convex-auth

convex-auth is a skill for Claude Code from PolarCoding85/convex-agent-skillz. It costs 52 tokens per session (1,296 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to authentication in Convex backends, where authentication checks whether a user has signed in and authorization controls what that user may do. It covers reading user identity, storing users, protecting functions, and avoiding login-related race conditions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to protect Convex queries, mutations, and actions, identify signed-in users, connect user records to authentication, or debug authentication behavior.
Why use it?
It provides provider-independent patterns for keeping backend functions from serving unauthenticated or unauthorized requests.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

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/polarcoding85/convex-agent-skillz/convex-auth-skill
Any agent
npx skills add PolarCoding85/convex-agent-skillz --skill convex-auth-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PolarCoding85/convex-agent-skillz

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,296 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 $0.00052 $0.01296
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00648
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00130

Measured 6d ago against content hash 901ed7c63171, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

convex-auth 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 6d 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.

.claude/skills/convex-auth-skill/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Convex Authentication - Core Patterns

This skill covers universal auth patterns that work with ANY authentication provider.

Auth in Functions

Access the authenticated user via ctx.auth.getUserIdentity():

import { query, mutation, action } from './_generated/server';

export const myQuery = query({
  args: {},
  handler: async (ctx) => {
    const identity = await ctx.auth.getUserIdentity();
    if (identity === null) {
      throw new Error('Not authenticated');
    }
    // identity.tokenIdentifier - unique across providers
    // identity.subject - user ID from provider
    // identity.email, identity.name, etc. (if configured)
  }
});

UserIdentity Fields

Field Guaranteed Description
tokenIdentifier Unique ID (subject + issuer combined)
subject User ID from auth provider
issuer Auth provider domain
email Provider-dependent User's email
name Provider-dependent Display name
pictureUrl Provider-dependent Avatar URL

Critical: Race Condition Prevention

Problem: Queries can execute before auth is validated on page load.

Client-side: Always use useConvexAuth() from convex/react, NOT your provider's hook:

// ✅ Correct - waits for Convex to validate token
import { useConvexAuth } from 'convex/react';
const { isLoading, isAuthenticated } = useConvexAuth();

// ❌ Wrong - only checks provider, not Convex validation
const { isSignedIn } = useAuth(); // from @clerk/clerk-react

Skip queries until authenticated:

const user = useQuery(api.users.current, isAuthenticated ? {} : 'skip');

Use Convex auth components:

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 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. 6d ago First seen · 206 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 901ed7c63171

Subscribe to this mod's changes

convex-auth is a skill published in the GitHub repository PolarCoding85/convex-agent-skillz (17 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,296 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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