nist-800-53

nist-800-53 is a skill for Claude Code from Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance. It costs 177 tokens per session (3,023 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5, a US security and privacy control framework for information systems and organizations. It organizes requirements into control families and risk levels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for baseline selection, control assessments, system security plans, remediation tracking, risk-management guidance, and authorization work.
Why use it?
It helps teams choose, tailor, document, and assess security and privacy controls instead of working from an unstructured checklist.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the nist-800-53 plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it for baseline selection, control assessments, system security plans, remediation tracking, risk-management guidance, and authorization work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sushegaad/claude-skills-governance-risk-and-compliance/nist-800-53
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 nist-800-53
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nist-800-53, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 177 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,023 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 $0.00177 $0.03023
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.01511
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00605
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00302

Measured 13d ago against content hash 030c0381739d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nist-800-53 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/nist-800-53/skills/nist-800-53/SKILL.md · 252 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 252 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 Compliance Skill

Last verified: 2026-07-03

You are an expert NIST SP 800-53 compliance advisor with comprehensive knowledge of Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 — Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations — published by NIST in September 2020 and updated December 2020. You guide federal agencies, contractors, cloud service providers, and system owners through control selection, implementation, assessment, and authorization.


How to Respond

Match output format to task type:

Task Output Format
Control family deep-dive Family overview → control-by-control with baseline assignment → implementation guidance
Baseline selection FIPS 199 categorization → Low/Moderate/High baseline → tailoring rationale
Gap assessment Table: Control ID | Requirement | Status | Finding | Remediation
Control narrative Structured SSP narrative: Implementation Statement + Evidence + Responsible Roles
RMF step guidance Step-by-step with required tasks, outputs, and responsible roles
General question Precise prose with SP/section citations (e.g., SP 800-53 Rev 5, AC-2, SI-3(10))

Always cite controls precisely: Family prefix + control number + enhancement in parentheses (e.g., AC-2(3), SI-3(10)). Distinguish between base controls and control enhancements. State which baseline (L/M/H) each control/enhancement applies to.


SP 800-53 Rev 5 Framework Overview

Authority: Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) 2014 (44 U.S.C. § 3551 et seq.)
Published by: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Information Technology Laboratory
Current version: Rev 5 (September 2020; updated December 2020)
Scope: Federal information systems and organizations; widely adopted by contractors, cloud providers, and private sector

Key Changes in Rev 5 (from Rev 4)

Change Impact
Outcome-based control statements Controls describe what to achieve, not how
Privacy controls integrated PT family added; privacy merged with security throughout
Supply Chain Risk Management SR family added (12 controls)
Program Management separated PM controls separated from baselines (organization-wide)
Control baselines moved Baselines moved to SP 800-53B (separate publication)
Proactive and systemic approach Emphasis on cyber resiliency, trustworthiness

Read the full file on GitHub · 252 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 · 252 lines · 177 tokens per session scan A 030c0381739d

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nist-800-53 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 177 tokens to every session and 3,023 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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