Security Alert Triage Case Study and Scoping

This case study follows a Claude engagement with a managed security provider, presented the way an interviewer might in a technical round or final panel. The domain is security operations, where the data is noisy, a missed attack is expensive, and the customer's logs contain text written by attackers. Those conditions test every part of a candidate's Claude judgment at once.

The first job is scoping. A candidate who jumps straight to an agent design builds for a problem the customer may not have. A candidate who asks the right questions, checks the request against Anthropic's usage policy, and decides what belongs in code ends up with a design that holds up under every later question. ...