dos-defense-and-mitigation

dos-defense-and-mitigation is a skill for Claude Code from bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills. It costs 126 tokens per session (6,235 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC-BY-SA-4.0.

A guide for designing services that resist denial-of-service attacks, where attackers flood a service with traffic to make it unavailable. It also helps investigate suspicious traffic spikes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a service's exposure to traffic floods, assess whether its architecture is hardened, and investigate a sudden increase in traffic.
Why use it?
It helps identify ways a service could be overwhelmed and choose layered protections before an outage. It can also structure the response to an active attack.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the building-secure-and-reliable-systems plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a service's exposure to traffic floods, assess whether its architecture is hardened, and investigate a sudden increase in traffic.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills/dos-defense-and-mitigation
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 bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills --skill dos-defense-and-mitigation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install building-secure-and-reliable-systems, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,235 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 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 5.1 $0.00126 $0.06235
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.03118
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.01247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00624

Measured 11d ago against content hash dcb6f918792d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dos-defense-and-mitigation 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 11d 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.

books/building-secure-and-reliable-systems/skills/dos-defense-and-mitigation/SKILL.md · 427 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0

The repository is licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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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. 11d ago First seen · 427 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A dcb6f918792d

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dos-defense-and-mitigation is a skill published in the GitHub repository bookforge-ai/bookforge-skills (35 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 6,235 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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