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.
npx skills add RedHatProductSecurity/prodsec-skills --skill encrypted-communicationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RedHatProductSecurity/prodsec-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00036 | $0.00473 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00236 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00095 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00047 |
Grade A, and why
encrypted-communication 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 8d 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.
What it actually says
Encrypted Communication with External Data Sources
Security Requirement
Network communication with external data sources MUST be encrypted. This applies to all connections, not just those carrying sensitive data.
Rationale
Encrypted communication is required for:
- Confidentiality: Prevent interception of data in transit
- Integrity: Prevent tampering with data in transit
- Compliance: Required by widespread security standards and zero trust architectures
- Zero trust: In a zero trust model, no network path is considered trustworthy, so all communication must be encrypted regardless of whether it is "internal" or "external"
Encryption Requirements
| Requirement | Details |
|---|---|
| TLS version | TLS 1.2 minimum; TLS 1.3 preferred |
| Certificate validation | Verify server certificates; do not disable certificate checks |
| Strong cipher suites | Use only modern, approved cipher suites |
| Protocol enforcement | Reject plaintext fallback; fail closed if encryption cannot be established |
Common Data Source Connections
| Data Source | Encrypted Protocol |
|---|---|
| REST APIs | HTTPS (TLS) |
| PostgreSQL / MySQL | TLS-encrypted connections (sslmode=verify-full) |
| MongoDB | TLS (tls=true&tlsAllowInvalidCertificates=false) |
| Redis | TLS (Redis 6+) |
| Elasticsearch | HTTPS |
| S3 / Object storage | HTTPS |
| gRPC services | gRPC over TLS |
Implementation Checklist
- Enable TLS on all connections to external data sources
- Use TLS 1.2 as minimum; prefer TLS 1.3
- Validate server certificates (do not skip verification)
- Use strong cipher suites only
- Reject plaintext connections; fail closed if TLS cannot be established
- Verify database connection strings include TLS parameters
- Audit all data source connections for unencrypted traffic
- Monitor for certificate expiration on data source endpoints
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 54 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A e1c641641262
encrypted-communication is a skill published in the GitHub repository RedHatProductSecurity/prodsec-skills (52 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 473 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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