elasticsearch-authn

elasticsearch-authn is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aspectrr/deer. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,119 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for authenticating to an Elasticsearch cluster, a system for storing and searching data, using its configured login methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when connecting with usernames and passwords, files, LDAP or Active Directory, SAML, OIDC, Kerberos, JWT, certificates, or API keys.
Why use it?
It helps choose and verify the correct authentication realm without putting passwords or other secrets into chat.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/aspectrr/deer/elasticsearch-authn
Any agent
npx skills add aspectrr/deer --skill elasticsearch-authn
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aspectrr/deer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,119 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 5.1 $0.00048 $0.01119
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00560
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00112

Measured 6d ago against content hash 05ca400765a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

elasticsearch-authn 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 6d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -u "${ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME}:${ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD}" "${ELASTICSEARCH_URL}/_security/_authenticate"
deer-cli/internal/skill/defaults/elasticsearch-authn/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Elasticsearch Authentication

Authenticate to an Elasticsearch cluster using any supported authentication realm that is already configured. Covers all built-in realms, credential verification, and the full API key lifecycle.

For roles, users, role assignment, and role mappings, see the elasticsearch-authz skill.

Critical principles

  • Never ask for credentials in chat. Secrets must not appear in conversation history.
  • Always use environment variables. Instruct the user to set them in a .env file in the project root.

Authentication Realms

Elasticsearch evaluates realms in a configured order (the realm chain). The first realm that can authenticate the request wins.

Internal realms

Native (username and password)
curl -u "${ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME}:${ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD}" "${ELASTICSEARCH_URL}/_security/_authenticate"
File

Users defined in flat files on each cluster node. Always active regardless of license state. Self-managed only.

curl -u "${FILE_USER}:${FILE_PASSWORD}" "${ELASTICSEARCH_URL}/_security/_authenticate"

External realms

LDAP / Active Directory

Self-managed only. Combined with role mappings to translate LDAP/AD groups to Elasticsearch roles.

curl -u "${LDAP_USER}:${LDAP_PASSWORD}" "${ELASTICSEARCH_URL}/_security/_authenticate"
PKI (TLS client certificates)

Requires PKI realm and TLS on HTTP layer.

curl --cert "${CLIENT_CERT}" --key "${CLIENT_KEY}" --cacert "${CA_CERT}" \
  "${ELASTICSEARCH_URL}/_security/_authenticate"
SAML / OIDC

Primarily for Kibana SSO. Browser-based redirect flow, not for REST clients. Configure another realm alongside for programmatic API access.

JWT

Accepts JWTs as bearer tokens.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ${JWT_TOKEN}" "${ELASTICSEARCH_URL}/_security/_authenticate"
Kerberos

Self-managed only. Requires KDC infrastructure, DNS, and time synchronization.

kinit "${KERBEROS_PRINCIPAL}"
curl --negotiate -u : "${ELASTICSEARCH_URL}/_security/_authenticate"

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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. 6d ago First seen · 155 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 05ca400765a3

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elasticsearch-authn is a skill published in the GitHub repository aspectrr/deer (404 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,119 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.