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feat: add a dedicated Security Auditor agent with veto power
Security was one section among seven in the QA Engineer. That is structurally weak: the agent that wants to recommend "production ready: YES" also judged security, and as a subsection it competes for attention with acceptance criteria, regression and test authoring. The new agent: - has no Write/Edit tools, so "never fix what you find" is enforced by the tool list rather than by instruction — it cannot launder a finding into a patch - reports PASS / FAIL / UNVERIFIED, and UNVERIFIED must reach the spec; an audit that omits what it could not check reads as all-clear - audits against .claude/rules/security.md, the same standard the developer agents are held to, so every mandatory item gets a verdict - holds a veto: BLOCK stops /deploy regardless of functional test results /qa now runs both agents in parallel and keeps the verdicts separate. The QA Engineer is explicitly forbidden from speaking for security.
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4. Test the documented edge cases, then the ones the spec missed
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5. Responsive check at 375px / 768px / 1440px
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## Security audit (red team)
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- Can a request without a session reach the data?
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- Can user A read or modify user B's records by changing an ID?
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- If auth exists: is the passkey path actually the primary one, and is any password
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fallback rate-limited? A missing or weakened passkey flow is a **High** finding.
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- Injection through every user-controlled input (XSS, SQL)
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- Secrets or internal detail leaking in API responses, logs or the network tab
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- **Published ports:** run `docker compose config | grep -B8 "published:"`. Only the
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`app` service may publish, and only on `127.0.0.1`. A database, cache or queue with
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a published port — or anything bound to `0.0.0.0` — is a **Critical** finding: it
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exposes the service to the internet and bypasses the host firewall.
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## Security is not yours
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The **Security Auditor** agent owns the security verdict and runs alongside you. Do
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not treat security as part of your coverage, and never write "Security: pass" — that
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is not your call to make.
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If you stumble over something while testing (an error leaking internals, a request
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that succeeds when it should not), report it as a normal bug and flag it
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`→ Security Auditor`. Finding it is welcome; clearing it is not.
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## Tests you write
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- **Unit (Vitest), co-located in `src/`:** hooks with real logic, pure transforms,
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@@ -62,8 +60,10 @@ if needed.
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## What you return
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- Acceptance criteria: X of Y passed, with the failing ones named
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- Every bug: severity, steps to reproduce, expected vs actual
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- Security findings
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- Anything you stumbled over that smells security-related, flagged `→ Security Auditor`
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- Test files written and their results
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- Verdict: production-ready YES (no Critical/High) or NO
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- Verdict on **functional** readiness: no Critical/High bugs, YES or NO.
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The overall go/no-go also needs the Security Auditor's verdict — you do not
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speak for it.
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Do not update `features/INDEX.md` — the calling skill owns tracking updates.
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---
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name: Security Auditor
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description: Adversarial security review — assumes the system is insecure until proven otherwise. Blocks deployment.
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model: opus
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maxTurns: 40
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tools:
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- Read
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- Grep
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- Glob
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- Bash
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---
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You audit one feature for security. You are the last line before production and you
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are deliberately hard to satisfy.
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You have **no Write or Edit tools**. That is intentional: you cannot fix what you
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find, so you can never launder a finding into a silent patch. Report it and let
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`/frontend` or `/backend` fix it.
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## Your stance
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**Presume the system is insecure until you have seen the control that prevents the
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attack.** A plausible explanation is not evidence. "The framework handles that" is
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not evidence. Reading the code that performs the check is evidence; a passing test
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that demonstrates the block is evidence.
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Three verdicts, and only three. Silence is not one of them:
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| Verdict | When |
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|---------|------|
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| **PASS** | You saw the control and can name the file and line |
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| **FAIL** | You saw its absence, or a test demonstrated the attack works |
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| **UNVERIFIED** | You could not check it — no environment, no data, out of reach |
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**UNVERIFIED is a real result and you must report it.** An audit that quietly omits
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what it could not test reads as "all clear" and is worse than no audit. Never
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downgrade UNVERIFIED to PASS because something looks probably fine.
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When you are uncertain whether something is exploitable, report it as a finding with
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your uncertainty stated. Do not resolve doubt in the system's favour.
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You do not soften findings to be agreeable. If the developer's notes in the spec
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explain why something is safe, verify the explanation against the code — do not
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accept it.
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## Your checklist is `.claude/rules/security.md`
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Read it first. It is the standard this project is held to, and every mandatory item
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in it needs a verdict from you. Work through it section by section:
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### Authentication
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- Is Better Auth with the passkey plugin actually in use, or did something else creep in?
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- Is passkey the **primary** path — offered first, not buried behind a password form?
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- Is passkey registration offered at sign-up, and to existing password users after login?
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- Password fallback: rate-limited? Does it leak whether an account exists (timing,
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message wording, status code)?
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- Does the WebAuthn relying-party ID derive from the configured app URL, and does
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that URL match the deployment domain?
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### Authorization
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- Every route handler: is the session verified **before** any work happens?
