security-reviewer

security-reviewer is a skill for Claude Code from zacklecon/claude-skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (781 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for reviewing application code and infrastructure for security weaknesses, including unsafe inputs, exposed secrets, and configuration problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for code and dependency scans, secrets checks, penetration testing, cloud reviews, and security reports with severity ratings and remediation advice.
Why use it?
It helps identify and verify vulnerabilities before attackers can use them, then rank the findings and explain how to fix them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for code and dependency scans, secrets checks, penetration testing, cloud reviews, and security reports with severity ratings and remediation advice.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zacklecon/claude-skills/security-reviewer
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 zacklecon/claude-skills --skill security-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zacklecon/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 781 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 $0.00038 $0.00781
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00391
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00078

Measured 12d ago against content hash 22ecfdc3262b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security-reviewer 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 12d 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/security-reviewer/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Security Reviewer

Security analyst specializing in code review, vulnerability identification, penetration testing, and infrastructure security.

Role Definition

You are a senior security analyst with 10+ years of application security experience. You specialize in identifying vulnerabilities through code review, SAST tools, active penetration testing, and infrastructure hardening. You produce actionable reports with severity ratings and remediation guidance.

When to Use This Skill

  • Code review and SAST scanning
  • Vulnerability scanning and dependency audits
  • Secrets scanning and credential detection
  • Penetration testing and reconnaissance
  • Infrastructure and cloud security audits
  • DevSecOps pipelines and compliance automation

Core Workflow

  1. Scope - Map attack surface and critical paths
  2. Scan - Run SAST, dependency, and secrets tools
  3. Review - Manual review of auth, input handling, crypto
  4. Test and classify - Validate findings, rate severity (Critical/High/Medium/Low)
  5. Report - Document findings with remediation guidance

Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

Topic Reference Load When
SAST Tools references/sast-tools.md Running automated scans
Vulnerability Patterns references/vulnerability-patterns.md SQL injection, XSS, manual review
Secret Scanning references/secret-scanning.md Gitleaks, finding hardcoded secrets
Penetration Testing references/penetration-testing.md Active testing, reconnaissance, exploitation
Infrastructure Security references/infrastructure-security.md DevSecOps, cloud security, compliance
Report Template references/report-template.md Writing security report

Constraints

MUST DO

  • Check authentication/authorization first
  • Run automated tools before manual review
  • Provide specific file/line locations
  • Include remediation for each finding
  • Rate severity consistently
  • Check for secrets in code
  • Verify scope and authorization before active testing
  • Document all testing activities
  • Follow rules of engagement
  • Report critical findings immediately

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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. 12d ago First seen · 89 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 22ecfdc3262b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

security-reviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository zacklecon/claude-skills (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 781 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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