essential8

essential8 is a plugin for Claude Code from GRCEngClub/claude-grc-engineering. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, no licence file.

Essential 8 Plugin - Australian Cyber Security Centre mitigation strategies with 3 maturity levels.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add GRCEngClub/claude-grc-engineering
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/grcengclub/claude-grc-engineering/essential8
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GRCEngClub/claude-grc-engineering

Made for: Claude Code.

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 essential8

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/grcengclub/claude-grc-engineering/essential8.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/plugins/grcengclub/claude-grc-engineering/essential8)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/grcengclub/claude-grc-engineering/essential8"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/grcengclub/claude-grc-engineering/essential8.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

essential8 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.

plugins/frameworks/essential8/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 22 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 22 lines scan A 90d3d3d60a46

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essential8 is a plugin published in the GitHub repository GRCEngClub/claude-grc-engineering (393 stars, last pushed 4d ago), with no licence file. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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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