api-hardening

api-hardening is a skill for Codex from FridrichMethod/awesome-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (12,010 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A guide to protecting APIs built with Express, FastAPI, or serverless platforms. It covers rate limits, cross-origin rules, input checks, API keys, and the OWASP API Top 10 security risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to harden an API, validate incoming data, configure access keys and CORS, and address OWASP API risks.
Why use it?
It helps reduce common API attacks and unsafe requests. It brings several important protection checks into the design and review process.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to harden an API, validate incoming data, configure access keys and CORS, and address OWASP API risks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fridrichmethod/awesome-skills/api-hardening
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 FridrichMethod/awesome-skills --skill api-hardening
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FridrichMethod/awesome-skills

Made for: 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 12,010 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 3 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00039 $0.12010
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.06005
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.02402
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.01201

Measured 6d ago against content hash 7287ea0f9344, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

api-hardening scanned grade B with 3 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 6d 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.

Encoded or obfuscated payloadmediumSupply chain

base64 or hex that is decoded and executed hides what actually runs from anyone reading the file.

obj = marshal.loads(request.body)

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

Makes network callslowCapability

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

// Allow requests with no origin (mobile apps, curl, etc.)

Runs shell commandslowCapability

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

const { exec, execFile, spawn } = require('child_process');
skills/api-hardening/SKILL.md · 1,165 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 6d ago First seen · 1,165 lines · 39 tokens per session scan B 7287ea0f9344

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-hardening is a skill published in the GitHub repository FridrichMethod/awesome-skills (15 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 12,010 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 3 findings (encoded or obfuscated payload, makes network calls, runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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