Snyk Security Scanning AI Skill Guide

Overview & Engine Architecture

Snyk scans applications for vulnerable dependencies (Open Source), container images, IaC misconfigs, and optionally code issues. Results flow to the Snyk UI and CI. Agents prioritize reachable/high-severity issues, prefer upgrade paths over endless ignores, and wire gates that match the team's risk appetite.

Manifests / lockfiles / Dockerfiles / IaC
   -> snyk test | monitor | container test | iac test
       -> Vulnerability DB + policy
           -> Fix PRs / ignores / CI fail

When to use this skill

• Adding dependency scanning to repos and pipelines
• Triaging CVEs in npm/pip/maven lockfiles
• Scanning container images before deploy
• Setting org ignore policies with expiry