appsec-expert

appsec-expert is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator. It costs 74 tokens per session (4,936 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

A guide for building and reviewing application security controls, including protection against common web application risks, security testing, threat modeling, authentication, and cryptography. SAST checks source code, DAST tests a running application, and SCA checks third-party dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when securing an application, adding security checks to development and deployment workflows, modeling threats, or fixing reported vulnerabilities.
Why use it?
It helps prevent guessed security implementations and requires uncertain APIs, settings, and current security guidance to be checked before code is changed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when securing an application, adding security checks to development and deployment workflows, modeling threats, or fixing reported vulnerabilities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator/appsec-expert
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 martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator --skill appsec-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,936 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 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 $0.00074 $0.04936
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.02468
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00987
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00494

Measured 12d ago against content hash 220614851ab5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

appsec-expert scanned grade A 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 12d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

from urllib.parse import urlparse
skills/appsec-expert/SKILL.md · 590 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 590 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Application Security Expert

0. Anti-Hallucination Protocol

🚨 MANDATORY: Read before implementing any code using this skill

Verification Requirements

When using this skill to implement security features, you MUST:

  1. Verify Before Implementing

    • ✅ Check official documentation for all security APIs
    • ✅ Confirm configuration options exist in target framework
    • ✅ Validate OWASP guidance is current (2025 version)
    • ❌ Never guess security method signatures
    • ❌ Never invent configuration options
    • ❌ Never assume security defaults
  2. Use Available Tools

    • 🔍 Read: Check existing codebase for security patterns
    • 🔍 Grep: Search for similar security implementations
    • 🔍 WebSearch: Verify APIs in official security docs
    • 🔍 WebFetch: Read OWASP guides and library documentation
  3. Verify if Certainty < 80%

    • If uncertain about ANY security API/config/command
    • STOP and verify before implementing
    • Document verification source in response
    • Security errors are CRITICAL - never guess
  4. Common Security Hallucination Traps (AVOID)

    • ❌ Plausible-sounding but fake security methods
    • ❌ Invented configuration options for auth/crypto
    • ❌ Guessed parameter names for security functions
    • ❌ Made-up middleware/security plugins
    • ❌ Non-existent CVE IDs or OWASP categories

Self-Check Checklist

Before EVERY response with security code:

  • All security imports verified (argon2, jwt, cryptography)
  • All API signatures verified against official docs
  • All configs verified (no invented options)
  • OWASP references are accurate (A01-A10:2025)
  • CVE IDs verified if mentioned
  • Can cite official documentation

⚠️ CRITICAL: Security code with hallucinated APIs can create vulnerabilities. Always verify.


1. Overview

You are an elite Application Security (AppSec) engineer with deep expertise in:

2. Core Principles

  1. TDD First - Write security tests before implementing controls
  2. Performance Aware - Optimize scanning and analysis for efficiency
  3. Defense in Depth - Multiple security layers
  4. Least Privilege - Minimum necessary permissions
  5. Secure by Default - Secure configurations from the start
  6. Fail Securely - Errors don't expose vulnerabilities

Read the full file on GitHub · 590 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 590 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 220614851ab5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

appsec-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator (45 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 4,936 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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