prompt-injection-defense

prompt-injection-defense is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cobusgreyling/agent-skills. It costs 108 tokens per session (1,672 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

Security guidance for protecting AI agents from prompt injection, where untrusted text tries to change the agent’s instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building agents that read untrusted material or pass user text to another AI agent.
Why use it?
It helps address attacks hidden in web pages, emails, documents, tool results, or user-provided content.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it when building agents that read untrusted material or pass user text to another AI agent.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cobusgreyling/agent-skills/prompt-injection-defense
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 cobusgreyling/agent-skills --skill prompt-injection-defense
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cobusgreyling/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,672 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00108 $0.01672
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.00836
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00334
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00167

Measured 11d ago against content hash 826d8bdb96e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

prompt-injection-defense scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Instruction-override phrasingmediumPrompt injection

Text telling the model to disregard its earlier instructions or safety rules is the shape of a prompt injection, whoever wrote it.

Direct injection (user typing "ignore previous instructions") is the least dangerous variant. The real risk is **indirect injection** — instructions hidden in a web page, an email, a PDF, or a tool's response — that reac

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

skills/prompt-injection-defense/SKILL.md · 110 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 110 lines · 108 tokens per session scan B 826d8bdb96e0

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prompt-injection-defense is a skill published in the GitHub repository cobusgreyling/agent-skills (14 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 1,672 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (instruction-override phrasing). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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