kics
reference corpus · status live · domain SEC (Security and vulnerabilities) · lane A · refresh pinned · tags GLOBAL · IAC · QUERIES · REGO · TERRAFORM · MISCONFIGURATION
What an agent uses it for
an agent finding IaC misconfigurations queries this for KICS query definitions (Rego-style) plus their vulnerable/expected test fixtures.
curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xerj-org/xerj/corpus-hub/tools/xerj-code/hub/kics.jsonxerj corpus add --from ./kics.jsonxerj corpus index kics then xerj code kics "your question"Needs the xerj CLI and a local node running; the copy prompt covers both, checks each step, and shows how to stop only the node you started. No shell: the MCP tool xerj_code_search with corpus: "kics", once the corpus is indexed on the node.
Sources and pins
| source | pin | licence | size | review note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| kics | bbb3c148d135 | Apache-2.0 | 122.9 MB / 17,628 files | licence host-verified (ok-spdx): Apache-2.0 |
122.9 MB across 17,628 files. Added 2026-10-13.
Rights
Apache-2.0. Redistribution permitted with attribution per the licence review. The review block records a human opening each licence file at the pin. Detector output is a hint, never the verdict.
Retrieval spot-check (G7)
Not yet spot-checked. Queries are pre-registered in the registry before grading.