{"slug":"trailmark-review-gate","title":"trailmark-review-gate","summary":"Runs a Trailmark structural review gate over a branch, pull request, fix commit, release diff, or git ref range to detect new entrypoints, new tainted paths, removed validation or authorization calls, privilege-boundary drift, blast-radius growth, complexity growth, and newly rea","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-11T17:26:24.849893Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/trailofbits/skills","stars":7234,"forks":616,"license":"CC-BY-SA-4.0","updatedAt":"2026-09-25T07:34:17Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<p>name: trailmark-review-gate\ndescription: \"Runs a Trailmark structural review gate over a branch, pull request, fix commit, release diff, or git ref range to detect new entrypoints, new tainted paths, removed validation or authorization calls, privilege-boundary drift, blast-radius growth, complexity growth, and newly reachable sensitive sinks. Use when reviewing a PR, branch, remediation commit, or release diff where graph-level security regressions should be checked before merge.\"\nallowed-tools:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bash</li>\n<li>Read</li>\n<li>Grep</li>\n<li>Glob</li>\n<li>Write</li>\n</ul>\n<hr>\n<h1>Trailmark Review Gate</h1>\n<p>Apply deterministic security gate rules to Trailmark structural diff evidence.\nThis skill does not replace line-level review. It produces a compact structural\npacket reviewers can cite while they inspect the code.</p>\n<h2>When to Use</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Reviewing a branch, pull request, release diff, or fix commit</li>\n<li>Checking whether a change expands attack surface</li>\n<li>Looking for removed validation or authorization on reachable paths</li>\n<li>Comparing before/after taint, privilege-boundary, blast-radius, or\ncomplexity signals</li>\n<li>Producing graph evidence for a differential review</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>When NOT to Use</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Single-snapshot analysis. Use <code>trailmark</code> or <code>trailmark-structural</code>.</li>\n<li>Text-diff review only. Use <code>differential-review</code>.</li>\n<li>Full vulnerability discovery. Use an audit or bug-finding workflow.</li>\n<li>One static finding. Use <code>trailmark-finding-triage</code>.</li>\n<li>Tooling is unavailable and the user wants manual review only.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Rationalizations to Reject</h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Rationalization</th>\n<th>Why It Is Wrong</th>\n<th>Required Action</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\"The line diff is small, so no graph gate is needed\"</td>\n<td>Small changes can create new call paths</td>\n<td>Compare before/after graphs</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\"Graph gate passed, so the PR is secure\"</td>\n<td>The gate only checks structural regressions</td>\n<td>Still perform line-level review</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\"Trailmark failed, so pass the gate\"</td>\n<td>Tool failure is unknown risk, not success</td>\n<td>Emit <code>UNKNOWN</code></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\"Tests pass, so removed validation is fine\"</td>\n<td>Tests may miss affected entrypoint paths</td>\n<td>Review the removed path manually</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\"Only new code matters\"</td>\n<td>Removed auth, validation, and callers can be higher risk than additions</td>\n<td>Review removals and path changes</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<h2>Workflow</h2>\n<pre><code>Review Gate Progress:\n- [ ] Step 1: Resolve before/after inputs\n- [ ] Step 2: Build graph-evolution evidence\n- [ ] Step 3: Normalize structural changes\n- [ ] Step 4: Apply gate rules\n- [ ] Step 5: Emit review packet and actions\n</code></pre>\n<h3>Step 1: Resolve Inputs</h3>\n<p>Accept two refs, a branch name, a commit range, or before/after directories.\nDo not check out branches unnecessarily. Prefer <code>git diff</code>, <code>git show</code>, and\ngit worktrees, following the <code>graph-evolution</code> snapshot workflow.</p>\n<h3>Step 2: Build Graph Evidence</h3>\n<p>Run <code>graph-evolution</code> or equivalent Trailmark before/after graph analysis.\nBoth snapshots must run <code>engine.preanalysis()</code> so taint, privilege-boundary,\nblast-radius, complexity, and entrypoint signals are available.</p>\n<p>Record Trailmark version and any feature probes. If graph construction fails,\nemit <code>UNKNOWN</code>.</p>\n<h3>Step 3: Normalize Changes</h3>\n<p>Normalize evidence into:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>added, removed, and modified nodes</li>\n<li>added and removed edges</li>\n<li>entrypoint set changes</li>\n<li>taint membership changes</li>\n<li>privilege-boundary membership changes</li>\n<li>blast-radius changes</li>\n<li>complexity changes</li>\n<li>newly reachable sensitive sinks</li>\n<li>unresolved, proxy, or dynamic edge changes</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Step 4: Apply Gate Rules</h3>\n<p>Apply the rules in <a href=\"references/gate-rules.md\">references/gate-rules.md</a>.\nGate verdicts are:</p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Verdict</th>\n<th>Meaning</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><code>FAIL</code></td>\n<td>A high-risk structural regression needs review before acceptance</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>WARN</code></td>\n<td>A meaningful graph change needs reviewer attention</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>PASS</code></td>\n<td>No configured structural gate fired</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>UNKNOWN</code></td>\n<td>Trailmark failed or evidence is too incomplete</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<h3>Step 5: Emit Packet</h3>\n<p>Write the packet using\n<a href=\"references/output-format.md\">references/output-format.md</a>, then hand it to\nthe branch reviewer. Use\n<a href=\"references/review-integration.md\">references/review-integration.md</a> when\ncombining this packet with <code>differential-review</code> or another PR review process.</p>\n<h2>Requirements</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Never mutate the user's working branch while comparing refs.</li>\n<li>Never report <code>PASS</code> when Trailmark failed.</li>\n<li>Separate graph evidence from manual security judgment.</li>\n<li>Include exact changed nodes or paths for every <code>FAIL</code> and <code>WARN</code>.</li>\n<li>Include limitations when parser, proxy, unresolved-call, or dynamic-dispatch\nuncertainty affects the verdict.</li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"agents/openai.yaml","sizeBytes":246,"isText":true},{"path":"assets/trail-of-bits-mark.svg","sizeBytes":3084,"isText":false},{"path":"references/gate-rules.md","sizeBytes":2297,"isText":true},{"path":"references/output-format.md","sizeBytes":1028,"isText":true},{"path":"references/review-integration.md","sizeBytes":1399,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":4451,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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