auditing-device-code-and-pkce-flows

auditing-device-code-and-pkce-flows is a skill for Claude Code from UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills. It costs 188 tokens per session (2,135 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security review guide for servers that exchange authorization codes or device codes for access tokens. Proof-key authentication binds a token request to the client that started it, while device authorization lets a device sign in without a full browser.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review authorization-code and device-authorization token flows, including missing proof-key checks, weaker challenge methods, and device codes not tied to the right client.
Why use it?
It helps find cases where a stolen, guessed, or altered code can be exchanged for a token without the required proof. It focuses on checks at the server's token endpoint.

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 authorization-code and device-authorization token flows, including missing proof-key checks, weaker challenge methods, and device codes not tied to the right client.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-device-code-and-pkce-flows
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-device-code-and-pkce-flows
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.

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Per session 188 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,135 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 $0.00188 $0.02135
Opus 5 $0.00094 $0.01068
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00427
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00214

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9d259c45f119, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auditing-device-code-and-pkce-flows 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/auditing-device-code-and-pkce-flows/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Auditing proof-key and device-code grants: when a code becomes a token without proof

The proof-key exchange and the device-authorization grant both exist to close one gap: a authorization code, on its own, can be intercepted, and a short user code can be guessed. Each grant adds a proof that binds the token request to the party that actually started the flow, a verifier that only the real client knows, or a device code that only the real device holds. The server side is where that proof is enforced, and where it is quietly not. When the token endpoint issues without checking the verifier, honors a downgraded challenge, or hands tokens for a device code it never bound to a client, an intercepted or guessed code becomes a live token. You find these by reading the issuance path and asking what proof it demands before it mints a token.

When to use

  • The code implements or wraps a token endpoint that redeems an authorization code, or a device-authorization grant.
  • A public client (one that cannot hold a secret) relies on the proof key as its protection against code interception.
  • You want to know whether a captured code, a downgraded challenge, or a guessed user code yields a token.

Scope check

Exercise token and device-authorization endpoints only on systems you own or are authorized to assess, with test clients and test accounts. A confirmed issuance bypass is an authentication bypass, so treat it as account-takeover-grade and coordinate. If you can't name the authorization, stop.

The loop

  1. Map the issuance endpoints and whether a conformant server owns them. Find the token endpoint and, if present, the device-authorization and approval endpoints. Determine whether issuance is delegated to a conformant authorization server or handled in application code. If it proxies to a conformant server that enforces the proof, the local absence of a check is not the bug; confirm the delegation actually covers this path before reading further.

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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 · 139 lines · 188 tokens per session scan A 9d259c45f119

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auditing-device-code-and-pkce-flows is a skill published in the GitHub repository UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 188 tokens to every session and 2,135 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.

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