netlify-access-control

netlify-access-control is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from netlify/context-and-tools. It costs 142 tokens per session (2,731 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing the right Netlify protection setting for a deployed website. Netlify is a hosting platform, and its password protection, project visibility, team SSO, and app login features control different kinds of access.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps choose settings for password-protecting sites or previews, limiting team access, making projects public or private, and requiring SSO for site viewing.
Why use it?
It prevents developers from confusing website protection, access to a Netlify project, team dashboard sign-in, and login for the site's own users. It also explains when settings must be changed in the Netlify dashboard.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the netlify-skills plugin — 16 skills, 3 agents, 1 MCP server 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/netlify/context-and-tools/netlify-access-control
Any agent
npx skills add netlify/context-and-tools --skill netlify-access-control
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/netlify/context-and-tools

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install netlify-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 3 agents, 1 MCP server.

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 netlify-access-control

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/netlify/context-and-tools/netlify-access-control"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/netlify/context-and-tools/netlify-access-control.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,731 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00142 $0.02731
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01366
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00546
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00273

Measured 5d ago against content hash f2511dd74b66, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

netlify-access-control scanned grade C with 2 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.

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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- system: agent-context/access-control/system.md — human-owned, merged by ctx-gen; edit system.md, not this section -->

Makes network callslowCapability

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

These settings have **no public API, no CLI command, and no MCP tool**. Do NOT curl `api.netlify.com` or read local auth tokens to inspect or change them. Hand the user the dashboard path and checklist. On failure, repor
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

agent-plugin/skills/netlify-access-control/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Netlify access control (picking the protection layer)

This skill ROUTES. Its job is choosing the correct protection layer for loading a site, not implementing app auth. Before recommending anything, disambiguate — three unrelated layers get called "auth":

  • Netlify Identity — "who is this user inside my app" (issues nf_jwt). App login, OAuth providers for your users, auth code. → Route to the netlify-identity skill. Not covered here.
  • Password Protection / Project visibility — "can this request load the site at all." Platform perimeter. This skill.
  • Team/Org SAML SSO — "can you log into the Netlify dashboard." Team member access to Netlify itself.

Sessions are separate. The same provider (e.g. Google) can be an Identity OAuth provider for app users AND a SAML IdP for team members — unrelated wiring.

Footgun: no API, CLI, or MCP for these settings

These settings have no public API, no CLI command, and no MCP tool. Do NOT curl api.netlify.com or read local auth tokens to inspect or change them. Hand the user the dashboard path and checklist. On failure, report what you tried and stop.

Footgun: the double login is real

A Password-Protection / team-login perimeter session and a Netlify Identity app session have no bridge — no shared cookie, no header forwarding, no JWT exchange. Don't burn iterations trying to wire them together. For the combined Password-Protection + Identity pattern and its tradeoffs, see references/two-layer-pattern.md.

For company-wide app-level SSO with a single sign-in (no double login), recommend the Auth0 extension (federating to the corporate IdP) BEFORE the two-layer stack.

Pick the layer

Goal Use
Restrict site to your team, invite by email Private project (Credit-based) or team login protection
Shared password anyone can use Basic password protection, or Password visibility (Pro only)
Protect only previews, keep production open "Non-production deploys only" / "Previews only"
Require SSO to view the site Org/Team SSO with Only SSO allowed (strict) + team login protection
Log in users inside your app → netlify-identity skill
Single company-wide app SSO, no double login → Auth0 extension

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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. 5d ago First seen · 166 lines · 142 tokens per session scan C f2511dd74b66

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netlify-access-control is a skill published in the GitHub repository netlify/context-and-tools (36 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 2,731 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (hidden instructions, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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