implementing-cloud-security-posture-management

implementing-cloud-security-posture-management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xalgorix/xalgorix. It costs 59 tokens per session (3,146 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), the continuous checking of cloud accounts for unsafe settings, compliance violations, and security risks. It covers AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run posture scans with tools such as Prowler and ScoutSuite, centralize findings, enforce security baselines, and identify misconfigurations that need remediation.
Why use it?
It helps security teams find configuration drift and gaps across many cloud accounts instead of checking each service manually. It can compare environments with standards such as CIS, SOC 2, and PCI DSS.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is prowler aws --compliance cis_1.5_aws -M csv -o ./out/ # confirm framework in summary.

Good fit Use it to run posture scans with tools such as Prowler and ScoutSuite, centralize findings, enforce security baselines, and identify misconfigurations that need remediation.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xalgorix/xalgorix
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xalgorix/xalgorix/implementing-cloud-security-posture-management

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,146 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00059 $0.03146
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01573
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00629
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00315

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2cc0b9929573, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

implementing-cloud-security-posture-management 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 4d 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.

internal/tools/skills/data/cloud-security/implementing-cloud-security-posture-management/SKILL.md · 311 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 311 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Implementing Cloud Security Posture Management

When to Use

  • When establishing continuous security monitoring across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments
  • When compliance requirements demand automated posture assessment against CIS, SOC 2, or PCI DSS
  • When security teams need visibility into cloud misconfigurations across multiple accounts and subscriptions
  • When building a security operations workflow that detects and remediates drift from security baselines
  • When migrating workloads to the cloud and need to enforce security guardrails

Do not use for runtime workload protection (use CWPP tools like Falco or Aqua), for application security testing (use DAST/SAST tools), or for network intrusion detection (use cloud-native IDS like GuardDuty or Network Watcher).

Common Misconfigurations & Verification

  • Scanner identity over-privileged: running Prowler/ScoutSuite with write or admin credentials turns the CSPM scanner into a high-value target. Use a dedicated read-only audit role (SecurityAudit/roles/iam.securityReviewer) and confirm no write actions appear in CloudTrail/audit logs for that principal.
  • Compliance pack not selected: prowler aws without --compliance cis_1.5_aws runs only the default checks, so the CIS/PCI score you report is incomplete. Always pass the explicit framework and confirm in the run header.
  • Native services not enabled underneath: Security Hub needs AWS Config, Defender needs auto-provisioning, SCC needs asset discovery. If these are off, drift is simply never detected (not flagged as failing).
  • Auto-remediation in report-only: AWS Config remediation with Automatic:false, or Azure policy in DoNotEnforce, logs drift but never fixes it. Verify Automatic:true / enforcementMode: Default.
  • Dedup ignores resource-ID format differences: the same misconfig from Prowler vs ScoutSuite has different IDs, producing duplicate alerts and fatigue.
prowler aws --compliance cis_1.5_aws -M csv -o ./out/     # confirm framework in summary
gcloud scc settings describe --organization=ORG_ID        # asset discovery enabled
aws configservice describe-remediation-configurations

Read the full file on GitHub · 311 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. 4d ago First seen · 311 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 2cc0b9929573

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implementing-cloud-security-posture-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository xalgorix/xalgorix (958 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 3,146 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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