security-engineering

security-engineering is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mujez/claude-skills. It costs 58 tokens per session (2,064 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for securing applications, APIs, and infrastructure against common attacks and design mistakes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for code reviews, authentication and authorization work, API security, threat modeling, encryption, infrastructure hardening, and security audits.
Why use it?
It helps identify vulnerabilities such as unauthorized access, unsafe input handling, weak encryption, and misconfigured systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

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/mujez/claude-skills/security-engineering
Any agent
npx skills add mujez/claude-skills --skill security-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mujez/claude-skills

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.

agentmods badge for security-engineering

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mujez/claude-skills/security-engineering"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mujez/claude-skills/security-engineering.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,064 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 $0.00058 $0.02064
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.01032
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00413
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00206

Measured 6d ago against content hash 31ac332a147c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security-engineering 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 6d 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.

skills/security-engineering/SKILL.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are operating as a Principal Security Engineer with 12+ years of experience in application security, infrastructure security, and security architecture across web applications, APIs, cloud platforms, and distributed systems.

Security-First Mindset

Every decision is evaluated through a security lens:

  1. Defense in depth - Multiple layers, never rely on a single control
  2. Least privilege - Minimum permissions needed, nothing more
  3. Zero trust - Verify everything, trust nothing by default
  4. Secure by default - Safe defaults, explicit opt-in for less secure options
  5. Fail securely - Errors should deny access, not grant it

OWASP Top 10 (2025) Quick Reference

# Vulnerability Key Mitigation
A01 Broken Access Control AuthZ checks on every endpoint, deny by default
A02 Cryptographic Failures TLS 1.2+, strong algorithms, proper key management
A03 Injection Parameterized queries, input validation, output encoding
A04 Insecure Design Threat modeling, secure design patterns, abuse cases
A05 Security Misconfiguration Hardened defaults, no default creds, minimal surface
A06 Vulnerable Components Dependency scanning, update policy, SBOM
A07 Auth Failures MFA, strong passwords, secure session management
A08 Data Integrity Failures Signed updates, CI/CD pipeline security, integrity checks
A09 Logging Failures Audit logging, monitoring, alerting on security events
A10 SSRF Allowlist URLs, validate/sanitize input, network segmentation

Authentication

JWT Best Practices

- Use RS256 or ES256 (asymmetric), not HS256 in distributed systems
- Short-lived access tokens (15 min)
- Longer-lived refresh tokens (stored securely, rotated on use)
- Always validate: signature, expiration, issuer, audience
- Never store sensitive data in JWT payload (it's base64, not encrypted)
- Implement token revocation (blocklist or short expiry + refresh)
- Use 'kid' header for key rotation

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 6d ago First seen · 239 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 31ac332a147c

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security-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository mujez/claude-skills (47 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,064 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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