Jim Manico
Jim Manico is an individual secure-coding educator, application-security practitioner, author, speaker, OWASP volunteer, and solo creator of security guidance for developers and AI coding agents. His work teaches people and AI systems to build secure web, API, mobile, cloud, and AI-enabled software by default.
At a Glance
- Software engineering organizations using AI coding assistants
- Enterprise security and compliance teams
- Developers, architects, application-security and DevSecOps teams
- Organizations building web, API, mobile, cloud, and AI-driven applications
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AI Tools by Jim Manico
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Grim Prompter
Threat Modeling Prompts for AI Agents
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Latest News
Grim Prompter repository documentation and related prompt-library links updated; repository shows nine commits and an initial release on October 28, 2026.
Trim Reaper dependency-reduction prompt library received its latest documentation update; the repository describes a policy plus eight prompts for coding agents.
Dread Ledger open-source security-logging workflow for AI coding agents was published under the MIT License.
At SecAppDev 2026, Manico presented Model Context Protocol security, covering architecture, threat models, prompt injection, tool abuse, and data leakage defenses.
Products & Services
Commercial catalog of framework-specific system prompts that configure AI coding assistants to generate secure-by-default code. It supports secure-coding topics, multiple languages and frameworks, benchmarks, prompt updates, and enterprise support.
Customizable secure software-development training for developers, architects, security professionals, DevSecOps engineers, and software teams, covering web, services, mobile, native applications, cloud, DevSecOps, and AI security.
MIT-licensed open-source threat modeling for AI coding agents. It provides 36 architecture workflows and 29 method/analysis prompts, with evidence-traced reviews of trust boundaries, threats, controls, and mitigations for Claude Code, Codex, and other agents.
MIT-licensed open-source policy and prompt library for reducing unnecessary third-party dependencies while preserving behavior, security, and compatibility.
Market Position
Manico positions his work between traditional secure-coding education and generic AI coding assistants: Manicode Forge encodes framework-specific application-security expertise directly into the AI harness, while the open-source Grim Prompter, Trim Reaper, and Dread Ledger projects provide focused agent workflows for threat modeling, dependency reduction, and security logging. The differentiation is the combination of practitioner-authored secure-coding guidance, OWASP-informed content, broad AI-harness compatibility, and hands-on training; alternatives include generic assistants' built-in security guidance, conventional AppSec training, and standalone AppSec/threat-modeling tools.
Leadership
Founders
Jim Manico
Founder of Manicode Security and Manicode.ai; secure-coding instructor, Java Champion, author of Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications, conference speaker, investor/advisor, and long-time OWASP volunteer. He has led or co-led OWASP ASVS, the Cheat Sheet Series, Proactive Controls, and AISVS, and has trained developers, architects, and security engineers worldwide since 2014.
Executive Team
Jim Manico
Founder, Manicode Security and Manicode.ai
Secure-coding educator, Java Champion, author, speaker, investor/advisor, and OWASP project leader/co-leader.
Founding Story
Manico describes realizing in the late 1990s that security was often treated as an afterthought in web development. He dedicated his career to recording, teaching, and operationalizing secure-coding practices; Manicode Security grew from that mission into live and downloadable training, while Manicode.ai applies the same expertise to AI-generated code.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Founder-led commercial training, downloadable courses, and licensing/subscription-style commercial access to Manicode Forge prompt catalogs and support. Forge is sold through sales calls rather than self-serve checkout.
Pricing Tiers
Unlimited developers, repositories, and usage; any catalog prompt; pilot design support.
10 prompts included; unlimited developers, repositories, and usage; CLI installs, benchmarks, 12 months of prompt updates, and a dedicated solutions engineer.
Unlimited developers, repositories, and usage; Teams features plus model fine-tuning support, SOC 2 Type II and audit logs, SSO/SCIM provisioning, and a dedicated solutions engineer.
Target Markets
- Software engineering organizations using AI coding assistants
- Enterprise security and compliance teams
- Developers, architects, application-security and DevSecOps teams
- Organizations building web, API, mobile, cloud, and AI-driven applications
- Individuals and teams seeking secure-coding education
- Secure-by-default AI-assisted software development
- Threat modeling applications and AI-agent integrations
- Secure web, API, mobile, native, cloud, and DevSecOps engineering
- AI security, prompt injection, MCP/tool security, agentic AI, and AI supply-chain defense
- Reducing unnecessary software dependencies and supply-chain exposure
- Adding and reviewing security logging in AI-assisted codebases
- 11,615 Udemy learners and 5,560 course reviews are reported on Jim Manico's instructor profile.