security-comms

security-comms is a skill for Claude Code from briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills. It costs 157 tokens per session (3,253 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for explaining security work to people who are not security specialists, including executives, customers, legal teams, and sales staff.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for incident updates, post-mortems, audit findings, risk explanations, security budget requests, and answers to customer security questionnaires.
Why use it?
It turns technical findings and incident details into language each audience can understand and act on. This helps security work support decisions about risk, cost, audits, and customer communication.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the cybersecurity-skills plugin — 28 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for incident updates, post-mortems, audit findings, risk explanations, security budget requests, and answers to customer security questionnaires.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills/security-comms
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 briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --skill security-comms
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cybersecurity-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 157 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,253 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00157 $0.03253
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.01626
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00651
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00325

Measured 11d ago against content hash 80f27a315360, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security-comms 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.

skills/security-comms/SKILL.md · 291 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 291 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Security Comms — Translating Security Work for Non-Security Audiences

The skill that closes the gap every other skill produces. The audit family generates findings; the response family generates incidents; the governance family generates roadmaps. None of those outputs survive contact with a board, a customer, a sales engineer trying to answer a security questionnaire, or a CFO asking "is this going to cost us money."

This skill takes technical security work and turns it into the deliverable that audience can actually use. It's the skill security practitioners reach for two to three times a week and that founders without dedicated security teams reach for whenever a finding has to leave the security context.

Cross-references: feeds from every other skill (audit output, incident write-ups, threat-model summaries, CSF assessments) and produces audience-specific deliverables; pairs especially closely with finding-triage (the disposition writeup) and incident-triage (the response narrative).

The seven audiences (and what each one actually needs)

Security comms is not one register. Each audience needs a different deliverable; using the wrong register is the most common failure mode.

1. Board of directors / non-executive directors

They need to know: Are we materially exposed? Is the team handling it? Is more investment needed?

They do not need: CVE numbers, file paths, scanner names, technical jargon, the methodology.

Format: One slide or one page. Three sections — current posture in one paragraph, top three risks with one sentence each, named investments / decisions needed. Numbers must be material (in dollars or % impact), not raw counts ("we have 47 vulnerabilities" tells them nothing; "two of our payments-team services have unpatched issues an attacker could use to access customer card data" tells them what to do).

Common mistake: Boards get scored heat maps and 30-row CVE tables. They want the punchline.

2. Executive leadership (CEO / CFO / COO / GC)

Read the full file on GitHub · 291 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. 11d ago First seen · 291 lines · 157 tokens per session scan A 80f27a315360

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security-comms is a skill published in the GitHub repository briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills (384 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 157 tokens to every session and 3,253 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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