hipaa-validate

hipaa-validate is a skill for Claude Code from softspark/ai-toolkit. It costs 43 tokens per session (2,679 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only scanner for checking a codebase against HIPAA, the United States rules for protecting health information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look for PHI in logs, missing audit trails, encryption gaps, hardcoded patient data, access-control issues, and missing Business Associate Agreement references.
Why use it?
It highlights possible exposure of patient data, missing audit records, weak access controls, and unencrypted data handling.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter.

Part of the ai-toolkit plugin — 115 skills, 44 agents, 14 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to look for PHI in logs, missing audit trails, encryption gaps, hardcoded patient data, access-control issues, and missing Business Associate Agreement references.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/softspark/ai-toolkit/hipaa-validate
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 softspark/ai-toolkit --skill hipaa-validate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 115 skills, 44 agents, 14 hooks.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,679 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00043 $0.02679
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01340
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00536
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00268

Measured 5d ago against content hash f50888846a19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hipaa-validate 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/hipaa_scan.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

app/skills/hipaa-validate/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/hipaa-validate - HIPAA Compliance Scanner

$ARGUMENTS

Scan a codebase for HIPAA compliance issues using pattern-matching heuristics. Detects PHI exposure in logs, missing audit trails, unencrypted transmission/storage, hardcoded patient data, access control gaps, and missing Business Associate Agreement references. Read-only — never modifies files.

Regulation basis: 45 CFR Parts 160, 162, 164 (HIPAA Administrative Simplification, as amended through March 26, 2013). Covers Security Rule (§164.302-318), Privacy Rule (§164.500-534), Breach Notification Rule (§164.400-414), and enforcement penalties (§160.400-426).

Usage

/hipaa-validate                              # Scan full project (developer mode — definitives only)
/hipaa-validate src/                         # Scan specific path
/hipaa-validate --mode compliance            # Full audit sweep including heuristic categories
/hipaa-validate --severity high              # Filter to HIGH findings only
/hipaa-validate --keywords member,enrollee   # Extend healthcare keyword list
/hipaa-validate --output json                # Structured JSON output for CI integration

Modes:

  • developer (default): Categories 1, 3, 4, 7, 8 — definitive regex matches only, low false-positive rate, suited for daily use
  • compliance: All 8 categories — includes heuristic checks (Cat 2, 5, 6) for audit sweep coverage, suited for pre-audit sweeps

Severity filtering: --severity high shows only HIGH findings, --severity warn shows HIGH + WARN. Default shows all.

What This Command Does

  1. Run scanner script — execute scripts/hipaa_scan.py with passed arguments
  2. Interpret results — analyze findings, add context, suggest specific fixes
  3. Report — present findings with file paths, line numbers, severity, confidence, and HIPAA rule citations

Steps

Step 1: Run the Scanner Script

Execute the Python scanner with the user's arguments:

python3 ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/hipaa_scan.py [path] [--mode developer|compliance] [--severity high|warn] [--keywords term1,term2] [--output json]

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 186 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A f50888846a19

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hipaa-validate is a skill published in the GitHub repository softspark/ai-toolkit (170 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 2,679 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 2026-09-03.

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