api-security

api-security is a skill for Claude Code from ivegamsft/basecoat. It costs 77 tokens per session (453 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for securing REST and GraphQL APIs against common authentication, authorization, input-validation, injection, and abuse risks. It includes patterns for JWTs, roles, rate limits, CORS, security headers, and logging.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to secure API authentication and permissions, validate inputs, prevent injection, limit abusive requests, configure CORS, and improve security logging.
Why use it?
APIs can expose data or accept harmful input when access checks and validation are incomplete. This guide helps developers apply consistent protections to API endpoints.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to secure API authentication and permissions, validate inputs, prevent injection, limit abusive requests, configure CORS, and improve security logging.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/api-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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/api-security
Any agent
npx skills add ivegamsft/basecoat --skill api-security
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivegamsft/basecoat

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 453 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00077 $0.00453
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00227
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00045

Measured 3d ago against content hash b71d234e4800, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-security 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 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.

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.

skills/api-security/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

API Security Skill

Production patterns for securing REST and GraphQL APIs against OWASP API Security Top 10.

Reference Files

File Contents
references/threat-model.md OWASP Top 10 table, JWT auth, RBAC, input validation/XSS, SQL injection prevention, GraphQL security, security logging
references/controls.md Rate limiting, API key verification, CORS configuration, security headers, controls checklist

Core Controls (Quick Reference)

Control Pattern
Authentication JWT with short expiry (≤1 hr); rotate refresh tokens
Authorization RBAC via require_role() on every endpoint
Input validation Pydantic/Zod schema + HTML escape on user content
Injection prevention Parameterized queries only — no string concatenation
Rate limiting slowapi — 5/min on auth, 100/hr on search
CORS Explicit allow_origins list — never ["*"] in production
Transport HTTPS + security headers (HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options)

Security Logging

Log all auth events (success + failure) with username, IP, and timestamp. Never log passwords or tokens.

References

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 46 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A b71d234e4800

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-security is a skill published in the GitHub repository ivegamsft/basecoat (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 453 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 2026-09-03.

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