drupal-access

A Drupal guide for controlling who can access routes and content. Drupal is a content-management system, and these rules cover permissions, roles, custom checks, and entity access.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding permissions in permissions.yml, protecting routes, writing custom access checkers, or controlling access to entities such as nodes.
Why use it?
Access rules can be spread across several Drupal files and checks, making it easy to allow or block the wrong users. It provides patterns for defining and caching access decisions.

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/edutrul/drupal-ai/drupal-access
Any agent
npx skills add edutrul/drupal-ai --skill drupal-access
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/edutrul/drupal-ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 567 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 $0.00026 $0.00567
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00283
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00057

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4e119e04fbb8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

drupal-access 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 2d 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/drupal-access/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Drupal Access Control

Defining Permissions (permissions.yml)

administer my module:
  title: 'Administer My Module'
  restrict access: true

view my content:
  title: 'View My Content'

Route Requirements

requirements:
  _permission: 'administer my module'   # Permission check
  _role: 'administrator'                # Role check
  _custom_access: '\Drupal\my_module\Access\MyAccessCheck::access'
  _entity_access: 'node.update'
  _access: 'TRUE'

Custom Access Checker

namespace Drupal\my_module\Access;

use Drupal\Core\Access\AccessResult;
use Drupal\Core\Access\AccessResultInterface;
use Drupal\Core\Routing\Access\AccessInterface;
use Drupal\Core\Session\AccountInterface;

final class MyAccessCheck implements AccessInterface {

  public function access(AccountInterface $account): AccessResultInterface {
    if ($account->hasPermission('administer site configuration')) {
      return AccessResult::allowed()->cachePerPermissions();
    }
    if ($account->hasPermission('view my content')) {
      return AccessResult::allowed()->cachePerPermissions();
    }
    return AccessResult::forbidden()->cachePerPermissions();
  }

}

AccessResult Patterns

AccessResult::allowed();
AccessResult::forbidden();
AccessResult::neutral();
AccessResult::allowedIf($condition);
AccessResult::forbiddenIf($condition);
AccessResult::allowedIfHasPermission($account, 'my permission');

// Cache correctly
$result->cachePerPermissions();         // Varies by user permissions
$result->cachePerUser();                // Varies by user identity
$result->addCacheableDependency($node); // Varies by entity
$result->setCacheMaxAge(0);             // Not cacheable

Checking Access in Code

$node->access('view', $account);
$node->access('update', $account);
$account->hasPermission('administer content');
$account->hasRole('editor');

Entity Access Hook

#[Hook('node_access')]
public function nodeAccess(NodeInterface $node, string $op, AccountInterface $account): AccessResultInterface {
  if ($op === 'view' && $node->bundle() === 'private') {
    return AccessResult::forbiddenIf(
      !$account->hasPermission('view private content')
    )->cachePerPermissions()->addCacheableDependency($node);
  }
  return AccessResult::neutral();
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 2d ago First seen · 94 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 4e119e04fbb8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

drupal-access is a skill published in the GitHub repository edutrul/drupal-ai (71 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 567 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.