enforcing-password-policies

enforcing-password-policies is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,802 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for setting password requirements on CockroachDB clusters, including minimum length, complexity, and bcrypt password-hashing cost. Password hashing stores passwords in a form that is difficult to reverse.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure password rules for a production cluster, check current settings, and increase resistance to password-guessing attacks.
Why use it?
It helps address weak-password findings and meet organizational or compliance requirements. It also clarifies that policy changes affect newly set passwords, not existing ones.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to configure password rules for a production cluster, check current settings, and increase resistance to password-guessing attacks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills/enforcing-password-policies
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 cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills --skill enforcing-password-policies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,802 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 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 $0.00051 $0.01802
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00901
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00360
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00180

Measured 11d ago against content hash 74a4159cd3fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

enforcing-password-policies 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/cockroachdb-security-and-governance/enforcing-password-policies/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Enforcing Password Policies

Configures and enforces password policies on CockroachDB clusters by setting minimum password length and bcrypt hash cost. Ensures password strength meets organizational and compliance requirements.

When to Use This Skill

  • Strengthening password requirements to meet compliance standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST 800-63B)
  • Setting up password policies for a new production cluster
  • Responding to a security audit finding about weak password policies
  • Increasing bcrypt hash cost to improve resistance against brute-force attacks

Prerequisites

  • SQL access with admin role (required to modify cluster settings)
  • Understanding of impact: Password policy changes affect new passwords only, not existing passwords

Check your access:

SELECT member FROM [SHOW GRANTS ON ROLE admin] WHERE member = current_user();

Steps

1. Check Current Password Policy Settings

-- Minimum password length
SHOW CLUSTER SETTING server.user_login.min_password_length;

-- Password hash cost (bcrypt rounds)
SHOW CLUSTER SETTING server.user_login.password_hashes.default_cost.crdb_bcrypt;

See SQL queries reference for additional password-related queries.

2. Set Minimum Password Length

-- Set minimum password length to 12 characters (recommended)
SET CLUSTER SETTING server.user_login.min_password_length = 12;

Recommended minimums by compliance framework:

Framework Minimum Length Recommendation
NIST 800-63B 8 characters 12+ recommended
SOC 2 8 characters 12+ recommended
HIPAA 8 characters 12+ recommended
PCI DSS 7 characters 12+ recommended
Internal best practice 14+ for admin accounts

3. Configure Hash Cost

The bcrypt hash cost controls how computationally expensive password hashing is. Higher values make brute-force attacks slower but increase CPU during authentication.

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 219 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 74a4159cd3fb

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enforcing-password-policies is a skill published in the GitHub repository cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills (21 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,802 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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