hipaa-baa-vendor-assessment

hipaa-baa-vendor-assessment is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vaquarkhan/compliance-agent-skills. It costs 110 tokens per session (1,892 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review method for checking whether vendors and their subcontractors meet HIPAA requirements in a Business Associate Agreement, or BAA. HIPAA is a US health-privacy law, and ePHI means electronic protected health information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when assessing LLM providers, cloud hosts, observability tools, MCP servers, or other vendors that may access ePHI, including during onboarding or BAA renewal.
Why use it?
Cloud, AI, logging, and integration vendors may handle health data through less obvious subcontractors. The review identifies missing contractual protections and produces a vendor-by-vendor compliance result.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when assessing LLM providers, cloud hosts, observability tools, MCP servers, or other vendors that may access ePHI, including during onboarding or BAA renewal.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vaquarkhan/compliance-agent-skills/hipaa-baa-vendor-assessment
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 hipaa-baa-vendor-assessment
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 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,892 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 $0.00110 $0.01892
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00946
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00378
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00189

Measured 12d ago against content hash b9995cbc3792, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hipaa-baa-vendor-assessment 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/hipaa-baa-vendor-assessment/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HIPAA BAA Vendor Assessment

Overview

This skill performs structured Business Associate Agreement (BAA) review for vendors that create, receive, maintain, or transmit ePHI on behalf of a covered entity or business associate. Key regulations:

  • 45 CFR §164.502(e): BA may use/disclose ePHI only per BAA or law
  • 45 CFR §164.504(e): Required BAA provisions
  • 45 CFR §164.308(b)(1): Business associate contracts and other arrangements

LLM and MCP ecosystems introduce non-obvious subprocessors: model hosts, vector DBs, prompt logging, crash reporters, and MCP registry operators. This skill produces a vendor-by-vendor compliance matrix with pass/fail on mandatory BAA clauses—not a substitute for legal counsel.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • Onboarding an LLM provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock) for ePHI-adjacent workloads
  • Evaluating cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) for HIPAA workloads
  • Assessing MCP server operators or self-hosted MCP with third-party dependencies
  • Reviewing observability, logging, or support tools that may capture prompts/responses
  • Annual BAA renewal or subprocessor change notification review
  • Determining whether a vendor is a Business Associate vs conduit exception

Do not use this skill when:

  • Vendor handles only de-identified data with expert determination (confirm de-identification first)
  • Pure PCI card processing without ePHI (use PCI skills)
  • Technical control testing of encryption (use hipaa-technical-safeguards)

Core Process

Execute steps in order.

Step 1: Vendor inventory and BA determination

  1. List all vendors in the ePHI processing chain:
    • LLM API provider, cloud host, MCP server host, CDN, email, ticketing, SIEM
  2. For each vendor, determine status:
    • Business Associate: accesses ePHI on behalf of CE/BA → BAA required
    • Conduit: transient access only (e.g., TLS VPN pipe)—document narrow exception analysis
    • Not in scope: no ePHI access—document exclusion rationale
  3. Record: vendor-inventory-{id}.csv with data types, access mode, BAA status.

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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 · 150 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A b9995cbc3792

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hipaa-baa-vendor-assessment is a skill published in the GitHub repository vaquarkhan/compliance-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 1,892 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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