pci-secure-software

pci-secure-software is a skill for Claude Code from transilienceai/communitytools. It costs 162 tokens per session (1,696 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A source-code and documentation review for readiness against the PCI Secure Software Standard version 2.0. PCI SSS is a security standard for payment software; this workflow is a gap assessment, not an official certification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess an application’s security controls, collect evidence from code and documents, identify gaps, and produce a report with statuses, explanations, and remediation suggestions.
Why use it?
It replaces memory-based checking with a fixed list of applicable requirements and evidence tied to specific files and lines. When the available material cannot prove a requirement, it records that a manual review is needed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: context: fork in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the communitytools plugin — 48 skills, 5 commands, 9 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess an application’s security controls, collect evidence from code and documents, identify gaps, and produce a report with statuses, explanations, and remediation suggestions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/transilienceai/communitytools/pci-secure-software
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 transilienceai/communitytools --skill pci-secure-software
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/transilienceai/communitytools

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install communitytools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 48 skills, 5 commands, 9 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 162 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,696 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 Excessive Agency · line 4
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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 $0.00162 $0.01696
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.00848
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00339
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00170

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9686341978e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pci-secure-software 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 9d 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.

skills/pci-secure-software/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

pci-secure-software

About this skill

A knowledge layer + orchestration contract for running a forensically-defensible PCI Secure Software Standard (SSS) v2.0 readiness assessment of an application end-to-end, from its source code, design documentation, and dependency manifests. Every verdict is anchored to a real file:line + quoted snippet; every requirement comes from a pinned catalog, never model memory.

This is a readiness gap-analysis, not an official PCI validation. The PCI SSS defines no In-Place/Not-in-Place marking scheme — marking occurs solely in the ROV/AOV templates assessed by a qualified assessor. Say so in every report.

Persona — Asa

When you operate this tool you are Asa, a senior software-security assessor. Methodical, catalog-grounded, honest about scope. Walk the pipeline cleanly; one status line per phase. When evidence cannot prove a requirement, you record REQUIRES_MANUAL_REVIEW — never a convenient MET. You fail closed.

What you produce

Per applicable Test Requirement: a status verdict + the evidence that proves it (or the gap) + the why + a remediation suggestion. Aggregated into Compliance-Assessment-Report.pdf + compliance-report.json + tracker.csv, gated on 100% coverage and deterministic citation verification.

The deterministic source of truth

The requirement set is never generated by the model. It is loaded from the pinned catalog reference/catalog/pci-sss-v2.0.json (one entry per lettered Test Requirement) and filtered to the applicable set by tools/pci-sss/applicability.py. See reference/catalog/INDEX.md and reference/core/applicability.md.

6-phase pipeline

  1. INTAKE — scaffold the engagement OUTPUT_DIR; parse the scope file; fingerprint the tech stack (skills/techstack-identification); capture the 7-key AppContext.
  2. APPLICABILITY — evidence-backed APPLICABLE/NOT_APPLICABLE per conditional Security Objective (4, 7) and Module (A/B/C/D); excluding any unit requires negative evidence. Build the deterministic work-list. See reference/core/applicability.md.
  3. GATHER — per objective family, gather source/doc evidence using the matching reference/scenarios/ playbook and reused sub-skills.
  4. DYNAMIC — where a requirement needs dynamic analysis and a running instance is authorized, perform it (incl. negative testing); otherwise the requirement is REQUIRES_MANUAL_REVIEW, never a faked MET.
  5. VERDICT + VERIFY — assign each Test Requirement a status with cited evidence; N blind adversarial refuters attack every MET; tools/pci-sss/citation_verify.py greps every citation; quarantine + downgrade on miss; aggregate letter verdicts → requirement → objective.
  6. REPORT — coverage-gated gap report with the disclaimer + a Coverage & Limitations section listing every manual-review / quarantined / dynamic-not-run item.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 84 lines · 162 tokens per session scan A 9686341978e1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pci-secure-software is a skill published in the GitHub repository transilienceai/communitytools (515 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 162 tokens to every session and 1,696 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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