insecure-defaults

insecure-defaults is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zekiriabd/SDD-Pro. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,185 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of insecure-defaults, Apache-2.0.

A security review for fail-open defaults, where an application continues running with weak settings when configuration is missing. Examples include hardcoded secrets, weak authentication, or permissive access.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking production configuration, deployment files, infrastructure settings, Docker files, and environment-variable handling for unsafe fallback values.
Why use it?
It distinguishes dangerous defaults from fail-secure behaviour, where the application stops until required settings are supplied.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Checking production configuration, deployment files, infrastructure settings, Docker files, and environment-variable handling for unsafe fallback values.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zekiriabd/sdd-pro/insecure-defaults
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 zekiriabd/SDD-Pro --skill insecure-defaults
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zekiriabd/SDD-Pro

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,185 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 89% 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 $0.00048 $0.01185
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00593
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00119

Measured 4d ago against content hash b1b95a2fa5b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

insecure-defaults 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to insecure-defaults — 4 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.

.sdd/skills/insecure-defaults/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Insecure Defaults Detection

Finds fail-open vulnerabilities where apps run insecurely with missing configuration. Distinguishes exploitable defaults from fail-secure patterns that crash safely.

  • Fail-open (CRITICAL): SECRET = env.get('KEY') or 'default' → App runs with weak secret
  • Fail-secure (SAFE): SECRET = env['KEY'] → App crashes if missing

When to Use

  • Security audits of production applications (auth, crypto, API security)
  • Configuration review of deployment files, IaC templates, Docker configs
  • Code review of environment variable handling and secrets management
  • Pre-deployment checks for hardcoded credentials or weak defaults

When NOT to Use

Do not use this skill for:

  • Test fixtures explicitly scoped to test environments (files in test/, spec/, __tests__/)
  • Example/template files (.example, .template, .sample suffixes)
  • Development-only tools (local Docker Compose for dev, debug scripts)
  • Documentation examples in README.md or docs/ directories
  • Build-time configuration that gets replaced during deployment
  • Crash-on-missing behavior where app won't start without proper config (fail-secure)

When in doubt: trace the code path to determine if the app runs with the default or crashes.

Rationalizations to Reject

  • "It's just a development default" → If it reaches production code, it's a finding
  • "The production config overrides it" → Verify prod config exists; code-level vulnerability remains if not
  • "This would never run without proper config" → Prove it with code trace; many apps fail silently
  • "It's behind authentication" → Defense in depth; compromised session still exploits weak defaults
  • "We'll fix it before release" → Document now; "later" rarely comes

Workflow

Follow this workflow for every potential finding:

1. SEARCH: Perform Project Discovery and Find Insecure Defaults

Determine language, framework, and project conventions. Use this information to further discover things like secret storage locations, secret usage patterns, credentialed third-party integrations, cryptography, and any other relevant configuration. Further use information to analyze insecure default configurations.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 4d ago First seen · 114 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A b1b95a2fa5b6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

insecure-defaults is a skill published in the GitHub repository zekiriabd/SDD-Pro (191 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,185 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to insecure-defaults, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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