security-hardening

security-hardening is a skill for Claude Code from juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,234 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of secure coding rules for software that handles user input, authentication, sessions, or data from outside systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Applying security controls at API and form boundaries, protecting sessions and secrets, checking dependencies, and deciding when human approval is needed.
Why use it?
It helps prevent common web vulnerabilities such as unsafe database queries, cross-site scripting, weak passwords, insecure cookies, and missing security headers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter.

Part of the security plugin — 1 skill, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Applying security controls at API and form boundaries, protecting sessions and secrets, checking dependencies, and deciding when human approval is needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins/security-hardening
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.

Any agent
npx skills add juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins --skill security-hardening
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install security, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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agentmods badge for security-hardening

README.md
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Your own site
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agentmods 80×15 button for security-hardening

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,234 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 $0.00041 $0.01234
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00617
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00123

Measured 5d ago against content hash b666328c98a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security-hardening 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 5d 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.

security/skills/security-hardening/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Security and Hardening

Security is a constraint on every line of code that touches user data, authentication, or external systems. Treat every external input as hostile, every secret as sacred, and every authorization check as mandatory.

The Three-Tier Boundary System

Always Do (No Exceptions)

  • Validate all external input at the system boundary (API routes, form handlers)
  • Parameterize all database queries — never concatenate user input into SQL
  • Encode output to prevent XSS (use framework auto-escaping, don't bypass it)
  • Hash passwords with bcrypt/scrypt/argon2 (salt rounds ≥ 12)
  • Set security headers (CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options)
  • Use httpOnly, secure, sameSite cookies for sessions
  • Audit dependencies before every release (npm audit / pip audit)
  • Use HTTPS for all external communication

Ask First (Requires Human Approval)

  • Adding new authentication flows or changing auth logic
  • Storing new categories of sensitive data (PII, payment info)
  • Adding new external service integrations
  • Changing CORS configuration
  • Adding file upload handlers
  • Modifying rate limiting or throttling
  • Granting elevated permissions or roles

Never Do

  • Never commit secrets to version control (API keys, passwords, tokens)
  • Never log sensitive data (passwords, tokens, full credit card numbers)
  • Never trust client-side validation as a security boundary
  • Never disable security headers for convenience
  • Never use eval() or innerHTML with user-provided data
  • Never store auth tokens in localStorage (use httpOnly cookies)
  • Never expose stack traces or internal error details to users

OWASP Top 10 Quick Reference

# Vulnerability Prevention
1 Injection Parameterized queries, ORM, no string concatenation
2 Broken Auth Strong hashing, secure sessions, rate limiting
3 XSS Framework auto-escaping, DOMPurify for raw HTML
4 Broken Access Control Ownership checks on every endpoint, IDOR prevention
5 Misconfiguration Helmet/security headers, restrictive CORS, no defaults
6 Sensitive Data Exposure Sanitize responses, env vars for secrets, encrypt PII

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 5d ago First seen · 143 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A b666328c98a3

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security-hardening is a skill published in the GitHub repository juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins (8 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,234 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.