Building a Reusable AI Skill for STIG-to-Excel Conversion
One saved skill turns a 300-page U.S. government security checklist into a reviewed Excel tracker from a single instruction. This is the complete walkthrough: the code, the real outputs, and the failures along the way.
The problem I actually have
I have spent my career inside security compliance. I was part of the team that developed the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for VxRail, a hyperconverged infrastructure product, and today, as an escalation engineer, I resolve STIG-related problems for customers in banking, retail, logistics, and the federal space, including defense and aerospace. A STIG is a hardening checklist published by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA); there are more than 500 of them, one per technology, and a single operating-system STIG carries 250 to 300 rules.
The repetitive part of that work is not the security judgment. It is the translation: converting a large XCCDF (Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format)...
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