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Best Claude skills for security

Security skills range from Cloudflare's multi-phase security audit to hundreds of structured cybersecurity playbooks mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and NIST. Use them to audit your own code, harden infrastructure or practice CTF challenges. Always stay within systems you are authorized to test.

272 security skills · ranked live · November 2026

The top 10. Ranked by the Alyn Score.

  1. #1
    affaan-m

    Accessibility

    Design, implement, and audit accessible UI to WCAG 2.2 Level AA across Web, iOS, and Android — semantic ARIA roles and labels, accessibility traits and hints, focus management, contrast…

    Pack301k1.7MScore 89
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  2. #2
    affaan-m

    Agent Security Hardening

    Security hardening guidance for AI agent frameworks that process untrusted content, invoke tools, write workspace files, manage runtime identifiers, or handle credentials. Use when building…

    Pack301k1.7MScore 89
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  3. #3
    Addy Osmani

    Security And Hardening

    Hardens code against vulnerabilities. Use when auditing an input handler for vulnerabilities, when handling user input, authentication, data storage, or external integrations, or when…

    Pack115k1.8MScore 87
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  4. #4
    morluto

    Rea Analysis Optimization

    Optimize REA providers and shared analysis workflows for agent context, latency, CPU, and memory while preserving correctness and Evidence. Use for analysis bottlenecks and cache or query…

    Pack450k29kScore 85
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  5. #5
    morluto

    Rea Ci Tests Audit

    Audit REA CI and test suites for correctness, fixture drift, false passes, and measured performance; use for suite or workflow investigations and efficiency changes, rather than ordinary…

    Pack450k29kScore 85
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  6. #6
    morluto

    Reverse Engineer Anything

    Reverse engineer native, managed, Electron/JavaScript, packaged, firmware, and browser targets with REA, and build agent environments (AgentEnv bundles) of web applications from a live…

    Pack450k29kScore 85
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  7. wshobson

    Agents

    #7
    wshobson

    Screen Reader Testing

    Test web applications with screen readers including VoiceOver, NVDA, and JAWS. Use when validating screen reader compatibility, debugging accessibility issues, or ensuring assistive…

    Pack42k2.6MScore 85
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  8. GitHub

    Awesome Copilot

    #8
    GitHub

    Agent Owasp Compliance

    Check any AI agent codebase against the OWASP Agentic Security Initiative (ASI) Top 10 risks. Use this skill when: - Evaluating an agent system's security posture before production…

    Pack41k2.4MScore 83
    Details
  9. GitHub

    Awesome Copilot

    #9
    GitHub

    AI Prompt Engineering Safety Review

    Comprehensive AI prompt engineering safety review and improvement prompt. Analyzes prompts for safety, bias, security vulnerabilities, and effectiveness while providing detailed improvement…

    Pack41k2.4MScore 83
    Details
  10. #10
    davila7

    Owasp Security

    Comprehensive OWASP-aligned security guidance across six standards - Top 10 (2021) for web apps, ASVS 5.0, MASVS v2.1.0 for mobile, API Security Top 10 (2023), Kubernetes Top 10 (2022), and…

    Pack33k285kScore 82
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What makes a great security skill.

  • Findings with evidence and severity, not speculative warnings.

  • Clear scope rules: only systems you own or are authorized to test.

  • Machine-readable output you can track over time.

All 272 security skills.

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Sushegaad

iso27701

Expert ISO 27701 Privacy Information Management System (PIMS) compliance advisor. Use this skill whenever a user asks about ISO/IEC 27701:2025, ISO/IEC 27701:2019, privacy information…

Pack1.1k9.4kSecurity
61
Sushegaad

iso42001

Expert ISO 42001 AI Management System (AIMS) compliance advisor. Use this skill whenever a user asks about ISO/IEC 42001:2023, AI governance, AI management systems, AI risk assessment, AI…

Pack1.1k9.4kSecurity
61
Sushegaad

itar

Expert ITAR compliance advisor for US defense contractors, exporters, and manufacturers. Use this skill for any question about 22 CFR Parts 120-130, the United States Munitions List (USML)…

Pack1.1k9.4kSecurity
61
Sushegaad

lgpd

Expert LGPD compliance advisor for Brazil's Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (Law 13,709/2018). Use this skill whenever a user asks about LGPD, Brazilian data protection, ANPD, personal data…

Pack1.1k9.4kSecurity
61
Sushegaad

nis2

EU NIS2 Directive (Directive (EU) 2022/2555) compliance advisor for essential and important entities: entity classification, Art. 21 risk management measures, Art. 23 incident reporting…

