Data Classification Guide

Data Classification Guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from niels-emmer/myace. It costs 32 tokens per session (897 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for deciding whether data is public, internal, or sensitive, and where each category may safely appear.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during security and privacy reviews to classify data and check whether its use in prompts, logs, files, and error messages is acceptable.
Why use it?
It replaces repeated guesses about whether information belongs in an AI prompt, log, committed file, or client error message.

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/niels-emmer/myace/data-classification-guide
Any agent
npx skills add niels-emmer/myace --skill data-classification-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/niels-emmer/myace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 897 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 $0.00032 $0.00897
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00449
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00090

Measured 5d ago against content hash a1e90dd7aa88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Data Classification Guide 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.

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.

collections/additional/auditor/skills/data-classification-guide/SKILL.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Give reviewers a shared, concrete way to decide how carefully a piece of data needs to be handled, instead of relying on a case-by-case judgment call every time. Most security and privacy findings ("this shouldn't be in the log," "this shouldn't be in the prompt") come down to misjudging which tier the data actually belongs to.

When to use it

Whenever a review needs to answer "is it OK for this data to end up here" — in an AI prompt or context window, in an application or access log, in a committed file (including test fixtures and example config), or in an error message returned to a client. Use it alongside security-audit-checklist's injection/output-handling items and the Data Classification Awareness rule.

The three tiers

Public — safe for anyone to see with no restriction: published documentation, open-source code, marketing content, anything already deliberately made public.

Internal — not secret, but not meant for outside distribution: internal architecture notes, non-sensitive business metrics, internal tooling config that doesn't grant access to anything, employee directory info the org treats as internal-only.

Sensitive — data whose exposure causes real harm: personally identifiable information (names tied to contact info, government IDs, dates of birth), authentication material (passwords, API keys, tokens, private keys, session identifiers), financial data (card numbers, account numbers, transaction details), health data, and anything a contract, regulation, or the project's own policy specifically restricts.

When a piece of data's tier isn't obvious, classify it at the higher (more restrictive) tier until someone with authority over the data confirms otherwise — the cost of over-protecting public-adjacent data is small; the cost of under-protecting sensitive data is not.

What's allowed where, by tier

Destination Public Internal Sensitive
AI prompt / context window Yes Generally yes, if the tool/provider is already trusted with internal data No, unless the specific tool is explicitly approved for that data class and the org has confirmed it — default to no
Application/access logs Yes Yes, if log access is itself restricted to internal staff No — never log raw sensitive values; log a reference/ID instead if you need traceability
Committed files (repo, fixtures, examples) Yes Usually no — internal specifics don't belong in a public or widely-shared repo Never — including "just for a test," "temporarily," or in a private repo (private repos still get cloned, forked, and mirrored)
Client-facing error messages Yes No No

Read the full file on GitHub · 52 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 · 52 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A a1e90dd7aa88

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Data Classification Guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository niels-emmer/myace (1 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 897 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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