semgrep

semgrep is a skill for Claude Code from vigolium/piolium. It costs 95 tokens per session (2,353 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of semgrep, MIT.

A Semgrep-based code scanner that searches source files for known security and bug patterns. Semgrep is a tool that matches code structures and can track some data flows across files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan a project with broad or high-confidence security rules, detect the languages in the project, and check whether data moves from unsafe inputs to dangerous code.
Why use it?
It helps find security problems across a codebase without reviewing every file by hand. It can also produce combined results for further investigation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to scan a project with broad or high-confidence security rules…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vigolium/piolium/semgrep
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 vigolium/piolium --skill semgrep
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vigolium/piolium

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for semgrep

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vigolium/piolium/semgrep"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vigolium/piolium/semgrep.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,353 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00095 $0.02353
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01177
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00471
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00235

Measured 7d ago against content hash b12e2130745f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

semgrep 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/merge_sarif.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to semgrep — 10 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/semgrep/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Semgrep Security Scan

Run a Semgrep scan with automatic language detection, parallel execution via Task subagents, and merged SARIF output.

Essential Principles

  1. Always use --metrics=off — Semgrep sends telemetry by default; --config auto also phones home. Every semgrep command must include --metrics=off to prevent data leakage during security audits.
  2. User must approve the scan plan (Step 3 is a hard gate) — The original "scan this codebase" request is NOT approval. Present exact rulesets, target, engine, and mode; wait for explicit "yes"/"proceed" before spawning scanners.
  3. Third-party rulesets are required, not optional — Trail of Bits, 0xdea, and Decurity rules catch vulnerabilities absent from the official registry. Include them whenever the detected language matches.
  4. Spawn all scan Tasks in a single message — Parallel execution is the core performance advantage. Never spawn Tasks sequentially; always emit all Task tool calls in one response.
  5. Always check for Semgrep Pro before scanning — Pro enables cross-file taint tracking and catches ~250% more true positives. Skipping the check means silently missing critical inter-file vulnerabilities.

When to Use

  • Security audit of a codebase
  • Finding vulnerabilities before code review
  • Scanning for known bug patterns
  • First-pass static analysis

When NOT to Use

  • Binary analysis → Use binary analysis tools
  • Already have Semgrep CI configured → Use existing pipeline
  • Need cross-file analysis but no Pro license → Consider CodeQL as alternative
  • Creating custom Semgrep rules → Use semgrep-rule-creator skill
  • Porting existing rules to other languages → Use semgrep-rule-variant-creator skill

Output Directory

All scan results, SARIF files, and temporary data are stored in a single output directory.

  • If the user specifies an output directory in their prompt, use it as OUTPUT_DIR.
  • If not specified, default to ./static_analysis_semgrep_1. If that already exists, increment to _2, _3, etc.

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 7d ago First seen · 213 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A b12e2130745f

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semgrep is a skill published in the GitHub repository vigolium/piolium (134 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 2,353 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to semgrep, differing in 10 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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