bidirectional-filtering

bidirectional-filtering is a skill for Claude Code from RedHatProductSecurity/prodsec-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (595 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A design for a runtime safety gateway that checks information both before it reaches an AI model and before the model's response reaches the user or application. It can block, hide, rewrite, or allow data according to rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or review prompt-injection protection, personal-data masking, content-policy checks, and response filtering in AI systems.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance that prompts contain harmful instructions or sensitive information, and that unsafe model responses are delivered without inspection.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the prodsec-skills plugin — 133 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design or review prompt-injection protection, personal-data masking, content-policy checks, and response filtering in AI systems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/redhatproductsecurity/prodsec-skills/bidirectional-filtering
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 RedHatProductSecurity/prodsec-skills --skill bidirectional-filtering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RedHatProductSecurity/prodsec-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install prodsec-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 133 skills.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 595 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 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 $0.00045 $0.00595
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00298
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00060

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6d41a0782027, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bidirectional-filtering 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 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.

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.

module/skills/bidirectional-filtering/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bidirectional Filtering with Runtime Guardrails

Security Requirement

A guardrails component SHOULD be deployed between the users/applications (or API gateway) and the models. This component acts as a gateway or proxy that inspects and acts on data flowing in both directions.

This skill refers to runtime guardrails (a deployed component), not model-level safety training.

Input Direction (User/App → Model)

Incoming prompts are raw or "tainted" input. The guardrails component analyzes them and applies rule-based actions:

Action Description
Block Discard the prompt entirely, preventing it from reaching the model
Mask Redact or obfuscate sensitive data (PII, credentials) before forwarding
Modify Rewrite the prompt to remove dangerous patterns while preserving intent
Pass Allow the prompt through unchanged

Objectives:

  • Prevent specific sensitive data from reaching the model
  • Reduce the probability of prompt injection
  • Enforce content policies on inputs

Output Direction (Model → User/App)

Model responses are inspected before delivery to the user or application:

Action Description
Block Suppress the response if it contains harmful or policy-violating content
Mask Redact sensitive data the model may have included in its response
Modify Remove or rewrite problematic portions of the response
Pass Deliver the response unchanged

Objectives:

  • Prevent leakage of sensitive training data
  • Enforce content safety policies on outputs
  • Filter harmful, biased, or off-topic responses

Architecture Position

User/App → API Gateway → Guardrails → Inference Engine → Model
                            ↕ (inspects both directions)
User/App ← API Gateway ← Guardrails ← Inference Engine ← Model

Implementation Checklist

  • Deploy a guardrails component between the API gateway and the inference engine
  • Configure input rules for prompt analysis (block, mask, modify, pass)
  • Configure output rules for response analysis (block, mask, modify, pass)
  • Define PII detection and masking rules for both directions
  • Define prompt injection detection rules for the input direction
  • Define content safety policies for the output direction
  • Log all guardrail actions (blocks, masks, modifications) for audit
  • Monitor guardrail effectiveness and tune rules based on observed patterns
  • Ensure the guardrails component does not become a single point of failure (deploy with redundancy)

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

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 · 67 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 6d41a0782027

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bidirectional-filtering is a skill published in the GitHub repository RedHatProductSecurity/prodsec-skills (52 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 595 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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