security-best-practice

security-best-practice is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from himself65/auth-spec. It costs 58 tokens per session (2,038 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A security review and hardening guide for authentication code, covering login, sessions, credentials, OAuth, multi-factor authentication, and passkeys.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit or improve sign-in systems, session handling, password storage, OAuth or OpenID Connect flows, MFA, and passkeys.
Why use it?
It helps find and fix common weaknesses in code that identifies users and keeps them signed in.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the auth plugin — 2 skills shipped together

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/himself65/auth-spec/security-best-practice
Any agent
npx skills add himself65/auth-spec --skill security-best-practice
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/himself65/auth-spec

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install auth, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,038 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00058 $0.02038
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.01019
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00408
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00204

Measured 3d ago against content hash 0612f8b7c25f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security-best-practice scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- `rules/session-security.md` — Token generation, `__Host-`/`__Secure-`/`Partitioned` cookies, JWT pitfalls, session fixation, freshness (sudo mode), rotation on state change

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

skills/security-best-practice/SKILL.md · 118 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago First seen · 118 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 0612f8b7c25f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

security-best-practice is a skill published in the GitHub repository himself65/auth-spec (41 stars, last pushed 11d ago), with no licence file. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,038 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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