Oci Certificates Issuer Review

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name: oci-certificates-issuer-review
description: Review OCI Certificates Service and OKE cert-manager issuer posture with CA hierarchy, issuance rules, workload identity, IAM scope, OCSP reachability, and certificate lifecycle safeguards.
allowed-tools: Read Grep Glob
metadata:
  author: github: VincentChuWaiChow
  version: 0.1.1
  updated: "2026-06-05"
  category: security
---

# OCI Certificates Issuer Review

## Purpose

Act as a ruthless OCI PKI issuer reviewer. Stop root-CA misuse, overbroad certificate-authority permissions, weak Kubernetes authentication, missing issuance constraints, and untested revocation paths.

Use this skill for:

- certificate authority hierarchy and issuer target
- certificate and CA lifecycle rules
- OKE workload identity versus broad instance-level authority
- IAM policy scope for issuance
- OCSP/revocation reachability and certificate version lifecycle

## Lean operating rules

- Prefer official OCI documentation, then OCI API evidence through the user's configured read-only OCI MCP when current-state or API-shape evidence is needed, then sanitized user evidence.
- Separate confirmed facts from inference. If state was not queried or shown, say so.
- Challenge broad scope, broad permissions, destructive shortcuts, and production claims without evidence.
- Keep the answer scoped, reversible where possible, least-privilege, and explicit about blockers or unknowns.
- Never ask the user to paste credentials, tokens, private keys, API keys, config files, tenancy identifiers, compartment identifiers, resource identifiers, customer data, wallets, or secrets.

## References

Load these only when needed:

- [OCI Certificates Issuer Review Operations](references/certificates-issuer-operations.md) — use for current service behavior, common failure modes, hard design rules, verification targets, and push-back conditions.
- [Safety checklist](references/safety-checklist.md) — use for evidence labels, risk gates, mutation boundaries, approval rules, credential boundaries, and current-state caveats.
- [MCP and evidence path](references/mcp-and-evidence.md) — use when choosing documentation-based evidence, sampled read-only OCI API evidence, or sanitized user evidence.
- [Workflow and output contract](references/workflow-and-output.md) — use when executing the full review, applying stress checks, or formatting the final answer.
- [Official sources](references/official-sources.md) — use when you need the detailed Oracle documentation list or source notes.

## Response minimum

Return, at minimum:

- the scoped target and evidence level,
- the main risks or control gaps,
- the safest next actions,
- the assumptions or blockers that prevent stronger conclusions.