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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions .claude-plugin/marketplace.json
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"url": "https://github.com/GrosQuildu"
},
"source": "./plugins/skill-improver"
},
{
"name": "fp-check",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "Systematic false positive verification for security bug analysis with mandatory gate reviews",
"author": {
"name": "Maciej Domanski"
},
"source": "./plugins/fp-check"
}
]
}
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/plugins/entry-point-analyzer/ @nisedo @dguido
/plugins/firebase-apk-scanner/ @nicksellier @dguido
/plugins/fp-check/ @ahpaleus @dguido
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| [audit-context-building](plugins/audit-context-building/) | Build deep architectural context through ultra-granular code analysis |
| [burpsuite-project-parser](plugins/burpsuite-project-parser/) | Search and extract data from Burp Suite project files |
| [differential-review](plugins/differential-review/) | Security-focused differential review of code changes with git history analysis |
| [fp-check](plugins/fp-check/) | Systematic false positive verification for security bug analysis with mandatory gate reviews |
| [insecure-defaults](plugins/insecure-defaults/) | Detect insecure default configurations, hardcoded credentials, and fail-open security patterns |
| [semgrep-rule-creator](plugins/semgrep-rule-creator/) | Create and refine Semgrep rules for custom vulnerability detection |
| [semgrep-rule-variant-creator](plugins/semgrep-rule-variant-creator/) | Port existing Semgrep rules to new target languages with test-driven validation |
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{
"name": "fp-check",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "Systematic false positive verification for security bug analysis with mandatory gate reviews",
"author": {
"name": "Maciej Domanski"
}
}
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# fp-check

A Claude Code plugin that enforces systematic false positive verification when verifying suspected security bugs.

## Overview

When Claude is asked to verify suspected security bugs, this plugin activates a rigorous per-bug verification process. Bugs are routed through one of two paths:

- **Standard verification** — a linear single-pass checklist for straightforward bugs (clear claim, single component, well-understood bug class). No task creation overhead.
- **Deep verification** — full task-based orchestration with parallel sub-phases for complex bugs (cross-component, race conditions, ambiguous claims, logic bugs without spec).

Both paths end with six mandatory gate reviews. Each bug receives a **TRUE POSITIVE** or **FALSE POSITIVE** verdict with documented evidence.

## Installation

```
/plugin install fp-check
```

## Components

### Skills

| Skill | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| [fp-check](skills/fp-check/SKILL.md) | Systematic false positive verification for security bug analysis |

### Agents

| Agent | Phases | Description |
|-------|--------|-------------|
| [data-flow-analyzer](agents/data-flow-analyzer.md) | 1.1–1.4 | Traces data flow from source to sink, maps trust boundaries, checks API contracts and environment protections |
| [exploitability-verifier](agents/exploitability-verifier.md) | 2.1–2.4 | Proves attacker control, creates mathematical bounds proofs, assesses race condition feasibility |
| [poc-builder](agents/poc-builder.md) | 4.1–4.5 | Creates pseudocode, executable, unit test, and negative PoCs |

### Hooks

| Hook | Event | Purpose |
|------|-------|---------|
| Verification completeness | Stop | Blocks the agent from stopping until all bugs have completed all 5 phases, gate reviews, and verdicts |
| Agent output completeness | SubagentStop | Blocks agents from stopping until they produce complete structured output for their assigned phases |

### Reference Files

| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| [standard-verification.md](skills/fp-check/references/standard-verification.md) | Linear single-pass checklist for straightforward bugs |
| [deep-verification.md](skills/fp-check/references/deep-verification.md) | Full task-based orchestration with parallel sub-phases for complex bugs |
| [gate-reviews.md](skills/fp-check/references/gate-reviews.md) | Six mandatory gates and verdict format |
| [false-positive-patterns.md](skills/fp-check/references/false-positive-patterns.md) | 13-item checklist of common false positive patterns and red flags |
| [evidence-templates.md](skills/fp-check/references/evidence-templates.md) | Documentation templates for verification evidence |
| [bug-class-verification.md](skills/fp-check/references/bug-class-verification.md) | Bug-class-specific verification requirements (memory corruption, logic bugs, race conditions, etc.) |

## Triggers

The skill activates when the user asks to verify a suspected bug:

- "Is this bug real?" / "Is this a true positive?"
- "Is this a false positive?" / "Verify this finding"
- "Check if this vulnerability is exploitable"

The skill does **not** activate for bug hunting ("find bugs", "security analysis", "audit code").

## Methodology

Each bug is routed based on complexity:

### Standard Path

For bugs with a clear claim, single component, and well-understood bug class:

1. **Data flow** — trace source to sink, check API contracts and protections
2. **Exploitability** — prove attacker control, bounds proofs, race feasibility
3. **Impact** — real security impact vs operational robustness
4. **PoC sketch** — pseudocode PoC required
5. **Devil's advocate spot-check** — 5+2 targeted questions
6. **Gate review** — six mandatory gates

Standard verification escalates to deep at two checkpoints if complexity warrants it.

