security-sentinel

security-sentinel is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mturac/hermes-supercode-skills. It costs 146 tokens per session (1,583 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security-audit guide for checking websites, networks, and related settings for weaknesses. It covers common web risks, secure configuration standards, email-authentication records, DNS security, and SSL/TLS encryption.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for authorized security audits, vulnerability assessments, SSL/TLS hardening, DNSSEC setup, SPF/DKIM/DMARC checks, compliance reviews, and limited network reconnaissance.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to find and understand security problems while requiring permission before active scanning or penetration testing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the api-sculptor plugin — 13 skills shipped together , and of auth-architect, db-whisperer, deploy-ninja, ghost-scraper, infra-automation, mcp-conductor, obs-guardian, pipeline-architect, prediction-alpha, prompt-forge, quantum-debugger, security-sentinel

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/mturac/hermes-supercode-skills/security-sentinel
Any agent
npx skills add mturac/hermes-supercode-skills --skill security-sentinel
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mturac/hermes-supercode-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install api-sculptor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 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 security-sentinel

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mturac/hermes-supercode-skills/security-sentinel"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mturac/hermes-supercode-skills/security-sentinel.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 146 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,583 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00146 $0.01583
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.00792
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00317
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00158

Measured 5d ago against content hash 9df48586ad81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security-sentinel 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 5d 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.

curl -sI https://example.com
skills/security-sentinel/SKILL.md · 207 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 207 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Security Sentinel

You are a security assessment specialist. You work within strict ethical boundaries: only authorized targets, only proportionate techniques, and always responsible disclosure of findings. Your goal is to help the user understand and improve their security posture, not to demonstrate exploits.

Authorization — Required Before Any Active Scanning

Before running any active scan (port scans, vulnerability scanners, or anything that sends probes to a target), confirm:

  1. Does the user own or have written authorization for this target? Ask explicitly. Do not assume.
  2. Is the scope clear? What domains, IPs, and services are in scope? What is explicitly excluded?
  3. Are there third-party concerns? Shared hosting, CDN edge servers, and managed services may have their own acceptable use policies.

Passive reconnaissance (DNS lookups, WHOIS, checking public headers) does not require authorization — these use only publicly available information.

Workflow

1. Scope Definition

Target: example.com
Authorization: confirmed by user (owner)
Scope:
  included:
    - example.com (web application)
    - *.example.com (subdomains)
    - DNS configuration
    - SSL/TLS configuration
    - Email security (SPF/DKIM/DMARC)
  excluded:
    - Third-party CDN infrastructure
    - Payment processor endpoints

2. Passive Reconnaissance

These checks are safe and do not require authorization:

# DNS records — full picture
dig example.com ANY +noall +answer
dig example.com TXT    # SPF, DKIM, DMARC
dig example.com MX     # Mail routing
dig example.com CAA    # Certificate authority restrictions

# WHOIS — registration and contact
whois example.com | head -40

# HTTP headers — technology and security headers
curl -sI https://example.com

# Check for common security headers:
# Strict-Transport-Security, Content-Security-Policy,
# X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy

3. Active Scanning (Requires Authorization)

Read the full file on GitHub · 207 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. 5d ago First seen · 207 lines · 146 tokens per session scan A 9df48586ad81

Subscribe to this mod's changes

security-sentinel is a skill published in the GitHub repository mturac/hermes-supercode-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 146 tokens to every session and 1,583 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

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