tool-better-auth

tool-better-auth is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Heyvhuang/ship-faster. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,591 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of better-auth-best-practices, MIT.

A setup guide for adding Better Auth, a TypeScript authentication framework, to a Next.js application. It covers sessions, sign-in providers, cookies, CSRF protection, redirects, middleware, and security settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when configuring email and password sign-in, OAuth, magic links, passkeys, database schemas, environment variables, or authentication routes with Better Auth.
Why use it?
It helps developers avoid common mistakes when connecting user sign-in and session handling to an application.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when configuring email and password sign-in, OAuth, magic links, passkeys, database schemas, environment variables, or authentication routes with Better Auth.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/heyvhuang/ship-faster/tool-better-auth
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Heyvhuang/ship-faster --skill tool-better-auth
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Heyvhuang/ship-faster

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,591 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 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00040 $0.01591
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00796
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00159

Measured 11d ago against content hash 132b23e0135d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tool-better-auth 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.

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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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to better-auth-best-practices — 16 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/tool-better-auth/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Better Auth Integration Guide

Always consult better-auth.com/docs for code examples and latest API.

Better Auth is a TypeScript-first, framework-agnostic auth framework supporting email/password, OAuth, magic links, passkeys, and more via plugins.


Quick Reference

Environment Variables

  • BETTER_AUTH_SECRET - Encryption secret (min 32 chars). Generate: openssl rand -base64 32
  • BETTER_AUTH_URL - Base URL (e.g., https://example.com)

Only define baseURL/secret in config if env vars are NOT set.

File Location

CLI looks for auth.ts in: ./, ./lib, ./utils, or under ./src. Use --config for custom path.

CLI Commands

  • npx @better-auth/cli@latest migrate - Apply schema (built-in adapter)
  • npx @better-auth/cli@latest generate - Generate schema for Prisma/Drizzle
  • npx @better-auth/cli mcp --cursor - Add MCP to AI tools

Re-run after adding/changing plugins.


Core Config Options

Option Notes
appName Optional display name
baseURL Only if BETTER_AUTH_URL not set
basePath Default /api/auth. Set / for root.
secret Only if BETTER_AUTH_SECRET not set
database Required for most features. See adapters docs.
secondaryStorage Redis/KV for sessions & rate limits
emailAndPassword { enabled: true } to activate
socialProviders { google: { clientId, clientSecret }, ... }
plugins Array of plugins
trustedOrigins CSRF whitelist

Database

Direct connections: Pass pg.Pool, mysql2 pool, better-sqlite3, or bun:sqlite instance.

ORM adapters: Import from better-auth/adapters/drizzle, better-auth/adapters/prisma, better-auth/adapters/mongodb.

Critical: Better Auth uses adapter model names, NOT underlying table names. If Prisma model is User mapping to table users, use modelName: "user" (Prisma reference), not "users".


Session Management

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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 · 167 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 132b23e0135d

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tool-better-auth is a skill published in the GitHub repository Heyvhuang/ship-faster (339 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,591 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to better-auth-best-practices, differing in 16 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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