netlify-identity

netlify-identity is a skill for Codex from PracticalSwan/agent-skills. It costs 128 tokens per session (4,244 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of netlify-identity, MIT.

A guide to adding user accounts and access control to a Netlify site with Netlify Identity. It covers sign-up, login, logout, social login, user verification, roles, admin management, and account event hooks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding registration and login, OAuth sign-in with services such as Google or GitHub, protected pages, role-based access, or server-side user checks.
Why use it?
It avoids building authentication and social-login flows from scratch while highlighting where Netlify Identity must be configured and tested.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when adding registration and login, OAuth sign-in with services such as Google or GitHub, protected pages, role-based access, or server-side user checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/netlify-identity
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 PracticalSwan/agent-skills --skill netlify-identity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PracticalSwan/agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,244 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00128 $0.04244
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.02122
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00849
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00424

Measured yesterday against content hash 72b5b67f56e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

netlify-identity scanned grade C with 2 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 yesterday.

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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- system: agent-context/identity/system.md — human-owned, merged by ctx-gen; edit system.md, not this section -->

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **Identity config has no public API — dashboard only.** Never curl `api.netlify.com` to flip/inspect Identity settings, never read tokens from `~/Library/Preferences/netlify/config.json`, never probe undocumented endpo
Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to netlify-identity — 55 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

netlify-identity/SKILL.md · 345 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 345 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Netlify Identity

Auth and user management for a Netlify site without requiring visitors to be Netlify users. Package: @netlify/identity.

Reach for @netlify/identity. Do NOT use the legacy netlify-identity-widget or gotrue-js for new work — same capabilities, simpler API, built-in server-side support.

Footguns — read first

  • Identity does not work under netlify dev. Test auth flows on a deploy — Deploy Previews work. Local netlify dev cannot exercise /.netlify/identity/*.
  • Never build a from-scratch third-party OAuth flow beside Identity — no provider app registration in code, no client_id/secret in code, no custom callback token exchange. Use oauthLogin() + handleAuthCallback(). Raw OAuth beside Identity is the single most common source of rework.
  • Identity config has no public API — dashboard only. Never curl api.netlify.com to flip/inspect Identity settings, never read tokens from ~/Library/Preferences/netlify/config.json, never probe undocumented endpoints.
  • RBAC redirects without a fallback = raw 404. A visitor lacking the role gets a bare 404 with no way to log in. Always add a fallback rule.
  • Server-side login()/signup()/logout() need CSRF protection. Call verifyRequestOrigin(req) first, or an attacker can log a victim into the attacker's account.
  • Site-gating ("lock this site to my company", employees-only) → route to netlify-access-control first. Identity is the app-level user layer only.
  • On failure (callback 404s, /.netlify/identity/* unreachable, OAuth doesn't return): surface the error, the dashboard URL, and the setting to check — then stop. Do not invent recovery commands.

Setup

Identity must be enabled in the dashboard first (no API): Project configuration > Identity (https://app.netlify.com/projects/{site_name}/configuration/identity) → Enable Identity.

npm install @netlify/identity

HTTPS is required. On a custom domain, get HTTPS/SSL working before integrating Identity.

Read the full file on GitHub · 345 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. yesterday Changed 72b5b67f56e4
  2. 2d ago Changed 2e0e350195d9
  3. 5d ago First seen · 345 lines · 128 tokens per session scan C 949178e980d3

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netlify-identity is a skill published in the GitHub repository PracticalSwan/agent-skills (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 4,244 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (hidden instructions, makes network calls). It is 89% identical to netlify-identity, differing in 55 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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