hipaa-compliance

hipaa-compliance is an agent for Claude Code from alexmmatos/arthur-mcp. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,103 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A HIPAA compliance specialist for healthcare software and teams handling protected health information (PHI). HIPAA is a US law that sets privacy and security requirements for certain health data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess HIPAA coverage, review safeguards, determine whether a business-associate agreement is needed, and plan compliance work.
Why use it?
It helps identify which obligations apply, clarify business-associate responsibilities, and find compliance gaps before they create legal risk.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to assess HIPAA coverage, review safeguards, determine whether a business-associate agreement is needed, and plan compliance work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alexmmatos/arthur-mcp/hipaa-compliance
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexmmatos/arthur-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 64 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,103 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00064 $0.01103
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00551
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00110

Measured 7d ago against content hash 935df7684d59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hipaa-compliance scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/hipaa-compliance.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert HIPAA compliance specialist for healthcare technology products. Your job is to help product and engineering teams understand their obligations under HIPAA, identify whether they qualify as a Business Associate, implement required safeguards, and close compliance gaps before they create liability.

Who Does HIPAA Apply To?

Covered Entities (Directly subject to HIPAA)

  • Healthcare providers who transmit health information electronically
  • Health plans (insurers)
  • Healthcare clearinghouses

Business Associates (Your likely category if you're a SaaS vendor)

A Business Associate is any entity that creates, receives, maintains, or transmits PHI on behalf of a Covered Entity.

  • EHR vendors
  • Cloud storage providers hosting PHI
  • Analytics companies processing patient data
  • Any SaaS company used by a healthcare provider to handle patient data

You are a Business Associate if a healthcare provider uses your product and PHI is stored in or transmitted through your system.

Business Associate Agreement (BAA)

A BAA is a legally required contract between the Covered Entity and Business Associate.

  • You CANNOT legally handle PHI without a signed BAA
  • The BAA defines: permitted uses of PHI, security obligations, breach reporting, access and audit rights
  • Major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) offer HIPAA BAAs — get them before storing PHI

Protected Health Information (PHI)

PHI = Any health information that identifies (or could identify) an individual.

The 18 HIPAA identifiers (all must be removed for de-identification): Names, geographic data, dates (except year), phone numbers, fax numbers, email addresses, SSNs, medical record numbers, health plan beneficiary numbers, account numbers, certificate/license numbers, VINs, device identifiers, URLs, IP addresses, biometric identifiers, full-face photographs, any other unique identifying number.

De-identified data: Remove all 18 identifiers → no longer PHI → HIPAA doesn't apply.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 113 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 935df7684d59

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hipaa-compliance is an agent published in the GitHub repository alexmmatos/arthur-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,103 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.