input-validation-review

input-validation-review is a skill for Codex from Eliyce/paqad-ai. It costs 35 tokens per session (950 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A security review of paths where user-controlled data reaches sensitive operations such as requests, database lookups, commands, files, templates, or regular expressions. It covers issues including SSRF, IDOR, injection, unsafe uploads, prototype pollution, and ReDoS.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect endpoints accepting URLs, resource IDs, form fields, uploads, or other parameters that flow into downstream systems.
Why use it?
Untrusted input can make an application access internal systems, expose another user's data, execute unwanted operations, or become unavailable. The review checks whether each path has safe handling and authorization.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to inspect endpoints accepting URLs, resource IDs, form fields, uploads, or other parameters that flow into downstream systems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/eliyce/paqad-ai/input-validation-review
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 Eliyce/paqad-ai --skill input-validation-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Eliyce/paqad-ai

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 950 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00035 $0.00950
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00475
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00095

Measured 9d ago against content hash 17201dec1a52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

input-validation-review scanned grade B with 2 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/lint-findings.sh, scripts/scan-injection-smells.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Cloud metadata endpointmediumServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

1. **SSRF scan**: Find all code paths that accept a URL, IP, or hostname and make an outbound request. Check for an explicit allowlist or blocked private-range validation (127.x, 10.x, 169.254.x, 172.16–31.x, `::1`, fd00

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

- Shell exec with user input (`exec`, `system`, `passthru`, `child_process.exec`, `subprocess.run(shell=True)`)
runtime/capabilities/security/skills/input-validation-review/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What It Does

Reviews all code paths where user-supplied input reaches security-sensitive operations — outbound HTTP calls, database lookups, ORM constructors, shell commands, template renderers, deserializers, file operations, and regex evaluations — and produces findings for each category that lacks proof of safe handling.

Use This When

Use this when module docs or route inventories describe endpoints that accept URLs, resource IDs, request body fields, file uploads, or any user-controlled parameter that flows into a downstream system call.

Inputs

  • Read the module docs to identify data flow surfaces.
  • Read references/input-attack-patterns.md before scanning for each category.
  • Read tests and code evidence that could confirm or refute safe handling.

Procedure

  1. SSRF scan: Find all code paths that accept a URL, IP, or hostname and make an outbound request. Check for an explicit allowlist or blocked private-range validation (127.x, 10.x, 169.254.x, 172.16–31.x, ::1, fd00::/8, AWS metadata 169.254.169.254).

  2. IDOR scan: Find resource lookups keyed by a user-controlled ID. Verify an authorization check exists between ID resolution and data return — not just at the route level.

  3. Mass assignment scan: Find ORM fill calls, model constructors, or serializers that accept the full request body. Verify an explicit allowlist ($fillable, attr_accessible, schema.pick()) or blocklist exists.

  4. Injection vectors: Identify:

    • Raw SQL construction or string interpolation in queries
    • Shell exec with user input (exec, system, passthru, child_process.exec, subprocess.run(shell=True))
    • Template rendering with unsanitized data ({!! !!}, |raw, dangerouslySetInnerHTML, render_template_string)
    • Deserialization of untrusted data (unserialize(), pickle.loads(), yaml.load() without Loader=SafeLoader)
    • LDAP injection in directory lookups
    • XPath injection in XML processing
  5. File upload abuse: Check MIME type validation, file extension allowlist, path traversal in the filename, storage isolation from the web root, and max-file-size enforcement.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 9d ago First seen · 78 lines · 35 tokens per session scan B 17201dec1a52

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input-validation-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository Eliyce/paqad-ai (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 950 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (cloud metadata endpoint, runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.