a forwarder-relayed candidate
classified by the
[`security-issue-import-via-forwarder`](../security-issue-import-via-forwarder/SKILL.md)
sub-skill) for triage.
Non-import candidate classes (`automated-scanner`,
`consolidated-multi-issue`, `media-request`, `spam`,
`cross-thread-followup`, `cve-tool-bookkeeping`) keep the original
"propose first, apply only on explicit confirm" rule — those never
default to a tracker.
**Golden rule — confidentiality.** The inbound thread on
`<security-list>` is private. The skill may paste the
email body verbatim into the created `<tracker>` tracking
issue (that repo is also private). It must **never** paste the
report content into a public surface — not into `<upstream>`, not
into a public GHSA, not into any comment on a public repo. The same
confidentiality rule documented in the "Confidentiality of
`<tracker>`" section of [`AGENTS.md`](../../AGENTS.md)
applies in full.
**Golden rule — every `<tracker>` / `<upstream>` reference is
clickable in the surface it lands on.** Whenever this skill emits
a reference to a tracker issue, PR, or comment — the proposal
shown to the user before import, the created tracker issue body
(observed-state dump, sibling-tracker cross-links, prior-rejection
cross-links, fix-already-public PR pointers), the receipt-of-
confirmation draft email reply, the recap output — the reference
must be one click away in whatever surface it lands on:
- **On markdown surfaces** (the created tracker issue body, the
draft email reply destined for the `<security-list>` thread,
any markdown-rendered cross-link list): use the markdown link
form per
[`AGENTS.md` § *Linking tracker issues and PRs*](../../AGENTS.md#linking-tracker-issues-and-prs):
- **Sibling `<tracker>` issue**: `[<tracker>#NNN](https://github.com/<tracker>/issues/NNN)`
- **Public `<upstream>` PR** (e.g. fix-already-public match):
`[<upstream>#NNN](https://github.com/<upstream>/pull/NNN)`
- **Comment**: link to the `#issuecomment-<C>` anchor.
- **On terminal surfaces** (the proposal shown to the user before
import, the recap output): wrap the visible short form
(`<tracker>#NNN`, `<upstream>#NNN`) in **OSC 8 hyperlink escape
sequences** (`\e]8;;<URL>\e\\<short>\e]8;;\e\\`) so modern
terminals (iTerm2, Kitty, GNOME Terminal, WezTerm, Windows
Terminal, …) render the short text as clickable. Where OSC 8
is unsupported (CI logs, dumb terminals), fall back to printing
the bare URL on the same line after the number.
Bare `#NNN` with no link wrapper of any kind is never acceptable.
The created tracker issue is read by the security team who drill
into the cross-links to assess; the draft email reply lands on
`<security-list>` where the reporter needs the references to be
one click away. Both surfaces are private, but `<tracker>` URLs
themselves are public-safe per the
[Confidentiality of `<tracker>`](../../AGENTS.md#confidentiality-of-the-tracker-repository)
rule — what stays private is the *contents* the link points at.
**Self-check before posting any draft email or creating any
tracker issue**: grep the body for bare `#\d+` / `<tracker>#\d+`
tokens that aren't already inside a markdown link or an OSC 8
wrapper, and convert any match.
---
## Adopter overrides
Before running the default behaviour documented
below, this skill consults
[`.apache-magpie-local/security-issue-import.md`](../../docs/setup/agentic-overrides.md) (personal, gitignored) and [`.apache-magpie-overrides/security-issue-import.md`](../../docs/setup/agentic-overrides.md) (committed, project-wide)
in the adopter repo if it exists, and applies any
agent-readable overrides it finds. See
[`docs/setup/agentic-overrides.md`](../../docs/setup/agentic-overrides.md)
for the contract — what overrides may contain, hard
rules, the reconciliation flow on framework upgrade,
upstreaming guidance.
