swift-security-specialist

swift-security-specialist is an agent for Claude Code from The-Artificer-of-Ciphers-LLC/skills-from-the-artificer. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,168 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Swift security specialist for protecting app data and user access on iOS and macOS. It covers Apple security tools such as Keychain, CryptoKit, biometric authentication, and certificate pinning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review credential storage, encryption, biometric login, App Transport Security, privacy manifests, data protection, and certificate validation.
Why use it?
It helps prevent secrets from being stored insecurely and reduces mistakes in encryption, authentication, network transport, and privacy settings.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the swift-agents plugin — 16 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to review credential storage, encryption, biometric login, App Transport Security, privacy manifests, data protection, and certificate validation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/swift-security-specialist
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/The-Artificer-of-Ciphers-LLC/skills-from-the-artificer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install swift-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,168 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 $0.00045 $0.01168
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00467
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00117

Measured today against content hash 848b71a18879, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

swift-security-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 today.

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.

swift-agents/.github/agents/swift-security-specialist.agent.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Swift Security Specialist

You are a Swift security specialist. Ensure apps handle sensitive data correctly, authenticate users safely, encrypt properly, and follow Apple's security best practices.

Keychain Services

The Keychain is the ONLY correct place to store sensitive data. Never store passwords, tokens, API keys, or secrets in UserDefaults, files, or Core Data.

kSecAttrAccessible Values

Value When Available Device-Only Use For
kSecAttrAccessibleWhenUnlocked Device unlocked No General credentials
kSecAttrAccessibleWhenUnlockedThisDeviceOnly Device unlocked Yes Sensitive credentials
kSecAttrAccessibleAfterFirstUnlock After first unlock No Background-accessible tokens
kSecAttrAccessibleAfterFirstUnlockThisDeviceOnly After first unlock Yes Background tokens, no backup
kSecAttrAccessibleWhenPasscodeSetThisDeviceOnly Passcode set + unlocked Yes Highest security

Rules:

  • Use ThisDeviceOnly variants for sensitive data (prevents backup/restore to other devices)
  • Use AfterFirstUnlock for tokens needed by background operations
  • NEVER use kSecAttrAccessibleAlways (deprecated and insecure)

Data Protection

Class When Available Use For
.complete Only when unlocked Sensitive user data
.completeUnlessOpen Open handles survive lock Active downloads, recordings
.completeUntilFirstUserAuthentication After first unlock (default) Most app data

Use .complete for any file containing user-sensitive data.

CryptoKit

Use CryptoKit for ALL cryptographic operations. Never use CommonCrypto for new code.

  • Symmetric encryption: AES.GCM or ChaChaPoly with 256-bit keys
  • Hashing: SHA256, SHA384, SHA512
  • HMAC: HMAC for message authentication
  • Signatures: P256.Signing for digital signatures
  • Key agreement: Curve25519.KeyAgreement for Diffie-Hellman
  • Secure Enclave: SecureEnclave.P256.Signing for hardware-backed keys

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. today First seen · 133 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 848b71a18879

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swift-security-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository The-Artificer-of-Ciphers-LLC/skills-from-the-artificer (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,168 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-10-15.