api-security-testing

api-security-testing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xAmirHamza77/PenKit51. It costs 13 tokens per session (1,511 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of methods for testing the security of APIs, which are interfaces that let software exchange data and request actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or carry out security tests for API endpoints, including checks for authentication, access control, and unsafe inputs.
Why use it?
It helps find weaknesses in API behaviour before attackers or production users expose them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to plan or carry out security tests for API endpoints, including checks for authentication, access control, and unsafe inputs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xamirhamza77/penkit51/api-security-testing
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 xAmirHamza77/PenKit51 --skill api-security-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xAmirHamza77/PenKit51

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,511 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00013 $0.01511
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00604
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00302
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00151

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3239b9497b90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-security-testing scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

response = requests.get('https://target.com/api/endpoint')
skills/api-security-testing/SKILL.md · 302 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 1mo ago First seen · 302 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 3239b9497b90

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api-security-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository xAmirHamza77/PenKit51 (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,511 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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