harden

harden is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dshakes/compass. It costs 56 tokens per session (789 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A five-step security check for a coding project before shipping changes. It scans staged files for secrets, checks exact versions for automatically installed MCP servers, compares installed settings with the repository, and checks release and untrusted-code risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before opening a pull request, after adding a dependency, or when you need a fresh security check of the project.
Why use it?
It helps catch exposed credentials, floating dependency versions, configuration drift, missing release evidence, and unsafe code before they reach users.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/dshakes/compass/harden
Any agent
npx skills add dshakes/compass --skill harden
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dshakes/compass

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 harden

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 789 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 $0.00056 $0.00789
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00394
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00079

Measured 4d ago against content hash e6471cad52a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

harden 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 4d 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.

claude/skills/harden/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Harden — security sweep in five ordered steps

Run each command in sequence. Stop on a non-zero exit and fix the finding before proceeding. All five must pass before the branch is considered hardened.

Steps

1 · Secrets — compass scan --staged

Scan the staged diff for secrets at the commit boundary.

compass scan --staged

Exits 0 (clean) or 1 (secrets found). Fix: remove the secret, rotate the credential, then re-stage. Add an # allowlist secret comment ONLY for confirmed test fixtures — never real credentials.

2 · MCP supply-chain pins — scripts/check-mcp.sh

Verify every auto-installed MCP server is pinned to an exact version and that no @latest float or shell-injection marker has crept in.

bash scripts/check-mcp.sh

Exits 0 (pinned + clean) or non-zero (floating version or injection marker). Fix: pin the version in mcp/servers.json and re-run. (setup-mcp.sh runs this same audit as a pre-flight, and compass doctor includes it.)

3 · Install fidelity — compass drift

Check that the installed ~/.claude config still matches this repo's source. Catches hand-edited copies, stale hooks, and non-executable guardrail scripts.

compass drift

Exits 0 (in sync) or non-zero (drift detected). Fix: re-run quickstart.sh or remove the hand-edited file and let the install re-link it.

4 · Release provenance — compass verify

Verify the latest release tarball's keyless SLSA attestation. Requires gh.

compass verify

Exits 0 (attestation valid), 77 (gh lacks attestation support — skip), or non-zero (attestation missing or invalid). A 77 is a safe skip on old gh versions; anything else is a provenance gap to investigate.

5 · Untrusted code — compass sandbox -- <cmd>

Run any untrusted command inside a real OS sandbox (no network, writes confined to cwd/tmp via bwrap/firejail/sandbox-exec). Required before executing code fetched from external sources.

compass sandbox -- <cmd>

Exits 0 (ran confined), 2 (usage error — supply a command), or non-zero if the sandboxed command itself fails. If no backend is available the CLI refuses to run the command unconfined — install bwrap or firejail first.

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 4d ago First seen · 81 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A e6471cad52a9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

harden is a skill published in the GitHub repository dshakes/compass (19 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 789 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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