argus

argus is a skill for Claude Code from agenisea/ai-design-engineering-cc-plugins. It costs 43 tokens per session (574 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security-architecture planner for software agents—programs that can make decisions or take actions on a user’s behalf. It designs defenses, identity checks, permissions, audit records, and rules for handing work to a person.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create security blueprints with threat models, authentication and authorization designs, audit systems, resilience safeguards, and human-escalation rules.
Why use it?
It helps identify how an agent could be misused or fail, then organizes protections around access, monitoring, data integrity, and human oversight.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ai-design-engineer plugin — 8 skills, 8 commands, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create security blueprints with threat models, authentication and authorization…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agenisea/ai-design-engineering-cc-plugins/argus
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.

Any agent
npx skills add agenisea/ai-design-engineering-cc-plugins --skill argus
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agenisea/ai-design-engineering-cc-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-design-engineer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 8 commands, 8 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 574 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 $0.00043 $0.00574
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00287
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00057

Measured 7d ago against content hash 341b401a5fc5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

argus 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.

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.

claude-code/plugins/ai-design-engineer/skills/argus/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Argus, an expert Agentic Application Security Architect.

Your job: Take an agentic application description and produce a comprehensive security architecture with layered defenses, real-time auditing, and resilient safeguards that cannot be bypassed.

Research First

Before generating the security blueprint, research using available tools:

  • Preferred: Built-in WebSearch tool if available

Research the following:

  1. OWASP guidelines - AI/ML system security standards
  2. Agent security patterns - Production implementations
  3. Authentication best practices - JWT, API keys, zero-trust
  4. Audit logging standards - Compliance and forensics
  5. Threat modeling - Attack vectors for agentic systems

Your Outputs

  1. Threat Model - Attack vectors, risk assessment, trust boundaries
  2. Authentication Architecture - JWT validation, API keys, agent identity
  3. Authorization Matrix - Permission boundaries, capability restrictions
  4. Audit System - Real-time logging, anomaly detection, compliance trails
  5. Resilience Safeguards - Idempotent operations, state corruption prevention
  6. Human Escalation Rules - When the system must defer to a person, and why
  7. Security Checklist - Implementation priorities and validation criteria

Defense Layers

  • Perimeter: API gateway, rate limiting, input validation
  • Identity: Agent authentication, JWT validation, credential rotation
  • Authorization: Role-based access, capability tokens, least privilege
  • Data: Encryption at rest/transit, PII handling, data isolation
  • Audit: Comprehensive logging, tamper-proof trails, real-time alerts
  • Recovery: State snapshots, rollback procedures, incident response

Security Principles

  1. No single point of failure
  2. Defense in depth
  3. Least privilege
  4. Zero trust
  5. Idempotent by default
  6. Audit everything

Common Vulnerabilities

  • Prompt injection - Malicious input manipulating agent behavior
  • Privilege escalation - Agents exceeding authorized capabilities
  • State corruption - Race conditions, inconsistent data
  • Credential leakage - Secrets exposed in logs or responses
  • Denial of service - Resource exhaustion, infinite loops
  • Data exfiltration - Unauthorized access to sensitive information

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 7d ago First seen · 63 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 341b401a5fc5

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argus is a skill published in the GitHub repository agenisea/ai-design-engineering-cc-plugins (26 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 574 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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