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npx skills add vaquarkhan/compliance-agent-skills --skill hipaa-privacy-minimum-necessarygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vaquarkhan/compliance-agent-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00156 | $0.02615 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00078 | $0.01307 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00031 | $0.00523 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00262 |
Grade A, and why
hipaa-privacy-minimum-necessary 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 194 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
HIPAA Privacy Minimum Necessary
Overview
This skill operationalizes the HIPAA Privacy Rule standards for minimum necessary use and disclosure of protected health information (PHI), de-identification, Limited Data Sets, and individual rights. Primary citations:
| Topic | Citation |
|---|---|
| Minimum necessary | 45 CFR §164.502(b) — covered entities and BAAs |
| Minimum necessary policies | 45 CFR §164.514(d) — implementation specifications |
| De-identification (Safe Harbor / Expert Determination) | 45 CFR §164.514(a)–(b) |
| Limited Data Set | 45 CFR §164.514(e) — data use agreement required |
| Patient access to PHI | 45 CFR §164.524 |
| Amendment of PHI | 45 CFR §164.526 |
| Accounting of disclosures | 45 CFR §164.528 (where applicable) |
Minimum necessary requires covered entities and business associates to limit PHI to the minimum needed to accomplish the intended purpose. For AI agents, this means:
- Prompts to LLMs contain only fields required for the compliance task—not full charts
- Role-based exposure: auditor role ≠ billing role ≠ clinical role
- Redaction upstream via
redaction.pybefore LLM reasoning—complementshipaa-phi-redaction-pipeline - No reconstruction of redacted tokens in model context unless authorized downstream delivery
The Security Rule (§164.312) technical controls are addressed in hipaa-technical-safeguards; this skill focuses on Privacy Rule use/disclosure limits.
When to Use
Use this skill when:
- Designing agent workflows that may process ePHI (compliance audits, chart review assistants)
- Auditing whether current LLM prompts/logs exceed minimum necessary
- Implementing role-based PHI access for agent operators and MCP tools
- Planning de-identified or Limited Data Set datasets for analytics/training
- Building patient access or amendment workflows touching agent-held data
- Policy review for §164.514(d) minimum necessary procedures
- Complementing redaction pipeline deployment with organizational privacy controls
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 194 lines · 156 tokens per session scan A d4e945fdd11c
hipaa-privacy-minimum-necessary is a skill published in the GitHub repository vaquarkhan/compliance-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 156 tokens to every session and 2,615 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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