Client-Side Security Best Practices

Client-Side Security Best Practices is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GktuOktay/ai-skills. It costs 68 tokens per session (844 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for securing the browser-facing part of a web application against attacks such as cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review HTML and DOM handling, input encoding and sanitisation, cookies, anti-forgery tokens, Content Security Policy headers, and unsafe APIs such as innerHTML.
Why use it?
It helps stop untrusted input from becoming executable browser code and protects actions that an attacker might try to trigger through a user’s session.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to review HTML and DOM handling, input encoding and sanitisation, cookies, anti-forgery tokens, Content Security Policy headers, and unsafe APIs such as innerHTML.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gktuoktay/ai-skills/client-security
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 GktuOktay/ai-skills --skill client-security
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GktuOktay/ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 844 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.
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 $0.00068 $0.00844
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00422
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00084

Measured 10d ago against content hash fe50e5628b72, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Client-Side Security Best Practices 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.

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.

.agents/skills/client-security/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Client-Side Security Best Practices

Overview

This skill outlines how to build secure frontend applications by preventing Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), configuring robust Content Security Policy (CSP) headers, ensuring secure cookie usage, and mitigating DOM-based vulnerabilities.

Core Principles

1. Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Prevention

Never trust data rendered to the DOM.

  • Context-aware encoding: Always encode data based on where it will be rendered (HTML body, attributes, JavaScript variables).
  • Use modern frameworks: Leverage frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue which automatically escape content by default.
  • Avoid dangerous APIs: Avoid using APIs like innerHTML, document.write(), or v-html/dangerouslySetInnerHTML unless absolutely necessary and the input is strictly sanitized (e.g., using DOMPurify).

2. Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Mitigation

Protect state-changing requests from being forged.

  • Anti-CSRF Tokens: Implement synchronizer token pattern where every state-changing request (POST, PUT, DELETE) includes a unique, session-tied token.
  • SameSite Cookies: Use the SameSite=Lax or SameSite=Strict flag on all sensitive cookies (e.g., session cookies) to prevent the browser from sending them in cross-site requests.

3. Secure Cookie Flags

Ensure cookies are handled securely by the browser.

  • HttpOnly: Prevent client-side scripts from accessing the cookie, mitigating the impact of XSS.
  • Secure: Ensure the cookie is only transmitted over HTTPS.
  • SameSite: Mitigate CSRF by controlling cross-site cookie sending.

4. Content Security Policy (CSP)

Use CSP to restrict the sources from which resources can be loaded.

  • Strict Policies: Implement a strict CSP that relies on nonces or hashes rather than unsafe-inline or unsafe-eval.
  • Report-Only Mode: Deploy CSP in report-only mode first to monitor violations before enforcing.

5. DOM-Based Vulnerabilities

Prevent attacks where the payload is executed as a result of modifying the DOM environment in the victim's browser.

  • Avoid sinks: Be cautious with DOM sinks like location.href, setTimeout, eval().
  • Validate sources: Validate data from sources like location.hash, document.referrer, window.name.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

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 · 74 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A fe50e5628b72

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Client-Side Security Best Practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository GktuOktay/ai-skills (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 844 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.