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Threat Model The Feature
Before shipping user management, payments, uploads, or AI tools, ask who could abuse it and what they could steal or break.
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- 1Threat Model The Feature
- 2threat model
- 3security
- 4abuse case
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Threat Model The Feature
Before shipping user management, payments, uploads, or AI tools, ask who could abuse it and what they could steal or break.
- 1Name the job before naming the tool.
- 2Write the smallest useful scope the agent can finish.
- 3Run the result as a user, not as a fan of the tool.
- 4Inspect the diff, data access, and failure path before sharing.
Use this as the working prompt or checklist for the lesson.
Threat model invite links. Attacker goals: join wrong org, escalate role, reuse expired token, enumerate emails. Add mitigations for each.- What should the user be able to do when this is finished?
- What data should the app or agent never expose?
- What test proves the change works?
- What rollback path exists if the output is wrong?
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