hipaa-audit

hipaa-audit is a cursor rule for Cursor from briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills. It costs 167 tokens per session (3,903 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical review for systems that handle Protected Health Information, meaning health-related data that can identify a person, under United States HIPAA rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review applications and infrastructure against HIPAA's Security, Privacy, and Breach Notification Rules, plus HITECH.
Why use it?
It helps identify gaps in safeguards, privacy handling, access, encryption, logging, and breach preparation; legal compliance decisions still belong to qualified advisers.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc). Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to review applications and infrastructure against HIPAA's Security, Privacy, and Breach Notification Rules, plus HITECH.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills/hipaa-audit
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/briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 167 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,903 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 $0.00167 $0.03903
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.01951
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00781
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00390

Measured 11d ago against content hash c7d2ce9b92e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hipaa-audit 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.

adapters/cursor/hipaa-audit.mdc · 276 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 276 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HIPAA Audit — Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

HIPAA governs how Protected Health Information (PHI) is handled in the United States healthcare ecosystem. The engineering surface area is large because PHI is broader than people often realize: a calendar entry naming a patient's appointment is PHI; an IP address logged on a portal accessed by a patient may be PHI in combination with a health condition.

The skill is structured around the four HIPAA rules with emphasis on the Security Rule's three safeguard categories (Administrative / Physical / Technical) — that's where engineering work happens. Privacy Rule, Breach Notification Rule, and HITECH layer on top.

Final compliance determinations stay with counsel and your privacy officer; this skill is the technical engineering layer.

Cross-references: privacy-engineering for the GDPR / CCPA-shaped privacy work that often overlaps; iam-audit for access control and authentication; crypto-audit for encryption-at-rest and in-transit detail; secrets-audit for key management; siem-detection for audit-log engineering; incident-triage and security-comms for breach response.

Scope — who is covered and what is PHI

Who must comply

  • Covered entity (CE) — health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, healthcare providers who transmit health info electronically in connection with HIPAA-defined transactions
  • Business associate (BA) — anyone who creates / receives / maintains / transmits PHI on behalf of a covered entity (cloud hosts holding PHI, SaaS analytics, EHR vendors, billing services, even some attorneys and consultants)
  • Subcontractor of a BA — also a BA. The chain extends; every link needs a BAA with the link above

If a system handles PHI for a CE without a BAA, that's a violation regardless of how secure the handling is.

What is PHI / ePHI

PHI = individually identifiable health information held or transmitted by a CE or BA. ePHI = the electronic form.

The 18 HIPAA identifiers (Safe Harbor de-identification list — if all are stripped, data is no longer PHI):

Read the full file on GitHub · 276 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 · 276 lines · 167 tokens per session scan A c7d2ce9b92e0

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hipaa-audit is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills (387 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 167 tokens to every session and 3,903 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.