dev-workflows: agent workflows where every phase ends in a verification step, shown as the wf-security-review SKILL.md checklist from SCOPE to REPORT + GATE ![Format SKILL.md](https://img.shields.io/badge/format-SKILL.md-informational?style=flat-square) ![Workflows 5, v1.0.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/workflows-5%20%C2%B7%20v1.0.0-informational?style=flat-square) ![QA harness Python 3](https://img.shields.io/badge/QA%20harness-Python%203-3776AB?style=flat-square&logo=python&logoColor=white) ![License MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue?style=flat-square) [Issues](https://git.evandro.dev.br/evandro/dev-workflows/issues) · [Skills inventory](docs/SKILLS.md) · [Vendored skills notice](skills/NOTICE.md) · [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md) **English** · [Português (BR)](README.pt-BR.md)
Harness output after installing the workflows and the vendored skills in the Hermes layout (real run; `impeccable` is a third-party skill that was not installed, so the harness exits 1): ```console $ cd qa && python wf_quality_harness.py wf-frontend score= 385.5 refs=18 sem_match=['impeccable'] fases_sem_verif=[] wf-backend score= 424.0 refs=15 sem_match=[] fases_sem_verif=[] wf-architecture score= 413.7 refs=11 sem_match=[] fases_sem_verif=[] wf-security-review score= 390.0 refs=14 sem_match=[] fases_sem_verif=[] TOTAL: 1613.2 / 400.0 (403.3%) ``` ## What it is Five agent workflows written as standard `SKILL.md` files. The `description` in each frontmatter is the trigger, so the workflow loads when the agent's context matches it. The workflow bodies are in Portuguese. | Workflow | File | Phases | Covers | |---|---|---|---| | Frontend / UI | [`wf-frontend.md`](workflows/wf-frontend.md) | DESIGN, BUILD, REVIEW | Design direction before code, anti-AI-slop, React performance, visual QA for PDFs | | Backend / API | [`wf-backend.md`](workflows/wf-backend.md) | PLAN, BUILD, SECURITY, TEST + BUG HUNT | Contract before handler, safe defaults, OWASP audit, tests and adversarial bug hunt | | Architecture | [`wf-architecture.md`](workflows/wf-architecture.md) | REQUIREMENTS, DESIGN, DOCS, REVIEW | Measurable requirements, C4 diagrams, ADRs, threat modeling | | Security review | [`wf-security-review.md`](workflows/wf-security-review.md) | SCOPE, HUNT, CONSULT, CODE REVIEW, REPORT + GATE | Front and back code review, known CVEs and a live lookup of new ones | | README | [`wf-readme.md`](workflows/wf-readme.md) | SCAN, CLASSIFY, AUDIT or DRAFT, GENERATE, VERIFY + VALIDATE | Create, audit or rewrite READMEs grounded in real repo facts | The repository also vendors ten security skills under [`skills/`](skills/NOTICE.md) and ships a QA harness under [`qa/`](qa). ## Why use it Agents generate code well and admit ignorance badly. Each workflow makes the agent prove the work at every phase: - **Verification steps:** run the build, run the tests, hit the API, consult the registry. - **Acceptance criteria:** checkbox gates that must be marked before a phase closes. - **Hard rules:** "never merge with a red build", "never claim 'no CVE' without querying OSV.dev". Do not use it if you want self-contained skills. The frontend, backend, architecture and README workflows load third-party skills that are not in this repository, the security workflow also expects two local skills that are not vendored, and the QA harness only reads the Hermes Agent layout. ## How it works The security workflow is built on one fact: a model's knowledge of CVEs stops at its training date, so "no vulnerabilities" from memory is a guess. 1. **SCOPE** defines the target before auditing. 2. **HUNT** checks known CVEs in the dependencies (`safedeps` queries OSV.dev for a `package@version`). 3. **CONSULT** looks up new vulnerabilities in live sources: OSV.dev, GitHub Advisory DB and NVD. 4. **CODE REVIEW** reviews front and back code against OWASP Top 10 and ASVS. 5. **REPORT + GATE** delivers the report with sources and date stamped, then decides. The QA harness scores `wf-frontend`, `wf-backend`, `wf-architecture` and `wf-security-review` (not `wf-readme`) on 30+ static criteria extracted from each `SKILL.md`: structure, numbered steps per phase, verification verbs, referenced skills and AI-isms density. `test_tests.py` holds meta-tests that break the harness on purpose and check that the score changes.
