security-scanner

security-scanner is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mehdiozdemir/awesome-agent-skills. It costs 56 tokens per session (5,755 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A guide for checking source code and system settings for security weaknesses, including common web risks, exposed secrets, unsafe login controls, and poor encryption.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps audit code for OWASP Top 10 risks, review authentication and permissions, find exposed credentials, check cryptography, and assess vulnerable dependencies.
Why use it?
It helps find attack paths and risky configurations before they can expose data or allow unauthorized access.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is return f.read() # filename = "../../../etc/passwd".

Good fit It helps audit code for OWASP Top 10 risks, review authentication and permissions, find exposed credentials, check cryptography, and assess vulnerable dependencies.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mehdiozdemir/awesome-agent-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mehdiozdemir/awesome-agent-skills/security-scanner

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,755 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 6 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 $0.00056 $0.05755
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.02877
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.01151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00575

Measured 11d ago against content hash b5c09b26fc05, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

security-scanner scanned grade D with 6 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 11d 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.

Encoded or obfuscated payloadmediumSupply chain

base64 or hex that is decoded and executed hides what actually runs from anyone reading the file.

return eval(expression) # expression = "__import__('os').system('rm -rf /')"

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Cloud metadata endpointmediumServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

response = requests.get(url) # url = "http://169.254.169.254/..."

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Unrestricted tool accesslowExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

return yaml.load(config_str) # Can execute arbitrary code!

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Recursive force deletemediumDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

os.system(f"ping -c 1 {host}") # host = "google.com; rm -rf /"

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

response = requests.get(url) # url = "http://169.254.169.254/..."

Runs shell commandslowCapability

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

os.system(f"ping -c 1 {host}") # host = "google.com; rm -rf /"
skills/security-scanner/SKILL.md · 893 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 893 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Security Scanner Skill

This skill identifies security vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and potential attack vectors in code. Use this whenever you need to audit code for security issues, review sensitive implementations, or ensure compliance with security best practices.

Security Analysis Scope

1. OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities

The most critical web application security risks:

# Vulnerability Description
A01 Broken Access Control Unauthorized access to resources
A02 Cryptographic Failures Weak encryption, exposed sensitive data
A03 Injection SQL, NoSQL, OS, LDAP injection
A04 Insecure Design Missing security controls by design
A05 Security Misconfiguration Default configs, verbose errors
A06 Vulnerable Components Outdated dependencies with CVEs
A07 Authentication Failures Weak auth, credential stuffing
A08 Data Integrity Failures Insecure deserialization, CI/CD
A09 Logging Failures Insufficient logging/monitoring
A10 SSRF Server-Side Request Forgery

2. CWE Categories

Common Weakness Enumeration patterns:

  • CWE-79: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
  • CWE-89: SQL Injection
  • CWE-22: Path Traversal
  • CWE-78: OS Command Injection
  • CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
  • CWE-434: Unrestricted File Upload
  • CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
  • CWE-611: XML External Entity (XXE)
  • CWE-798: Hardcoded Credentials
  • CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery

3. Secret Detection

Exposed credentials and sensitive data:

  • API keys and tokens
  • Database passwords
  • Private keys and certificates
  • OAuth secrets
  • AWS/GCP/Azure credentials
  • JWT secrets
  • Encryption keys

Security Scan Process

Step 1: Initial Assessment

  1. Identify the application type (web, API, mobile, etc.)
  2. Determine the technology stack
  3. Identify security-sensitive areas (auth, payments, data)
  4. Review the architecture for attack surface
  5. Check for existing security controls

Read the full file on GitHub · 893 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 893 lines · 56 tokens per session scan D b5c09b26fc05

Subscribe to this mod's changes

security-scanner is a skill published in the GitHub repository mehdiozdemir/awesome-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 5,755 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 6 findings (encoded or obfuscated payload, cloud metadata endpoint, unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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