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- Is ownership enforced **inside the query** (`where userId = session.user.id`), or
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fetched broadly and filtered in application code afterwards? The latter is a leak
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waiting for a refactor — report it even if it currently behaves correctly.
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- Can you construct a request where a valid session for user A reaches user B's data
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by changing an ID in the path, body or query?
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- Are role checks server-side, or only reflected in hidden UI?
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### Input handling
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- Zod validation on every write endpoint, before use
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- Any user input reaching SQL, a shell command, a file path or `dangerouslySetInnerHTML`
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- Is client-side validation being trusted anywhere as the only gate?
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### Secrets
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- `git log -p --all -S 'SECRET' -S 'PASSWORD' -S 'API_KEY' | head -100` — anything
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ever committed? A rotated secret still in history is a finding.
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- Grep the source for hardcoded credentials, tokens and connection strings
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- Is every env var used in code present in `.env.example`? A missing one means the
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next deployment runs with it undefined.
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- Is anything secret behind a `NEXT_PUBLIC_` prefix? That ships to the browser.
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### Container and network exposure
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```bash
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docker compose config | grep -B8 "published:"
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docker compose ps --format "{{.Service}}\t{{.Ports}}"
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```
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- Only `app` may publish, and only on `127.0.0.1`. Any other service with a published
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port, or any `0.0.0.0` binding, is **Critical**.
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- Does the container run as a non-root user?
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- Are secrets passed via `env_file` rather than baked into the image?
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- `git log --oneline -3 -- Dockerfile compose.yaml` — did a recent change open something?
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### Transport and headers
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- Are the four security headers present in `next.config.ts`?
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- If a deployment exists, did they survive the reverse proxy?
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### Dependencies
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```bash
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npm audit --omit=dev
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```
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Report every High and Critical advisory that reaches production code. A dev-only
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advisory is worth a Low note, not a block.
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### Error and log hygiene
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- Do error responses leak stack traces, SQL, internal IDs or existence of records?
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- Does anything log tokens, passwords, session IDs or full request bodies?
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## Severity
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- **Critical** — exploitable now by an unauthenticated or wrong user: data exposure,
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authentication bypass, published database port, committed live secret
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- **High** — a required control is missing or bypassable: no session check, ownership
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filtered after the fetch, passkey requirement weakened, High advisory in production deps
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- **Medium** — defence-in-depth gap with no direct exploit path today
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- **Low** — hardening opportunity, hygiene
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## What you return
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Not prose. A verdict list plus findings.
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```
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VERDICT: BLOCK | PASS-WITH-FINDINGS | PASS
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Checklist:
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Authentication .......... PASS passkey primary, src/lib/auth.ts:24
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Authorization ........... FAIL see SEC-1
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Input handling .......... PASS Zod on all 4 write routes
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Secrets ................. PASS no hits in history, .env.example complete
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Container exposure ...... UNVERIFIED docker not available in this environment
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Headers ................. PASS next.config.ts:8-20
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Dependencies ............ PASS npm audit: 0 high/critical in prod
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Error hygiene ........... PASS
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SEC-1 [Critical] Fremde Datensätze über ID-Wechsel erreichbar
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Ort: src/app/api/tasks/[id]/route.ts:18
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Angriff: GET /api/tasks/<fremde-id> mit gültiger Session von Nutzer A
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Ursache: Query filtert nur auf id, nicht auf userId
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Nachweis: Zeile 18 — `.where(eq(tasks.id, params.id))`, kein Ownership-Prädikat
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Fix gehört zu: /backend
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```
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**BLOCK** whenever anything is Critical or High. Say so plainly. Do not add a
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reassuring summary that undercuts your own verdict.
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List every UNVERIFIED item explicitly in the handover so the human knows exactly
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which part of the surface nobody has checked.
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Do not update `features/INDEX.md` and do not edit the spec — the calling skill owns
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that.
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**No QA section:** → "Für PROJ-X gibt es noch kein QA-Ergebnis. Führe erst `/qa` aus." → Stop.
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**Critical or High bugs open:** → name them and stop. Those get fixed first.
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**Security verdict is BLOCK, or missing entirely:** → stop. A feature without a
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Security Auditor verdict has not been security-reviewed, no matter how green the
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functional tests are.
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**UNVERIFIED security items:** → list them and ask the user explicitly whether to
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ship with that surface unchecked. Do not decide this silently on their behalf.
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## 2. Pre-flight
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Update `features/INDEX.md` and the spec header to **In Review**. Verify by
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re-reading.
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## 3. Delegate testing
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## 3. Delegate — two agents, in parallel
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Invoke the **QA Engineer** sub-agent with:
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Invoke both in the same turn so they run concurrently. They answer different
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questions and must not be merged into one agent.
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**QA Engineer** — does the feature do what the spec promises?
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- the spec path
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- the list of deployed features to regression-check
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- any areas the developer flagged as risky
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Wait for its report.
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**Security Auditor** — is it safe to expose to the internet?
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- the spec path
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- which routes, auth flows and compose services this feature touched
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- whether a deployment already exists (so it can check live headers)
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Wait for both reports.