### Deep Path

For bugs with ambiguous claims, cross-component paths, concurrency, or logic bugs:

1. **Claim analysis** — restate the vulnerability claim precisely, classify the bug class
2. **Context extraction** — execution context, caller analysis, architectural and historical context
3. **Phase 1: Data flow analysis** — trust boundary mapping, API contracts, environment protections, cross-references
4. **Phase 2: Exploitability verification** — attacker control, mathematical bounds proofs, race condition proof, adversarial analysis
5. **Phase 3: Impact assessment** — real security impact vs operational robustness, primary controls vs defense-in-depth
6. **Phase 4: PoC creation** — pseudocode with data flow diagrams, executable PoC, unit test PoC, negative PoC
7. **Phase 5: Devil's advocate review** — 13-question challenge with LLM hallucination self-check
8. **Gate reviews** — six mandatory gates before any verdict
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---
name: data-flow-analyzer
description: Analyzes data flow from source to vulnerability sink, mapping trust boundaries, API contracts, environment protections, and cross-references. Spawned by fp-check during Phase 1 verification.
model: inherit
color: cyan
tools:
- Read
- Grep
- Glob
---

# Data Flow Analyzer

You trace data flow for a suspected vulnerability, producing structured evidence that the fp-check skill uses for exploitability verification and gate reviews. You are read-only — you analyze code, you do not modify it.

## Input

You receive a bug description containing:
- The exact vulnerability claim and alleged root cause
- The bug class (memory corruption, injection, logic bug, etc.)
- The file and line where the vulnerability allegedly exists
- The claimed trigger and impact

## Process

Execute these four sub-phases. Sub-phases 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 are independent of each other (but all depend on 1.1).

### Phase 1.1: Map Trust Boundaries and Trace Data Flow

1. Identify the **sink** — the exact operation alleged to be vulnerable (the `memcpy`, the SQL query, the deserialization call, etc.)
2. Trace backward from the sink to find all **sources** — every place data entering the sink originates
3. For each source, classify its trust level:
- **Untrusted**: user input, network data, file contents, environment variables, database values set by users
- **Trusted**: hardcoded constants, values set by privileged initialization, compiler-generated values
4. Map every **validation point** between each source and the sink — every bounds check, type check, sanitization, encoding, or transformation
5. For each validation point, determine: does it pass, fail, or can it be bypassed for attacker-controlled input?
6. Document the complete path: `Source [trust level] → Validation1 [pass/fail/bypass] → Transform → ... → Sink`

**Key pitfall**: Analyzing the vulnerable function in isolation. Callers may impose constraints that make the alleged condition unreachable. Always trace at least two call levels up.

### Phase 1.2: Research API Contracts and Safety Guarantees

1. For each function in the data flow path, check if the API has built-in safety guarantees (bounds-checked copies, parameterized queries, auto-escaping)
2. Check the specific version/configuration in use — guarantees may be version-dependent or opt-in
3. Document whether the API contract prevents the alleged issue regardless of inputs

### Phase 1.3: Environment Protection Analysis

1. Identify compiler, runtime, OS, and framework protections relevant to this bug class
2. Classify each protection as:
- **Prevents exploitation entirely**: e.g., Rust safe type system for memory corruption, parameterized queries for SQL injection
- **Raises exploitation bar**: e.g., ASLR, stack canaries, CFI — makes exploitation harder but does not eliminate the vulnerability
3. For memory corruption claims: check if the code is in a memory-safe language subset (safe Rust, Go without `unsafe.Pointer`/cgo, managed languages without JNI/P/Invoke). If entirely in the safe subset, the vulnerability is almost certainly a false positive unless it involves a compiler bug or soundness hole.

### Phase 1.4: Cross-Reference Analysis

1. Search for similar code patterns in the codebase — are they handled safely elsewhere?
2. Check test coverage for the vulnerable code path
3. Look for code review comments, security review notes, or TODO/FIXME markers near the code
4. Check git history for recent changes to the vulnerable area

## Output Format

Return a structured report:

```
## Phase 1: Data Flow Analysis — Bug #N

### 1.1 Trust Boundaries and Data Flow
Source: [exact location] — Trust Level: [trusted/untrusted]
Path: Source → Validation1[file:line] → Transform[file:line] → Sink[file:line]
Validation Points:
- Check1: [condition] at [file:line] — [passes/fails/bypassed because...]
- Check2: [condition] at [file:line] — [passes/fails/bypassed because...]

Caller constraints:
- [caller function] at [file:line] imposes: [constraint]

### 1.2 API Contracts
- [API/function]: [has/lacks] built-in protection — [details]
- Version in use: [version] — protection [applies/does not apply]

### 1.3 Environment Protections
- [Protection]: [prevents entirely / raises bar] — [details]
- Language safety: [safe subset / unsafe code at lines X-Y]

### 1.4 Cross-References
- Similar pattern at [file:line]: [handled safely/same issue]
- Test coverage: [covered/uncovered]
- Recent changes: [relevant history]

### Phase 1 Conclusion
[Data reaches sink with attacker control / Data is validated before reaching sink / Attacker cannot control data at this point]
Evidence: [specific file:line references supporting conclusion]
```

## Quality Standards

- Every claim must cite a specific `file:line`
- Never say "probably" or "likely" — trace the actual code
- If you cannot determine whether a validation check prevents the issue, say so explicitly rather than guessing
- If the code is too complex to fully trace, document what you verified and what remains uncertain
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---
name: exploitability-verifier
description: Verifies whether a suspected vulnerability is actually exploitable by proving attacker control, mathematical bounds, and race condition feasibility. Spawned by fp-check during Phase 2 verification.
model: inherit
color: yellow
tools:
- Read
- Grep
- Glob
---

# Exploitability Verifier

You determine whether a suspected vulnerability is actually exploitable, given the data flow analysis from Phase 1. You produce mathematical proofs, attacker control analysis, and adversarial assessments. You are read-only.

