security-review-essentials

security-review-essentials is a skill for Claude Code from cheezy/stride-security-review. It costs 144 tokens per session (2,124 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for running a security check before merging code that handles sensitive operations. It explains when to review only the current changes and when to inspect the whole codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before pushing or merging changes involving login, permissions, passwords, encryption, user input, database queries, shell commands, uploads, redirects, or displayed responses.
Why use it?
It helps developers catch security problems at the point when they are about to share or merge risky changes. It also clarifies which scan answers which security question.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the stride-security-review plugin — 1 skill, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

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/cheezy/stride-security-review/security-review-essentials
Any agent
npx skills add cheezy/stride-security-review --skill security-review-essentials
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cheezy/stride-security-review

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install stride-security-review, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command, 1 agent.

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.

agentmods badge for security-review-essentials

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cheezy/stride-security-review/security-review-essentials"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cheezy/stride-security-review/security-review-essentials.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 144 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,124 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 $0.00144 $0.02124
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.01062
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00425
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00212

Measured 6d ago against content hash ea45effc32a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security-review-essentials 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 6d 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-review-essentials/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

security-review-essentials

This skill documents how to invoke the AI-powered security review delivered by the security-review plugin. It tells you when to invoke and what the output means. The analysis methodology itself lives in the security-reviewer agent prompt — do not duplicate it here.

When to invoke

The plugin supports two scan modes — pick the one that matches the question you are asking.

Diff mode (default) answers "is this change safe to merge?" Invoke it before any of the following:

  • Pushing a PR that touches authentication, authorization, session handling, or password/token handling.
  • Pushing a PR that touches cryptography (hashing, signing, encryption, random number generation for security purposes).
  • Pushing a PR that touches user input handling, query building, shell-outs, file uploads, redirects, or response rendering.
  • Merging code into main or any deployment branch when the diff is large enough that a manual security read is impractical.
  • A human reviewer asks "did you run a security check on this?"

Full mode (--full) answers "what latent issues are in this codebase right now?" Invoke it for:

  • Onboarding the plugin onto an existing repo for the first time — establish a baseline before you start gating PRs.
  • Periodic posture checks (quarterly, or on a cron) so latent issues outside the recent diff surface get a regular look.
  • Vendoring-in / forking an upstream codebase — review the imported code end-to-end before integrating it.
  • Investigating a class-wide concern ("audit our use of cryptography across the repo") where the changed code is not the unit of interest.

Diff vs. full scan

Aspect Diff mode (default) Full mode (--full)
Question answered Is this change safe to merge? What latent issues are in this codebase right now?
Input Working-tree diff against HEAD Tracked files via git ls-files, filtered by binary heuristic and a 256 KiB size cap
Cost One agent dispatch One dispatch per batch of ~10 files (batches may run in parallel)
Typical cadence Per PR Onboarding, quarterly, or on demand
Output schema Identical — same JSON document Identical — same JSON document

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 6d ago First seen · 125 lines · 144 tokens per session scan A ea45effc32a3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

security-review-essentials is a skill published in the GitHub repository cheezy/stride-security-review (5 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 144 tokens to every session and 2,124 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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