api-authorization-and-bola

api-authorization-and-bola is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from miru-zero/zero-brain. It costs 36 tokens per session (468 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of api-authorization-and-bola, MIT.

An API security testing guide for authorization, including BOLA, where one user can access another user’s object by changing its identifier. It also covers permissions for functions and writable fields.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare two accounts, replay requests, test nested resources and alternate HTTP methods, and check hidden fields such as roles, organizations, verification, or account tiers.
Why use it?
It helps uncover cases where an API checks whether a user is logged in but fails to check which records or actions that user is allowed to use.

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/miru-zero/zero-brain/api-authorization-and-bola
Any agent
npx skills add miru-zero/zero-brain --skill api-authorization-and-bola
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/miru-zero/zero-brain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 468 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00036 $0.00468
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00234
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00047

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0651235b7db1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-authorization-and-bola 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 4d 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to api-authorization-and-bola — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/api-authorization-and-bola/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

SKILL: API Authorization and BOLA — Object Access, Function Access, and Mass Assignment

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Use this skill when an API exposes object IDs, nested resources, or role-sensitive functions and you need a focused authorization test path: BOLA, BFLA, method abuse, and hidden field control.

1. CORE TEST LOOP

  1. Create Account A and Account B.
  2. As Account A, capture create, read, update, and delete flows.
  3. Replay with Account B's token.
  4. Test sibling endpoints, nested endpoints, and alternate HTTP verbs.

2. TEST SURFACES

Surface Example
object read /api/v1/orders/123
nested object /api/v1/users/1/invoices/9
admin or internal function /api/v1/admin/users
update path PUT, PATCH, DELETE variants
hidden JSON fields role, org, verified, tier

3. QUICK PAYLOADS

{"role":"admin"}
{"isAdmin":true}
{"org":"target-company"}
{"verified":true}

4. WHAT TESTERS MISS

  • object IDs in headers, cookies, GraphQL args, and nested objects
  • alternate methods sharing the same route but weaker authz
  • parent check present, child resource check missing
  • admin docs revealing extra writable fields

5. NEXT ROUTING

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. 4d ago First seen · 48 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 0651235b7db1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

api-authorization-and-bola is a skill published in the GitHub repository miru-zero/zero-brain (0 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 468 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to api-authorization-and-bola, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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