hitech-breach-notification

hitech-breach-notification is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vaquarkhan/compliance-agent-skills. It costs 165 tokens per session (2,268 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for handling breach notifications under the HITECH Act, a United States health-data law that strengthens HIPAA requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for analyzing individual, media, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services notifications, business-associate responsibility, encryption safe harbors, penalties, and disclosure records.
Why use it?
It helps determine when exposed protected health information requires notifications and which reporting, liability, encryption, and record-keeping rules apply.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for analyzing individual, media, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services notifications, business-associate responsibility, encryption safe harbors, penalties, and disclosure records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vaquarkhan/compliance-agent-skills/hitech-breach-notification
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 hitech-breach-notification
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 165 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,268 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 $0.00165 $0.02268
Opus 5 $0.00082 $0.01134
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00454
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00227

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1d36fa873ea7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hitech-breach-notification 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 11d 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/hitech-breach-notification/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HITECH Breach Notification

Overview

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act (2009), codified at 42 U.S.C. §17921–17923 and implemented through HIPAA Omnibus Rule amendments, strengthened breach notification, extended direct liability to business associates (BAs), and increased civil monetary penalties.

HITECH element Requirement Primary reference
Breach notification Individual, HHS, media (if >500 in state) 45 CFR §164.400–414; 42 U.S.C. §17921
Unsecured PHI Breach applies to PHI not rendered unusable/unreadable/indecipherable 45 CFR §164.402; HHS encryption guidance
BA liability BAs directly liable for Security, Privacy, Breach Notification 45 CFR §160.402(c)
OCR reporting HHS breach portal; immediate if ≥500 individuals HHS Breach Portal
Penalty tiers Four tiers under HITECH (willful neglect, correction) 42 U.S.C. §1320d-5
Accounting of disclosures Expanded accounting; breach may trigger disclosure log review 45 CFR §164.528

Relationship to breach-incident-response: Use that skill for containment, scope, and cross-framework incident orchestration. This skill adds HITECH-specific legal depth: unsecured PHI analysis, OCR portal mechanics, BA direct notification obligations, media triggers, and penalty-tier documentation.

AI/agent scenarios: LLM vendor without BAA receives ePHI prompts; MCP Postgres leak of session logs; failed redaction gate (agent.py) leading to model log retention; BA LLM subprocessors.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • HITECH breach determination after initial incident classification (breach-incident-response Step 4 complete)
  • Preparing HHS OCR breach portal submission (≥500 immediate; <500 annual aggregation)
  • Analyzing whether PHI was secured (encryption per NIST SP 800-111 or equivalent) for safe harbor
  • Business associate (LLM cloud, MCP host) must notify covered entity within 60 days of discovery (§164.410)
  • Media notification required (>500 residents of a state or jurisdiction)
  • Penalty exposure assessment and corrective action planning (willful neglect tiers)
  • Accounting of disclosures update for breach-related unauthorized access
  • Auditing HITECH compliance of agent pipelines post-incident

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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. 11d ago First seen · 167 lines · 165 tokens per session scan A 1d36fa873ea7

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hitech-breach-notification is a skill published in the GitHub repository vaquarkhan/compliance-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 165 tokens to every session and 2,268 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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