configuring-windows-defender-advanced-settings

configuring-windows-defender-advanced-settings is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up. It costs 88 tokens per session (2,873 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of configuring-windows-defender-advanced-settings, MIT.

A configuration guide for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft's Windows endpoint-security service, covering protections beyond its default settings. It includes attack-surface rules, ransomware protection, network protection, and exploit protection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure and deploy Defender settings through Intune, SCCM, or Group Policy on Windows 10 and 11 enterprise devices.
Why use it?
Default antivirus settings may not block every common attack technique or protect important folders. Centralized policies help apply stronger protections across many Windows devices.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to configure and deploy Defender settings through Intune, SCCM, or Group Policy on Windows 10 and 11 enterprise devices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/youngmaidainon/agent-level-up/configuring-windows-defender-advanced-settings
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 Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up --skill configuring-windows-defender-advanced-settings
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 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,873 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 $0.00088 $0.02873
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01437
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00575
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00287

Measured 8d ago against content hash b61fec85a8be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

configuring-windows-defender-advanced-settings 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

100% identical to configuring-windows-defender-advanced-settings — 0 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-windows-defender-advanced-settings/SKILL.md · 293 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 293 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Configuring Windows Defender Advanced Settings

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • Configuring Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) beyond default settings for enhanced protection
  • Implementing Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) rules to block common attack techniques
  • Enabling controlled folder access for ransomware protection
  • Configuring network protection and exploit protection features
  • Deploying Defender settings via Intune, SCCM, or Group Policy at enterprise scale

Do not use this skill for third-party EDR deployment (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne) or for Microsoft Defender for Cloud (Azure workload protection).

Prerequisites

  • Windows 10/11 Enterprise with Microsoft Defender Antivirus enabled
  • Microsoft 365 E5 or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 license (for full MDE features)
  • Microsoft Intune or SCCM for enterprise policy deployment
  • Microsoft 365 Defender portal access (security.microsoft.com)
  • Endpoints not running third-party AV in active mode (Defender enters passive mode)

Workflow

Step 1: Configure Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) Rules

ASR rules block specific behaviors commonly used by malware and attackers:

# Enable ASR rules via PowerShell (or deploy via Intune/GPO)
# Mode: 0=Disabled, 1=Block, 2=Audit, 6=Warn

# Block executable content from email client and webmail
Set-MpPreference -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Ids BE9BA2D9-53EA-4CDC-84E5-9B1EEEE46550 `
  -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Actions 1

# Block all Office applications from creating child processes
Set-MpPreference -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Ids D4F940AB-401B-4EFC-AADC-AD5F3C50688A `
  -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Actions 1

# Block Office applications from creating executable content
Set-MpPreference -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Ids 3B576869-A4EC-4529-8536-B80A7769E899 `
  -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Actions 1

# Block Office applications from injecting code into other processes
Set-MpPreference -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Ids 75668C1F-73B5-4CF0-BB93-3ECF5CB7CC84 `
  -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Actions 1

# Block JavaScript or VBScript from launching downloaded executable content
Set-MpPreference -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Ids D3E037E1-3EB8-44C8-A917-57927947596D `
  -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Actions 1

# Block execution of potentially obfuscated scripts
Set-MpPreference -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Ids 5BEB7EFE-FD9A-4556-801D-275E5FFC04CC `
  -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Actions 1

# Block Win32 API calls from Office macros
Set-MpPreference -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Ids 92E97FA1-2EDF-4476-BDD6-9DD0B4DDDC7B `
  -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Actions 1

# Block credential stealing from Windows LSASS
Set-MpPreference -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Ids 9E6C4E1F-7D60-472F-BA1A-A39EF669E4B2 `
  -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Actions 1

# Block process creations from PSExec and WMI commands
Set-MpPreference -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Ids D1E49AAC-8F56-4280-B9BA-993A6D77406C `
  -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Actions 1

# Block untrusted and unsigned processes from USB
Set-MpPreference -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Ids B2B3F03D-6A65-4F7B-A9C7-1C7EF74A9BA4 `
  -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Actions 1

# Block persistence through WMI event subscription
Set-MpPreference -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Ids E6DB77E5-3DF2-4CF1-B95A-636979351E5B `
  -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Actions 1

# Block abuse of exploited vulnerable signed drivers
Set-MpPreference -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Ids 56A863A9-875E-4185-98A7-B882C64B5CE5 `
  -AttackSurfaceReductionRules_Actions 1

Read the full file on GitHub · 293 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 · 293 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A b61fec85a8be

Subscribe to this mod's changes

configuring-windows-defender-advanced-settings is a skill published in the GitHub repository Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up (3 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 2,873 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to configuring-windows-defender-advanced-settings, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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