security-compliance

name	security-compliance
description	Covers threat modeling, secrets management, security reviews, and compliance verification. Use when reviewing code for security, managing secrets, performing threat analysis, or running compliance audits. Not for debugging (use debugging) or general code review (use foundations).

Security & Compliance

Security patterns, threat modeling, and compliance verification.

Contents

• Critical Rules
• Verification
• Topics

Critical Rules

• Never store secrets, credentials, or PII in version control — use environment variables or secret managers
• Always run secrets scanning before committing (pre-commit hooks)
• Validate all inputs at trust boundaries — never trust client-side validation alone
• Apply least privilege — grant minimum permissions required for each component
• Document threat model before implementing security-sensitive features

Verification

• Secrets scanner passes with zero findings on all staged files
• No hardcoded credentials, API keys, or tokens in source code
• Security review checklist completed for changes touching auth, crypto, or data handling

Topics

Topic	Reference	Use When
Security	references/security.md	Threat modeling, managing secrets, compliance checks
Security Review	references/security-review.md	Running security review checklists, auditing code