executing-nist-rmf-authorization-to-operate

executing-nist-rmf-authorization-to-operate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai. It costs 257 tokens per session (2,181 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for taking a federal or federally aligned system through the NIST Risk Management Framework to an Authorization to Operate, or ATO. An ATO is formal approval for a system to operate after its security risks and controls have been assessed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Categorizing system impact, selecting NIST security controls, preparing security plans and assessment reports, tracking remediation, and running continuous monitoring.
Why use it?
It organizes the required security decisions, evidence, assessments, authorization documents, and ongoing monitoring for regulated systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Categorizing system impact, selecting NIST security controls, preparing security plans and assessment reports, tracking remediation, and running continuous monitoring.

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Install with agentmods
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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai --skill executing-nist-rmf-authorization-to-operate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 257 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,181 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 $0.00257 $0.02181
Opus 5 $0.00129 $0.01091
Sonnet 5 $0.00051 $0.00436
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00218

Measured 8d ago against content hash 48c8e110fd95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

executing-nist-rmf-authorization-to-operate 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (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.

cursor-claude-codex/skills/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills/skills/executing-nist-rmf-authorization-to-operate/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Executing the NIST RMF to an Authorization to Operate (ATO)

When to Use

  • When a federal or federally-aligned system (or a FedRAMP cloud service) needs an Authorization to Operate, a re-authorization, or has fallen out of authorization.
  • When you must produce or review the core authorization artifacts: System Security Plan (SSP), Security Assessment Report (SAR), and Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&M).
  • When categorizing a system's impact level (Low / Moderate / High) under FIPS 199.
  • When selecting, tailoring, or implementing a NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 control baseline.
  • When standing up continuous monitoring (ConMon) or pursuing ongoing authorization / cATO after an initial ATO.

Prerequisites

  • A defined system and authorization boundary (what's in, what's inherited, what's a leveraged service).
  • An identified Authorizing Official (AO), System Owner, and ISSO.
  • The information types the system handles (use SP 800-60 to map them to impact levels).
  • For cloud: the provider's Customer Responsibility Matrix (CRM) and any inherited/leveraged ATO.
  • Access to assessment evidence sources (config, scans, policies) for the Assess step.

Workflow

NIST SP 800-37 Rev 2 defines seven steps. Prepare is the foundation; the rest run in order and then loop through Monitor.

0/1. Prepare (organization and system level)

Establish context: roles (AO, SO, ISSO, assessor), risk-management strategy and tolerance (ties to SP 800-39), a control baseline strategy, common controls available for inheritance, and the system's mission/business context. Define the authorization boundary precisely — scope creep here inflates the whole package.

2. Categorize (FIPS 199 + SP 800-60)

Determine the impact level for confidentiality, integrity, and availability for each information type, then take the high-water mark across the three to set the overall system categorization: Low, Moderate, or High. Document in the SSP. This single decision drives the entire control baseline.

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 8d ago First seen · 143 lines · 257 tokens per session scan A 48c8e110fd95

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executing-nist-rmf-authorization-to-operate is a skill published in the GitHub repository adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai (57 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 257 tokens to every session and 2,181 once invoked, about $0.0013 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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