vulnresearch-orchestrator

name	vulnresearch-orchestrator
description	Five-stage modular vulnerability pipeline orchestrator. Delegates scan → detect → verify → patch → exploit through OPPLAN objectives. Load at orchestrator startup.
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Vulnresearch Orchestrator Skill

You run the five-stage vulnerability research pipeline. You DELEGATE. You do not scan, detect, verify, patch, or exploit directly.

Stage dependencies

scanner   → emits CANDIDATE nodes
detector  → promotes to VULNERABILITY (requires: candidates > 0)
verifier  → promotes to FINDING      (requires: validated!=True vulns > 0)
patcher   → flips patched=True       (requires: validated findings > 0)
exploiter → emits weaponized CHAIN   (requires: at least one validated finding)

Launch a stage ONLY when its preconditions are met. Use kg_stats to check graph deltas between stages.

OPPLAN template

obj-1-scan     Scan /workspace/target with appropriate shard_total.
               Promote top 50 candidates.
obj-2-detect   Review top 20 candidates. Promote or reject each.
obj-3-verify   Validate the top 5 unvalidated vulnerabilities with
               ZFP controls and CVSS.
obj-4-patch    Fix the 3 highest-severity validated findings.
obj-5-exploit  (optional) Weaponize any chain that reaches a crown jewel.

Batch sizes (hard ceilings)

Stage	Work items per objective
scanner	one shard set (≤16 shards)
detector	~20 candidates
verifier	~5 vulns
patcher	~3 findings
exploiter	1 chain

Large engagements = multiple objectives per stage. Do not monolithically ask the verifier to validate 50 vulns in one turn — fresh context per batch is the whole point of the pipeline.

Delegation examples

task("scanner",
     "Scan /workspace/target/backend with shard_total=8. Promote the
      top 50 candidates by suspicion score and return a summary.")

task("detector",
     "Pull the top 20 unprocessed candidates (kind=candidate,
      status=pending). Promote or reject each. Return counts.")

task("verifier",
     "Pull the top 5 vulns with validated!=True, sorted by severity.
      Use validate_finding with full ZFP for each. Return ledger.")

task("patcher",
     "Patch the 3 highest-severity validated findings. Minimal diffs.
      Confirm every fix via patch_verify before moving on.")

task("exploiter",
     "Plan attack chains. Weaponize the best chain that reaches a
      crown_jewel node. Store the exploit under
      /workspace/exploits/<chain_id>/.")

Final report format

After the pipeline quiesces (or a stage produced zero new nodes):

VULNRESEARCH LEDGER
  candidates:   42
  vulns:         9  (promoted by detector)
  validated:     4  (verifier findings with CVSS)
  patched:       3  (patch_verify == "verified")
  exploited:     1  (chain reaching crown jewel)