security-updates

security-updates is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from beriberikix/zephyr-agent-skills. It costs 67 tokens per session (825 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for secure Zephyr RTOS startup and firmware updates. It covers MCUboot, a bootloader that checks firmware before running it, signed images, update transport, rollback, and mbedTLS cryptography.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up secure boot, sign firmware, deliver updates over MCUmgr or cloud OTA, confirm or roll back images, and add cryptographic storage or operations.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unauthorized or damaged firmware from running and reduces the risk of making devices unusable during updates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to set up secure boot, sign firmware, deliver updates over MCUmgr or cloud OTA, confirm or roll back images, and add cryptographic storage or operations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/beriberikix/zephyr-agent-skills/security-updates
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 beriberikix/zephyr-agent-skills --skill security-updates
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beriberikix/zephyr-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 825 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 $0.00067 $0.00825
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00082

Measured 10d ago against content hash 352b9fdf73f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security-updates 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 10d ago.

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

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/security-updates/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Zephyr Security & Updates

Build production-ready, secure embedded systems using Zephyr's modular security stack and MCUboot bootloader.

Core Workflows

1. MCUboot Integration

Set up the secure bootloader and define fail-safe flash partitions.

2. Image Signing

Ensure firmware integrity with production-grade digital signatures.

3. DFU Protocols

Transport updates securely using MCUmgr or cloud-based OTA.

4. Rollback Protection

Implement atomic swaps and image confirmation to prevent bricking devices.

5. Crypto Basics

Implement secure storage and cryptographic operations using mbedTLS.

Quick Start (Kconfig for Secure Boot)

# Enable MCUboot support in application
CONFIG_BOOTLOADER_MCUBOOT=y
# Build with MCUboot using Sysbuild
west build -b nucleo_f401re --sysbuild samples/basic/blinky

Professional Patterns (Security-First)

  • Production Keys: Never use default MCUboot keys. Provision unique keys during manufacturing.
  • Heartbeat Confirmation: Only confirm a new image after the application has successfully connected to its cloud backend.
  • Version Integrity: Enable version monotonicity to prevent accidental or malicious firmware downgrades.

Automation Tools

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 10d ago First seen · 76 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 352b9fdf73f4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

security-updates is a skill published in the GitHub repository beriberikix/zephyr-agent-skills (63 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 825 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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