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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.

140 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…

    301k1.7MScore 89
    Details
  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…

    301k1.7MScore 89
    Details
  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…

    115k1.8MScore 87
    Details
  4. wshobson

    Agents

    #4
    wshobson

    Hybrid Cloud Networking

    Configure secure, high-performance connectivity between on-premises infrastructure and cloud platforms using VPN and dedicated connections. Use when building hybrid cloud architectures…

    42k2.6MScore 85
    Details
  5. #5
    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…

    450k29kScore 85
    Details
  6. #6
    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…

    450k29kScore 85
    Details
  7. #7
    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…

    450k29kScore 85
    Details
  8. wshobson

    Agents

    #8
    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…

    42k2.6MScore 85
    Details
  9. GitHub

    Awesome Copilot

    #9
    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…

    41k2.4MScore 83
    Details
  10. Google

    Skills

    #10
    Google

    Agent Platform Alert Configuration

    Configures best-practice alerting policies for AI agents using OpenTelemetry (OTel) metrics, generating output as Terraform (.tf) configuration files. Use when analyzing, writing, or…

    24k1.1MScore 83
    Details

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 140 security skills.

89
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…

301k1.7MFrontend
89
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…

301k1.7MSecurity
87
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…

115k1.8MSecurity

wshobson

Agents

85
wshobson

hybrid-cloud-networking

Configure secure, high-performance connectivity between on-premises infrastructure and cloud platforms using VPN and dedicated connections. Use when building hybrid cloud architectures…

42k2.6MDevOps
85
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…

450k29kSecurity
85
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…

450k29kTesting
85
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…

450k29kCoding

wshobson

Agents

85
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…

42k2.6MTesting

GitHub

Awesome Copilot

83
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…

41k2.4MSecurity

Google

Skills

83
Google

agent-platform-alert-configuration

Configures best-practice alerting policies for AI agents using OpenTelemetry (OTel) metrics, generating output as Terraform (.tf) configuration files. Use when analyzing, writing, or…

24k1.1MDevOps

GitHub

Awesome Copilot

83
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…

41k2.4MAI engineering

Google

Skills

83
Google

api-gateway-backend-security-and-rate-limiting

Secures and rate limits backend services behind Google Cloud API Gateway across OpenAPI 2.0 and OpenAPI 3.0.x API configurations, including MCP-enabled gateways. Use when configuring API…

24k1.1MBackend

wshobson

Agents

83
wshobson

secrets-management

Implement secure secrets management for CI/CD pipelines using Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or native platform solutions. Use when handling sensitive credentials, rotating secrets, or…

42k2.6MSecurity

GitHub

Awesome Copilot

82
GitHub

audit-integrity

Enforce output quality, evidence verification, and quality gates across security audits. Use this skill when you perform SAST, SCA, threat modeling, or security code reviews. Use this skill…

41k2.4MSecurity
82
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…

33k285kSecurity

OpenAI

Skills

80
OpenAI

security-ownership-map

Analyze git repositories to build a security ownership topology (people-to-file), compute bus factor and sensitive-code ownership, and export CSV/JSON for graph databases and visualization…

29k225kSecurity

OpenAI

Skills

78
OpenAI

security-best-practices

Perform language and framework specific security best-practice reviews and suggest improvements. Trigger only when the user explicitly requests security best practices guidance, a security…

29k225kSecurity

sickn33

Agentic Awesome Skills

77
sickn33

accessibility-compliance-accessibility-audit

Audit pages and user journeys against a declared WCAG scope. Use when identifying keyboard, screen-reader, focus or contrast barriers and planning verified remediation.

