api-security-best-practices

api-security-best-practices is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rootcastleco/rei-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (5,975 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of secure patterns for designing web APIs, the interfaces that let software exchange requests and data. It covers authentication, permissions, input checks, request limits, and common API weaknesses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or reviewing API authentication, authorisation, validation, rate limiting, and vulnerability protections.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unauthorised access, unsafe input, excessive requests, 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 Use it when building or reviewing API authentication, authorisation, validation, rate limiting, and vulnerability protections.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rootcastleco/rei-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 rootcastleco/rei-skills --skill api-security-best-practices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rootcastleco/rei-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 5,975 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 $0.05975
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.02988
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.01195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00598

Measured 9d ago against content hash 58cfae9e4898, 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 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.

skills/api-security-best-practices/SKILL.md · 918 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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 · 918 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 58cfae9e4898

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api-security-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository rootcastleco/rei-skills (6 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 5,975 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 2026-08-31.

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