Pack1.1k9.4kSecurity
61
Sushegaad

nist-800-53

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 compliance advisor — all 20 control families (AC, AT, AU, CA, CM, CP, IA, IR, MA, MP, PE, PL, PM, PS, PT, RA, SA, SC, SI, SR), Low/Moderate/High baseline selection…

Pack1.1k9.4kSecurity
61
Sushegaad

nist-ai-rmf

Expert NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) advisor covering all four functions: GOVERN, MAP, MEASURE, MANAGE. Use this skill whenever a user asks about NIST AI RMF, AI risk…

Pack1.1k9.4kSecurity
61
Sushegaad

nist-csf

Expert NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) advisor covering CSF 2.0 and CSF 1.1. Use this skill whenever a user asks about NIST CSF, cybersecurity risk management, the six CSF functions…

Pack1.1k9.4kSecurity
61
Sushegaad

nzism

Expert New Zealand Information Security Manual (NZISM) advisor for NZ government agencies and their supply chains. Use for NZISM control guidance, gap analysis, agency security obligations…

Pack1.1k9.4kSecurity
61
Sushegaad

pci-compliance

Expert PCI DSS compliance advisor covering PCI DSS v4.0.1 (current) and v4.0. Use this skill whenever a user asks about PCI DSS, payment card security, cardholder data protection, CDE…

Pack1.1k9.4kSecurity
61
Sushegaad

saudi-arabia-grc

Saudi Arabia Governance, Risk & Compliance advisor — a compliance router that first determines WHICH Saudi regulations apply (NCA ECC-2:2024, NCNICC-1:2025 private-sector controls, Saudi…

Pack1.1k9.4kSecurity
61
Sushegaad

section-508

Expert Section 508 compliance advisor for US federal ICT accessibility. Use this skill whenever a user asks about Section 508, WCAG 2.0/2.1 AA for federal systems, VPAT or Accessibility…

Pack1.1k9.4kSecurity
61
Sushegaad

soc2

Expert SOC 2 compliance assistant covering all five Trust Services Criteria (Security/CC, Availability/A, Confidentiality/C, Processing Integrity/PI, Privacy/P). Use this skill whenever a…

Pack1.1k9.4kSecurity
61
Sushegaad

sox-itgc

Expert SOX IT General Controls (ITGC) advisor for finance, internal audit and IT compliance teams. Covers the four ITGC domains external auditors test for SOX 404 — access to programs and…

Pack1.1k9.4kSecurity
61
Sushegaad

swift-csp

Expert SWIFT Customer Security Programme (CSP) advisor covering the Customer Security Controls Framework (CSCF v2026). Use this skill whenever a user asks about SWIFT CSP, CSCF controls…

Pack1.1k9.4kMobile

briiirussell

Cybersecurity Skills

60
briiirussell

breach-patterns

Learn from public breach disclosures — extract the audit question each one implies and check your own stack. Capital One IMDS abuse, LastPass vault exfiltration, Okta Lapsus$, Snowflake…

Pack51714kSecurity

briiirussell

Cybersecurity Skills

60
briiirussell

incident-triage

Guide rapid triage and initial response to a live security incident happening right now (ransomware hitting a file server, an attacker still in the network, a new admin user nobody created…

Pack51714kDevOps

briiirussell

Cybersecurity Skills

60
briiirussell

log-watch

Set up a scheduled agent that reads a small team's existing production logs, flags suspicious activity, and pages a human, without a SIEM or security staff. Use when the user mentions 'log…

Pack51714kSecurity

briiirussell

Cybersecurity Skills

60
briiirussell

malware-triage

Triage a suspicious file statically and safely, and turn it into something defenders can use: a verdict with confidence and evidence, defanged indicators as CSV or STIX 2.1, a YARA…

Pack51714kSecurity

briiirussell

Cybersecurity Skills

60
briiirussell

personal-opsec

Audit one person's own security setup — the founder or operator who holds the keys to the stack — and produce a prioritized gap report. Walks Karpathy's 15-control digital security…

Pack51714kSecurity

lawve-ai

Awesome Legal Skills

59
lawve-ai

cis-controls

Expert CIS Controls v8 (CIS Top 18) advisor — implementation group scoping (IG1/IG2/IG3), control gap assessments, safeguard-level guidance, asset inventory, software inventory, data…

Pack9436kLegal

briiirussell

Cybersecurity Skills

58
briiirussell

ai-risk-management

Apply the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) and adjacent guidance to AI / ML systems — model lifecycle governance, fairness and bias evaluation, robustness, transparency…

