threat-model-gate

threat-model-gate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit. It costs 39 tokens per session (3,106 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A required security-planning step for features involving authentication, permissions, user data, APIs, cryptography, or network settings. Threat modeling means identifying who could misuse a system, how they could do it, and what needs protection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it while planning login and identity flows, access control, sensitive data handling, payment or health data features, API design, encryption, or network configuration.
Why use it?
It makes security risks explicit before implementation decisions are made, when they are easier to address than after code is written.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit/threat-model-gate
Any agent
npx skills add backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit --skill threat-model-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,106 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00039 $0.03106
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01553
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00621
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00311

Measured 5d ago against content hash 999dbc5370b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

threat-model-gate 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 5d 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.

skills/threat-model-gate/SKILL.md · 303 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 303 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Threat Model Gate

Overview

Security cannot be added later. Features that touch user data, system boundaries, or trust relationships require threat modeling during planning — not after code is written.

Core Principle

Every feature that handles user data, authentication, or system boundaries requires explicit threat modeling before implementation.

"We'll secure it in the next sprint" is a commitment that never gets honored. The cost of retrofitting security is 10x the cost of designing it in. Threat modeling during planning is the minimum viable security practice.

When to Activate

Apply this gate when planning involves any of the following:

Authentication and Identity

  • Login flows, session management, token issuance or validation
  • Multi-factor authentication, SSO, OAuth, OIDC, SAML
  • Password storage, credential management, account recovery

Authorization and Access Control

  • Role-based or attribute-based access control (RBAC, ABAC)
  • Resource ownership and sharing models
  • Admin capabilities, privilege escalation paths
  • API key or service account permissions

Data Handling

  • PII collection, storage, or transmission
  • Payment card data, health records, or regulated data categories
  • Encryption at rest or in transit
  • Data retention, deletion, or export features

API Design

  • Public-facing endpoints, webhooks, or callbacks
  • Inter-service communication with trust implications
  • Rate limiting and abuse prevention
  • Input validation and output encoding boundaries

Cryptography

  • Key generation, storage, or rotation
  • Algorithm selection (hashing, signing, encryption)
  • Certificate management, mTLS
  • Secure random number generation

Network and Infrastructure

  • Firewall rules, network segmentation, VPN configurations
  • Load balancer, reverse proxy, or CDN configurations
  • Container networking, service mesh, Kubernetes network policies
  • DNS, TLS termination, certificate pinning

The Threat Modeling Checklist

Work through these four areas before committing to an implementation approach:

Read the full file on GitHub · 303 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. 5d ago First seen · 303 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 999dbc5370b6

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threat-model-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit (15 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 3,106 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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