auditing-payment-state-machine-and-idempotency

auditing-payment-state-machine-and-idempotency is a skill for Claude Code from UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills. It costs 175 tokens per session (2,109 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security review procedure for payment and checkout workflows. A state machine is a set of allowed steps, and idempotency means repeating a request does not repeat its effect.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking payment, shipping, cancellation, and refund transitions, including whether repeated requests can move money or goods more than once.
Why use it?
It finds workflows that can be skipped, run out of order, or replayed to cause unpaid fulfillment, duplicate charges, or duplicate refunds.

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 It is for checking payment, shipping, cancellation, and refund transitions, including whether repeated requests can move money or goods more than once.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-payment-state-machine-and-idempotency
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills --skill auditing-payment-state-machine-and-idempotency
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 175 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,109 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 $0.02109
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.01055
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00422
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00211

Measured 12d ago against content hash b4778d7cd990, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auditing-payment-state-machine-and-idempotency 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-payment-state-machine-and-idempotency/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Auditing payment state machine and idempotency: value must not move faster than settlement

A checkout is a state machine, and money moves through it in a strict order: an order is placed, a charge is authorized, the charge settles, and only then are goods fulfilled; refunds and cancels run the sequence backward. The bugs are transitions that break the order or repeat for value. An order marked paid before the charge is actually confirmed lets fulfillment run against a payment that never settles. A step that can be skipped, so fulfillment triggers without a completed charge, or repeated, so one payment yields multiple fulfillments, releases value the sequence did not authorize. A charge or fulfillment endpoint that is not idempotent double-processes when a request is retried or deliberately replayed, so a network retry or an attacker's repeat becomes two charges or two shipments. And a refund or cancel that returns value while the charge stays captured pays out twice. The audit walks the state machine and tries to move value ahead of, or more than once per, settlement. You audit this by driving transitions out of order and replaying the ones that release value.

When to use

  • A purchase moves through ordered payment states (placed, authorized, settled, fulfilled, refunded).
  • Fulfillment may trigger before a charge is confirmed, or a paid state may be set ahead of settlement.
  • Charge, fulfillment, or refund endpoints may not be idempotent under retry or replay.

Scope check

Test payment flows only against systems you own or are authorized to assess, on non-production or sandbox payment paths. Driving transitions and replays moves real value on a live system, so use sandbox payment credentials and test accounts and never trigger a real charge, refund, or fulfillment that is not yours. If you can't name the authorization, stop.

The loop

  1. Establish the intended state machine first. Map the legal states and the only transitions allowed between them, and which transition each value-releasing action (fulfillment, refund, payout) requires as its precondition. This is the false-positive killer: a flow where fulfillment requires a confirmed settled charge, every transition validates its precondition server-side, and every value-releasing handler is idempotent is correct. Name the intended sequence, then test deviations.

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 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 · 140 lines · 175 tokens per session scan A b4778d7cd990

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auditing-payment-state-machine-and-idempotency is a skill published in the GitHub repository UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 175 tokens to every session and 2,109 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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