**Hard rule**: agents NEVER modify the snapshot under
`<adopter-repo>/.apache-magpie/`. Local modifications
go in the override file. Framework changes go via PR
to `apache/magpie`.
---
## Snapshot drift
Also at the top of every run, this skill compares the
gitignored `.apache-magpie.local.lock` (per-machine
fetch) against the committed `.apache-magpie.lock`
(the project pin). On mismatch the skill surfaces the
gap and proposes
[`/magpie-setup upgrade`](../setup/upgrade.md).
The proposal is non-blocking — the user may defer if
they want to run with the local snapshot for now. See
[`docs/setup/install-recipes.md` § Subsequent runs and drift detection](../../docs/setup/install-recipes.md#subsequent-runs-and-drift-detection)
for the full flow.
Drift severity:
- **method or URL differ** → ✗ full re-install needed.
- **ref differs** (project bumped tag, or `git-branch`
local is behind upstream tip) → ⚠ sync needed.
- **`svn-zip` SHA-512 mismatches the committed
anchor** → ✗ security-flagged; investigate before
upgrading.
---
## Prerequisites
Before running, the skill needs:
- **At least one configured mail-source backend** per
[`<project-config>/project.md → Mail sources`](../../<project-config>/project.md#mail-sources).
The skill treats every backend the same way — through the
abstract operations defined in
[`tools/mail-source/contract.md`](../../tools/mail-source/contract.md)
(`list_recent_threads`, `read_thread`, `list_drafts`,
`list_sent_since`, `create_draft`, `thread_url`). Reference
adapters: [`gmail`](../../tools/gmail/tool.md) (full
read+write), [`ponymail`](../../tools/ponymail/tool.md)
(read-only ASF archive),
[`imap`](../../tools/mail-source/imap/README.md) (stub),
[`mbox`](../../tools/mail-source/mbox/README.md) (read-only
offline archive — stub). To **discover new reports** the
configured backends must collectively cover
`list_recent_threads` + `read_thread`; to **draft the
receipt-of-confirmation reply in Step 7** they must
additionally cover `create_draft`. If no available backend
covers `create_draft`, Step 7 surfaces a one-line *"no draft
backend available"* note and the user composes the reply by
hand.
- **`gh` CLI authenticated** (`gh auth status` returns OK) with
collaborator access to `<tracker>`. The skill calls
`gh issue create` and `gh search issues` directly.
See
[Prerequisites for running the agent skills](../../docs/prerequisites.md#prerequisites-for-running-the-agent-skills)
in `docs/prerequisites.md` for the overall setup.
---
## Step 0 — Pre-flight check
Before touching any candidate thread, verify:
1. **Mail-source backends from `<project-config>/project.md →
Mail sources` are available.** For each declared backend, run
the backend's trivial health probe (per its adapter doc —
Gmail: `mcp__claude_ai_Gmail__search_threads` with `pageSize:
1`; Ponymail: `mcp__ponymail__auth_status()`; IMAP: a
`CAPABILITY` against the configured host; mbox: a `stat` on
the archive path) and record the result in the skill's
observed-state bag. Apply the
[contract's resolution rule](../../tools/mail-source/contract.md#resolution-rule--which-backend-runs-an-operation)
to figure out which backend serves which op for this run.
* **`mandatory: yes` backend unavailable** → **stop
immediately**. Surface *"mandatory mail-source backend
`<name>` unavailable: `<reason>`; run aborted"*. The user
fixes the auth / connection and re-invokes.
* **`mandatory: no` backend unavailable** → continue with the
remaining backends. If the resolution then leaves an
operation with no provider (e.g. no available backend
supports `create_draft`), the skill records *"no `<op>`
backend available"* in the observed-state bag and the
relevant downstream step omits that proposal with a clear
hand-back to the user.
* **Every declared backend healthy** → proceed; the
observed-state bag records one provider per op so every
dispatch later is unambiguous.
2. **`gh` is authenticated and has access.** Run
`gh api repos/<tracker> --jq .name`; if it errors
(401, 403, 404), stop and tell the user to log in with
`gh auth login` or get added to `<tracker>`.