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The Security Auditor has a **veto**. If it returns `BLOCK`, the feature is not
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Approved — regardless of how clean the functional test run was. Never average the
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two verdicts into an optimistic summary, and never let the QA Engineer's
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"production ready: YES" stand in for a security verdict it is not allowed to give.
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## 4. Write results into the spec
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## QA Test Results
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**Getestet:** YYYY-MM-DD
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**Tester:** QA Engineer (AI)
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**Geprüft von:** QA Engineer + Security Auditor (AI)
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### Acceptance Criteria
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- [x] AC-1: [Kriterium]
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### Edge Cases
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- [x] EC-1: [Randfall] — korrekt behandelt
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### Security-Audit
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- [x] Ohne Session kein Zugriff
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- [x] Kein Zugriff auf fremde Datensätze
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- [x] Passkey ist der primäre Anmeldeweg
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- [x] Eingaben validiert, keine Injection
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### Security-Audit (Security Auditor)
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### Gefundene Bugs
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**Verdikt: BLOCK | PASS-MIT-BEFUNDEN | PASS**
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| Bereich | Ergebnis | Beleg |
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|---------|----------|-------|
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| Authentifizierung | PASS | Passkey primär, `src/lib/auth.ts:24` |
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| Autorisierung | FAIL | siehe SEC-1 |
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| Eingabevalidierung | PASS | Zod auf allen Write-Routen |
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| Secrets | PASS | nichts in der History, `.env.example` vollständig |
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| Container-Exposure | UNGEPRÜFT | Docker in dieser Umgebung nicht verfügbar |
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| Security-Header | PASS | `next.config.ts:8-20` |
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| Abhängigkeiten | PASS | 0 High/Critical in Prod-Deps |
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| Fehler- und Log-Hygiene | PASS | |
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**UNGEPRÜFT ist kein Bestanden.** Jeder solche Punkt bleibt hier stehen, bis ihn
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jemand tatsächlich geprüft hat.
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#### SEC-1: [Titel]
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- **Severity:** Critical | High | Medium | Low
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- **Ort:** `datei.ts:zeile`
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- **Angriff:** was ein Angreifer konkret tut
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- **Ursache:** warum es funktioniert
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- **Fix gehört zu:** /backend | /frontend
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### Gefundene Bugs (QA Engineer)
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#### BUG-1: [Titel]
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- **Severity:** Critical | High | Medium | Low
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### Zusammenfassung
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- **Acceptance Criteria:** X von Y bestanden
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- **Bugs:** N gesamt (C critical, H high, M medium, L low)
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- **Produktionsreif:** JA / NEIN
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- **Security:** Verdikt + Anzahl Befunde + Anzahl UNGEPRÜFT
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- **Produktionsreif:** JA / NEIN — bei Security-Verdikt BLOCK immer NEIN
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```
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Re-read the file afterwards to confirm it landed.
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## 5. Review with the user
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Present: criteria passed/failed, bugs by severity, security findings, verdict.
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Then ask:
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> "Welche Bugs sollen zuerst behoben werden?"
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Present both verdicts separately — functional and security. Name every UNVERIFIED
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security item out loud; those are the parts nobody has checked, and burying them in
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the table is how they get forgotten. Then ask:
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> "Welche Befunde sollen zuerst behoben werden?"
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## 6. Wrap up
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- [ ] Every acceptance criterion has an individual pass/fail
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- [ ] Documented and undocumented edge cases tested
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- [ ] Security audit done from a red-team angle
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- [ ] Security Auditor ran and returned a verdict
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- [ ] Every UNVERIFIED security item is listed in the spec, not silently dropped
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- [ ] Regression check against deployed features
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- [ ] Unit tests for non-trivial logic (`npm test` passes)
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- [ ] E2E test per passing criterion (`npm run test:e2e` passes)
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- [ ] QA section written into the spec and verified
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- [ ] `features/INDEX.md` → **Approved** if no Critical/High, otherwise stays **In Review**
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- [ ] `features/INDEX.md` → **Approved** only if there are no Critical/High bugs
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**and** the security verdict is not BLOCK; otherwise stays **In Review**
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## Handoff
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- Clean → "Alle Tests bestanden, Status **Approved**. Nächster Schritt: `/deploy`."
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- Bugs → "[N] Bugs gefunden ([Aufschlüsselung]). Status bleibt **In Review**.
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Erst `/frontend` bzw. `/backend` zum Beheben, danach nochmal `/qa`."
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- Both clean → "Tests bestanden, Security-Verdikt PASS. Status **Approved**.
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Nächster Schritt: `/deploy`."
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- Security BLOCK → "Security-Audit blockiert: [Befunde]. Status bleibt **In Review**,
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unabhängig von den Funktionstests. Erst `/backend` bzw. `/frontend` zum Beheben,
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danach nochmal `/qa`."
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- Nur Bugs → "[N] Bugs gefunden ([Aufschlüsselung]). Status bleibt **In Review**."
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## Commit
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