Skills the workflows load Vendored in `skills/` (security review). Origin, commit and license of each copy are in [`skills/NOTICE.md`](skills/NOTICE.md); CC-BY-4.0 requires attribution, kept in that file. | Skill | What it does | Origin | License | |---|---|---|---| | `safedeps` | Queries OSV.dev live: CVE, severity and fixed version for a `package@version` (script `check_deps.py`) | [Jeneidi/safedeps](https://github.com/Jeneidi/safedeps) | MIT | | `sca-audit` | Dependency supply-chain audit with reachability analysis and CWE mapping | [OWASP/secure-agent-playbook](https://github.com/OWASP/secure-agent-playbook) | CC-BY-4.0 | | `code-review-security` | Systematic security code review mapped to OWASP Top 10 + ASVS | OWASP/secure-agent-playbook | CC-BY-4.0 | | `secrets-scan` | Hardcoded credentials and API keys in code and git history | OWASP/secure-agent-playbook | CC-BY-4.0 | | `api-security-review` | API review against OWASP API Security Top 10 | OWASP/secure-agent-playbook | CC-BY-4.0 | | `web-security-review` | Web app review against OWASP Top 10 | OWASP/secure-agent-playbook | CC-BY-4.0 | | `cve-triage` | Prioritizes CVEs with CVSS 4.0, EPSS and CISA KEV | [UnitOneAI/SecuritySkills](https://github.com/UnitOneAI/SecuritySkills) | MIT | | `patch-prioritization` | Decides remediation order | UnitOneAI/SecuritySkills | MIT | | `dependency-scanning` | Dependency tree scanning | UnitOneAI/SecuritySkills | MIT | | `hermaguard` | Adversarial review: static pre-scan plus 3 specialist agents (edge cases, attack, blast radius) | [Sahil-SS9/hermaguard](https://github.com/Sahil-SS9/hermaguard) | MIT | Not vendored (install separately; full inventory in [`docs/SKILLS.md`](docs/SKILLS.md)): | Workflow | Skill | Origin | |---|---|---| | Frontend | `frontend-design` | [anthropics/skills](https://github.com/anthropics/skills) | | Frontend | `web-design` | [KAOPU-XiaoPu/web-design](https://github.com/KAOPU-XiaoPu/web-design) | | Frontend | `vercel-react-best-practices`, `vercel-composition-patterns` | [vercel-labs/agent-skills](https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-skills) | | Frontend | `animate` | [emilkowalski/skill](https://github.com/emilkowalski/skill) | | Frontend | `impeccable` | [pbakaus/impeccable](https://github.com/pbakaus/impeccable) | | Frontend | `avoid-ai-writing` | [conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing](https://github.com/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing) | | Frontend | `anti-ai-slop` | local skill, not published here | | Backend | `secure-coding` | [securityreviewai/secure-coding-skill](https://github.com/securityreviewai/secure-coding-skill) | | Backend | `bola-detector`, `auth-rbac-scaffold`, `injection-checker`, `openapi-hardener`, `api-security-review`, `security-test-generator` | [apisec-inc/apisec-skills](https://github.com/apisec-inc/apisec-skills) | | Architecture | `system-design`, `c4-architecture`, `isaqb-architecture-governance`, `secure-architecture-governance` | [Kotivskyi/architecture-governance-skills](https://github.com/Kotivskyi/architecture-governance-skills) | | README | `readme-crafter` | [linhai0872/readme-crafter-skill](https://github.com/linhai0872/readme-crafter-skill) | | README | `good-readme` | [adewale/good-readme](https://github.com/adewale/good-readme) | | README | `curating-readme` | [liang-senbei/curating-readme](https://github.com/liang-senbei/curating-readme) | | Security review | `dependency-cve-audit`, `security-threat-model` | local skills, not published here |
