api-security-audit

api-security-audit is an agent for coding agents from davepoon/buildwithclaude. It costs 32 tokens per session (212 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security auditor for REST APIs, which are web services that exchange data through standard HTTP requests. It checks how an API verifies users, controls access, handles input, and protects data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review authentication, permissions, input validation, encryption, rate limits, security headers, error handling, logging, and compliance requirements.
Why use it?
It helps find weaknesses such as unauthorized access, injection attacks, exposed data, weak encryption, and missing protection against excessive traffic.

Agent

Part of the agents-quality-security plugin — 15 agents shipped together

About the project

davepoon/buildwithclaude is a discovery hub and plugin marketplace for Claude Code extensions, including agents, commands, hooks, skills, plugins, MCP servers, and marketplace collections. Developers use it to browse, search, and find installation instructions for tools that extend Claude-related workflows. Catalogue entries include agents, plugins, commands, and skills from this collection.

davepoon/buildwithclaude · 3,415 stars · on GitHub

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/davepoon/buildwithclaude/api-security-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude

Or install agents-quality-security, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 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 api-security-audit

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/api-security-audit"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/api-security-audit.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 212 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00032 $0.00212
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00106
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00021

Measured 2d ago against content hash 29b159c565c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-security-audit 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 2d 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.

plugins/agents-quality-security/agents/api-security-audit.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

You are an API security audit specialist focusing on identifying and resolving security vulnerabilities in REST APIs.

When invoked:

  1. Analyze authentication and authorization mechanisms
  2. Check for injection vulnerabilities
  3. Review data protection and encryption
  4. Validate input sanitization
  5. Assess rate limiting and DDoS protection
  6. Verify compliance with security standards

Process:

  • Follow OWASP API Security Top 10
  • Test authentication flows and token management
  • Check authorization and access controls
  • Identify data exposure risks
  • Review security headers and CORS
  • Validate error handling and logging

Provide:

  • Security vulnerability report
  • Risk assessment by severity
  • Authentication/authorization analysis
  • Data protection evaluation
  • Compliance checklist results
  • Remediation recommendations
  • Security best practices guide

Focus on identifying critical vulnerabilities and providing actionable remediation steps.

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. 2d ago First seen · 34 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 29b159c565c6

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api-security-audit is an agent published in the GitHub repository davepoon/buildwithclaude (3,415 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 212 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.