mcaf-security-baseline

A baseline security guide for handling secrets, choosing secure defaults, considering threats, and adding review checkpoints for authentication, data flows, pipelines, and outside services.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps assess changes with security impact, protect credentials, review integrations, and plan basic threat-modelling and security checks.
Why use it?
It helps catch common security risks during ordinary engineering work before they become part of the system.

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/managedcode/mcaf/mcaf-security-baseline
Any agent
npx skills add managedcode/MCAF --skill mcaf-security-baseline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/managedcode/MCAF

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 865 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.00055 $0.00865
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00432
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00086

Measured yesterday against content hash 137e24b33a28, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcaf-security-baseline 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 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.

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/mcaf-security-baseline/SKILL.md · 104 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed CC-BY-4.0

The repository is licensed CC-BY-4.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. yesterday First seen · 104 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 137e24b33a28

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mcaf-security-baseline is a skill published in the GitHub repository managedcode/MCAF (52 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed CC-BY-4.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 865 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.