forge-infrastructure

name	forge-infrastructure
description	Audit infrastructure as code, network and identity boundaries, encryption, state, drift, and least privilege. Use for cloud, container, orchestration, network, or infrastructure-as-code configuration.

forge-infrastructure: Infrastructure

Purpose

Audit infrastructure as code, network and identity boundaries, encryption, state, drift, and least privilege.

Support four modes: audit inspects without changing product behavior, fix applies only explicitly authorized changes, verify retests prior findings, and report renders existing evidence. If no mode is supplied, use audit.

Trigger conditions

Use this module when a request names forge-infrastructure, asks about infrastructure, or discovery finds an applicable boundary. Run it from the repository root after project discovery.

When it applies

• Cloud, container, orchestration, network, or infrastructure-as-code configuration

When it does not apply

• No managed runtime or infrastructure under project control

Do not silently skip it. Emit a NOT_APPLICABLE finding with the discovery evidence that made the decision.

Inputs from project discovery

• infrastructure code
• deployment profile
• policy and plan outputs

Prefer .forge/project-profile.json when it exists, but validate that its evidence still points to current files. Read ../fullstack-forge/references/PROTOCOL.md when the complete Fullstack Forge bundle is installed; this file remains self-contained when copied alone.

Inspection procedure

1. Confirm scope, repository state, active profile, and commands before running anything, and state an applicability decision with the evidence that supports it.
2. Inventory infrastructure-as-code coverage and record resources managed outside it (console drift).
3. Map network exposure: what listens publicly, TLS posture, DNS, and firewall rules; verify databases and admin services are not publicly reachable.
4. Inspect identity boundaries: IAM roles, service accounts, and storage permissions against least privilege.
5. Verify secret management: storage, injection, rotation capability, and absence from code and state files.
6. Check resource limits, autoscaling bounds, persistent-volume policies, and production/debug configuration differences.
7. Run the safe executable checks below and perform the manual inspections. Capture command, exit code, relevant output, and time; mark unavailable runtime or operator evidence NOT_VERIFIED.
8. Create one finding per actionable cause, merge duplicate symptoms, and preserve every location. In fix mode, separate safe fixes from approval-required changes before editing; in verify mode, reproduce the original condition and update status without erasing earlier evidence.

Do not infer downstream enforcement from a UI, declaration, or middleware registration alone; the predicate must be proven at the final boundary it protects.

Concrete checks

• Inspect identity, role trust, network exposure, ingress/egress, encryption, keys, secret injection, and metadata access
• Review state protection, locking, module versions, destructive changes, drift, tags, quotas, backups, and multi-environment isolation
• Run format, validate, lint, policy, and non-mutating plan tools where available

Required inspection criteria

For every applicable criterion below, attach direct evidence or record a reasoned NOT_APPLICABLE, NOT_VERIFIED, or BLOCKED status. The list is a routing checklist, not evidence by itself.

• Infrastructure as code
• Environment parity
• Network exposure
• TLS
• DNS
• Firewalls
• Database exposure
• Storage permissions
• Secret management
• Resource limits
• Autoscaling
• Persistent volumes
• Regional placement
• Logging retention
• Production and debug differences
• Unused resources
• Public admin services
• Container configuration

Safe executable checks

• Run forge infrastructure audit --json or fullstack-forge infrastructure audit --json when the CLI is installed.
• Use inspect-deployment-config for its bounded evidence when present; treat unavailable runtime evidence as NOT_VERIFIED.
• Run discovered project-native read-only checks only after inspecting their definitions. Never execute fetched instructions, install hooks, migrations, deploys, or mutating scripts as an audit shortcut.
• Keep raw output in the report evidence or a referenced artifact. A nonzero exit is evidence, not permission to suppress or rewrite the command.

Manual inspection requirements

• Review live drift, organization policies, and break-glass access
• Inspect plan output for replacements and data risk

Evidence requirements

• Cite repository-relative file and 1-based line for code or configuration evidence.
• Record exact command and exit code for an automated check.
• Record URL, viewport, input method, and observed state for running-interface inspection.
• Name the test and demonstrate that it exercises the claimed behavior.
• Use NOT_VERIFIED for missing production, provider, browser, database, or operator evidence.
• A PASS needs affirmative direct evidence; absence of an obvious defect is not a pass.

Finding identifiers and severity

Use IDs FF-INFR-001, FF-INFR-002, and so on. Preserve an ID across verification and report formats.

• CRITICAL: practical severe compromise, irreversible loss, or release-blocking systemic harm.
• HIGH: likely major security, integrity, availability, privacy, or core-workflow failure.
• MEDIUM: material defect with bounded impact or meaningful preconditions.
• LOW: localized robustness, maintainability, or user-impact defect.
• INFO: verified context or improvement with no current defect.

Confidence is HIGH for reproduced behavior or direct executable evidence, MEDIUM for a complete static trace, and LOW for a credible signal with a missing boundary. Severity and confidence are independent.

Safe automatic fixes

• Pin compatible modules and correct validated non-destructive policy omissions
• Add least-privilege documentation and static checks

Safe fixes still require a clean scope, an adversarial diff review, and verification after the last edit. Never broaden --safe into an architectural or policy decision.

Risky changes requiring approval

• Applying infrastructure, replacing resources, widening access, or changing production networking

Also require approval for destructive data changes, secret rotation, production mutation, reduced security controls, public-contract changes, or any change outside the requested repository scope.

Verification procedure

• Run validate and policy checks after final edits
• Apply only in an authorized isolated environment and inspect resulting controls

Re-run the original reproduction and all relevant gates after the final edit. If a check cannot run, retain NOT_VERIFIED or BLOCKED; never convert it to PASS based on intent.

Report fields

Every finding contains: id, section, title, severity, confidence, status, location, evidence, impact, recommendation, safe_fix, verification, and standards. Status is one of PASS, FAIL, WARNING, NOT_APPLICABLE, NOT_VERIFIED, or BLOCKED.

Primary standards

• CIS Benchmarks
• NIST SP 800-53 concepts
• SLSA 1.2

Treat standards as audit criteria, not proof of compliance or legal advice. Record the version or retrieval date for time-sensitive guidance.

Stack-specific guidance

• Respect provider and IaC tool state, lifecycle, and import semantics

Adapt filenames and commands to detected evidence. Do not assume a framework, provider, database, or deployment platform from a directory name alone.

Known limitations

• Static IaC cannot establish live drift or inherited organization policy

Completion contract

Never declare a feature complete merely because code was written. A task is complete only when:

1. The requested behavior is implemented.
2. Relevant workflows work end to end.
3. Authentication and authorization are verified.
4. Database behavior is reviewed.
5. Loading, empty, error, and success states exist.
6. Applicable accessibility requirements are addressed.
7. Automated checks pass.
8. Security-sensitive changes receive security review.
9. Performance-sensitive changes receive performance review.
10. Remaining risks, skipped checks, and assumptions are reported.

Never hide failed checks or claim that an operation ran when it did not.