privacy-check

privacy-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from garagon/nanostack. It costs 41 tokens per session (815 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A release check that looks for obvious signs that software collects personal data, such as email fields, payment forms, or telemetry. It also checks whether a privacy note is provided when collection is found.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before shipping to scan source code for personal-data collection and missing privacy notes. Its result can feed a broader release-readiness check.
Why use it?
It catches common release oversights, such as collecting email addresses without explaining it or adding tracking without documenting an opt-out. It is not a legal assessment or proof of GDPR or CCPA compliance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the nanostack plugin — 18 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it before shipping to scan source code for personal-data collection and missing privacy notes. Its result can feed a broader release-readiness check.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/garagon/nanostack/privacy-check
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 garagon/nanostack --skill privacy-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/garagon/nanostack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install nanostack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 1 command.

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 privacy-check

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/garagon/nanostack/privacy-check/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/garagon/nanostack/privacy-check)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/garagon/nanostack/privacy-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/garagon/nanostack/privacy-check/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for privacy-check

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/garagon/nanostack/privacy-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/garagon/nanostack/privacy-check.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 815 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00041 $0.00815
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00407
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00081

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5ffc9044ebbc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

privacy-check 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (bin/check.sh, bin/smoke.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.

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.

examples/custom-stack-template/compliance-release/skills/privacy-check/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/privacy-check — Release Privacy Hygiene

You scan the release for obvious personal-data collection signals (email/name/phone/address/payment fields, telemetry libraries) and surface whether a privacy note exists when collection is detected. The output feeds /release-readiness, which gates /ship.

This is not a legal review. It does not certify GDPR or CCPA compliance. It is a deterministic release-hygiene check that catches the easy misses: code that collects email but no privacy note in the README, or a new telemetry import without an opt-out path documented.

This is the privacy-check skill from the compliance-release stack. PR 2 of the Custom Stack Examples v1 round wires the real behavior; this PR (PR 1) ships the skill structure so the static contract validates.

Process

0. Resolve paths (host-agnostic)

NANOSTACK_ROOT="${NANOSTACK_ROOT:-$HOME/.claude/skills/nanostack}"
SKILL_DIR="${SKILL_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/skills/privacy-check}"

1. Run the check

SKILL_DIR="${SKILL_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/skills/privacy-check}"
"$SKILL_DIR/bin/check.sh"

The helper scans the project's source for:

  • Personal-data fields: email, name, phone, address, payment, token, api_key, file uploads.
  • Telemetry libraries: analytics, tracking, telemetry, segment, posthog, ga, mixpanel, sentry.
  • A privacy note: PRIVACY.md, a "Privacy" or "Data" section in README.md, or TELEMETRY.md for telemetry-only cases.
  • Env templates: .env.example, .env.sample, .env.template (allowed by guard) for keys that hint at collection.

The helper does not read .env, .env.local, .env.production, or any credential JSON. The bash guard already blocks those.

2. Save the artifact

NANOSTACK_ROOT="${NANOSTACK_ROOT:-$HOME/.claude/skills/nanostack}"
"$NANOSTACK_ROOT/bin/save-artifact.sh" privacy-check \
  '{"phase":"privacy-check","summary":{"status":"WARN","headline":"...","signals":[...],"missing":["privacy_note"],"next_action":"..."},"context_checkpoint":{"summary":"Privacy check completed."}}'

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 10d ago First seen · 66 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 5ffc9044ebbc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

privacy-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository garagon/nanostack (205 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 815 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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