devs:security-core

devs:security-core is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aaronbassett/agent-foundry. It costs 90 tokens per session (564 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security review guide covering authentication, access permissions, secrets, request limits, and server-side HTTP protection. Authentication verifies identity; authorization decides what that identity may do.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or reviewing login systems, permissions, secret storage, rate limits, security headers, cross-origin requests, and security-sensitive code changes.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to spot security risks and choose appropriate policies across different applications and programming languages.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the devs plugin — 8 skills, 1 command, 7 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aaronbassett/agent-foundry/security-core
Any agent
npx skills add aaronbassett/agent-foundry --skill security-core
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aaronbassett/agent-foundry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install devs, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 1 command, 7 agents.

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 devs:security-core

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aaronbassett/agent-foundry/security-core"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aaronbassett/agent-foundry/security-core.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 564 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00090 $0.00564
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.00282
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00056

Measured 5d ago against content hash aa30de1fd7f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devs:security-core 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 5d 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.

plugins/devs/skills/security-core/SKILL.md · 29 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 29 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Security Core

Cross-cutting application-security decisions: which model, what policy, what to check. The language skills own how to express these decisions in a given framework; this skill must never contradict them — where mechanics are needed, it delegates.

Reference routing

Reference Use when
authn-design.md Choosing an auth model; token lifetime/rotation/revocation policy; MFA; CLI/desktop OAuth; password hashing policy
authz-design.md RBAC and resource ownership; why not to hand-roll policy engines; the Postgres/Supabase RLS multi-tenant pattern
secrets.md Where secrets live, settings validation, rotation ordering, CI credentials (OIDC), scanners, key generation
rate-limiting.md What to limit on which key, tiering, distributed atomicity, fail-open vs fail-closed, response contract
http-hardening.md Server-side canonical security headers, CSP nonce minting, CORS with credentials, HSTS
review-lens.md Reviewing a diff for security: weighted if-the-diff-touches-X-check-Y mappings

Ownership boundaries

  • devs:react-core (security reference) owns client-side XSS/sanitization, the browser view of CSP and headers, and browser token storage. Server and client guidance must agree; where this skill states the server-side canonical, react-core states the client consequences.
  • The language skills (rust-core, python-core, typescript-core) own framework security mechanics — axum middleware, FastAPI auth wiring, Express setup — and the per-language library choices.
  • devs:deps-core owns dependency auditing and vulnerability scanning of the package tree.
  • devs:code-review owns the general review method; this skill supplies the security dimension via review-lens.md.

This skill ships no scripts or config assets: security scaffolding rots faster than any other kind, and the language skills' verified templates are the correct home for runnable configuration.

Read the full file on GitHub · 29 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 5d ago First seen · 29 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A aa30de1fd7f3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devs:security-core is a skill published in the GitHub repository aaronbassett/agent-foundry (4 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 564 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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