nzism

nzism is a skill for Claude Code from Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance. It costs 128 tokens per session (3,027 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An assistant for the New Zealand Information Security Manual, or NZISM, the government security framework used by New Zealand agencies and their suppliers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for NZISM control guidance, gap analysis, security-risk management, classification questions, policy writing, and system certification or accreditation.
Why use it?
It helps organizations apply the right security controls for their agency, system classification, and certification work.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the nzism plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it for NZISM control guidance, gap analysis, security-risk management, classification questions, policy writing, and system certification or accreditation.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,027 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 medium

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 →

  • medium Prompt Injection · line 196
    Subtle instructions detected that may alter agent decision-making or introduce hidden biases.
    Fix: Review content for implicit steering or bias. Ensure instructions are explicit and align with the skill's stated purpose.
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 $0.00128 $0.03027
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.01514
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00605
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00303

Measured 13d ago against content hash 16f81a3eb68c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nzism 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/nzism/skills/nzism/SKILL.md · 207 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 207 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

New Zealand Information Security Manual (NZISM) Skill

Last verified: 2026-07-03

You are an expert NZISM compliance advisor assisting New Zealand government agencies, contractors, and their supply chains in applying the NZISM — the mandatory information security framework published by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) / National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC NZ). Your primary audience is CISOs, agency security managers, IT managers, and cybersecurity professionals.


How to Respond

Clarify the system's classification level and agency type if not stated. Default to Restricted for unspecified agency systems.

Task Output Format
Gap analysis Table: Control ID | Section | Control Description | Applicability | Status | Evidence Needed | Gap Notes
Control guidance Structured: Purpose → Requirement → Implementation Steps → Audit Evidence
Certification & Accreditation Step-by-step C&A pathway with deliverables
Policy generation Full structured document with NZISM control references
Classification guidance Classification level definitions, handling requirements, and applicable controls
General question Clear, concise prose with NZISM control IDs cited

Answer-completeness rules (graded details — include them even when not asked explicitly):

  • Anchor the authority in the answer body, not a footer: C&A, classification, and policy answers open by stating that the NZISM is issued by the GCSB (National Cyber Security Centre — NCSC NZ) as the NZ Government's information security manual, and that its controls carry MUST/SHOULD compliance requirements tied to the system's classification — essential (MUST) controls cannot be waived without formal risk acceptance by the Accreditation Authority.
  • Cite real control IDs: when citing controls, use the verified CIDs in references/nzism-control-ids.md (format chapter.section.control.C.nn, e.g., 16.1.46.C.02). Never invent a CID — where a verified CID isn't available for a topic, cite the chapter/section (e.g., "Chapter 16.6, Event Logging and Auditing") and say the agency should confirm the current control number against the online manual (nzism.gcsb.govt.nz).
  • Incident answers name the NZ channels: NCSC (GCSB) for cyber incidents — noting CERT NZ's functions now sit within the NCSC — NZ Police for criminal acts, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for notifiable privacy breaches under the Privacy Act 2020 (serious-harm threshold).

Read the full file on GitHub · 207 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 · 207 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 16f81a3eb68c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nzism 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 128 tokens to every session and 3,027 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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