49k584kFrontend

OpenAI

Skills

77
OpenAI

security-threat-model

Repository-grounded threat modeling that enumerates trust boundaries, assets, attacker capabilities, abuse paths, and mitigations, and writes a concise Markdown threat model. Trigger only…

29k225kSecurity

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

76
mukul975

abusing-dpapi-for-credential-access

Extract and decrypt Windows DPAPI-protected secrets (Credential Manager, browser logins/cookies, Wi-Fi credentials, KeePass keys) online or offline using SharpDPAPI, SharpChrome, Mimikatz…

36k113kSecurity

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

76
mukul975

abusing-shadow-credentials-for-privesc

Take over Active Directory accounts by writing attacker-controlled public keys to msDS-KeyCredentialLink (Shadow Credentials) with pyWhisker, Whisker, or Certipy, then authenticate via…

36k113kSecurity

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

76
mukul975

achieving-cmmc-level-2-compliance

Prepare a defense-contractor environment for CMMC Level 2 certification: scope CUI and FCI, implement the 110 NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2 security requirements across 14 families, compute the…

36k113kSecurity

Anthropic

Claude Plugins Official

76
Anthropic

claude-security

Claude Security: scan the codebase (the whole repository or a scoped part of it), scan changes (this branch's or a pull request's diff, or one commit), or suggest patches (findings turned…

47k184kSecurity

Jeffallan

Claude Skills

75
Jeffallan

code-reviewer

Analyzes code diffs and files to identify bugs, security vulnerabilities (SQL injection, XSS, insecure deserialization), code smells, N+1 queries, naming issues, and architectural concerns…

12k457kCode review

Cloudflare

Security Audit Skill

75
Cloudflare

security-audit

Security guidance and vulnerability review for codebases, APIs, services, CLI tools, libraries, and daemons. Use for security questions, focused reviews, vulnerability research, security…

69k99kSecurity
75
phuryn

strategy-red-team

Red-team a PRD, roadmap, or strategy by attacking its load-bearing assumptions before reality does. Steelmans then attacks each claim, ranks failure modes by impact × likelihood ×…

28k245kProduct management

wanshuiyin

Auto Claude Code Research In Sleep

72
wanshuiyin

integrity-forensics

Run the Anti-Autoresearch integrity-forensics sweep (span-anchored evidence ledger → GPT auditors propose findings → a rules-only reporter that lists every proposal with what the auditor…

19k42kSecurity

ljagiello

Ctf Skills

70
ljagiello

ctf-pwn

Provides binary exploitation techniques for CTF challenges. Use when you already have a vulnerable native target or service and need to turn memory corruption or low-level primitives into…

3.7k107kSecurity

ljagiello

Ctf Skills

70
ljagiello

ctf-similar-search

Searches for similar CTF challenge writeups using Tavily API for search and content extraction. Use when the user requests finding related challenges, when solve-challenge has failed…

3.7k107kSecurity

ljagiello

Ctf Skills

70
ljagiello

ctf-web

Provides web exploitation techniques for CTF challenges. Use when the target is primarily an HTTP application, API, browser client, template engine, identity flow, or smart-contract…

3.7k107kSecurity
61
nexscope-ai

cross-border-ecommerce

Cross-border e-commerce expansion advisor. Scores target markets on 8 weighted dimensions (market size, ecommerce penetration, competition, regulatory complexity, logistics infrastructure…

1.4k180kE-commerce

Docker

Skills

60
Docker

docker-sandboxes-network-credentials

Use this skill when configuring what a Docker Sandboxes (`sbx`) sandbox can reach on the network or which credentials it authenticates with, even if the user just says they want to "let the…

62415kDevOps

lawve-ai

Awesome Legal Skills

59
lawve-ai

ai-governance-reviewer-carl-ditzler

Use this skill when the user wants an AI governance, legal-risk, privacy, compliance, procurement, or vendor-risk review of an internal AI use case, an AI product feature, an LLM workflow…

9436kLegal

lawve-ai

Awesome Legal Skills

59
lawve-ai

az-eu-website-privacy-audit

Audits a website for compliance with Azerbaijan's Law on Personal Data No. 998-IIIQ and, where applicable, EU GDPR plus ePrivacy/cookie consent rules. Inventories the privacy documents…

9436kSecurity

lawve-ai

Awesome Legal Skills

59
lawve-ai

ccpa

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) compliance advisor — business threshold analysis, consumer rights fulfillment (access, delete, correct…

9436kLegal

aipoch

Medical Research Skills

56
aipoch

reporting-guideline-compliance-checker

Checks biomedical manuscripts against reporting guidelines such as CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA, and TRIPOD to identify missing or weak reporting elements before submission or revision.

2k898Research

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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