auditing-datastore-exposure-and-abuse

auditing-datastore-exposure-and-abuse is a skill for Claude Code from UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills. It costs 175 tokens per session (2,042 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security review of Redis, memcached, and similar in-memory key-value stores. These systems are often used as caches, but their command interfaces can be dangerous when exposed or fed untrusted input.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review how an application reaches a cache or key-value store, whether the service requires authentication, and whether user-controlled values reach commands, scripts, keys, or administrative operations.
Why use it?
It finds unauthenticated network access and unsafe command construction that could allow data theft, extra commands, configuration changes, file writes, or code execution.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the security-agent-skills plugin — 194 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review how an application reaches a cache or key-value store, whether the service requires authentication, and whether user-controlled values reach commands, scripts, keys, or administrative operations.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-datastore-exposure-and-abuse
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 UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills --skill auditing-datastore-exposure-and-abuse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install security-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 194 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for auditing-datastore-exposure-and-abuse

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-datastore-exposure-and-abuse/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-datastore-exposure-and-abuse)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-datastore-exposure-and-abuse"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-datastore-exposure-and-abuse/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for auditing-datastore-exposure-and-abuse

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-datastore-exposure-and-abuse"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-datastore-exposure-and-abuse.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 175 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,042 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.
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 $0.00175 $0.02042
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.01021
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00408
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00204

Measured 11d ago against content hash 62a9a234de71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auditing-datastore-exposure-and-abuse 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 11d 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/auditing-datastore-exposure-and-abuse/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Auditing datastore exposure and abuse: when the cache is an unauthenticated shell

Cache and key-value stores such as Redis and memcached are built for speed inside a trusted network, and that assumption is exactly what makes them dangerous when it does not hold. Two failures dominate. First, exposure: an instance bound to a reachable interface with no authentication is an open command interface, and on some stores the command set reaches configuration changes, on-disk file rewrites, module loading, and scripting, so an open port is a path to code execution, not just data theft. Second, command abuse: when an application composes datastore commands from untrusted input, the attacker can inject extra commands or reach a scripting or administrative command the application never intended. You audit both by checking how the instance is reached and how commands are composed.

When to use

  • An application talks to a cache or key-value store such as Redis or memcached.
  • A datastore instance may be bound to a reachable interface or lack authentication.
  • Untrusted input reaches the command layer, a scripting evaluation, or a key or command name.

Scope check

Test datastore exposure and abuse only against instances and applications you own or are authorized to assess, on non-production data. A confirming command can change configuration, write files, or run a script on the host, so treat every proof as a live intrusion inside the authorized scope. If you can't name the authorization, stop.

The loop

  1. Establish the reachability and the command sinks first. Determine how each datastore instance is reached (bind address, network exposure, authentication requirement) and inventory where the application composes commands, including any scripting evaluation and any use of administrative or config commands. This is the false-positive killer: an instance bound to loopback or an authenticated private network with commands built from fixed templates and bound values is not the bug. Name the reachability and the sinks first.

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 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. 11d ago First seen · 144 lines · 175 tokens per session scan A 62a9a234de71

Subscribe to this mod's changes

auditing-datastore-exposure-and-abuse is a skill published in the GitHub repository UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 175 tokens to every session and 2,042 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 2026-08-31.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

audit-caching

Caching correctness checklist. Use when reviewing caches — keys missing a user/tenant dimension, stale data after writes, cache stampede, cached errors, or per-user responses landing in a shared or CDN cache.

danygiguere/audit-skills · 45 tokens

prodcheck-review

Review this codebase against the prodcheck pre-production checklists — security, performance, scale, integrations and post-launch readiness. Use when asked to check whether a project is ready to ship, to audit an area before launch, or to work through a specific checklist. Produces evidence with file:line citations…

FarzamHabibi/pre-production-checklist · 70 tokens

integrate-arcjet-guard-google-adk

Integrate Arcjet security into a Google ADK JS app using @arcjet/guard — put guardPlugin first on Runner({ plugins }) so beforeToolCallback gates tools, and read a caller-owned id from helper options or context. Use when asked to add Arcjet to Google ADK, @google/adk, rate limit its tools, screen inbound messages, or…

arcjet/arcjet-js · 111 tokens

integrate-arcjet-guard-mastra

Integrate Arcjet security into a Mastra agent using @arcjet/guard — wrap createTool execute, screen input/output with a Processor tripwire, and gate unwrapped MCP/workspace tools with hooks. Use when asked to add Arcjet to a Mastra agent, rate limit its tools, screen inbound messages, or block prompt injection / PII.

arcjet/arcjet-js · 82 tokens

adr-skill

Create and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) optimized for agentic coding workflows. Use when you need to propose, write, update, accept/reject, deprecate, or supersede an ADR; bootstrap an adr folder and index; consult existing ADRs before implementing changes; or enforce ADR conventions. This skill uses…

Agent-Threat-Rule/agent-threat-rules · 89 tokens

terraform-skill

Terraform infrastructure as code best practices.

Agent-Threat-Rule/agent-threat-rules · 10 tokens