security

A set of security-review rules covering vulnerability scanning, dependency risks, supply-chain security, license compliance, secrets, and related practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning security checks, dependency audits, CVE handling, OWASP-related work, or vulnerability-management processes.
Why use it?
It provides concrete requirements for finding and managing security problems before they reach users or production.

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/zircote-plugins/sdlc-quality/security
Any agent
npx skills add zircote-plugins/sdlc-quality --skill security
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zircote-plugins/sdlc-quality

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,305 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 $0.00070 $0.01305
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00652
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00130

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2efd641fe9a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security 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.

.github/skills/security/SKILL.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Security Standards

Guidance for implementing security requirements including dependency scanning, supply chain security, and vulnerability management.

Tooling

Available Tools: If using Claude Code, the pr-review-toolkit:silent-failure-hunter agent identifies security issues in error handling. Use security scanning tools native to your language ecosystem.

Dependency Security

Vulnerability Scanning (MUST)

Projects MUST use automated dependency vulnerability scanning.

Language Tool Command
Rust cargo-audit cargo audit
Node.js npm audit npm audit
Python pip-audit, safety pip-audit
Java OWASP Dependency-Check dependency-check
Go govulncheck govulncheck ./...

Scanning Schedule (MUST)

Scanning MUST occur:

  • On every pull request
  • On every push to protected branches
  • On a scheduled basis (daily minimum)

Vulnerability Response (MUST)

Critical and high severity vulnerabilities MUST block PR merges.

Vulnerability Exceptions

Known vulnerabilities that cannot be fixed MUST be:

  1. Documented with justification
  2. Listed in an ignore/allowlist with expiration dates
  3. Reviewed quarterly
# Example: cargo-deny ignore
[advisories]
ignore = [
    # RUSTSEC-2024-0001: No fix available, mitigated by input validation
    # Expires: 2024-06-01, Review: Issue #123
    "RUSTSEC-2024-0001",
]

Supply Chain Security

Required Checks (MUST)

Check Purpose
License compliance Verify all dependencies use allowed licenses
Source verification Ensure dependencies from trusted sources
Advisory database Check against known vulnerability databases
Package bans Block known problematic packages
Duplicate detection Identify multiple versions of same package

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 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 · 214 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 2efd641fe9a3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

security is a skill published in the GitHub repository zircote-plugins/sdlc-quality (10 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,305 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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