Post Patch Validation

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Validates security patches with reproducible baseline-versus-patched evidence, including original exploits, root-cause variants, behavior preservation, regressions, and newly introduced security failures. Use after a patch exists and before accepting, merging, or reporting it as fixed; also use when an AI-generated patch, remediation commit, pull request, or proposed upstream fix needs adversarial post-patch validation across any language.

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Post-patch validation provides a structured framework for verifying security fixes. It moves beyond simple diff analysis by requiring reproducible evidence that a patch actually remediates the reported vulnerability without introducing regressions or new security failures. The skill uses a pinned, isolated environment to run a series of checks—including exploits, variants, and behavioral tests—against both the vulnerable base and the patched code. It enforces strict evidence requirements, such as mandatory execution markers, to ensure that test harnesses are actually reaching the vulnerable code path rather than failing due to unrelated environmental issues.

What it does

Scaffolds a validation plan to compare vulnerable and patched code revisions.
Executes controlled tests to verify exploit remediation and variant coverage.
Validates that patches do not introduce regressions or break existing behavior.
Ensures test harnesses are actually executing the target code via mandatory markers.
Provides a structured assessment report identifying findings and validation gaps.
Isolates test execution to prevent cross-contamination and ensure reproducible results.

When to use it

After a security patch, remediation commit, or pull request has been created.
When validating AI-generated patches before merging them into a codebase.
When a fix addresses a specific exploit but might miss variants of the same root cause.
When you need to confirm that a security fix does not alter legitimate application behavior.

Advantages

Reduces reliance on manual review by providing concrete, reproducible evidence.
Prevents false positives where a test passes due to environmental factors rather than a fix.
Identifies gaps in test coverage that might leave the system vulnerable to variants.
Maintains a clear audit trail of evidence for both the base and patched revisions.

Usage examples

“Validate the security patch in the current repository for finding ID CVE-2024-1234.”: The agent scaffolds a validation plan, executes the baseline and patched versions, and generates a report confirming if the exploit is remediated and if any regressions were introduced.
“Run post-patch validation for my recent pull request fixing a buffer overflow.”: The agent identifies the affected files, sets up the runtime environment, runs the exploit and variant checks, and provides an assessment of the patch's effectiveness.

Install

Download the skill as a ZIP:
https://autogineer.com/agent-skills/trailofbits/post-patch-validation/download

Unzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:

mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip post-patch-validation.zip -d .agents/skills

Documentation by Trail of Bits

Post-Patch Validation

Validate a security patch against the reported bug and the surrounding code it affects. Give the patch author reproducible failures to fix and identify what still needs testing. Apply the same checks to human and agent patches. The diff, author, upstream implementation, and original proof of concept alone cannot establish correctness.

When to Use

A security fix, remediation commit, patch file, or pull request already exists.
An AI-generated patch needs validation before human review or merge.
A fix may cover one exploit path while missing variants of the same root cause.
A security fix may alter legitimate behavior or introduce a new vulnerability.
A patch author needs concrete failures and coverage gaps before another revision.

When NOT to Use

No patch exists yet; use vulnerability discovery or fix implementation first.
The task is to review an audit finding against a report without executing patch evidence.
The task is only to convert a finding into a permanent project test.
The target is remote or production. This skill executes local code and tests only.
The user has not authorized execution of the repository's code or test suite.

Quick Start

Pin the vulnerable base and patched input. Prefer immutable commits. For uncommitted work, create a binary patch file first; do not validate in the user's working tree.
Scaffold a pinned plan:
```
uv run {baseDir}/scripts/post_patch_validation.py scaffold \
  --repo . \
  --base-ref <vulnerable-ref> \
  --patched-ref <patched-ref> \
  --finding-id <stable-id> \
  --finding-summary "<root cause and impact>" \
  --evidence-level runtime \
  --output post-patch-validation/plan.json
```
Use --patch-file <path> instead of --patched-ref for a patch artifact. Choose the highest honest evidence level: source for source/patch invariants only, build when target code is compiled or analyzed but the reported behavior is not executed, or runtime when the checks execute the reported behavior and its safety assertions.
Inspect the finding, diff, callers, sibling paths, cleanup/error paths, and existing tests. Populate checks in the generated plan. Run print-schema for the structural schema:
```
uv run {baseDir}/scripts/post_patch_validation.py print-schema
```
Run validate-plan for the complete validation, including coverage, command restrictions, and pinned inputs, before executing code:
```
uv run {baseDir}/scripts/post_patch_validation.py validate-plan \
  --plan post-patch-validation/plan.json
```

Execute the evidence plan:

uv run {baseDir}/scripts/post_patch_validation.py run \
  --plan post-patch-validation/plan.json \
  --output post-patch-validation/results

Report result.json, report.md, the evidence level, and the complete assessment. Return each finding to the patch author with its check ID, assertion, and saved logs. Identify each validation gap separately, including gaps that coexist with supported findings. After the author revises the patch, pin the new inputs and save a fresh validation run. Preserve the prior evidence. Passing supplied checks still requires human review before acceptance.

