threat-model

threat-model is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness. It costs 133 tokens per session (1,854 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A method for describing how a codebase could be attacked and what it must protect. It can gather this information by interviewing an application owner or by examining code, past vulnerabilities, git history, and penetration-test reports.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a threat model for a codebase through an owner interview or by deriving one from existing code and security history.
Why use it?
It creates a security plan when the application’s risks are not documented or the owner is unavailable. This gives later security reviews a clear picture of likely threats and important assets.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create a threat model for a codebase through an owner interview or by deriving one from existing code and security history.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness/threat-model
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 anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness --skill threat-model
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,854 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 17 Jul 2026
  • Snyk pass 17 Jul 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 59
    Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.
    Fix: Restrict tool access to only the tools required for the skill's stated purpose. Use an explicit allowlist rather than granting blanket access.
How audits are shown
Origin unknown 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 $0.00133 $0.01854
Opus 5.5 $0.00053 $0.00742
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00371
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00185

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1cdc1a19591e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

threat-model scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Unrestricted tool accesslowExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

2. You will not execute any code from the target directory.

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

.claude/skills/threat-model/SKILL.md · 157 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 1mo ago First seen · 157 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 1cdc1a19591e

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threat-model is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness (7,640 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 1,854 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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