distributed-system-audit

distributed-system-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GoldenWing-360/claude-security-skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (2,960 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for reviewing distributed systems, where separate programs communicate across networks. It examines the connections, trust boundaries, communication rules, and failures between those programs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess client-server products, microservices, service meshes, IoT backends, multi-tenant services, worker systems, or incidents involving several components.
Why use it?
Many serious problems arise from incorrect assumptions between components rather than inside one component. This helps reveal issues such as message replay, incorrect ordering, impersonation, and poor incident traceability.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assess client-server products, microservices, service meshes, IoT backends, multi-tenant services, worker systems, or incidents involving several components.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/goldenwing-360/claude-security-skills/distributed-system-audit
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add GoldenWing-360/claude-security-skills --skill distributed-system-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GoldenWing-360/claude-security-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,960 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 $0.00080 $0.02960
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.01480
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00592
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00296

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6a521f2b4c1e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

distributed-system-audit 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 11d 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.

distributed-system-audit/SKILL.md · 258 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 258 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Distributed System Audit

A separate skill from codebase-audit. That one walks the code in one repo; this one walks the system: many processes, many trust boundaries, protocols between them, and the failure modes that don't exist when everything runs in one process.

The biggest mistake auditors make on distributed systems is treating them as N independent code audits. The interesting findings live between the components, in the assumptions they make about each other.

When to invoke

  • Auditing a client/server product (native agents + control plane)
  • Auditing a microservices or service-mesh setup
  • Auditing an IoT or fleet-management backend
  • Auditing a multi-tenant SaaS with worker / job-runner architecture
  • Acquisition due-diligence on a distributed product
  • Handing over operations of a multi-component system
  • After an incident that crossed component boundaries

Pairs with codebase-audit for the per-component code-level work, kubernetes-security if the control plane is K8s, message-bus-security for the messaging layer, agent-client-security for the client-side.

Step 0 — Map first, judge later

The first deliverable of a distributed-system audit is an architecture diagram you produced, not the findings. Until you can draw every component and every channel between them, you don't understand the system well enough to audit it.

Spend the first 30% of the engagement on the map. It pays off triple.

                                ┌────────────────────┐
                                │  Web Admin UI      │
                                └─────────┬──────────┘
                                          │ HTTPS + session cookie
                                ┌─────────▼──────────┐
              ┌─────────────────│  Control Plane API ├───────────────────┐
              │                 └─────────┬──────────┘                   │
              │                           │                              │
        write events                      │ writes                       │ writes
              │                           ▼                              ▼
        ┌─────▼─────┐              ┌────────────┐              ┌────────────────┐
        │ Audit log │              │ Postgres   │              │ Object storage │
        └───────────┘              │ (tenancy)  │              │ (user uploads) │
                                   └─────┬──────┘              └────────────────┘
                                         │
                              ┌──────────▼──────────┐
                              │  Message bus (NATS) │
                              └──────────┬──────────┘
                                  publishes commands
                                         │
                            ┌────────────┼────────────┐
                            ▼            ▼            ▼
                     ┌────────────┐  Agent_1   Agent_2  ...
                     │ Agent_n    │  (host A)  (host B)
                     │ (host Z)   │  customer machines
                     └────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 258 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. 11d ago First seen · 258 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 6a521f2b4c1e

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distributed-system-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository GoldenWing-360/claude-security-skills (17 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 2,960 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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