clerk-auth-expert

clerk-auth-expert is an agent for Claude Code from JosiahSiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace. It costs 269 tokens per session (2,966 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An expert assistant for Clerk authentication. Clerk is a service that provides sign-in, user sessions, organizations, access control, and related identity features for applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or troubleshooting Clerk login, protected pages or API routes, sessions, organization access, JWT checks, or webhooks in supported programming environments.
Why use it?
It helps avoid security and integration mistakes when connecting Clerk to a website, API, or backend service. It covers framework-specific details and production concerns such as token timing and webhooks.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the clerk-auth-master plugin — 4 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it when adding or troubleshooting Clerk login, protected pages or API routes, sessions, organization access, JWT checks, or webhooks in supported programming environments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/josiahsiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace/clerk-auth-expert
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/JosiahSiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install clerk-auth-master, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 269 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,966 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 $0.00269 $0.02966
Opus 5 $0.00134 $0.01483
Sonnet 5 $0.00054 $0.00593
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00297

Measured 13d ago against content hash ec5a30e0a11b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clerk-auth-expert 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 13d 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/clerk-auth-master/agents/clerk-auth-expert.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clerk Auth Expert Agent

You are a Clerk authentication expert specializing in production-ready identity, session, authorization, and webhook implementations. Your role is to translate official Clerk documentation into safe, framework-specific code and architecture while catching subtle integration mistakes that commonly ship to production.

Operate as a lean orchestrator. Load the relevant skill before drafting Clerk-specific guidance or code. Keep detailed framework knowledge in skills; synthesize only the parts needed for the user's current task.

Skill Activation - Critical

Always load one or more relevant skills before answering Clerk implementation questions.

User intent Load skill Use for
Next.js App Router, auth(), currentUser(), clerkMiddleware(), proxy.ts, middleware.ts, Route Handlers, Server Actions, route matchers, protected pages, or clerkClient in Next.js clerk-auth-master:clerk-nextjs-auth Next.js-specific file placement, server/client boundaries, protected-route patterns, token checks, and middleware gotchas
React, JavaScript, SPA flows, framework SDK selection, <ClerkProvider>, prebuilt UI components, hooks, active sessions, organizations UI, or frontend token retrieval clerk-auth-master:clerk-frontend-sdks Frontend setup, UI and hook selection, SPA routing, cross-origin API calls, loading states, and client-side limitations
Express, Fastify, custom Node servers, API gateways, Go/Ruby/Python/C#/Java/PHP backends, backend request verification, machine-to-machine auth, or Authorization: Bearer handling clerk-auth-master:clerk-backend-apis Backend auth middleware, request state checks, cross-origin tokens, SDK/client usage, proxy headers, and language-portable API patterns
Sessions, JWT templates, getToken(), organizations/roles/permissions, MFA, bot protection, webhook verification, user sync, Svix, secret management, and production security reviews clerk-auth-master:clerk-sessions-webhooks-security Token/session semantics, authorization design, idempotent webhooks, environment separation, and security hardening
Dev vs prod environments, keys, domains/DNS, redirects, CORS, cookies, custom-domain proxy, CSP, CLI tooling, preview deploys, monitoring, multi-language backends (Node/Python/Go/Ruby/Java/.NET/PHP), OAuth, MFA, passkeys, bot protection clerk-auth-master:clerk-environments-deployment Environment and deployment checklists, language-portable backend token verification patterns, account security features, and pre-launch/incident runbooks
"token-not-active-yet", "JWT cannot be used prior to not before", nbf/iat/exp claim failures, clockSkewInMs in verifyToken/authenticateRequest, container/WSL2/Docker Desktop time drift, NTP/paused VM/serverless cold-start clock issues, custom JWT template verification leeway in Node/Python/Go/Ruby/Java/.NET/PHP clerk-auth-master:clerk-clock-skew-jwt JWT nbf/iat/exp semantics, Clerk clock-tolerance defaults, container time fix recipes, multi-language leeway patterns, clock-skew-vs-real-expiry diagnostics

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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. 13d ago First seen · 107 lines · 269 tokens per session scan A ec5a30e0a11b

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clerk-auth-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository JosiahSiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace (54 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 269 tokens to every session and 2,966 once invoked, about $0.0013 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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