windows-hello

windows-hello is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills. It costs 185 tokens per session (1,874 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for Windows Hello for Business, Microsoft's passwordless Windows sign-in system using a PIN or biometric to unlock a device-bound security key.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a trust model, check prerequisites, and plan Windows Hello provisioning for cloud-only or hybrid Windows environments.
Why use it?
It helps replace passwords with sign-in credentials that are harder to steal or reuse in phishing attacks, while accounting for different Windows and directory setups.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to choose a trust model, check prerequisites, and plan Windows Hello provisioning for cloud-only or hybrid Windows environments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills/windows-hello
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 vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills --skill windows-hello
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 185 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,874 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 $0.00185 $0.01874
Opus 5 $0.00093 $0.00937
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00375
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00187

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6d67be1064b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

windows-hello 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 9d 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/windows-hello/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Windows Hello for Business

Windows Hello for Business (WHfB) replaces passwords on Windows with a phishing-resistant 2-factor credential: a PIN or biometric (something you know/are) that unlocks a per-device asymmetric key (something you have, bound to TPM). The credential never leaves the device and is not replayable.

When to use

Eliminating password sign-in on Windows endpoints and meeting phishing-resistant MFA requirements for users on Windows. Use this skill to choose the trust model, satisfy prerequisites, and roll out provisioning.

Do not use this skill for FIDO2 keys on shared devices (entra-id), CA policy (conditional-access-mfa), or device compliance (intune-device-mgmt).

Pick the trust model

WHfB has three trust models. The choice depends on whether on-prem AD SSO is needed and the state of the AD environment.

Scenario Trust model Why
Cloud-only (Entra-joined, no on-prem AD) Cloud-only (default) No on-prem trust needed
Hybrid (Entra-joined / hybrid-joined, AD SSO needed) Cloud Kerberos trust (recommended) Simplest hybrid model; requires Entra Kerberos server objects
Hybrid, can't deploy Entra Kerberos Key trust Legacy; needs Windows Server 2016+ DCs + cert on each DC
Hybrid with strict cert-based environment Certificate trust Requires AD CS + NDES + Intune cert connector; most complex

Rule of thumb: cloud Kerberos trust is the default for hybrid in 2026 unless there is a specific blocker (no Entra Connect Sync, regulated environment forbidding new auth models). Don't deploy key trust or certificate trust on new tenants - both are legacy.

Approach

  1. Verify prerequisites — Devices: Windows 10 1903+ / Windows 11; TPM 2.0 (TPM 1.2 in limited cases). Users: Entra-joined or hybrid-joined; MFA registered; supported license. For cloud Kerberos trust: deploy Entra Kerberos server objects in AD (Set-AzureADKerberosServer). Verify: dsregcmd /status shows AzureAdJoined = YES; Get-AzureADKerberosServer returns one object per AD forest.

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 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. 9d ago First seen · 124 lines · 185 tokens per session scan A 6d67be1064b6

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windows-hello is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills (173 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 185 tokens to every session and 1,874 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 2026-09-03.

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