Claude Security Skills

Claude security skills turn a one-off audit into a recurring check: finding secrets that reached the repository, reviewing dependencies with known vulnerabilities, and catching routine mistakes such as unvalidated user input or permissions granted more broadly than needed. The same set of checks meets every change instead of only the pre-release review.

The most common finding is not an exotic vulnerability but a forgotten key in commit history or an over-broad permission. Simple rules catch those, yet no person runs them on every pull request. A skill does.

An important limit: the output is a list of candidates, not a verdict. The model flags suspicious places and explains the risk, but the decision belongs to someone who knows the system's context. Automatically "fixing" security from that output is a bad idea.

The collection below covers code audits, secret handling and dependency checks. Tools of this class are for systems you own or have written permission to test.

Skills in this collection

FAQ

Does this replace a real security audit?

No. Skills cover the recurring layer: routine mistakes, forgotten secrets, outdated dependencies. A real audit includes threat modeling, architecture review, and a specialist looking for what is not on any known-pattern list.

Is it safe to give a model access to code for this?

That is a trust decision, not a technical one. For sensitive repositories the practical route is a local model or an isolated environment with no network egress. Check separately whether the secrets themselves end up in the model's context: scanning for leaks by shipping the leaked keys outward is a poor trade.

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