auditing-websocket-connection-trust

auditing-websocket-connection-trust is a skill for Claude Code from UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills. It costs 190 tokens per session (2,076 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security review method for WebSocket connections, which keep a live two-way connection between a browser and server. It checks how the connection authenticates, whether the requesting website is trusted, and whether each privileged message is authorized.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit WebSocket handshake handling, origin checks, credential sources, proxies, and message dispatch for privileged operations.
Why use it?
It finds cases where a login check at connection time is trusted forever. A malicious website may then use a user's cookies or an already-open connection to trigger actions the user did not intend.

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 audit WebSocket handshake handling, origin checks, credential sources, proxies, and message dispatch for privileged operations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-websocket-connection-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-websocket-connection-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 190 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,076 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 $0.00190 $0.02076
Opus 5.5 $0.00076 $0.00830
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00038 $0.00415
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00208

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ddcf55a5c6a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auditing-websocket-connection-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 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-websocket-connection-trust/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 WebSocket connection trust: trust checked once at the upgrade, never per message

A WebSocket endpoint fails where it establishes trust once, at the upgrade, and never re-checks it. If the handshake authenticates purely from an ambient cookie and does not validate the origin, any web page can open an authenticated socket on the user's behalf (cross-site hijacking); if it authenticates at the handshake but never authorizes individual messages, a connection can escalate mid-stream. You audit it by resolving how the handshake authenticates (an ambient cookie, or an unpredictable token a cross-site page cannot read) and whether the origin is enforced, then following each privileged message to see whether it is re-authorized. A known false-positive trap lives here: an origin check delegated to a proxy is only a defense if the proxy actually rejects, so confirm the backstop. The wss certificate check belongs to the transport skill.

When to use

  • You are reviewing a WebSocket upgrade handler, its origin check, and its per-message dispatch.
  • The endpoint authenticates at the handshake, from a cookie or a token, and then handles messages.
  • You want to know whether a cross-site page or a later message can drive a privileged action.

Scope check

Audit only endpoints you own or are authorized to assess, and open a socket or send a message only against a service in scope, a privileged message drives real state. Adjudicate on the handshake and the dispatch. If you can't name the authorization, stop.

The loop

  1. Resolve the origin check and the credential source first. Determine how the handshake authenticates: an ambient session cookie sent automatically by the browser, or an unpredictable per-connection token (a ticket, a bearer in a subprotocol or query) that a cross-site page cannot read. Then determine whether the origin is validated on the upgrade, and where. Ambient credentials plus a missing origin check is the cross-site-hijacking precondition, so settle both before flagging.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 140 lines · 190 tokens per session scan A ddcf55a5c6a1

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auditing-websocket-connection-trust is a skill published in the GitHub repository UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 190 tokens to every session and 2,076 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 2026-09-05.

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