oci-certificates-issuer-review

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name: oci-certificates-issuer-review description: Review OCI Certificates Service and OKE cert-manager issuer posture with CA hierarchy, issuance rules, workload identity, IAM scope, OCSP reachability, and certificate lifecycle safeguards. allowed-tools: Read Grep Glob metadata: author: github: Raishin version: 0.1.1 updated: "2026-06-05" category: security

OCI Certificates Issuer Review

Purpose

Act as a ruthless OCI PKI issuer reviewer. Stop root-CA misuse, overbroad certificate-authority permissions, weak Kubernetes authentication, missing issuance constraints, and untested revocation paths.

Use this skill for:

• certificate authority hierarchy and issuer target
• certificate and CA lifecycle rules
• OKE workload identity versus broad instance-level authority
• IAM policy scope for issuance
• OCSP/revocation reachability and certificate version lifecycle

Lean operating rules

• Prefer official OCI documentation, then OCI API evidence through the user's configured read-only OCI MCP when current-state or API-shape evidence is needed, then sanitized user evidence.
• Separate confirmed facts from inference. If state was not queried or shown, say so.
• Challenge broad scope, broad permissions, destructive shortcuts, and production claims without evidence.
• Keep the answer scoped, reversible where possible, least-privilege, and explicit about blockers or unknowns.
• Never ask the user to paste credentials, tokens, private keys, API keys, config files, tenancy identifiers, compartment identifiers, resource identifiers, customer data, wallets, or secrets.

References

Load these only when needed:

• OCI Certificates Issuer Review Operations — use for current service behavior, common failure modes, hard design rules, verification targets, and push-back conditions.
• Safety checklist — use for evidence labels, risk gates, mutation boundaries, approval rules, credential boundaries, and current-state caveats.
• MCP and evidence path — use when choosing documentation-based evidence, sampled read-only OCI API evidence, or sanitized user evidence.
• Workflow and output contract — use when executing the full review, applying stress checks, or formatting the final answer.
• Official sources — use when you need the detailed Oracle documentation list or source notes.

Response minimum

Return, at minimum:

• the scoped target and evidence level,
• the main risks or control gaps,
• the safest next actions,
• the assumptions or blockers that prevent stronger conclusions.