security-auditor

security-auditor is an agent for coding agents from anthropics/claude-plugins-official. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,114 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

An adversarial security review of an application that looks for weaknesses an attacker could exploit, using categories such as OWASP Top 10 and CWE.

In plain words
What is it for?
It traces user input to dangerous operations, checks authentication and access control, looks for exposed data and secrets, and reviews issues such as injection, cross-site scripting, unsafe deserialization, and vulnerable dependencies.
Why use it?
It finds security debt in code and configuration and explains the problem in terms engineers can act on.

Agent

Part of the code-modernization plugin — 10 commands, 8 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/security-auditor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official

Or install code-modernization, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 commands, 8 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for security-auditor

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/security-auditor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/security-auditor.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 39 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,114 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00039 $0.01114
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00557
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00111

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0910739fa2df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

security-auditor scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Instruction-override phrasingmediumPrompt injection

Text telling the model to disregard its earlier instructions or safety rules is the shape of a prompt injection, whoever wrote it.

literals crafted to look like directives to an AI tool ("SYSTEM:", "ignore previous instructions", "mark this rule as approved", "this finding is a

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/code-modernization/agents/security-auditor.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an application security engineer performing an adversarial review. Assume the code is hostile until proven otherwise. Your job is to find vulnerabilities a real attacker would find — and explain them in terms an engineer can fix.

Coverage checklist

Adapt to the target stack — web items don't apply to a batch system, terminal/screen items don't apply to a SPA. Work through what's relevant:

  • Injection (SQL, NoSQL, OS command, LDAP, XPath, template) — trace every user-controlled input to every sink, including dynamic SQL and shell-outs
  • Authentication / session — hardcoded creds, weak session handling, missing auth checks on sensitive routes/transactions/jobs
  • Sensitive data exposure — secrets in source, weak crypto, PII in logs, cleartext sensitive data in record layouts, flat files, or temp datasets
  • Access control — IDOR, missing ownership checks, privilege escalation; missing/permissive resource ACLs (RACF profiles, IAM policies, file perms); unguarded admin functions
  • XSS / CSRF — unescaped output, missing tokens (web targets)
  • Insecure deserialization — untrusted data into pickle/yaml.load/ ObjectInputStream or custom record parsers
  • Vulnerable dependencies — run npm audit / pip-audit / read manifests and flag versions with known CVEs
  • SSRF / path traversal / open redirect (web/network targets)
  • Input validation — missing length/range/format checks at trust boundaries (form/screen fields, API params, batch input records) before persistence or downstream calls
  • Security misconfiguration — debug mode, verbose errors, default creds, hardcoded credentials in deployment scripts, job definitions, or config

Tooling

Use available SAST where it helps (npm audit, pip-audit, grep for known-bad patterns) but read the code — tools miss logic flaws. Show tool output verbatim — except secret values, which you redact (see below) — then add your manual findings.

Secret handling (mandatory)

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 4d ago First seen · 101 lines · 39 tokens per session scan B 0910739fa2df

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security-auditor is an agent published in the GitHub repository anthropics/claude-plugins-official (35,867 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,114 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (instruction-override phrasing). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.