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 - 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 - 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 - 4#4
wshobson
Agents
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 8#8
wshobson
Agents
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 - 9#9
GitHub
Awesome Copilot
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 - 10#10
Google
Skills
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
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.

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…

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…

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…
wshobson
Agents
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…

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…

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…

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…
wshobson
Agents
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…
GitHub
Awesome Copilot
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…
Skills
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…
GitHub
Awesome Copilot
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…
Skills
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…
wshobson
Agents
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…
GitHub
Awesome Copilot
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…

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…
OpenAI
Skills
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…
OpenAI
Skills
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…
sickn33
Agentic Awesome Skills
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.
OpenAI
Skills
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…
mukul975
Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills
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…
mukul975
Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills
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…
mukul975
Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills
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…
Anthropic
Claude Plugins Official
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…
Jeffallan
Claude Skills
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…
Cloudflare
Security Audit Skill
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…

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 ×…
wanshuiyin
Auto Claude Code Research In Sleep
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…
ljagiello
Ctf Skills
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…
ljagiello
Ctf Skills
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…
ljagiello
Ctf Skills
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…

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…
Docker
Skills
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…
lawve-ai
Awesome Legal Skills
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…
lawve-ai
Awesome Legal Skills
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…
lawve-ai
Awesome Legal Skills
ccpa
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) compliance advisor — business threshold analysis, consumer rights fulfillment (access, delete, correct…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
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.
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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