sast-lite

sast-lite is a skill for Claude Code from NovaCode37/claude-security-skills. It costs 82 tokens per session (725 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python code scanner that reads the code structure to find likely security weaknesses. It reports issues such as unsafe command execution, SQL injection, hardcoded secrets, and weak encryption, with a standard weakness code for each finding.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit Python projects, review pull requests, check untrusted snippets, or add a security check before merging code.
Why use it?
It helps catch security problems before code is run, merged, or reviewed manually. Reading the code structure makes checks more specific than simple text searches.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-security-skills plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit Python projects, review pull requests, check untrusted snippets, or add a security check before merging code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/novacode37/claude-security-skills/sast-lite
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 NovaCode37/claude-security-skills --skill sast-lite
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NovaCode37/claude-security-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-security-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 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 sast-lite

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 725 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 17
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • medium Tool Misuse · line 36
    Tool defaults are unsafe or overly permissive (e.g. disabled TLS verification, no authentication, world-writable permissions). Unsafe defaults widen the attack surface.
    Fix: Override unsafe defaults with secure settings (verify=True, auth required, restrictive permissions). Review and harden all tool configurations.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00082 $0.00725
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00362
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00072

Measured 12d ago against content hash 16b6a169a019, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sast-lite 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (analyzer.py, tests/test_analyzer.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

are actually called — so `subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True)` is flagged while
skills/sast-lite/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SAST Lite

An AST-based static analyzer for Python. Instead of fragile regex matching, it parses each file into an abstract syntax tree and inspects how dangerous APIs are actually called — so subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True) is flagged while subprocess.run(["ls"]) is not. No third-party dependencies.

When to use this skill

  • "Audit / security-review this Python code."
  • "Run a SAST scan on the project."
  • Reviewing a PR or untrusted snippet before running it.
  • A pre-merge CI gate for security regressions.

What it detects

Rule CWE Severity
eval() / exec() on dynamic input CWE-95 critical/high
os.system / subprocess(shell=True) CWE-78 high
pickle/marshal deserialization CWE-502 high
yaml.load without SafeLoader CWE-20 high
SQL via f-string / concat / .format / % CWE-89 high
requests(verify=False) CWE-295 high
Hardcoded password/secret literal CWE-798 high
Weak hash (md5/sha1) CWE-327 medium
tempfile.mktemp CWE-377 medium
Flask(debug=True) CWE-489 medium
Jinja2 autoescape=False CWE-79 medium
assert used for a security check CWE-617 medium

How to run it

# Scan a directory
python skills/sast-lite/analyzer.py src/

# JSON for tooling / CI
python skills/sast-lite/analyzer.py . --json

# Only show high+ severity
python skills/sast-lite/analyzer.py . --min-severity high

Exit codes: 0 clean · 1 issues found · 2 usage/parse error — ready for CI gating.

  1. Run with --json and parse the issue list.
  2. For each issue, open path:line and confirm the data flow is genuinely attacker-controllable (the analyzer is intra-procedural, so it may flag patterns that are safe in context).
  3. Propose a concrete fix per finding — e.g. parameterized queries for py.sql-injection, yaml.safe_load for py.yaml-load, list-form subprocess calls for py.subprocess-shell.
  4. Summarize by severity and CWE.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 12d ago First seen · 76 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 16b6a169a019

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sast-lite is a skill published in the GitHub repository NovaCode37/claude-security-skills (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 725 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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