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.
npx skills add 26zl/cybersec-toolkit --skill auditing-cloud-with-cis-benchmarksgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/26zl/cybersec-toolkitWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/26zl/cybersec-toolkit/auditing-cloud-with-cis-benchmarks)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/26zl/cybersec-toolkit/auditing-cloud-with-cis-benchmarks"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/26zl/cybersec-toolkit/auditing-cloud-with-cis-benchmarks/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/26zl/cybersec-toolkit/auditing-cloud-with-cis-benchmarks"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/26zl/cybersec-toolkit/auditing-cloud-with-cis-benchmarks.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00085 | $0.02947 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00043 | $0.01473 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00589 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00295 |
Grade A, and why
auditing-cloud-with-cis-benchmarks 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 6d 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.
This is a copy
91% identical to auditing-cloud-with-cis-benchmarks — 25 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Auditing Cloud with CIS Benchmarks
When to Use
- When performing initial security audits of cloud environments against industry-standard benchmarks
- When preparing for SOC 2, ISO 27001, or regulatory audits that reference CIS controls
- When establishing a measurable security baseline for new cloud accounts or subscriptions
- When tracking compliance improvement over time with periodic reassessment
- When evaluating the security posture of acquired or inherited cloud environments
Do not use for runtime threat detection (see detecting-cloud-threats-with-guardduty), for application-level security testing (see conducting-cloud-penetration-testing), or for compliance frameworks not based on CIS (refer to specific regulatory skill files).
Prerequisites
- Read-only access to target cloud accounts (AWS SecurityAudit policy, Azure Reader role, GCP Viewer role)
- Prowler, ScoutSuite, or cloud-native CSPM tools installed and configured
- Understanding of CIS benchmark structure: sections, controls, profiles (Level 1 and Level 2)
- Remediation access for implementing fixes (separate from audit credentials)
Workflow
Step 1: Select Appropriate CIS Benchmark Version
Choose the correct benchmark version for each cloud provider. Current versions as of 2025 include CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v5.0, CIS Azure Foundations Benchmark v4.0, and CIS GCP Foundations Benchmark v4.0.
CIS Benchmark Coverage Areas:
+-------------------+-------------------------+------------------------+
| Section | AWS v5.0 | Azure v4.0 |
+-------------------+-------------------------+------------------------+
| Identity & Access | IAM policies, MFA, root | Azure AD, RBAC, PIM |
| Logging | CloudTrail, Config | Activity Log, Diag |
| Monitoring | CloudWatch alarms | Defender, Sentinel |
| Networking | VPC, SG, NACLs | NSG, ASG, Firewall |
| Storage | S3 encryption, access | Storage encryption |
| Database | RDS encryption | SQL TDE, auditing |
+-------------------+-------------------------+------------------------+
CIS Profile Levels:
Level 1: Practical security settings that can be implemented without significant
performance impact or reduced functionality
Level 2: Defense-in-depth settings that may reduce functionality or require
additional planning for implementation
What ships with it
3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 272 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A c1ec47a63c60
auditing-cloud-with-cis-benchmarks is a skill published in the GitHub repository 26zl/cybersec-toolkit (52 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 2,947 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to auditing-cloud-with-cis-benchmarks, differing in 25 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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