twilio-security-api-auth

twilio-security-api-auth is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from twilio/ai. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,475 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing how software proves its identity when calling Twilio, a service for phone, messaging, and video features. It covers testing credentials, server credentials, temporary OAuth tokens, and client access tokens.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before connecting an application to Twilio's API or client SDKs. It helps select credentials for prototypes, production servers, browser or mobile apps, and no-charge tests.
Why use it?
It helps prevent using a permanent or unsuitable credential in production code, which can expose accounts or make credential changes break other integrations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the ai plugin — 57 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/twilio/ai/twilio-security-api-auth
Any agent
npx skills add twilio/ai --skill twilio-security-api-auth
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/twilio/ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,475 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00067 $0.01475
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00737
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00295
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00147

Measured 6d ago against content hash 7d8aa17b82c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

twilio-security-api-auth scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -X POST 'https://oauth.twilio.com/v2/token' \
skills/twilio/twilio-security-api-auth/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Twilio supports four authentication methods. Choosing the wrong one is a security risk — Auth Tokens in production code are the most common credential leak.

Method Use for Token lifetime Revocable individually
Auth Token Local testing only Permanent (until rotated) No — rotation invalidates all integrations using that token and breaks webhook signature validation; API keys (SK-prefixed) are unaffected
API Key + Secret Production server-side Permanent (until deleted) Yes
OAuth2 Bearer Token Production server-side (enhanced) 1 hour Expires automatically
Access Token (JWT) Client-side SDKs (Voice, Video, Chat) Up to 24 hours No — delete issuing API key

Decision framework:

  • Building a quick prototype? → Auth Token (but switch to API Key before deploying)
  • Production server-side code? → API Key + Secret (simplest production auth) or OAuth2 (time-limited tokens)
  • Browser/mobile client needs to connect? → Access Token (JWT) generated server-side
  • Running tests without charges? → Test credentials with magic numbers

API Key Authentication (Production Standard)

Create: Console → Account → API keys & tokens → Create API key

Key type Access Create via
Main Full account access Console only
Standard All resources except /Accounts and /Keys endpoints Console or API
Restricted Specific resources only (up to 100 permissions) Console or v1 IAM API only

Python

import os
from twilio.rest import Client

client = Client(
    os.environ["TWILIO_API_KEY"],      # SKxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    os.environ["TWILIO_API_SECRET"],
    os.environ["TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID"]   # required as third argument
)

Node.js

const client = require("twilio")(
    process.env.TWILIO_API_KEY,
    process.env.TWILIO_API_SECRET,
    { accountSid: process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID }
);

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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. 6d ago First seen · 168 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 7d8aa17b82c1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

twilio-security-api-auth is a skill published in the GitHub repository twilio/ai (30 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,475 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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