api-platform-security

Guidance for securing an API Platform 4.3 application, a framework for building web APIs. It covers access rules for operations and individual fields, authentication, ownership checks, and public identifiers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Configuring operation and property access rules, writing voters, restricting lists to their owners, adding JWT or OIDC login, setting CORS, and using UUID or ULID identifiers.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unauthorized users from viewing or changing API data, including data exposed through collections and object updates.

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/gerard-labs/superpowers-api-platform/api-platform-security
Any agent
npx skills add gerard-labs/superpowers-api-platform --skill api-platform-security
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gerard-labs/superpowers-api-platform

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 177 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 748 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 $0.00177 $0.00748
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.00374
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00075

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8d1d0137d1e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-platform-security 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.

skills/api-platform-security/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API Platform 4.3 — Security

Use when

  • Wiring security / securityPostDenormalize / securityPostValidation on operations.
  • Writing or testing a voter (POST_VIEW, POST_EDIT, etc.).
  • Filtering a collection by owner via a Doctrine extension.
  • Setting up JWT authentication (Lexik) or OIDC.
  • Configuring CORS for public / partner consumers.
  • Switching identifiers to UUID v7 or ULID to remove enumeration risk.

Default workflow

  1. Apply security per operation. Fail closed — no security: means public, only by design.
  2. Decide between expression (simple) and Voter (complex). Cross more than one condition → Voter.
  3. For mutations that mutate ownership, use securityPostDenormalize with previous_object to enforce invariants.
  4. For each sensitive property, decide: group split, #[ApiProperty(security: ...)], or both.
  5. Identifiers: Uuid::v7() / Ulid on every public resource. No sequential IDs.

Guardrails

  • Fail secure. Anything not explicitly public is is_granted('ROLE_USER') minimum.
  • securityMessage on every guarded operation — explicit feedback, no debug leakage.
  • extraProperties: ['throw_on_access_denied' => true] — without it, an unauthorized field change is silently dropped instead of throwing 403.
  • Never log JWT contents. JWT is readable; no PII in claims.
  • No * in CORS when allow_credentials: true. List the explicit origins.
  • Tests cover refusal AND acceptance. Both branches matter.

Progressive disclosure

  • SKILL.md lists the posture and decision tree.
  • reference.md carries the full patterns: operation security expressions, voters, query extensions, property security, UUID/ULID, JWT (Lexik) end-to-end (keys, security.yaml, Swagger UI, refresh tokens, storage), OIDC alternative, CORS configuration, performance note 4.3.

Output contract

  • Each operation has an explicit security (or a documented public exception).
  • Voters tested in isolation (./vendor/bin/phpunit --filter=Voter).
  • Collection queries filtered through a QueryCollectionExtensionInterface + QueryItemExtensionInterface.
  • Identifiers use UUID v7 / ULID where applicable.
  • JWT / OIDC + CORS configurations match the published examples.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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 · 51 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8d1d0137d1e5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-platform-security is a skill published in the GitHub repository gerard-labs/superpowers-api-platform (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 177 tokens to every session and 748 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.

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