Pack51714kSecurity

rmyndharis

Antigravity Skills

58
rmyndharis

auth-implementation-patterns

Master authentication and authorization patterns including JWT, OAuth2, session management, and RBAC to build secure, scalable access control systems. Use when implementing auth systems…

Pack2k16kBackend

briiirussell

Cybersecurity Skills

58
briiirussell

csf-mapping

Map your security posture against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 (Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover). Produce a gap analysis, current/target tier assessment, and…

Pack51714kSecurity

lawve-ai

Awesome Legal Skills

57
lawve-ai

bacen-compliance-sentinel-rafael-mastronardi

Orientação completa sobre conformidade com regulamentações do Banco Central do Brasil: Resolução CMN nº 4.893/2021 (Política de Segurança Cibernética), Resolução BCB nº 85/2021 (GRSIC)…

Pack9436kLegal

briiirussell

Cybersecurity Skills

57
briiirussell

disk-forensics

Analyze disk images, file systems, and memory captures for digital evidence recovery in forensic investigations and CTF challenges. Use when the user mentions 'disk forensics,' 'forensic…

Pack51714kSecurity

briiirussell

Cybersecurity Skills

56
briiirussell

osint-recon

Gather and correlate open source intelligence from public sources for authorized investigations, threat intelligence, and attack surface assessment. Use when the user mentions 'OSINT,'…

Pack51714kResearch

briiirussell

Cybersecurity Skills

56
briiirussell

recon

Perform structured reconnaissance and attack surface enumeration for authorized penetration tests, CTF challenges, and bug bounty programs. Use when the user mentions 'recon,'…

Pack51714kSecurity

BagelHole

DevOps Security Agent Skills

52
BagelHole

ai-pipeline-orchestration

Orchestrate AI/ML pipelines for data ingestion, model training, batch inference, and RAG indexing using Prefect, Airflow, or Dagster. Build reliable, observable, and retriable workflows for…

Pack1.2k62kDevOps

BagelHole

DevOps Security Agent Skills

52
BagelHole

ai-sre-incident-response

Build AI-focused SRE incident response practices for LLM outages, degraded quality, runaway cost events, and safety regressions.

Pack1.2k62kDevOps

BagelHole

DevOps Security Agent Skills

52
BagelHole

asset-inventory

Maintain IT asset inventory and configuration management database. Track hardware, software, and cloud resources. Use when managing IT assets.

Pack1.2k62kSecurity

BagelHole

DevOps Security Agent Skills

52
BagelHole

audit-logging

Implement centralized audit logging and SIEM integration. Configure log retention and security monitoring. Use when implementing audit trail requirements.

Pack1.2k62kSecurity

BagelHole

DevOps Security Agent Skills

52
BagelHole

aws-cloudtrail

Configure AWS CloudTrail for audit logging. Set up organization trails and event analysis. Use when auditing AWS activity.

Pack1.2k62kDevOps

BagelHole

DevOps Security Agent Skills

52
BagelHole

azure-devops

Set up Azure Pipelines for CI/CD, configure build and release pipelines, manage Azure DevOps projects, and integrate with Azure services. Use when working with Azure DevOps Services or…

Pack1.2k62kDevOps

BagelHole

DevOps Security Agent Skills

52
BagelHole

azure-monitor-audit

Configure Azure Monitor and Activity Log for auditing. Set up diagnostic settings and log analytics. Use when auditing Azure activity.

Pack1.2k62kDevOps

BagelHole

DevOps Security Agent Skills

52
BagelHole

business-continuity

Develop business continuity plans and impact analysis. Implement BCP testing and communication procedures. Use when building organizational resilience.

Pack1.2k62kSecurity

Security skills, explained.

Also searched as: security audit skill, cybersecurity agent skills, pentest skill, ctf skills.

What are the best Claude skills for security?

Right now the top-ranked security skills on Alyn are Accessibility (affaan-m), Agent Security Hardening (affaan-m), Security And Hardening (Addy Osmani). Rankings combine GitHub stars, installs, freshness and depth, and update live.

What is the Cloudflare security audit skill?

A coding-agent skill from Cloudflare that runs multi-phase security audits and produces independently verified, machine-readable findings.

Can skills themselves be a security risk?

Yes. Skills can include scripts. Read SKILL.md and any bundled scripts before installing, and prefer well-known authors. Alyn shows file counts and links every file.

How do I install a security skill?

Run npx skills add owner/repo in your project, or copy the folder with SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills. Every skill on this page has a ready-to-copy command.

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