privacy-hygiene

privacy-hygiene is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jl-cmd/claude-dev-env. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,113 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A repository-wide check for personal information and secrets before code is committed or published to GitHub, a service for hosting software projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before pushing a branch or opening a pull request, after a privacy check blocks an action, and when cleaning logs, screenshots, configuration examples, or support transcripts.
Why use it?
It helps prevent emails, machine paths, network addresses, credentials, and other private material from entering version history or a public post.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/example/....

Part of the claude-dev-env plugin — 67 skills, 3 commands, 8 agents, 8 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it before pushing a branch or opening a pull request, after a privacy check blocks an action, and when cleaning logs, screenshots, configuration examples, or support transcripts.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add jl-cmd/claude-dev-env
Claude Code
/plugin install claude-dev-env

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-dev-env, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 67 skills, 3 commands, 8 agents, 8 hooks.

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 privacy-hygiene

README.md
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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,113 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00076 $0.01113
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00557
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00111

Measured 7d ago against content hash 6abad18290bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

privacy-hygiene scanned grade B 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 7d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

Hooks register via `hooks/hooks.json` into `~/.claude/settings.json`. Once installed, the same gates apply in every repository the agent touches — private or public.
packages/claude-dev-env/.agents/skills/privacy-hygiene/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

privacy-hygiene

Overview

Find and remove personal data and high-confidence secrets before they land in git history or a durable GitHub post. The pii_prevention_blocker hook blocks the common cases at write, post, and commit time. This skill is the full sweep when you need a broader pass or a remediation plan.

Announce at start: "Running privacy-hygiene sweep."

When to run a full sweep

  • Before the first push of a branch that touched logs, screenshots, config samples, or machine-local paths
  • After a hook block on email, home path, LAN address, or secret material
  • Before opening a PR to a repository that is public (or will be made public)
  • After pasting support tickets, env dumps, or terminal transcripts into the tree

What the automated gate blocks

Category Blocked examples Allowed residual
Email [email protected] [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Home path C:/Users/example/..., /Users/example/..., /home/example/... C:/Users/example/..., C:/Users/<you>/..., /Users/alice/...
LAN address Unlisted 10.x / 172.16–31.x / 192.168.x Public addresses; your NAS host from CLAUDE_NAS_HOST or ~/.claude/local-identity.json; entries in ALL_ALLOWLISTED_PRIVATE_IP_ADDRESSES
Secret ghp_…, github_pat_…, AKIA…, PEM private-key headers Public keys, redacted ***, env var names without values

Surfaces:

  1. Write / Edit / MultiEdit — payload text about to land on disk (via PreToolUse dispatcher)
  2. Durable postsgh pr/issue create|comment|edit|review bodies and GitHub MCP body/comment fields (Bash and PowerShell)
  3. git commit — staged blob text (non-exempt paths) on Bash and PowerShell, including git.exe and flag forms (--no-verify, -c, -C). Commit message bodies (-m / -F) are out of scope for the automated gate

Sweep procedure

Run the full-tree sweep in reference/sweep-procedure.md: scope the tree, run the ripgrep pass for the four high-confidence pattern families (email, home path, LAN address, secret), review each hit against the ignore list, and remediate. It also lists the accepted residual — what to leave in place rather than over-scrub. The ripgrep command is the only full-tree pass; the write-time pii_prevention_blocker scans one payload at a time.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 7d ago First seen · 69 lines · 76 tokens per session scan B 6abad18290bf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

privacy-hygiene is a skill published in the GitHub repository jl-cmd/claude-dev-env (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,113 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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