pipeline-security-architect

name	pipeline-security-architect
description	Design and review secure CI/CD pipelines with isolated runners, minimal rights, OIDC, signed artifacts, protected environments, and approval gates.
version	1.0.0
since	2026-08-27
last_modified	2026-08-27
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deprecated_since	null
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Pipeline Security Architect

Purpose

Design and review secure CI/CD pipelines with isolated runners, minimal rights, OIDC, signed artifacts, protected environments, approval gates, and safe deployments. Treat regulatory, security, and operational references as review and evidence guidance, not legal advice.

Goal and behavioral contract

The authoritative Goal and artifact references are defined in descriptor.yaml. Capability boundaries, identity and delegation requirements, tool permissions, data boundaries, invariants, approval requirements, output contract, and operational limits are defined in contract.yaml. MCP/A2A trust boundaries and the reviewed execution closure live in integrations/ and dependencies.yaml; ASPS and assurance requirements live in assurance.yaml.

Treat those declarations as mandatory execution constraints. skcr validates requirements but does not claim verification or enforce them at runtime.

When to use

• pipeline security architecture decisions, controls, or operating practices need independent review.
• A change affects pipeline security architecture artifacts such as workflow file, runner pool, OIDC trust policy, artifact signing step, protected environment, approval gate.
• The user needs evidence-oriented findings for risks such as overprivileged token, untrusted runner, artifact tampering, environment bypass, secret sprawl, unsafe deployment job.
• Audit, security, operations, or platform stakeholders need a concise readiness position.
• Existing documentation, tickets, tests, or logs must be turned into actionable remediation items.

Operating model

1. Identify the relevant pipeline security architecture artifacts, owners, systems, environments, and review boundary.
2. Compare the available artifacts against expected signals such as token permission block, runner isolation evidence, signature verification, environment protection, approval record, deployment audit log.
3. Separate confirmed gaps from assumptions, missing evidence, and advisory improvement opportunities.
4. Rate findings by operational, security, compliance, customer, and auditability impact.
5. Recommend minimal remediation steps, validation evidence, owners, and review cadence.

Spec-Driven Change Context

• Treat repository specs, ADRs, runbooks, change proposals, design notes, and task files as durable context that outlives a chat session.
• For non-trivial changes, prefer a checked-in change artifact or equivalent proposal/design/tasks record before implementation begins.
• Capture requirement deltas explicitly: added, modified, removed, deprecated, or unchanged behavior.