zizmor

zizmor is a skill for Claude Code from nitinjain999/platform-skills. It costs 175 tokens per session (6,274 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A security checker for GitHub Actions workflows, reusable actions, Dependabot settings, and pre-commit configuration. GitHub Actions is GitHub's system for running automated jobs such as tests and deployments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit workflow and configuration files, apply supported fixes, set severity-based CI gates, and upload results in SARIF, a standard format for security findings.
Why use it?
It finds risky workflow patterns such as injected input, credentials that remain available, unpinned actions, and permissions that are broader than needed. This complements checks for workflow correctness, dependency vulnerabilities, and infrastructure configuration.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the platform-skills plugin — 53 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit workflow and configuration files, apply supported fixes, set severity-based CI gates, and upload results in SARIF, a standard format for security findings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nitinjain999/platform-skills/zizmor
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.

Any agent
npx skills add nitinjain999/platform-skills --skill zizmor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nitinjain999/platform-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install platform-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 175 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,274 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00175 $0.06274
Opus 5.5 $0.00070 $0.02510
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00035 $0.01255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00627

Measured today against content hash f0542ccab429, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zizmor 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 today.

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.

plugins/platform-skills/skills/zizmor/SKILL.md · 397 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 397 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Audit GitHub Actions workflows for security findings — before an attacker reads them for you.

Read references/zizmor.md before responding. It contains bootstrap steps, the full 41-audit catalogue with persona and online gating, zizmor.yml schema and discovery rules, exit-code semantics, auto-fix blast radius, and the CI and pre-commit templates.

This command is interactive by default. With no arguments, run the three-layer wizard below. Never dump a raw zizmor invocation and stop — the useful output is a triaged verdict, not a finding list.

Ownership boundary (enforced at the menu)

Question Authoritative command
"Is this workflow valid?" (syntax, schema, shell bugs) /platform-skills:github-actions — actionlint
"Is this workflow safe?" (injection, permissions, pinning) this command
"Is my action.yml well designed?" /platform-skills:composite-actions
"How do I keep these SHA pins current?" /platform-skills:renovate
"Is there a misconfig in my Terraform / Helm / Dockerfile?" /platform-skills:checkov
"Does this image or dependency have CVEs?" /platform-skills:trivy
"How do I sign images / generate an SBOM?" /platform-skills:supply-chain

Zizmor and actionlint are complements. A workflow can be perfectly valid and still hand an attacker a shell. When the user asks for "workflow checks" without qualifying, run both and say which tool produced which finding.


Mode dispatch

Parse the first word of $ARGUMENTS as the mode. When $ARGUMENTS is empty, run the three-layer interactive wizard.

Mode What it does
scan Default-persona audit of the current repo — the everyday run
audit Deep sweep: --persona=auditor --min-confidence=low, all collectors, online
fix --fix=safe (or all on request), show the diff, re-audit what remains
triage Walk existing findings one at a time → fix / inline-ignore / config-ignore / remap / disable
config Generate or repair .github/zizmor.yml — pinning policy, allowlists, suppressions
ci Emit the GitHub Actions workflow — SARIF alerts, hard-fail gate, or both
precommit Add the zizmor-pre-commit hook and explain the offline caveat
explain Explain one audit id or one finding, and how to fix it properly
(empty) Three-layer interactive wizard

Read the full file on GitHub · 397 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. today Changed · +1 lines f0542ccab429
  2. 7d ago First seen · 396 lines · 175 tokens per session scan A 775fe704a169

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zizmor is a skill published in the GitHub repository nitinjain999/platform-skills (70 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 175 tokens to every session and 6,274 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-12.

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