security-skills-guide

security-skills-guide is a skill for Claude Code from gmh5225/awesome-skills. It costs 26 tokens per session (616 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to security-related skills for coding agents. It groups tools and methods for penetration testing, code auditing, threat hunting, and digital forensics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find skills for testing web applications, networks, cloud systems, or Active Directory, auditing code and smart contracts, writing detection rules, or investigating incidents.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose a security skill for the type of investigation or assessment they need to perform.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to find skills for testing web applications, networks, cloud systems, or Active Directory, auditing code and smart contracts, writing detection rules, or investigating incidents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gmh5225/awesome-skills/security-skills
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 gmh5225/awesome-skills --skill security-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gmh5225/awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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 security-skills-guide

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 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 616 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 $0.00026 $0.00616
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00308
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00062

Measured 12d ago against content hash 00cd8d2fc666, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security-skills-guide 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 12d 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.

.claude/skills/security-skills/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Security Skills Guide

Scope

Use this skill when:

  • Finding or adding security-related skills
  • Understanding cybersecurity skill categories
  • Organizing security skills in README.md

Security Skill Categories

Penetration Testing

Category Skills
Web Application Burp Suite, FFUF fuzzing, SQL injection, XSS testing
Network Nmap, Wireshark, SMTP/SSH testing
Cloud AWS/Azure/GCP penetration testing
Active Directory Kerberoasting, DCSync, pass-the-hash

Code Auditing

Category Skills
Static Analysis CodeQL, Semgrep, Slither
Smart Contracts Solidity security, Move auditing
Variant Analysis Finding similar vulnerabilities

Threat Hunting

Category Skills
Detection Rules Sigma rules, YARA
Forensics File metadata, memory analysis
Incident Response Triage, investigation

Key Security Skill Repositories

Trail of Bits Security Team

  • trailofbits/skills - Static analysis, code auditing, smart contracts

Antigravity Collection

  • sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills - 50+ cybersecurity skills

Community Skills

  • mhattingpete/claude-skills-marketplace - Computer forensics skills

Where to Add Security Skills in README

  • Penetration testing tools: Cybersecurity & Penetration Testing
  • Code analysis tools: Security & Systems or Development & Code Tools
  • Threat hunting: Security & Systems
  • Smart contract security: Development & Code Tools (if dev-focused)

Security Skill Best Practices

  1. Clear scope: Define what the skill does and doesn't do
  2. Legal warnings: Include responsible use disclaimers
  3. Tool requirements: List required external tools
  4. Safe defaults: Use non-destructive operations by default
  5. Logging: Include audit trail capabilities

Example Security Skill Structure

threat-hunting/
├── SKILL.md           # Main instructions
├── scripts/
│   ├── sigma-search.py
│   └── log-parser.sh
├── references/
│   └── sigma-rules.md
└── templates/
    └── report.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 12d ago First seen · 92 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 00cd8d2fc666

Subscribe to this mod's changes

security-skills-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository gmh5225/awesome-skills (48 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 616 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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