fedramp-moderate-baseline

fedramp-moderate-baseline is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vaquarkhan/compliance-agent-skills. It costs 179 tokens per session (2,958 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for preparing a FedRAMP Moderate security assessment for a cloud system. FedRAMP is the U.S. government program for approving cloud services, and Moderate is its level for systems where a security failure could seriously affect agency work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define the system boundary, write a System Security Plan, plan and report security testing, track weaknesses in a POA&M, and manage ongoing monitoring.
Why use it?
It organizes the documents and checks needed to show how the system meets NIST SP 800-53 security controls. It also clarifies which tasks belong to the cloud provider and which belong to the government customer.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define the system boundary, write a System Security Plan, plan and report security testing, track weaknesses in a POA&M, and manage ongoing monitoring.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vaquarkhan/compliance-agent-skills/fedramp-moderate-baseline
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 vaquarkhan/compliance-agent-skills --skill fedramp-moderate-baseline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vaquarkhan/compliance-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 179 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,958 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 $0.00179 $0.02958
Opus 5 $0.00089 $0.01479
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00592
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00296

Measured 12d ago against content hash b3999a6aeaaf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fedramp-moderate-baseline 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/fedramp-moderate-baseline/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

FedRAMP Moderate Baseline

Overview

This skill implements FedRAMP Moderate authorization readiness and assessment workflows aligned to NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5 (September 2020, updated per FedRAMP baselines). FedRAMP Moderate applies to cloud systems where loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability would have serious adverse effect on agency operations.

Artifact Purpose Primary reference
Authorization boundary Defines system components, data flows, and trust zones FedRAMP SSP Section 9; NIST SP 800-37 Rev 2
System Security Plan (SSP) Documents control implementation per 800-53 Rev 5 FedRAMP SSP template (Moderate baseline)
Security Assessment Plan (SAP) Defines assessor test procedures FedRAMP SAP template
Security Assessment Report (SAR) Documents findings and risk FedRAMP SAR template
POA&M Tracks deficiencies, milestones, risk ratings FedRAMP POA&M template
ConMon Ongoing vulnerability scanning, POA&M updates, annual assessment FedRAMP ConMon Strategy Guide

Moderate baseline includes approximately 323 controls from NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 (including enhancements where applicable). Control families span AC, AU, AT, CM, CP, IA, IR, MA, MP, PE, PL, PS, RA, CA, SC, SI, SR, and others per FedRAMP baseline documentation.

Responsibility split:

Party Typical responsibilities
CSP (Cloud Service Provider) Physical/data center security, hypervisor, platform controls, FedRAMP package maintenance, customer responsibility matrix
Agency customer Identity federation configuration, data classification, endpoint protection for agency users, configuration within customer-managed layers (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS dependent)
Leveraged authorizations Agency inherits CSP controls via FedRAMP ATO; must document customer responsibility matrix (CRM) gaps

Cross-walk: FedRAMP controls map to NIST CSF 2.0 outcomes—use nist-csf-2-assessment for executive profiles; this skill produces FedRAMP-specific authorization artifacts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 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 · 192 lines · 179 tokens per session scan A b3999a6aeaaf

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fedramp-moderate-baseline is a skill published in the GitHub repository vaquarkhan/compliance-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 179 tokens to every session and 2,958 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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