api-security-best-practices

api-security-best-practices is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ranbot-ai/awesome-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,125 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to securing APIs, which are interfaces that let software exchange data. It covers identity checks, permissions, input checking, request limits, and common API weaknesses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Designing security controls for APIs, including authentication, authorization, validation, and rate limiting.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unauthorized access, unsafe input, abuse, and other common API security problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Designing security controls for APIs, including authentication, authorization, validation, and rate limiting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ranbot-ai/awesome-skills/api-security-best-practices
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 ranbot-ai/awesome-skills --skill api-security-best-practices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ranbot-ai/awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,125 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.
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 $0.00029 $0.01125
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00562
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00225
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00112

Measured 2d ago against content hash e307b3691984, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-security-best-practices 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 2d 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.

skills/api-security-best-practices/SKILL.md · 110 lines

The source is not reproduced here

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.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago Changed · -108 lines e307b3691984
  2. 5d ago First seen · 218 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 860152342415

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api-security-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository ranbot-ai/awesome-skills (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,125 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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