auditing-mobile-backend-and-firebase-exposure

auditing-mobile-backend-and-firebase-exposure is a skill for Claude Code from UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills. It costs 192 tokens per session (2,102 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security audit for mobile-app backends, including hosted databases, storage, and cloud functions. It checks whether the server enforces user permissions instead of trusting the mobile app to do so.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to call backend endpoints directly and review authorization rules for user records, files, databases, and cloud functions. Firebase, for example, is a hosted platform that provides many of these services.
Why use it?
Checks inside an app can be skipped by anyone who sends requests directly to the backend. This finds cases where one user can read another user's data, change it, or call an administrator-only operation.

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 call backend endpoints directly and review authorization rules for user records, files, databases, and cloud functions. Firebase, for example, is a hosted platform that provides many of these services.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-mobile-backend-and-firebase-exposure
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills --skill auditing-mobile-backend-and-firebase-exposure
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 192 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,102 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 $0.00192 $0.02102
Opus 5.5 $0.00077 $0.00841
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00038 $0.00420
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00210

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5f57ecb32279, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auditing-mobile-backend-and-firebase-exposure 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 1mo 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-mobile-backend-and-firebase-exposure/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 mobile backend and Firebase exposure: when the server trusts the app to say no

A mobile app usually talks to a hosted backend, a mobile-backend service, a cloud datastore, a storage bucket, or a set of cloud functions, and it is easy to build that backend as though the app were the only client. The app checks what the user may see and calls the backend accordingly, so the backend rules are left permissive because the app is trusted to enforce access. But the app is not the only client: anyone can take the app's credentials and endpoints and call the backend directly, skipping every check the app performs. When the backend authorizes by rules that are too broad, by values the client sets, or by the assumption that only the genuine app calls it, a direct request reads or writes another user's data, invokes a privileged operation, or reaches records the user should never see. The bug is authorization that lives in the client while the backend serves whoever asks. You audit these by calling the backend directly and checking whether the server, not the app, enforces access.

When to use

  • A mobile app uses a hosted backend, datastore, storage bucket, or cloud functions you can call directly.
  • The backend's access rules or operations may authorize by client-set values or assume only the app calls.
  • Datastore rules or storage permissions may be permissive enough to serve another user's data.

Scope check

Audit backend exposure only on services you own or are authorized to assess, on non-production or test projects with test accounts, reading and writing only your own test data when you exercise a rule directly. A confirmed gap reaches other users' data or privileged actions, so keep every probe within scope and prefer an isolated project. If you can't name the authorization, stop.

The loop

  1. Establish whether the backend enforces authorization itself or trusts the app first. For each backend operation and datastore path, determine whether the server authorizes the request against the authenticated caller and its own rules, or whether it relies on the app to have checked and serves any direct request. This is the false-positive killer: a backend whose rules restrict every read and write to the entitled caller cannot be bypassed by calling it directly, whatever the app does. Name where authorization is enforced before crafting a direct request.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 139 lines · 192 tokens per session scan A 5f57ecb32279

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auditing-mobile-backend-and-firebase-exposure is a skill published in the GitHub repository UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 192 tokens to every session and 2,102 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-09.

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