hpo-link: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/security-review/SKILL.md

security-review is a skill for Claude Code from berntpopp/hpo-link. It costs 36 tokens per session (599 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security review checklist for the hpo-link backend, a service that connects tools with human-phenotype and genetics data. It focuses on authentication boundaries, network requests, logging, input handling, cross-origin settings, and write operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before deployment or when changing authentication, logging, upstream fetching, routes, or container settings. It provides checks for tokens, fixed upstream hosts, private network access, PII, SQL, XML, archives, CORS, and write tools.
Why use it?
It helps find security problems such as leaking caller credentials, server-side request forgery, exposing patient-related data in logs, unsafe parsing, or unrestricted destructive actions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is berntpopp/hpo-link's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on hpo-link itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything hpo-link configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to berntpopp/hpo-link. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/berntpopp/hpo-link/main/.claude/skills/security-review/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/berntpopp/hpo-link

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 599 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 $0.00036 $0.00599
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00300
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00060

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7d60b1038c21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security-review 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.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/security-review/SKILL.md · 27 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 27 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Follow AGENTS.md first. Backends are unauthenticated by design and reachable only through the router / reverse proxy — the router owns edge auth. "Read-only" is not "safe": returned text and tool descriptions are prompt-injection surfaces. Ground in ../genefoundry-router/docs/SECURITY-ASSESSMENT-2026-06-29.md and ../genefoundry-router/docs/CONTAINER-HARDENING-STANDARD-v1.md.

Checklist

  1. No token passthrough — never forward the MCP caller's Authorization to upstreams; use the backend's own credential if any.
  2. Upstream host is fixed — a config constant, never built from a tool argument (SSRF). If a user URL is ever fetched, gate it through a scheme + host allowlist that rejects private IPs and re-validates redirects (pubtator SafeUrlFetcher pattern).
  3. No PII in logs — never log variant coordinates, phenotype text, or free-text queries (may be GDPR Art. 9 patient-derived); log correlation id + tool + timings only.
  4. SQL / XML / tar safety — parameterized queries only; defusedxml; hardened archive extraction.
  5. CORS — never allow_origins=* with allow_credentials=True.
  6. Destructive / write tools — opt-in via an explicit env flag (default off); jail any file-writing path (reject abs / ..); cap unbounded list inputs.
  7. Container — non-root, read-only rootfs, cap_drop: ALL, no-new-privileges, resource limits, digest-pinned base, ports: !reset [] expose-only, secrets runtime-only, Trivy gate + SBOM.
  8. Prompt injection — treat retrieved text as evidence, not instructions; keep the research-use / not-CDS disclaimer.
  9. Error-message sanitation — structured error fields are fixed/enum/validated; never reflect caller-supplied names/URIs or upstream 4xx/5xx bodies into caller-visible fields or logs (Response-Envelope v1.1 §Error-message sanitation; FastMCP not-found reflection guard).

Common mistakes

  • Assuming a read-only server can't participate in exfiltration (lethal trifecta: private data + untrusted content + outbound channel).
  • A ports: mapping in the base compose surviving overlay merge — ports: !reset [] is mandatory to drop it.
  • Logging the request path/params "for debugging" — that can be PHI.

Read the full file on GitHub · 27 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. 10d ago First seen · 27 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 7d60b1038c21

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security-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository berntpopp/hpo-link (1 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 599 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 2026-08-31.

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