pqc-crypto

pqc-crypto is a skill for Claude Code from rico2035/security-skills. It costs 87 tokens per session (859 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review tool for post-quantum cryptography, meaning encryption and signatures designed to resist future quantum computers, against NIST FIPS 203, 204, and 205 standards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review ML-KEM, ML-DSA, or SLH-DSA implementations, hybrid key exchange and signatures, deprecated algorithms, and NIST migration plans.
Why use it?
It helps find unsafe algorithms, weak key handling, and missing combinations of classical and quantum-resistant cryptography during a migration.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the security-audit plugin — 8 skills, 1 command, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to review ML-KEM, ML-DSA, or SLH-DSA implementations, hybrid key exchange and signatures, deprecated algorithms, and NIST migration plans.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rico2035/security-skills/pqc-crypto
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add rico2035/security-skills --skill pqc-crypto
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rico2035/security-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install security-audit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 1 command, 1 hook.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 859 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 $0.00087 $0.00859
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00430
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00086

Measured 12d ago against content hash 94b7ec0a7543, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pqc-crypto 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 12d 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.

plugins/security-audit/skills/pqc-crypto/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PQC Cryptography Audit (Opt-In)

Verify post-quantum cryptography (PQC) implementation against FIPS 203, 204, and 205 standards. Enable this module when your project uses or plans to use quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms.

When to Use

  • Projects implementing ML-KEM, ML-DSA, or SLH-DSA
  • Preparing for NIST PQC migration deadlines
  • Healthcare or financial services requiring long-term data protection
  • Government/defense projects with FIPS requirements

FIPS Standards

Standard Algorithm Purpose
FIPS 203 ML-KEM (Kyber) Key Encapsulation Mechanism
FIPS 204 ML-DSA (Dilithium) Digital Signatures
FIPS 205 SLH-DSA (SPHINCS+) Stateless Hash-Based Signatures

What to Check

1. Algorithm Implementation

# PQC library usage
(liboqs|oqs|pqcrypto|crystals|kyber|dilithium|sphincs)
(ml-kem|ml-dsa|slh-dsa|ML_KEM|ML_DSA|SLH_DSA)
(@noble/post-quantum|liboqs-python|pqcrypto-rs)

2. Hybrid Mode Verification

PQC should be combined with classical algorithms for defense-in-depth:

  • Key exchange: X25519 + ML-KEM-1024
  • Signatures: Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65
  • Verify both classical and PQC results before accepting

3. Deprecated Algorithm Detection

# Must not use for new implementations
(RSA-1024|RSA-2048.*new|DES|3DES|RC4|RC2|MD5.*sign|SHA-1.*sign)
(Blowfish|CAST5|IDEA)
createCipher\('des|createCipher\('rc4

4. Key Management

  • Key rotation policy exists and is automated
  • Keys are stored in a Key Management Service (KMS), not in code
  • Key sizes meet minimum requirements:
    • ML-KEM: 768 (Level 3) or 1024 (Level 5)
    • ML-DSA: 44 (Level 2), 65 (Level 3), or 87 (Level 5)
    • SLH-DSA: appropriate security level for use case

5. Fallback Path

  • Verify graceful fallback to classical crypto (AES-256-GCM, Ed25519)
  • Fallback triggers when PQC libraries are unavailable
  • Both paths are tested

6. Crypto Agility

  • Algorithm selection is configurable, not hardcoded
  • Migration path documented for future algorithm changes
  • Version/algorithm metadata stored alongside encrypted data

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 12d ago First seen · 86 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 94b7ec0a7543

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pqc-crypto is a skill published in the GitHub repository rico2035/security-skills (5 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 859 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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