3. **(Reference-adopter guidance.)** The reference adopter
lists `gmail` as primary `mandatory: yes` and —
per the ASF default — `ponymail` as `mandatory: yes` too
(`fallback` role for drafts, since PonyMail is read-only). So
for the reference flow **both** backends are pre-flight
prerequisites: a Gmail-MCP failure stops the run (drafts have no
home), and a PonyMail-MCP miss — not registered, or registered
but unauthenticated for the private `<security-list>` archive —
stops it too, per item 1's `mandatory: yes` rule. Gmail handles
reads of just-arrived inbound mail and all draft creation;
PonyMail handles archive lookups (and is the primary read path
when authenticated). Adopters whose `Mail sources` table sets
`ponymail` to `mandatory: no` get the old degrade-quietly
behaviour; the step-by-step references to "Gmail" below should
be read as "the backend the resolution rule picked for the
relevant op".
4. **Privacy-LLM contract.** This skill reads `<security-list>`
bodies that may contain third-party PII the reporter
discloses about other people. Run the gate-check first —
non-zero exit is a hard stop:
```bash
uv run --project <framework>/tools/privacy-llm/checker \
privacy-llm-check
```
The checker auto-locates `<project-config>/privacy-llm.md`
(template at
[`projects/_template/privacy-llm.md`](../../projects/_template/privacy-llm.md))
and verifies every entry in *Currently configured LLM stack*
is approved per
[`tools/privacy-llm/models.md`](../../tools/privacy-llm/models.md#the-pre-flight-check).
In addition, verify:
- `~/.config/apache-magpie/` is writable (the redactor's
mapping file lives there);
- the configured collaborator source is reachable via
`gh api` (default: `<tracker>` from `project.md`);
- the redaction-tuning knobs (collaborator exemption,
enabled field types) are loaded into the skill's
observed-state bag — they apply at filter-time below.
Each subsequent body fetch in Steps 4 / 7 / 7g (template-
field extraction, draft assembly, recap) follows the
redact-after-fetch protocol in
[`tools/privacy-llm/wiring.md`](../../tools/privacy-llm/wiring.md#redact-after-fetch-protocol);
the receipt-of-confirmation draft assembly follows the
[reveal-before-send protocol](../../tools/privacy-llm/wiring.md#reveal-before-send-protocol)
when (and only when) the draft references a third-party
identifier.
5. **Disclosure governance from `<project-config>/security-intake-config.md`.**
If the file exists, read the `disclosure_governance` block and load these
two keys into the observed-state bag for use in Step 7:
- `reporter_acknowledgement_model` — `manual` | `auto` | `none`. Controls
whether and how the receipt-of-confirmation reply is drafted (Step 7.4).
- `window_days` — integer; the CVD window in calendar days, used as the
disclosure deadline hint when composing the acknowledgement draft.
If the file does not exist or the `disclosure_governance` block is absent,
silently default to `reporter_acknowledgement_model: manual` and
`window_days: 90`. A missing file is **not** a stop condition — adopters
who have not yet created this config receive the same ASF defaults the
skill has always applied.
If a `mandatory: yes` mail-source backend or the `gh` check fails,
do **not** proceed — the skill would fail mid-flow otherwise,
leaving half-built state (a draft on the wrong thread, or a tracker
with no receipt reply). Fail fast instead. `mandatory: no` backends
degrade quietly per the contract's resolution rule. A privacy-llm
pre-flight failure is also a hard stop — the redactor's mapping
store and the collaborator-source lookup are both load-bearing for
every subsequent body read.
---
## Inputs
Before running, resolve the user's selector into a concrete set of
candidate Gmail threads:
| Selector | Resolves to |
|---|---|
| `import new` (default) | every security@ thread received in the last **14 days** that has not yet been imported as an <tracker> issue and has not already been answered-and-closed on-thread |
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