api-security-best-practices-v2

api-security-best-practices-v2 is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from diegosouzapw/awesome-omni-skills. It costs 66 tokens per session (7,469 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for designing APIs with protections such as login checks, permission rules, input validation, request limits, and defenses against common attacks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Plan secure authentication and authorization, validate incoming data, add rate limiting, and address risks such as SQL injection.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unauthorized access, unsafe data, abuse, and vulnerabilities in web APIs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI.

Good fit Plan secure authentication and authorization, validate incoming data, add rate limiting, and address risks such as SQL injection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/diegosouzapw/awesome-omni-skills/api-security-best-practices-v2
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add diegosouzapw/awesome-omni-skills --skill api-security-best-practices-v2
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/diegosouzapw/awesome-omni-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,469 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 371
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 168
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 182
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 495
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 464
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00066 $0.07469
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.03735
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.01494
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00747

Measured 8d ago against content hash efa91320fed1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-security-best-practices-v2 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 8d 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/api-security-best-practices-v2/SKILL.md · 1,045 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,045 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API Security Best Practices

Overview

This public intake copy packages plugins/antigravity-awesome-skills/skills/api-security-best-practices from https://github.com/sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills into the native Omni Skills editorial shape without hiding its origin.

Use it when the operator needs the upstream workflow, support files, and repository context to stay intact while the public validator and private enhancer continue their normal downstream flow.

This intake keeps the copied upstream files intact and uses the external_source block in metadata.json plus ORIGIN.md as the provenance anchor for review.

API Security Best Practices

Imported source sections that did not map cleanly to the public headings are still preserved below or in the support files. Notable imported sections: How It Works, Secure JWT Authentication Implementation, Preventing SQL Injection and Input Validation, Implementing Rate Limiting, Common Pitfalls, Security Checklist.

When to Use This Skill

Use this section as the trigger filter. It should make the activation boundary explicit before the operator loads files, runs commands, or opens a pull request.

  • Use when designing new API endpoints
  • Use when securing existing APIs
  • Use when implementing authentication and authorization
  • Use when protecting against API attacks (injection, DDoS, etc.)
  • Use when conducting API security reviews
  • Use when preparing for security audits

Operating Table

Situation Start here Why it matters
First-time use metadata.json Confirms repository, branch, commit, and imported path through the external_source block before touching the copied workflow
Provenance review ORIGIN.md Gives reviewers a plain-language audit trail for the imported source
Workflow execution SKILL.md Starts with the smallest copied file that materially changes execution
Supporting context SKILL.md Adds the next most relevant copied source file without loading the entire package
Handoff decision ## Related Skills Helps the operator switch to a stronger native skill when the task drifts

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,045 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 1,045 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A efa91320fed1

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api-security-best-practices-v2 is a skill published in the GitHub repository diegosouzapw/awesome-omni-skills (140 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 7,469 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 2026-09-03.