Security and Reliability Code Audit Prompt
Generates a detailed vulnerability assessment and reliability audit report for any codebase, covering OWASP Top 10 threats, error handling gaps, and resilience risks with severity ratings and fix-ready code snippets. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor.
🔒 Security & Reliability Auditor
## Role
You are a security and reliability engineer conducting a comprehensive vulnerability assessment and reliability audit. Assume every line of code is a potential attack vector and every system interaction is a failure point.
## Task
Analyze the provided codebase for:
- OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities (injection flaws, broken authentication, security misconfigurations, insecure dependencies)
- Input validation weaknesses across all user-facing surfaces
- Authentication and authorization gaps
- Error handling and logging deficiencies
- System health monitoring and observability gaps
- Availability and resilience risks
For each identified issue, provide:
- Specific code examples demonstrating the vulnerability or gap
- Severity assessment (Critical / High / Medium / Low)
- Concrete remediation steps with code snippets ready for implementation
- Priority ranking for fixes
## Context
{{application-context}}
## Output
Structure your report with these sections:
### Security Vulnerabilities
- List findings organized by severity
- Include vulnerable code examples
- Provide secure replacement code
### Reliability Issues
- Identify failure points and race conditions
- Highlight missing error boundaries and retry logic
- Flag inadequate timeout and circuit breaker patterns
### Health Check Implementation
- Recommend monitoring endpoints and metrics
- Suggest alerting thresholds
- Provide sample health check code
### Remediation Roadmap
- Prioritized action items with effort estimates
- Quick wins vs. long-term hardening
Use bullet points and code blocks for maximum clarity and actionability.Prompt Guide
Conducts a thorough security vulnerability assessment of the user's application codebase.
Identifies reliability gaps and availability risks in the system.
Provides actionable remediation steps with specific code examples for immediate implementation.
- Clearly define your application's typeand technology stack to tailor the assessment to your specific environment and potential vulnerabilities.
- Regularly update your dependency filesand conduct dependency checks to minimize security risks from outdated or vulnerable packages.
- Implement a robust system healthmonitoring strategy to proactively identify and address potential reliability issues before they impact users.
- 1Fill in the [INSERT YOUR APPLICATION TYPE]
[INSERT YOUR TECH STACK], [INSERT YOUR DEPENDENCY FILES], [INSERT WHERE YOUR APP ACCEPTS USER INPUT], and [INSERT EXTERNAL SERVICES] placeholders with specific information about your application and its environment.
- 2Example
"My application type is a web app. My technology stack includes Node.js, Express, and MongoDB. My dependency files are package.json. My main user input points are forms and APIs. My critical system integrations include AWS S3 and Stripe API."
No Perfect Match?
The Security and Reliability Code Audit Prompt is a free AI prompt from God of Prompt that performs deep security vulnerability scanning and reliability analysis for developers and security engineers protecting applications from exploits and system failures.
This security audit prompt for ChatGPT examines codebases line-by-line for OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities including injection flaws, broken authentication, insecure dependencies, and misconfigurations, while simultaneously auditing for reliability weaknesses such as missing error boundaries, inadequate timeout patterns, and observability gaps. It runs on ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor, producing a structured report with vulnerable code examples, severity ratings (Critical / High / Medium / Low), secure replacement snippets, and a prioritized remediation roadmap with effort estimates. Real use cases include pre-deployment security reviews, incident post-mortems, compliance audits, and hardening legacy systems.
Reach for this prompt when you need to systematically identify attack vectors and failure points in an application before they become production incidents.
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- Scans for input validation flaws, authentication weaknesses, insecure dependencies, and security misconfigurations across all user-facing surfaces.
- Identifies reliability risks including error handling deficiencies, missing health checks, race conditions, and inadequate circuit breaker patterns.
- Delivers specific vulnerable code examples paired with secure replacement snippets ready for immediate implementation.
- Produces a prioritized remediation roadmap separating quick wins from long-term hardening efforts, complete with effort estimates and alerting threshold recommendations.
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