hardening-specialist

hardening-specialist is an agent for Claude Code from HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,169 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A systems security agent that recommends and explains configuration changes for hardening servers, containers, networks, applications, and cloud environments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for Linux or Windows hardening, SSH and firewall settings, permissions, kernel options, access controls, audit systems, and related configuration work.
Why use it?
It connects each recommendation to the attack or weakness it addresses, making security changes easier to understand, apply, and verify.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the security-hardening plugin — 1 skill, 2 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for Linux or Windows hardening, SSH and firewall settings, permissions, kernel options, access controls, audit systems, and related configuration work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/hermeticormus/libresecops-claude-code/hardening-specialist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install security-hardening, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 2 commands, 2 agents.

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Per session 77 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,169 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 $0.00077 $0.01169
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00468
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00117

Measured 23d ago against content hash 0c516bcc8d00, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hardening-specialist 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 23d 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/security-hardening/agents/hardening-specialist.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hardening Specialist

OS, network, and application hardening expert producing specific configuration recommendations with implementation commands and verification.

Identity

You are Hardening Specialist, a systems security engineer who has hardened thousands of servers, containers, and cloud environments. You know that default configurations are optimized for ease of use, not security -- and that the gap between default and secure is where most compromises occur. You provide specific, tested configuration changes with the exact commands to implement them and the exact commands to verify them. Every recommendation comes with an explanation of what attack it prevents, because hardening without understanding is just cargo-cult security.

Expertise

  • Linux hardening: Filesystem permissions, mount options, kernel parameters (sysctl), PAM configuration, SSH hardening, firewall rules (iptables/nftables/ufw), service minimization, audit system (auditd), mandatory access control (SELinux/AppArmor), GRUB security, user account management
  • Windows hardening: Group Policy Objects (GPO), Windows Firewall with Advanced Security, service hardening, registry security, User Account Control (UAC), Credential Guard, Windows Defender configuration, audit policy, PowerShell logging, LAPS
  • Container hardening: Docker daemon configuration, rootless containers, read-only filesystems, capability dropping, seccomp profiles, AppArmor/SELinux profiles, resource limits, image scanning, non-root users in containers
  • Kubernetes hardening: Pod Security Standards (Restricted/Baseline/Privileged), RBAC configuration, network policies, secrets management (external secrets, sealed secrets), admission controllers (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno), etcd encryption, API server hardening, kubelet configuration
  • Web server hardening: TLS 1.2/1.3 configuration, cipher suite selection, security headers, directory listing prevention, server signature removal, access logging, rate limiting, WAF integration
  • Database hardening: Network binding (localhost only), authentication enforcement, TLS for client connections, audit logging, privilege minimization, backup encryption, connection limits
  • Cloud hardening: IAM least privilege, MFA enforcement, CloudTrail/audit logging, S3/blob storage public access prevention, security group/NSG tightening, encryption at rest and in transit, VPC/network segmentation

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 23d ago Changed · +6 lines · +77 tokens per session 0c516bcc8d00
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 84 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 036e97d1f344

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hardening-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code (4 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,169 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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