configuring-windows-event-logging-for-detection

configuring-windows-event-logging-for-detection is a skill for Claude Code from 26zl/cybersec-toolkit. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,566 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to setting Windows audit policies so security events record logons, process starts, privilege use, and access to files or other objects. These events can be sent to a SIEM, a system that collects and analyzes security logs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure Windows Event Logging through Group Policy, choose event log storage settings, and forward logs to a SIEM for detection and forensics.
Why use it?
It helps security teams collect the evidence needed to detect threats and investigate incidents. Without the right policies, important activity may never be recorded.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Part of the cybersec-toolkit plugin — 197 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to configure Windows Event Logging through Group Policy, choose event log storage settings, and forward logs to a SIEM for detection and forensics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/26zl/cybersec-toolkit/configuring-windows-event-logging-for-detection
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add 26zl/cybersec-toolkit --skill configuring-windows-event-logging-for-detection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/26zl/cybersec-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cybersec-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 197 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,566 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00081 $0.01566
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00783
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00157

Measured 7d ago against content hash 59f5842ebf4d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

configuring-windows-event-logging-for-detection 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/agent.py, scripts/process.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/configuring-windows-event-logging-for-detection/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Configuring Windows Event Logging for Detection

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • Configuring Windows Advanced Audit Policy for security monitoring
  • Enabling process creation auditing with command line logging (Event 4688)
  • Setting up logon/logoff auditing for authentication monitoring
  • Sizing event log storage and forwarding to SIEM platforms

Do not use for Sysmon configuration (separate skill) or Linux audit logging.

Prerequisites

  • Windows Server or Windows 10/11 systems with Group Policy management access
  • Active Directory environment with Group Policy Object (GPO) creation privileges
  • SIEM platform configured to receive Windows Event Log forwarding
  • Understanding of Windows security event IDs and audit categories

Workflow

Step 1: Configure Advanced Audit Policy via GPO

Computer Configuration → Windows Settings → Security Settings
  → Advanced Audit Policy Configuration → Audit Policies

Recommended settings:
Account Logon:
  - Audit Credential Validation: Success, Failure
  - Audit Kerberos Authentication: Success, Failure

Account Management:
  - Audit Security Group Management: Success
  - Audit User Account Management: Success, Failure

Logon/Logoff:
  - Audit Logon: Success, Failure
  - Audit Logoff: Success
  - Audit Special Logon: Success
  - Audit Other Logon/Logoff Events: Success, Failure

Object Access:
  - Audit File Share: Success, Failure
  - Audit Removable Storage: Success, Failure
  - Audit SAM: Success

Policy Change:
  - Audit Audit Policy Change: Success, Failure
  - Audit Authentication Policy Change: Success

Privilege Use:
  - Audit Sensitive Privilege Use: Success, Failure

Detailed Tracking:
  - Audit Process Creation: Success
  - Audit DPAPI Activity: Success, Failure

Step 2: Enable Command Line in Process Creation Events

# Registry: Enable command line logging in Event 4688
New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\Audit" `
  -Name ProcessCreationIncludeCmdLine_Enabled -Value 1 -PropertyType DWORD -Force

# GPO: Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → System → Audit Process Creation
# "Include command line in process creation events" → Enabled

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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.

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. 7d ago First seen · 195 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 59f5842ebf4d

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configuring-windows-event-logging-for-detection is a skill published in the GitHub repository 26zl/cybersec-toolkit (52 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,566 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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