Evidence Contract

The runner rejects incomplete plans. Supply at least one check of every kind:

Kind	Required observation
`control`	Benign harness succeeds on both base and patch
`exploit`	Original safety assertion fails on base and succeeds on patch
`variant`	A distinct root-cause variant fails on base and succeeds on patch
`behavior`	Unaffected behavior succeeds with byte-identical selected output
`regression`	Targeted non-security regression check succeeds on both revisions
`security`	Adjacent/new-vulnerability check succeeds on base and patch
`suite`	Existing project suite, sanitizer, or deterministic fuzz campaign succeeds on patch

Commands are argv arrays, never shell strings. Put complex setup in a checked-in or plan artifact script and invoke it with {plan_dir}. The runner fixes locale/timezone/hash-seed inputs, executes checks in lexical ID order, records raw stdout/stderr, and never edits the original worktree. Each check's timeout_seconds defaults to 300 and accepts integers from 1 through 3600. Exceeding the timeout leaves a validation gap. A timeout alone does not establish a regression. Every plan also contains a sorted submodules array ([] when none). Scaffolding infers affected Gitlinks from the changed-file inventory. The runner initializes those pinned commits from the source repository's existing Git module objects, never from .gitmodules network URLs; initialize or fetch them in the source repository before validation.

Exploit and variant checks must prove they ran

A nonzero exit does not mean the vulnerability reproduced. An import error, a failed build, a missing dependency, and a failed safety assertion all exit nonzero and are indistinguishable to the runner. Every exploit and variant check must print and flush PPV_REACHED immediately before it evaluates its assertion, on both revisions:

"argv": ["python3", "-c", "import app; value = app.render('<'); print('PPV_REACHED', flush=True); assert value == '&lt;'"]

The token is also in the environment as PPV_REACHED_MARKER. It must land on stdout, as a line of its own. Stderr is not scanned, because a Python SyntaxError traceback echoes the offending source and would otherwise satisfy the check for a harness that executed nothing. A run without it leaves a marker_missing gap. Independent findings from other checks remain in the result. Flush explicitly: a harness whose payload segfaults or calls _exit loses buffered output and forfeits its own evidence.

These checks also run side-blind. {side} is not expanded for them, PPV_SIDE is absent from their environment, the checkout directory is randomly named, and the plan validator rejects any exploit or variant check whose argv or env mentions either. An assertion that can see which revision it is on can assert on that instead of on the code, which is the cheapest possible way to fake a reproduction followed by a fix.

Environment

Checks run under a fixed minimal environment: PATH, HOME, and a handful of temp/user keys, plus LANG/LC_ALL=C, TZ=UTC, PYTHONHASHSEED=0, NO_COLOR, TERM=dumb. Everything else in the caller's environment is dropped. Toolchains that need more get it explicitly:

uv run {baseDir}/scripts/post_patch_validation.py run \
  --plan post-patch-validation/plan.json \
  --output post-patch-validation/results \
  --allow-env JAVA_HOME --allow-env CARGO_HOME

Forwarded names and values are recorded in result.json. A requested variable that is unset is an error, not an empty string. Two classes are refused outright: names that read as credentials (*SECRET*, *TOKEN*, *API_KEY*, …), because the value would be written into the result; and names that change what executes (LD_PRELOAD, BASH_ENV, NODE_OPTIONS, GIT_SSH_COMMAND, …), because those variables can change which code executes. The runner's fixed variables and every PPV_* name are also reserved and cannot be forwarded.

Placeholders expanded in argv and per-check env values: {checkout} (the revision under test), {plan_dir} (an isolated copy of the plan artifacts for that one invocation), {scratch} (a fresh opaque directory for that one check invocation), and {side} (base or patched, and not available to exploit/variant checks). The same values arrive as PPV_CHECKOUT, PPV_PLAN_DIR, PPV_SCRATCH, PPV_SIDE, and PPV_CASE_ID. Write only under {scratch}; the evidence directory path is not passed to checks. Base and patched invocations do not share runner-managed scratch, plan, or worktree roots. After each invocation exits, its scratch tree is archived under the deterministic results/scratch/<check-id-and-side> path, its private plan copy is discarded, and every readable argv element that resolves to a file is hashed in argv_files. Files inside the isolated plan or checkout roots are additionally retained under results/helpers/<sha256> up to 16 MiB; the record explains why any other file was not archived. Use a dedicated directory for plan.json: its sibling files and directories are copied into each invocation's {plan_dir}. Keep helper code under that directory's checks/ directory or checked into the target repository so its bytes are reviewable. The machine plan containing commit pins, the current output directory, and detected prior result trees are excluded; symlinks are rejected. The clean snapshot remains only in runner memory, and exploit/variant sides execute in random order while evidence filenames remain deterministic. Stdout/stderr use anonymous or randomly named capture descriptors and are copied to the named evidence files only after the child exits, so fd inspection cannot disclose the side label.

This isolation is not a host sandbox: checks run with the caller's privileges and a malicious helper could use arbitrary external state or deliberately infer the revision from source or Git metadata. Inspect the content-addressed helper artifacts, and use an OS/container sandbox when the check code itself is untrusted.

