elasticsearch-authz

A skill for controlling who can access data and features in Elasticsearch, a search and analytics database. It manages users, roles, role assignments, and restrictions on documents or fields.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create users and least-privilege roles, connect LDAP or SAML users to roles, grant Kibana access, and apply document-level or field-level security.
Why use it?
It helps limit access to only the indexes, features, documents, and sensitive fields each person or group should see.

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/elastic/cursor-plugins/elasticsearch-authz
Any agent
npx skills add elastic/cursor-plugins --skill elasticsearch-authz
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elastic/cursor-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,101 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00044 $0.05101
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.02550
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01020
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00510

Measured 3d ago against content hash b0b478791a0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

elasticsearch-authz scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl "${ELASTICSEARCH_URL}/_security/role" <auth_flags>
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to elasticsearch-authz — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

elastic/skills/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-authz/SKILL.md · 538 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 538 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Elasticsearch Authorization

Manage Elasticsearch role-based access control: native users, roles, role assignment, and role mappings for external realms.

For authentication methods and API key management, see the elasticsearch-authn skill.

For detailed API endpoints, see references/api-reference.md.

Deployment note: Feature availability differs between self-managed, ECH, and Serverless. See Deployment Compatibility for details.

Jobs to Be Done

  • Create a native user with a specific set of privileges
  • Define a custom role with least-privilege index and cluster access
  • Assign one or more roles to an existing user
  • Create a role with Kibana feature or space privileges
  • Configure a role mapping for external realm users (SAML, LDAP, PKI)
  • Derive role assignments dynamically from user attributes (Mustache templates)
  • Restrict document visibility per user or department (document-level security)
  • Hide sensitive fields like PII from certain roles (field-level security)
  • Implement attribute-based access control (ABAC) using templated role queries
  • Translate a natural-language access request into user, role, and role mapping tasks

Prerequisites

Item Description
Elasticsearch URL Cluster endpoint (e.g. https://localhost:9200 or a Cloud deployment URL)
Kibana URL Required only when setting Kibana feature/space privileges
Authentication Valid credentials (see the elasticsearch-authn skill)
Cluster privileges manage_security is required for user and role management operations

Prompt the user for any missing values.

Decomposing Access Requests

When the user describes access in natural language (e.g. "create a user that has read-only access to logs-*"), break the request into discrete tasks before executing. Follow this workflow:

Read the full file on GitHub · 538 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. 3d ago First seen · 538 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A b0b478791a0b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

elasticsearch-authz is a skill published in the GitHub repository elastic/cursor-plugins (31 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 5,101 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 100% identical to elasticsearch-authz, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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