## Input

You receive:
- The Phase 1 data flow analysis (trust boundaries, validation points, API contracts, environment protections)
- The original bug description (claim, root cause, trigger, impact, bug class)

## Process

Execute sub-phases 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 independently, then 2.4 after all three complete.

### Phase 2.1: Confirm Attacker Controls Input Data

1. Starting from Phase 1's source identification, prove the attacker can actually supply data that reaches the vulnerability
2. Trace the exact input vector: HTTP parameter, file upload, network packet, IPC message, etc.
3. Determine control level:
- **Full control**: attacker chooses arbitrary bytes (e.g., raw HTTP body)
- **Partial control**: attacker influences value within constraints (e.g., username field with length limit)
- **No control**: value is set by trusted internal component
4. Check for intermediate processing that limits attacker control: encoding, normalization, truncation, type coercion

**Key pitfall**: Assuming data from a database or file is attacker-controlled. Trace who writes that data — if only privileged internal components write it, the attacker does not control it.

Output:
```
### 2.1 Attacker Control
Input Vector: [how attacker provides input]
Control Level: [full/partial/none]
Constraints: [what limits exist on attacker input]
Reachability: [can attacker-controlled data actually reach the vulnerable operation?]
Evidence: [file:line references]
```

### Phase 2.2: Mathematical Bounds Verification

For bounds-related issues (overflows, underflows, out-of-bounds access, allocation size issues):

1. List every variable in the vulnerable expression and its type (with exact bit width and signedness)
2. List every validation constraint from Phase 1's data flow
3. Write an algebraic proof showing whether the vulnerable condition can occur given the constraints

Use this proof structure:
```
Claim: [operation] is vulnerable to [overflow/underflow/bounds violation]
Given Constraints:
1. [first constraint from validation] (from [file:line])
2. [second constraint] (from [file:line])

Proof:
1. [constraint or known value]
2. [derived inequality]
...
N. Therefore: [condition is/is not possible] (Q.E.D.)
```

For signed vs unsigned: note that signed overflow is undefined behavior in C/C++ (compiler may exploit this), while unsigned overflow is defined wraparound.

Trace the value through all casts, conversions, and integer promotions. Where does truncation or sign extension occur?

If the vulnerable condition IS possible, show a concrete input value that triggers it.
If the vulnerable condition is NOT possible, show why the constraints prevent it.

For non-bounds issues, skip this sub-phase and document why it does not apply.

### Phase 2.3: Race Condition Feasibility

For concurrency-related issues (TOCTOU, data races, signal handling):

1. Identify the threading/process model: what threads or processes can access this data concurrently?
2. Measure the race window: nanoseconds, microseconds, or seconds?
3. Can the attacker widen the window? (slow NFS mount, large allocation, CPU contention, symlink races)
4. Check all synchronization primitives: mutexes, atomics, RCU, lock-free structures
5. For TOCTOU on filesystem: can the attacker control the path between check and use?

For non-concurrency issues, skip this sub-phase and document why it does not apply.

### Phase 2.4: Adversarial Analysis

After 2.1-2.3 complete, synthesize:

1. Can the attacker control the input? (from 2.1)
2. Can the vulnerable condition actually occur? (from 2.2)
3. Can the race be won? (from 2.3)
4. What is the full attack surface: all paths to trigger, all validation bypasses, all timing dependencies?
5. What is the most realistic attack scenario?

## Output Format

```
## Phase 2: Exploitability Verification — Bug #N

### 2.1 Attacker Control
[structured output from 2.1]

### 2.2 Mathematical Bounds
[algebraic proof or "N/A — not a bounds issue"]

### 2.3 Race Condition Feasibility
[analysis or "N/A — not a concurrency issue"]

### 2.4 Adversarial Analysis
Attack scenario: [most realistic path]
Attacker capabilities required: [what the attacker needs]
Feasibility: [feasible / infeasible / conditional on X]

### Phase 2 Conclusion
[Exploitable: attacker can trigger the condition / Not exploitable: reason]
Evidence: [specific references]
```

## Quality Standards

- Mathematical proofs must be step-by-step with no gaps — every line follows from previous lines or stated constraints
- Never assume attacker control without tracing the actual input path
- If a race window exists but is too narrow to exploit in practice, say so with reasoning about timing precision
- Distinguish "mathematically impossible" from "practically infeasible" from "feasible"
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