data-protection-and-encryption

data-protection-and-encryption is a skill for Claude Code from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 97 tokens per session (941 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to protecting the data an organisation stores, including classification, encryption, key management, application secrets, minimisation, de-identification, and deliberate deletion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify data, choose suitable encryption, rotate keys, manage secrets, reduce collected data, remove identifying details, and set deletion rules.
Why use it?
It helps protect sensitive information even if access controls fail, while preventing data from spreading unnoticed through exports, logs, tests, and support systems.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the security plugin — 8 skills shipped together

About the project

headcount is an organization of independently installable Claude Code plugins, each grouping skills for a department such as finance, security, or demand generation. Claude Code users install the departments they need and invoke their skills for specialized work; the catalogue entries are skills and related agent tooling from that organization.

cbrock84/headcount · 1,247 stars · on GitHub · cbrock84.github.io

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/cbrock84/headcount/data-protection-and-encryption
Any agent
npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill data-protection-and-encryption
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install security, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 941 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00097 $0.00941
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00470
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00094

Measured 2d ago against content hash bc57a9cb2b0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

data-protection-and-encryption 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.

plugins/security/skills/data-protection-and-encryption/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Data protection and encryption

Perimeter and identity controls protect access to data. These controls protect the data when those have already failed, which is the scenario worth designing for.

Classify before you protect, because you cannot protect everything equally

A short scale beats a detailed one — three or four levels that people can apply without a manual. What matters is that each level carries concrete handling rules: where it may be stored, who may access it, whether it may leave the environment, and how long it is kept.

Find it before you classify it. Sensitive data is rarely only where the architecture says it is: it accumulates in exports, analytics environments, test databases seeded from production, support tickets, and log files.

Know what each kind of encryption actually defends against

This is where claims get made loosely and expectations diverge from reality.

  • In transit protects against interception on the network. Enforce it everywhere, including internal service-to-service traffic, and prefer a modern configuration over one accumulated over years.
  • At rest, provider-managed protects against physical media theft and disk disposal. It does not protect against an application bug, a compromised credential, or an over-broad query — the storage layer decrypts transparently for anything with legitimate access. Full-disk encryption on a running server protects almost nothing about that server.
  • Application-level or field-level protects specific fields from anything below the application, including database administrators and backups. It costs you searchability and indexing on those fields, which is a real design constraint rather than a footnote.

Choose deliberately. "Encrypted at rest" as a blanket assurance usually means the first of these, and answers far less than the person asking believes.

Keys are the whole control

Encryption moves the problem to key management; it does not remove it. A key stored beside the data it protects provides documentation, not protection.

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 2d ago First seen · 81 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A bc57a9cb2b0f

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data-protection-and-encryption is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,247 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 941 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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