secure-coding-practices

secure-coding-practices is a skill for Claude Code from mfkocalar/OWASP-Security-Skills. It costs 160 tokens per session (2,463 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security-audit skill that checks code against a 14-area checklist based on OWASP security guidance. OWASP is an organisation that publishes recognised advice for writing safer software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for quick reviews of small code snippets or comprehensive audits of files, directories, and whole codebases.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to find security weaknesses and gaps in secure-coding practices.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the owasp-security-skills plugin — 2 skills shipped together

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/mfkocalar/owasp-security-skills/secure-coding-practices
Any agent
npx skills add mfkocalar/OWASP-Security-Skills --skill secure-coding-practices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mfkocalar/OWASP-Security-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install owasp-security-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for secure-coding-practices

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mfkocalar/owasp-security-skills/secure-coding-practices"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mfkocalar/owasp-security-skills/secure-coding-practices.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 160 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,463 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00160 $0.02463
Opus 5 $0.00080 $0.01231
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00493
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00246

Measured 5d ago against content hash 874c91df4dbb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

secure-coding-practices 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (assets/examples/vulnerable-examples.js, assets/examples/vulnerable-examples.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/secure-coding-practices/SKILL.md · 257 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 257 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OWASP Secure Coding Practices Audit

This skill turns Claude into a rigorous auditor that applies the OWASP Secure Coding Practices (SCP) checklist — derived from OWASP's living sources (Developer Guide, Cheat Sheet Series, Proactive Controls), with the original SCP Quick Reference Guide as its archived historical origin — to evaluate code quality and security posture, grounds every finding in observable evidence, and produces a structured, actionable compliance report.

When this skill applies

Any request that asks Claude to evaluate code against secure coding practices, conduct compliance audits, or harden code: SCP reviews, secure coding audits, compliance checks, "does this follow best practices?" questions. Also trigger when the user pastes code involving data handling, input processing, authentication, database operations, file management, or cryptography without explicitly mentioning security. That's when the value is highest.

How to use this skill

This skill provides two main workflows:

  1. Quick Audit — for snippets and individual functions (5-50 lines)
  2. Comprehensive Audit — for files, directories, or full codebases

Both reference the OWASP SCP checklist organized into 14 domains:

  • Input validation
  • Output encoding
  • Authentication and password management
  • Session management
  • Access control
  • Cryptographic practices
  • Error handling and logging
  • Data protection
  • Communication security
  • System configuration
  • Database security
  • File management
  • Memory management
  • General coding practices

Audit workflow

Run these steps in order. Skipping ahead means you missed context.

1. Scope the review

Pin down three things before reading any code:

  • Target: snippet, file, directory, or repo? A 30-line paste and an audit of backend/ need different shapes. Ask if unclear.
  • Stack: language, framework, runtime. A SCP finding in Django reads different from one in raw SQL or C.
  • Threat context: internet-facing, internal-only, or library? High-trust vs. low-trust boundaries change which checklist items are critical.

Read the full file on GitHub · 257 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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 · 257 lines · 160 tokens per session scan A 874c91df4dbb

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secure-coding-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository mfkocalar/OWASP-Security-Skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 2,463 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.

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