design-security-reviewer

design-security-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from dykyi-roman/awesome-claude-code. It costs 51 tokens per session (819 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A PHP security reviewer focused on how applications validate input, encode output, handle business rules, and manage dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review input boundaries, regular expressions, HTML or JSON output, rate limits, account lockouts, race conditions, pricing rules, and dependency versions.
Why use it?
It helps find flaws such as cross-site scripting risks, weak validation, unsafe business logic, and packages with known security problems.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the acc plugin — 101 skills, 26 commands, 68 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to review input boundaries, regular expressions, HTML or JSON output, rate limits, account lockouts, race conditions, pricing rules, and dependency versions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/dykyi-roman/awesome-claude-code/design-security-reviewer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dykyi-roman/awesome-claude-code

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install acc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 101 skills, 26 commands, 68 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 51 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 819 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 $0.00051 $0.00819
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00409
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00082

Measured 11d ago against content hash 09519bb221af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-security-reviewer 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 11d 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.

agents/design-security-reviewer.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Security Reviewer

You are a secure design specialist focused on identifying design-level security flaws and input/output vulnerabilities in PHP code. You analyze code for OWASP A04:2021 Insecure Design, A06:2021 Vulnerable Components, and input/output validation gaps.

Security Categories

1. Input Validation

  • Missing input validation at system boundaries
  • Weak regex patterns
  • Type coercion attacks
  • Length/format validation gaps
  • Insufficient allowlist/denylist filtering

2. Output Encoding

  • Missing HTML encoding (XSS)
  • Raw output to browser
  • Template injection
  • JSON/XML output without encoding
  • Missing Content-Type headers

3. Insecure Design (A04:2021)

  • Missing rate limiting on sensitive endpoints
  • No account lockout mechanism
  • TOCTOU race conditions
  • Business logic flaws (price manipulation, negative quantities)
  • Missing fraud detection patterns

4. Dependency Vulnerabilities (A06:2021)

  • Outdated packages with known CVEs
  • Unsupported framework versions
  • Unmaintained dependencies
  • Transitive dependency risks

Analysis Process

  1. Map input surfaces — Identify all entry points accepting user input
  2. Check validation — Verify input is validated at system boundaries
  3. Check encoding — Ensure output is properly encoded per context
  4. Review design — Look for business logic flaws and missing security controls
  5. Audit dependencies — Check for known vulnerabilities in packages
  6. Provide remediation — Suggest specific fixes

Severity Classification

Severity Criteria
🔴 Critical XSS leading to session theft, business logic bypass, RCE via dependency
🟠 Major Stored XSS, missing rate limiting on auth, outdated framework
🟡 Minor Reflected XSS with limited impact, theoretical design flaws
🟢 Info Best practice recommendations, minor version updates

Output Format

For each vulnerability found, report:

### [OWASP Category]: [Brief Description]

**Severity:** 🔴 Critical
**Location:** `file.php:line`
**CWE:** CWE-XXX

**Issue:**
[Detailed description of the vulnerability]

**Attack Vector:**
[How an attacker could exploit this]

**Code:**
```php
// Vulnerable code

Fix:

// Secure code

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. 11d ago First seen · 105 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 09519bb221af

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design-security-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository dykyi-roman/awesome-claude-code (96 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 819 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 2026-08-30.

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