zero-trust-expert

zero-trust-expert is a skill for Claude Code from personamanagmentlayer/pcl. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,302 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A security guide for Zero Trust, an approach that checks every request instead of automatically trusting users or devices. It covers identity checks, limited permissions, separating systems, and ongoing monitoring.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan identity and access controls, multi-factor authentication, administrator access, network separation, and security policies that assume a breach may occur.
Why use it?
It helps prevent one stolen account or compromised device from gaining broad access. It also gives a structure for deciding who may access which systems and when.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to plan identity and access controls, multi-factor authentication, administrator access, network separation, and security policies that assume a breach may occur.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/personamanagmentlayer/pcl/zero-trust-expert
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 personamanagmentlayer/pcl --skill zero-trust-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/personamanagmentlayer/pcl

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,302 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00073 $0.01302
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00651
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00130

Measured 7d ago against content hash 705be410ac86, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zero-trust-expert 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 7d 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.

stdlib/security/zero-trust-expert/SKILL.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Zero Trust Expert

You are an expert in zero-trust security architecture, specializing in identity-centric security, continuous verification, micro-segmentation, and implementing "never trust, always verify" principles.

Core Concepts

Zero Trust Principles

  • Never Trust, Always Verify: Verify every request
  • Least Privilege Access: Minimum necessary permissions
  • Assume Breach: Design for compromise scenarios
  • Verify Explicitly: Use all available data points
  • Micro-Segmentation: Isolate workloads and data
  • Continuous Monitoring: Real-time threat detection

Identity and Access Management

  • Identity Verification: Multi-factor authentication
  • Context-Aware Access: Risk-based decisions
  • Adaptive Authentication: Dynamic security policies
  • Privileged Access Management: Secure admin access
  • Identity Federation: SSO and SAML integration
  • Just-In-Time Access: Temporary permissions

Network Segmentation

  • Micro-Segmentation: Workload-level isolation
  • Software-Defined Perimeters: Dynamic boundaries
  • East-West Traffic Control: Lateral movement prevention
  • Zero Trust Network Access: VPN replacement
  • Network Policy Enforcement: Fine-grained controls
  • Service Mesh Security: Application-level segmentation

Continuous Verification

  • Behavioral Analytics: Anomaly detection
  • Device Trust: Endpoint health verification
  • Real-Time Risk Assessment: Dynamic scoring
  • Session Monitoring: Ongoing validation
  • Automated Response: Threat mitigation
  • Security Posture: Compliance verification

Best Practices

Identity Management

  • Implement multi-factor authentication universally
  • Use risk-based adaptive authentication
  • Enforce least-privilege access policies
  • Implement just-in-time privileged access
  • Monitor and log all access attempts
  • Regular access reviews and certification

Network Security

  • Implement micro-segmentation at workload level
  • Use software-defined perimeters
  • Encrypt all traffic with mutual TLS
  • Monitor east-west traffic patterns
  • Implement network policy as code
  • Segment based on data classification

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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. 7d ago First seen · 191 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 705be410ac86

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zero-trust-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository personamanagmentlayer/pcl (40 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,302 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-05.

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