configuring-microsegmentation-for-zero-trust

configuring-microsegmentation-for-zero-trust is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,693 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of configuring-microsegmentation-for-zero-trust, MIT.

A guide to microsegmentation, which divides access between individual workloads such as applications, servers, or containers. Policies allow only the specific workload-to-workload connections that are needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design and enforce zero-trust access policies with platforms such as VMware NSX, Illumio, Guardicore, Calico, or Cisco ACI.
Why use it?
It prevents systems from automatically trusting others on the same network and reduces an attacker's ability to move sideways after a breach.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to design and enforce zero-trust access policies with platforms such as VMware NSX, Illumio, Guardicore, Calico, or Cisco ACI.

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Install with agentmods
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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up --skill configuring-microsegmentation-for-zero-trust
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,693 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 97% 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 $0.00078 $0.01693
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00847
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00339
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00169

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1f0e8b3141bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

configuring-microsegmentation-for-zero-trust 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/agent.py, scripts/process.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

97% identical to configuring-microsegmentation-for-zero-trust — 7 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.

cyber-security/ctf/configuring-microsegmentation-for-zero-trust/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Configuring Microsegmentation for Zero Trust

Prerequisites

  • Understanding of zero trust principles (NIST SP 800-207)
  • Knowledge of network segmentation concepts
  • Familiarity with firewall and SDN technologies
  • Experience with VMware NSX, Illumio, Guardicore, or Cisco ACI

Overview

Microsegmentation divides a network into granular security zones, enforcing least-privilege access between workloads at the application layer rather than relying on traditional VLAN-based segmentation. In a zero trust architecture, microsegmentation eliminates implicit trust between workloads within the same network segment, preventing lateral movement even after an attacker gains initial access.

This skill covers designing microsegmentation policies using workload identity, implementing host-based and network-based enforcement, and validating segmentation effectiveness with tools like Illumio Core and VMware NSX.

When to Use

  • When deploying or configuring configuring microsegmentation for zero trust capabilities in your environment
  • When establishing security controls aligned to compliance requirements
  • When building or improving security architecture for this domain
  • When conducting security assessments that require this implementation

Prerequisites

  • Familiarity with zero trust architecture concepts and tools
  • Access to a test or lab environment for safe execution
  • Python 3.8+ with required dependencies installed
  • Appropriate authorization for any testing activities

Architecture

Microsegmentation Models

  1. Network-Based (VMware NSX, Cisco ACI): Distributed firewall rules enforced at the hypervisor or network fabric level
  2. Host-Based (Illumio, Guardicore): Agent-based enforcement at the OS level using iptables/WFP rules
  3. Container-Based (Calico, Cilium): Network policies enforced at the pod/container level in Kubernetes
  4. Application-Based (Zscaler Workload Segmentation): Identity-based segmentation based on software identity rather than IP addresses

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 8d ago First seen · 180 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 1f0e8b3141bd

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configuring-microsegmentation-for-zero-trust is a skill published in the GitHub repository Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up (3 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,693 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to configuring-microsegmentation-for-zero-trust, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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