python-secure-coding

A set of practices for writing and changing Python code with security in mind, alongside Ruff and ty quality checks. It covers common risks in input handling, data deserialization, secrets, system commands, SQL, cryptography, server-side request forgery, and dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or editing Python code involving user input, serialized data, credentials, subprocesses, databases, encryption, network requests, or third-party packages.
Why use it?
It addresses security problems that automated code checks may miss, especially when Python code handles untrusted data or external systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/konstruktoid/prescryb/python-secure-coding
Any agent
npx skills add konstruktoid/prescryb --skill python-secure-coding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/konstruktoid/prescryb

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,317 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. 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 $0.00098 $0.02317
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01158
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00463
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00232

Measured yesterday against content hash 8a24a8627c06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

python-secure-coding scanned grade C with 2 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 yesterday.

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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- Vendored from https://github.com/konstruktoid/agent-instructions-skills skills/python/python-secure-coding/SKILL.md Upstream commit: f4696ac18174422ba873bac1630628d49123c7c0 Do not edit locally; re-vendor from upstr

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

| `subprocess`, `os.system`, shell strings, `eval`/`exec` | [references/injection.md](references/injection.md) |
.agents/skills/python-secure-coding/SKILL.md · 170 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

Files

What ships with it

6 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. yesterday First seen · 170 lines · 98 tokens per session scan C 8a24a8627c06

Subscribe to this mod's changes

python-secure-coding is a skill published in the GitHub repository konstruktoid/prescryb (1 stars, last pushed 5d ago), with no licence file. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 2,317 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (hidden instructions, runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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