claude-code-ultimate-guide/IDEAS.md
Florian BRUNIAUX 34b2ca7200 feat(security): add security hardening guide and hooks v3.6.0
- Add guide/security-hardening.md (~10K) covering:
  - MCP vetting workflow with CVE-2025-53109/53110, 54135, 54136
  - Prompt injection evasion techniques (Unicode, ANSI, null bytes)
  - Secret detection tool comparison (Gitleaks, TruffleHog, GitGuardian)
  - Incident response procedures

- Add 3 new security hooks:
  - unicode-injection-scanner.sh: zero-width, RTL, ANSI escape detection
  - repo-integrity-scanner.sh: scan README/package.json for injection
  - mcp-config-integrity.sh: verify MCP config hash

- Update existing hooks:
  - prompt-injection-detector.sh: +ANSI, +null bytes, +nested cmd
  - output-secrets-scanner.sh: +env leakage, +generic tokens

- Update cross-references in ultimate-guide.md (§7.4, §8.6)
- Move MCP Security Hardening to Done in IDEAS.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-01-15 07:39:53 +01:00

3.6 KiB

Ideas to Dig

Research topics for future guide improvements. Curated and validated.

Done

MCP Security Hardening

Unified security research covering MCP vulnerabilities, prompt injection, and secret detection.

Completed: Security Hardening Guide covers:

  • CVE-2025-53109/53110, 54135, 54136 with mitigations
  • MCP vetting workflow with 5-minute audit checklist
  • MCP Safe List (community vetted)
  • Prompt injection evasion techniques (Unicode, ANSI, null bytes)
  • Secret detection tool comparison (Gitleaks, TruffleHog, GitGuardian)
  • Incident response procedures (secret exposed, MCP compromised)
  • 3 new hooks: unicode-injection-scanner.sh, repo-integrity-scanner.sh, mcp-config-integrity.sh

High Priority

(No items currently)


Medium Priority

Concrete GitHub Actions examples for Claude Code integration.

Topics:

  • Automated PR review workflows
  • Test generation pipelines
  • Cost optimization patterns for API calls in CI
  • Pre-commit hooks integration

Perplexity Query:

GitHub Actions workflows for AI coding assistants 2024-2025:
- Automated code review with Claude/GPT
- Cost optimization for API calls in CI/CD
- Real examples from open source projects

MCP Server Catalog

Exhaustive list of MCP servers with real-world use cases.

Topics:

  • Available servers by category (dev tools, databases, APIs)
  • Performance benchmarks vs native tools
  • Security trust levels per server
  • Custom server development patterns

Perplexity Query:

MCP Model Context Protocol servers catalog 2024-2025:
- Most useful servers for developers
- Performance comparison MCP vs native tools
- How to build custom MCP servers

Lower Priority

CLAUDE.md Patterns Library

Stack-specific templates for common project types.

Topics:

  • React/Next.js optimized configurations
  • Python/FastAPI patterns
  • Go project conventions
  • Monorepo configurations

Perplexity Query:

CLAUDE.md configuration examples by framework:
- React, Next.js, Vue patterns
- Python, FastAPI, Django patterns
- Best practices from GitHub repositories

Discarded Ideas

Idea Reason Discarded
LLM Fine-tuning guide Out of scope - users don't control model training
Model architecture internals Too theoretical, not actionable
Token pricing optimization Changes too frequently, use official docs
A2A Protocol (Agent-to-Agent) Claude Code is single-agent with sub-agents, not true multi-agent
AgentOps Enterprise Dashboard Infrastructure doesn't exist for CLI tool
LLM-as-a-Judge evaluation Overkill for CLI, adds latency without proportional value
Decision Trajectory logging No access to internal traces (black box)
4 Pillars formal framework Too academic - guide already covers symptoms pragmatically
Canary/Blue-Green deployments Infrastructure patterns, not relevant for CLI
Memory Poisoning defenses Theoretical risk requiring prior system compromise
Prompt Engineering for Code Gen Already well covered (xml_prompting, prompt_formula)
Context Window Optimization Already well covered (context_management, context_triage)
Task Decomposition Patterns Covered via plan_mode, interaction_loop
Agent Architecture Comparisons Out of scope - not multi-agent theory
Real-World Case Studies Non-verifiable metrics, marketing-prone
Comparison with Other Tools Out of scope, rapid obsolescence

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