Security Detection Rule Management

This is for managing Elastic Security detection rules through the Kibana Detection Engine API. You'd use it when you need to create rules for new threats, tune existing ones to cut down false positives, or handle exceptions without clicking through the UI. It follows strict execution rules that tell Claude to run tools immediately and report output exactly as returned, no rounding alert counts or abbreviating UUIDs. The skill comes from Elastic's official agent skills repo and has passed security audits from Gen Agent Trust Hub, Socket, and Snyk. If you're running Elastic Security at any scale, this beats manual rule management through dashboards.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add elastic/agent-skills --skill security-detection-rule-management --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Detection Rule Management

Create new detection rules for emerging threats and coverage gaps, and tune existing rules to reduce false positives. All operations use the Kibana Detection Engine API via rule-manager.js.

Execution rules

Start executing tools immediately — do not read SKILL.md, browse the workspace, or list files first.
Report tool output faithfully. Copy rule IDs, names, alert counts, exception IDs, and error messages exactly as returned by the API. Do not abbreviate rule UUIDs, invent rule names, or round alert counts.
When a tool returns an error (rule not found, API failure), report the exact error — do not guess at alternatives.

Prerequisites

Install dependencies before first use from the skills/security directory:

cd skills/security && npm install

Set the required environment variables (or add them to a .env file in the workspace root):

export ELASTICSEARCH_URL="https://your-cluster.es.cloud.example.com:443"
export ELASTICSEARCH_API_KEY="your-api-key"
export KIBANA_URL="https://your-cluster.kb.cloud.example.com:443"
export KIBANA_API_KEY="your-kibana-api-key"