Active validation worktrees are Git-locked with random owner tokens backed by kernel file locks, so another concurrent validator cannot prune them and PID reuse cannot impersonate an owner. If the runner is forcibly killed, the next run unlocks stale validator-owned registrations. For manual recovery, inspect git worktree list, then use git worktree unlock <path> and git worktree remove --force <path> (or git worktree prune after the path is gone).

Read evidence-model.md when designing coverage, selecting variants, or interpreting findings and validation gaps. Do not read it for routine CLI execution.

Coverage Rules

Derive variants from the root cause, not cosmetic mutations of the original payload.
Enumerate sibling call sites, alternate callbacks/outputs, error paths, teardown, ownership, serialization, and boundary values touched by the fix.
Make each exploit or variant test assert the safe behavior. It must fail on the vulnerable base; a test that passes on both revisions proves nothing about remediation. Read the base-side stderr and confirm the failure is the assertion you wrote, not a harness that never got there.
Keep exploit and variant assertions limited to the security invariant. Test liveness, exact error types/messages, timing, and compatibility separately as behavior or regression checks; otherwise an unrelated contract change can masquerade as proof that the vulnerability remains.
Keep the control harness benign and make it exercise the changed component. It establishes that the harness works on both revisions. Failed controls leave gaps and prevent attributing other failures to the patch. The raw observations remain available for review.
Use behavior only for behavior that should remain unchanged. Exact output comparison is deliberate; move unstable values behind a deterministic test harness instead of normalizing them away in prose.
Make security checks pass on the vulnerable base before treating a patched failure as newly introduced. A failed baseline leaves attribution unresolved.
Do not edit the patch during validation. Return failures to the patch author and start a new, freshly pinned run.

Reading the result

result.json schema 2.0 contains an assessment with status, findings, gaps, and human_review_required. Status is complete when all required checks produced usable evidence, even if some checks found failures. Status is incomplete when any gap remains. Findings name the check ID, check kind, and failed expectation. Gaps name the check ID and missing evidence, with a null check ID for run-level problems such as cleanup failures.

Suite checks run on the patched revision first. A completed failure triggers the same check on baseline. If baseline passes, report the failure after the patch. If both fail, preserve both logs and report that attribution is unresolved. Do not assume matching exit codes mean the same failure.

The runner exits 0 for complete checks with no findings, 1 for complete checks with findings, 10 for incomplete validation, and 64 for invalid inputs. Read the artifact even after exit 10: it can contain supported findings alongside gaps. Source or build evidence cannot establish runtime behavior. State the evidence level alongside any passing result.

Claude Dynamic Workflow

Claude Code exposes the bundled workflow as /post-patch-validation:validate-patch. To pass structured inputs through the Workflow tool, use the name without a leading slash:

Workflow({
  name: 'post-patch-validation:validate-patch',
  args: {
    finding: '<finding text or local path>',
    baseRef: '<vulnerable-ref>',
    patchRef: '<patched-ref>',
    workdir: 'post-patch-validation',
  },
})

Use patchFile instead of patchRef when appropriate. The workflow uses fixed coverage lenses to propose checks and a fixed executor to run this skill. Agents may author test artifacts. The Python runner records findings and gaps, and reviewers report coverage or evidence concerns separately. NEEDS_REPAIR returns supported failures even when other checks left gaps. BLOCKED means evidence is incomplete without a supported failure. Passing checks advance to READY_FOR_HUMAN_REVIEW only after both evidence reviews approve, otherwise REVIEW_REQUIRED. The workflow cannot ask questions after launch, so pass every input up front.

Rationalizations to Reject

Rationalization	Required response
"The original PoC no longer works"	Test at least one independent root-cause variant
"The exploit failed on base, so it reproduced"	Confirm the marker and that the failure is the assertion, not a broken harness
"The full suite passes"	Prove baseline reproduction and targeted behavior explicitly
"This matches the upstream/canonical patch"	Treat provenance as context, not evidence
"The diff is tiny"	Exercise callers, failure paths, and teardown affected by the change
"All supplied checks passed"	Preserve artifacts and require human review
"A flaky rerun passed"	Keep the first pinned result; fix nondeterminism before retrying
"There is no obvious variant"	Inspect sibling sites and boundaries; otherwise report the missing coverage

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Requirements and compatibility

Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Roo Code, JetBrains Junie, Factory Droid, Devin (ex-Windsurf), Mistral Vibe, OpenHands, Letta

“Works with” means the tool reads the open Agent Skills format; a skill written for one tool may use features others lack.

Needs: Declares allowed tools, Needs an API key, Needs Python

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Attribution and licence

Published by

Trail of Bits

Publisher

Trail of Bits (Official)

Source

trailofbits/skills · plugins/post-patch-validation/skills/post-patch-validation · commit e4dd0bb

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (redistribution allowed)

LICENSE (added by AutoGineer from LICENSE)
ATTRIBUTION.md (written by AutoGineer)

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2026-11-09

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