bash-hardening

bash-hardening is a skill for Claude Code from pvillega/claude-templates. It costs 146 tokens per session (4,259 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A guide for writing reliable Bash scripts, especially scripts used in installers, automation, and continuous integration. Bash is a command-line scripting language with subtle rules around errors, quoting, arrays, traps, and shell versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for hardening non-trivial Bash scripts and checking error handling, word splitting, traps, arrays, process substitution, version compatibility, and ShellCheck findings.
Why use it?
It helps prevent scripts that appear correct but fail on unexpected input, errors, or different environments.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ct plugin — 38 skills, 7 agents, 7 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for hardening non-trivial Bash scripts and checking error handling, word splitting, traps, arrays, process substitution, version compatibility, and ShellCheck findings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pvillega/claude-templates/bash-hardening
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 pvillega/claude-templates --skill bash-hardening
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pvillega/claude-templates

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ct, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 7 agents, 7 hooks.

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Per session 146 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,259 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00146 $0.04259
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.02129
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00852
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00426

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9a58e8dfa5c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

bash-hardening scanned grade B 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 9d 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.

Recursive force deletemediumDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

trap 'rm -rf -- "$tmpdir"' EXIT

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

plugins/ct/skills/bash-hardening/SKILL.md · 200 lines

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No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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. 9d ago First seen · 200 lines · 146 tokens per session scan B 9a58e8dfa5c5

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bash-hardening is a skill published in the GitHub repository pvillega/claude-templates (23 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 146 tokens to every session and 4,259 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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