configuring-snort-ids-for-intrusion-detection

configuring-snort-ids-for-intrusion-detection is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from andycungkrinx91/konoha. It costs 54 tokens per session (3,658 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of configuring-snort-ids-for-intrusion-detection, MIT.

A guide to configuring Snort 3, a network intrusion-detection tool that checks traffic against rules and raises alerts. It also covers custom rules, rule tuning, and optional inline traffic blocking.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor authorized network segments, write organization-specific detections, update community or paid rules, and send alerts to a SIEM.
Why use it?
It helps identify attack patterns and policy violations at network boundaries while reducing unnecessary alerts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to monitor authorized network segments, write organization-specific detections, update community or paid rules, and send alerts to a SIEM.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/andycungkrinx91/konoha/configuring-snort-ids-for-intrusion-detection
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add andycungkrinx91/konoha --skill configuring-snort-ids-for-intrusion-detection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andycungkrinx91/konoha

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,658 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00054 $0.03658
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.01463
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00732
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00366

Measured today against content hash b3ba125665d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

configuring-snort-ids-for-intrusion-detection scanned grade B with 2 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 today.

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

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt install -y build-essential libpcap-dev libpcre3-dev libnet1-dev \

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

wget https://www.snort.org/downloads/community/snort3-community-rules.tar.gz
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to configuring-snort-ids-for-intrusion-detection — 0 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.

.agents/skills/akatsuki-skill/references/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills-assets/skills/configuring-snort-ids-for-intrusion-detection/SKILL.md · 413 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 413 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Configuring Snort IDS for Intrusion Detection

When to Use

  • Deploying a network-based intrusion detection system to monitor traffic at key network boundaries
  • Writing custom Snort rules to detect organization-specific threats, attack patterns, or policy violations
  • Tuning existing rulesets to reduce false positives while maintaining detection coverage
  • Integrating Snort alerts with SIEM platforms for centralized security monitoring
  • Validating network security controls by generating test traffic and confirming detection

Do not use as a replacement for endpoint detection, for monitoring encrypted traffic without TLS inspection, or as the sole security control without complementary defenses.

Prerequisites

  • Snort 3.x installed from source or package manager (snort --version to verify)
  • Network interface configured for promiscuous mode on a span port or network tap
  • DAQ (Data Acquisition Library) installed for packet capture integration
  • Registered Snort account for downloading Snort Subscriber (paid) or Community rulesets from snort.org
  • PulledPork 3 or similar rule management tool for automated ruleset updates
  • Sufficient CPU and memory for inline traffic inspection at line rate

Workflow

Step 1: Install and Verify Snort 3

# Install dependencies (Ubuntu/Debian)
sudo apt install -y build-essential libpcap-dev libpcre3-dev libnet1-dev \
  zlib1g-dev luajit hwloc libdumbnet-dev bison flex libcmocka-dev \
  libnetfilter-queue-dev libmnl-dev autotools-dev libluajit-5.1-dev \
  pkg-config cmake libhwloc-dev liblzma-dev openssl libssl-dev cpputest \
  libsqlite3-dev uuid-dev

# Install DAQ from source
git clone https://github.com/snort3/libdaq.git
cd libdaq && ./bootstrap && ./configure && make && sudo make install

# Install Snort 3
git clone https://github.com/snort3/snort3.git
cd snort3 && ./configure_cmake.sh --prefix=/usr/local
cd build && make -j$(nproc) && sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

# Verify installation
snort -V

Read the full file on GitHub · 413 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. today First seen · 413 lines · 54 tokens per session scan B b3ba125665d7

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configuring-snort-ids-for-intrusion-detection is a skill published in the GitHub repository andycungkrinx91/konoha (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 3,658 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). It is 100% identical to configuring-snort-ids-for-intrusion-detection, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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