
secops-detection-engineering
Author, validate, test, and deploy YARA-L 2.0 detection rules
by googleFree
Description
SecOps detection engineering is an agent skill for writing, validating, testing and deploying detection rules in Google Security Operations. The rules are written in YARA-L 2.0. The skill covers the whole detection engineering lifecycle and two distinct paths: writing new rules when you start with concrete detection logic, and evaluating detection coverage gaps when you start with broad threat intelligence. For the second path, it works from threat intelligence to evaluate detection coverage and mitigate the gaps it finds. The skill treats external threat feeds, CVE disclosures, synthetic events and rule test payloads as untrusted data, so instructions inside a threat description cannot make the agent act. It is aimed at security engineers who maintain detection content and want an agent to draft, check and test rules against real or synthetic events before they are deployed. It is published by Google on skills.sh under the google skills repository, with about 1.5K installs. The skills.sh listing shows Gen Agent Trust Hub and Socket passing, with Snyk showing Warn.…
Highlights
- Authors YARA-L 2.0 detection rules
- Validates and tests rules before deployment
- Two paths: new rules or coverage gap evaluation
- Threat intelligence driven gap mitigation
- Treats threat feeds and payloads as data
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secops-detection-engineering FAQ
What language are the rules?
YARA-L 2.0, the detection rule language used in Google SecOps.
What are the two paths?
Writing new rules when you start from detection logic, and evaluating coverage gaps when you start from threat intelligence.
How are rules tested?
The skill validates and tests rules, including against synthetic UDM events, before deployment.
How do I install it?
Run npx skills add https://github.com/google/skills --skill secops-detection-engineering.
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