auditing-oauth-token-audience-and-scope-trust

auditing-oauth-token-audience-and-scope-trust is a skill for Claude Code from UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills. It costs 193 tokens per session (2,041 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security review of OAuth access-token checks. OAuth tokens are signed credentials that state who issued them, which service they target, and which operations they allow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test checks for the token’s issuer, audience, and scope, including whether tokens valid for one purpose are rejected elsewhere.
Why use it?
It helps prevent a valid token for one service, issuer, or permission from being accepted for a different service or a more privileged 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 test checks for the token’s issuer, audience, and scope, including whether tokens valid for one purpose are rejected elsewhere.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-oauth-token-audience-and-scope-trust
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-oauth-token-audience-and-scope-trust
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 193 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,041 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 $0.00193 $0.02041
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.01020
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00408
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00204

Measured 12d ago against content hash a0ec26925eb0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auditing-oauth-token-audience-and-scope-trust 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 12d 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-oauth-token-audience-and-scope-trust/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Auditing OAuth token audience and scope trust: a token is only good for what it was issued for

A bearer access token is a claim with a precise domain: it was issued by a particular authorization server, for a particular audience, carrying a particular scope, and it authorizes only what those three agree on. A resource server that checks the signature but not the audience, issuer, and scope is trusting a token far beyond what it was minted for. The confusions are specific and common. A token issued for service A is presented to service B, and if B does not verify the audience it accepts A's token as its own. A scope is treated as coarser than it is, or a missing-scope check lets any valid token reach a privileged operation. A token from a different authorization server is honored by a party that only meant to trust one issuer. Each is a token used outside its domain. The audit checks that every token is validated against the audience, issuer, and scope the operation requires, not merely that it is a well-formed, signed token. You audit this by testing whether a token good for one thing is accepted for another.

When to use

  • A resource server accepts OAuth or bearer access tokens to authorize calls.
  • Multiple services or audiences accept tokens, and the audience or issuer may not be verified per service.
  • Scopes gate operations, and the resource server may not check the specific scope each operation requires.

Scope check

Test token trust only against services you own or are authorized to assess, on non-production tokens and accounts. Presenting tokens across audiences exercises real authorization, so use non-production credentials and never use a confused token to reach real data. If you can't name the authorization, stop.

The loop

  1. Establish each operation's required token domain first. Name, per operation, the audience, issuer, and scope a token must have to be authorized: this service as the audience, the trusted authorization server as the issuer, the specific scope for the action. This is the false-positive killer: a resource server that verifies all three on every call authorizes exactly the tokens it should. Name the required domain, then test what the server actually accepts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. 12d ago First seen · 136 lines · 193 tokens per session scan A a0ec26925eb0

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auditing-oauth-token-audience-and-scope-trust is a skill published in the GitHub repository UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 193 tokens to every session and 2,041 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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