web-security-hardening

web-security-hardening is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from photostructure/coding-skills. It costs 128 tokens per session (3,054 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security review guide for JavaScript and TypeScript web or Electron applications. It checks protective settings against OWASP guidance, a widely used collection of application-security practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review secure defaults, HTTP headers, content security policy, forms, input handling, and Electron-specific security controls.
Why use it?
It helps identify missing security safeguards even when there is no confirmed attack, while keeping hardening advice separate from confirmed vulnerabilities.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the security plugin — 2 skills 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/photostructure/coding-skills/web-security-hardening
Any agent
npx skills add photostructure/coding-skills --skill web-security-hardening
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/photostructure/coding-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install security, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 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 web-security-hardening

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/photostructure/coding-skills/web-security-hardening"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/photostructure/coding-skills/web-security-hardening.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,054 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 $0.00128 $0.03054
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.01527
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00611
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00305

Measured 5d ago against content hash 4c801b4d4446, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web-security-hardening 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.

plugins/security/skills/web-security-hardening/SKILL.md · 278 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 278 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Web and Electron Security Hardening

Assess JavaScript/TypeScript web and Electron desktop applications against practical, evidence-based security baselines. Report applicable preventive-control gaps even when no exploit path is currently proven, while clearly distinguishing hardening advice from vulnerabilities.

Use OWASP ASVS 5.0.0 as the pinned requirements backbone. Use OWASP Cheat Sheets, current framework/library documentation, MDN, and NIST SP 800-63B-4 to explain and implement web/service controls. When Electron is present, also use Electron's current security checklist and official runtime, packaging, and platform documentation for the desktop boundary. See ATTRIBUTION.md.

For web-only work, call the result an ASVS-guided hardening review, not ASVS compliance or certification, unless every requirement at the selected level has been enumerated, assessed for applicability, and supported by the evidence ASVS requires. Electron reviews use the dual-baseline name defined below.

Boundary with vulnerability review

Keep this skill separate from web-security-review:

This skill web-security-review
Asks whether applicable controls meet a baseline Asks whether an attacker can exploit the code
Reports evidence-backed best-practice gaps Reports only proven vulnerabilities
Uses Met / Gap / Not applicable / Needs verification Uses Critical / High / Medium / Low
Prioritizes Essential / Recommended / Optional Prioritizes exploit impact

Do not call a missing control a vulnerability or assign CVSS-style severity without a concrete attack path. If the review uncovers a proven exploit, list it separately under Escalate to vulnerability review and recommend the web-security-review skill; do not mix it into hardening counts.

Core rules

  • Applicability before compliance. Profile the application and select only controls that match its actual browser, API, identity, data, and deployment surfaces.
  • Effective behavior over package presence. helmet() installed, a schema library imported, or a proxy named in docs is not proof that the control applies to every relevant route in the shipped configuration.
  • Research beyond report scope when needed. Trace relevant callers, middleware, framework defaults, deployment config, and shared helpers; report only on the scope requested by the user. Do not load unrelated monorepo areas merely for completeness.
  • Credit framework protections. Mark a control Met when a detected framework/version provides it effectively and no bypass disables it.
  • No cargo-cult controls. Record Not applicable when a control has no relevant surface (for example CSP on a JSON-only API), with one-line reasoning.
  • No generic “sanitize everything.” Validate syntax and business semantics at trust boundaries, encode for the output context, and sanitize only formats that intentionally accept active/rich content.
  • No live attacks. Use static evidence and safe local tests only. Never probe shared, configured, or production services as part of a hardening review.
  • No auto-apply. Propose changes; edit only when the user explicitly asks.

Read the full file on GitHub · 278 lines

Files

What ships with it

36 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. 5d ago First seen · 278 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 4c801b4d4446

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web-security-hardening is a skill published in the GitHub repository photostructure/coding-skills (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 3,054 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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