## Quickstart ```bash # 1. Copy the workflows into your agent's skills directory # Hermes Agent cp workflows/*.md ~/.hermes/skills/software-development/ # Claude Code: each skill needs its own directory (a loose .md is not loaded) mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills for f in workflows/*.md; do name=$(basename "$f" .md) mkdir -p "$HOME/.claude/skills/$name" cp "$f" "$HOME/.claude/skills/$name/SKILL.md" done # 2. Security review: the supporting skills are already vendored in skills/. # Hermes: cp -r skills/* ~/.hermes/skills/ # Claude Code: copy each skills// directory to ~/.claude/skills// # (the SKILL.md must sit inside its own directory, as in step 1). # 3. Use it # "review this PR for security" -> wf-security-review loads # "build a new page" -> wf-frontend loads ``` The remaining skills install through `npx skills` (agentskills.io format), for example: ```bash npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill frontend-design npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills --skill vercel-react-best-practices npx skills add conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing npx skills add https://github.com/pbakaus/impeccable --skill impeccable ``` > [!WARNING] > Install layout matters. Claude Code ignores a loose `.md`; it needs `/SKILL.md`. The QA harness has the same requirement: it reads `~/.hermes/skills/software-development//SKILL.md`, so the flat `cp` used for Hermes above is not enough to run it. ## Usage ```bash cd qa python3 wf_quality_harness.py # score each workflow on 30+ criteria python3 test_quality.py # gates: no regression, referenced skills exist, every phase verified python3 test_tests.py # meta-tests: corrupt harness/workflows, confirm the score drops ``` Final scores per workflow are versioned in [`qa/snapshots/baseline-final.json`](qa/snapshots/baseline-final.json): `wf-frontend` 385.5, `wf-backend` 424.0, `wf-architecture` 413.7, `wf-security-review` 390.0, total 1613.2. The run above reproduces them. ## Project status Six commits between 2026-08-19 and 2026-10-13; every workflow declares `version: 1.0.0`. No root CI: `skills/hermaguard/.github/workflows/ci.yml` belongs to the vendored hermaguard and does not run from this repository. - The harness reads installed copies from `~/.hermes/skills/software-development//SKILL.md` (hardcoded `SKILLS_DIR`), not the files in `workflows/`. Without them it reports `SKILL.md não encontrado`. - The harness exits 1 when a referenced skill is missing, and `test_quality.py` then stops with `HARNESS FALHOU`. Even with every skill installed, gate G3 asks each workflow to reach twice its own final baseline, so `test_quality.py` cannot pass against the current snapshot. - `test_tests.py` mutates `wf-frontend/SKILL.md` at the repository root, which does not exist, so that meta-test does nothing; the anti-slop mutation still runs. - The "referenced skills exist" check also accepts names from a hardcoded list without checking the disk. - `wf-security-review` mentions `dependency-cve-audit` and `security-threat-model` as local skills that are not vendored, and calls `~/.hermes/skills/safedeps/check_deps.py`, so it assumes the Hermes layout. - Two different skills share the name `api-security-review`: the vendored OWASP one and the apisec-inc one used by the backend workflow. Installing both into the same directory makes one overwrite the other. - In `docs/SKILLS.md`, the Claude Code snippet quotes the tilde (`"~/.claude/skills/$nome"`), which creates a literal `~` directory; use `$HOME` as in the Quickstart above. - `wf-readme` is not covered by the harness. Contribution rules are in [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](CONTRIBUTING.md): claims trace back to repo facts, every phase has a verification step, and docs avoid AI-isms. ## License [MIT](LICENSE), (c) 2026 Evandro Fonseca Junior. Vendored skills keep their own licenses ([`skills/NOTICE.md`](skills/NOTICE.md)). ---