security-hardening

security-hardening is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DevelopersGlobal/ai-agent-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,207 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development check that reviews code against common web-security risks, secret handling, and limiting access to only what is needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when handling user input, logins, permissions, sessions, APIs, secrets, personal data, or outbound network requests.
Why use it?
It helps catch security problems before code is released, when they are usually easier to fix.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when handling user input, logins, permissions, sessions, APIs, secrets, personal data, or outbound network requests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/developersglobal/ai-agent-skills/security-hardening
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 DevelopersGlobal/ai-agent-skills --skill security-hardening
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DevelopersGlobal/ai-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,207 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 $0.00037 $0.01207
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00603
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00121

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8845f20ba83e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security-hardening 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 9d 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-hardening/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Security vulnerabilities are almost always cheaper to prevent than to remediate. This skill embeds security review as a required gate in the development workflow — not a separate audit that happens later (and often never).

When to Use

  • Before any code involving user input
  • Before any code touching authentication, authorization, or sessions
  • Before any API endpoint is created or modified
  • Before any code that handles secrets, credentials, or PII
  • Before any code that makes outbound network requests

Process

Step 1: Threat Model the Change

  1. Ask: Who are the attackers? What are they trying to achieve?
  2. Identify all trust boundaries in the code:
    • Where does user-controlled data enter the system?
    • Where does that data flow?
    • Where is it stored or transmitted?
  3. For each trust boundary, name the top 3 attack vectors.

Verify: You can name at least one realistic attack scenario for this code.

Step 2: Apply OWASP Top 10 Checklist

  1. For each applicable item, confirm it is addressed:
OWASP Item Check
A01 Broken Access Control Authorization checked at every endpoint? Principle of least privilege applied?
A02 Cryptographic Failures No plaintext PII/secrets? Using modern algorithms (AES-256, SHA-256+)? TLS everywhere?
A03 Injection All user input parameterized/sanitized? No raw SQL/shell construction?
A04 Insecure Design Threat model done? Secure defaults? Fail closed (not open)?
A05 Security Misconfiguration No default credentials? Unnecessary features disabled? Error messages don't leak internals?
A06 Vulnerable Components Dependencies up to date? Known CVEs checked?
A07 Auth Failures Brute-force protection? Session management correct? MFA available?
A08 Software Integrity Dependencies verified? Supply chain integrity?
A09 Logging Failures Security events logged? No secrets in logs? Logs protected from tampering?
A10 SSRF Outbound requests validated? Internal IPs blocked from user-controlled URLs?

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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. 9d ago First seen · 116 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 8845f20ba83e

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security-hardening is a skill published in the GitHub repository DevelopersGlobal/ai-agent-skills (66 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,207 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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