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security-alert-analysis

Investigate a specific Elastic Security detection alert: gather context, assess entity risk, classify the threat, document findings, and optionally acknowledge. Use when triaging a single known alert, performing SOC investigation, or following up after the security-alert-triage skill identifies a group to investigate.

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# Alert Analysis

Investigate one Elastic Security alert (or one group of related alerts) end to end: gather context, classify the threat,
document findings, and — after confirming scope with the analyst — acknowledge.

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## Environment Configuration

This skill executes Elasticsearch operations through the `elastic` CLI. If the
[`elastic` CLI](https://github.com/elastic/cli#configuration) is not installed, tell the user what it is needed for. Do
not guess credentials, call the HTTP API directly, or attempt other workarounds.

This skill references operations in HTTP-shorthand form (e.g., `GET /`, `GET /_cat/indices`, `GET /{index}/_mapping`,