baseline

A project security profile and baseline for security scans. It records which parts of a project are production code, tests, or examples, along with the application's exposure and sensitive operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Inspecting a project, setting normal or strict severity handling, identifying production and test paths, and creating suppression and gitignore settings for security scans.
Why use it?
It helps scans judge findings in the right context and keeps scan records and intentional exceptions from cluttering version control.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zate/cc-plugins/baseline
Any agent
npx skills add Zate/cc-plugins --skill baseline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zate/cc-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 574 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00023 $0.00574
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00287
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00057

Measured 2d ago against content hash a83ee42eee73, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

baseline 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 2d 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.

plugins/security/skills/baseline/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Security Baseline

Create the local project profile that helps /security:scan classify severity and keep scan artifacts out of git.

Step 1: Inspect Project

Run:

mkdir -p .security
"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/recon.sh" . | tee .security/recon.json
"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/detect-tools.sh" | tee .security/tools.json

Read .security/recon.json.

Step 2: Ask for Security Profile

Ask concise questions when .security/profile.json does not exist or --refresh is passed:

  • Application exposure: public internet, authenticated public, internal service, CLI/library.
  • Production paths: directories or config files that represent production behavior.
  • Test/example paths: directories that should usually be downgraded or treated as false positives.
  • Sensitive operations: auth, payments, admin, secrets, file upload, SSRF-sensitive network access.
  • Default severity posture: normal or strict.

Step 3: Write Profile

Write .security/profile.json:

{
  "version": 1,
  "exposure": "public-internet|authenticated-public|internal|cli-library",
  "severity_posture": "normal|strict",
  "production_paths": ["src/", "app/"],
  "test_paths": ["tests/", "fixtures/", "examples/"],
  "sensitive_operations": ["auth", "admin", "file-upload"],
  "notes": []
}

Step 4: Initialize Suppressions

If .security/suppressions.json does not exist, write:

{
  "version": 1,
  "suppressions": []
}

Step 5: Update .gitignore

Ensure .gitignore contains:

.security/artifacts/
.security/report.md
.security/triaged.json
.security/correlated.json
.security/recon.json
.security/tools.json
.security/changed-files.json

Keep .security/profile.json and .security/suppressions.json trackable by default because they are project policy, not scan output. If the user says suppressions should stay local, add .security/suppressions.json to .gitignore.

Step 6: Summary

Report:

  • Profile path.
  • Suppression file path.
  • Gitignore changes.
  • Tool coverage estimate.
  • Next command: /security:scan --deep.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 2d ago First seen · 92 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A a83ee42eee73

Subscribe to this mod's changes

baseline is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zate/cc-plugins (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 574 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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