better-auth-security-best-practices

A security guide for Better Auth applications. It covers protections and controls such as rate limits, secure sessions and cookies, CSRF protection, trusted website origins, encrypted OAuth tokens, IP tracking, and audit logs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to harden a Better Auth setup, protect authentication secrets and sessions, secure OAuth, limit login abuse, and record security-related activity.
Why use it?
It helps reduce risks such as brute-force login attempts, stolen sessions, unsafe cross-site requests, and missing security records.

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/better-auth/skills/security
Any agent
npx skills add better-auth/skills --skill security
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/better-auth/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,628 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00070 $0.02628
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01314
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00526
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00263

Measured 2d ago against content hash 042f01c76b63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

better-auth-security-best-practices 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 2d 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.

security/SKILL.md · 433 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago First seen · 433 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 042f01c76b63

Subscribe to this mod's changes

better-auth-security-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository better-auth/skills (210 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 2,628 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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