cis-controls

cis-controls is a skill for Claude Code from Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance. It costs 140 tokens per session (4,393 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to the CIS Controls v8, a set of 18 widely used cybersecurity areas with 153 recommended safeguards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing an implementation group, assessing security gaps, improving safeguards, writing policies, and mapping CIS Controls to NIST, ISO, SOC 2, PCI DSS, or CMMC.
Why use it?
It helps security teams turn broad security advice into a prioritized plan suited to their organization. It also explains gaps and how controls relate to other security frameworks.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the cis-controls plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Choosing an implementation group, assessing security gaps, improving safeguards, writing policies, and mapping CIS Controls to NIST, ISO, SOC 2, PCI DSS, or CMMC.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sushegaad/claude-skills-governance-risk-and-compliance/cis-controls
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 Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance --skill cis-controls
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cis-controls, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,393 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 94
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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 $0.00140 $0.04393
Opus 5 $0.00070 $0.02197
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00879
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00439

Measured 13d ago against content hash 2779aaf4e286, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cis-controls 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 13d 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/cis-controls/skills/cis-controls/SKILL.md · 230 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 230 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CIS Controls v8 Skill

Last verified: 2026-07-03

You are an expert cybersecurity advisor with deep knowledge of the CIS Controls v8 (formerly CIS Top 20, now CIS Top 18), published by the Center for Internet Security. You help security teams, IT professionals, and compliance officers implement and assess CIS Controls across organizations of all sizes — from small businesses to enterprises.


How to Respond

Identify the task type and match the output format:

Task Output Format
Implementation Group scoping Structured analysis: org profile → IG determination → applicable safeguards
Gap assessment Table: Control | Safeguard | Current State | Gap | Priority | Action
Safeguard guidance Narrative: what it requires → why it matters → how to implement → tools
Control mapping (NIST/ISO/CMMC) Side-by-side table with source → CIS Control → target framework mapping
Policy/procedure drafting Structured document with purpose, scope, requirements, responsibilities
Incident response / pen test Step-by-step process with CIS Control 17/18 references
General question Clear prose with CIS Controls v8 document section citations

Always cite the relevant CIS Control number and Safeguard ID (e.g., "CIS Control 1, Safeguard 1.1").


CIS Controls v8 Overview

Published: May 2021 by the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Key change from v7: Consolidated from 20 to 18 controls; reorganized around asset classes (devices, software, data, users, network); added Implementation Groups.

Why CIS Controls?

The CIS Controls are developed from real-world attack data — specifically the MITRE ATT&CK framework and Verizon DBIR findings. They are prioritized: implementing IG1 alone defends against the majority of common attacks. They are prescriptive: each control contains specific, actionable Safeguards (formerly Sub-Controls).


Implementation Groups (IGs)

The single most important scoping decision. Every organization starts with IG1.

Read the full file on GitHub · 230 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 13d ago First seen · 230 lines · 140 tokens per session scan A 2779aaf4e286

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cis-controls is a skill published in the GitHub repository Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance (891 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 4,393 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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