Security Alert Triage

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name: security-alert-triage
description: Triage a security alert by validating signal integrity, affected identity/assets, timeline, scope, likely benign explanations, threat context, and required containment.
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# Security Alert Triage

Use when this procedure is the primary professional method needed for the assignment.

## Procedure
1. Confirm the decision or outcome this work must support, its scope, owner, constraints, and definition of success.
2. Establish the evidence baseline using alert payload, logs, identity/asset inventory, recent changes, network/process evidence, and detection logic. Do not fill material gaps with assumptions when they can change the result.
3. Preserve raw evidence, enrich asset/identity context, correlate adjacent events, classify confidence/severity, decide containment threshold, and document rationale.
4. Exercise realistic edge, failure, transition, or exception cases that could invalidate the result; record unresolved uncertainty explicitly.
5. Validate the output against the original outcome and any neighboring professional contracts so this skill does not silently absorb another specialist's authority.
6. Record the resulting artifact, measurements, decisions, provenance, and handoff information needed for another owner to reproduce or continue the work.

## Quality gate
The disposition is evidence-backed and high-risk uncertainty is escalated rather than prematurely closed.