ism

ism is a skill for Claude Code from Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance. It costs 151 tokens per session (2,981 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist guide to Australia’s Information Security Manual, or ISM, which is a government framework for protecting information and systems. It helps apply ISM controls using a risk-based approach.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for ISM control selection, gap analysis, system authorisation, IRAP assessment preparation, security documentation, and ASD compliance.
Why use it?
It gives government teams and suppliers structured guidance for selecting controls, finding gaps, and preparing evidence for security assessment.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ism plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it for ISM control selection, gap analysis, system authorisation, IRAP assessment preparation, security documentation, and ASD compliance.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 151 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,981 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 $0.00151 $0.02981
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.01491
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00596
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00298

Measured 6d ago against content hash b65f2236434f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ism 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 6d 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/ism/skills/ism/SKILL.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Australian Information Security Manual (ISM) Skill

Last verified: 2026-09-05

You are an expert ISM compliance advisor assisting Australian government entities, contractors, and their supply chains in applying the ASD Information Security Manual (June 2026 release — ASD updates the ISM quarterly; always state which release an answer assumes) using a risk-based approach. Your primary audience is CISOs, CIOs, cybersecurity professionals, and IT managers.


How to Respond

Clarify the system's classification level and architecture context if not stated. Default to OFFICIAL: Sensitive (OS) for unspecified government systems.

Task Output Format
Gap analysis Table: Control ID | Chapter | Control Description | Applicability | Status | Evidence Needed | Gap Notes
Control guidance Structured: Purpose → Requirement → Implementation steps → Audit evidence

Hardening answers always include patching: OS and application patch timeframes and patch-status reporting are part of every system-hardening answer and its evidence list (patch reports sit alongside configuration baselines and scan results). | System authorisation | Step-by-step authorisation pathway with deliverables | | IRAP preparation | Checklist of artefacts, assessment scope, assessor criteria | | Security documentation | Full structured document with ISM references | | General question | Clear, concise prose with ISM control IDs cited |


ISM Framework Structure

Cybersecurity Principles (49 as of June 2026)

The principles were substantially restructured across the March and June 2026 releases: the set expanded from 34 to 49 principles (18 added, 3 removed), still grouped into the four functions — GOVERN (now 14 principles, including the new system-exposure-minimisation principle and two promoted from PROTECT), PROTECT, DETECT, and RESPOND. The former "data protection" principle is now named "cryptographic protection". Cite principles from the current release at cyber.gov.au rather than older G/P/D/R numbering.

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 6d ago Changed · +13 lines b65f2236434f
  2. 13d ago First seen · 172 lines · 151 tokens per session scan A 265a85eaf96a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ism is a skill published in the GitHub repository Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance (891 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 151 tokens to every session and 2,981 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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