Skip to content
alyn

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.

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

76
mukul975

analyzing-macro-malware-in-office-documents

Analyzes malicious VBA macros embedded in Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to identify download cradles, payload execution, persistence mechanisms, and anti-analysis…

36k113kDocuments

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

76
mukul975

analyzing-malware-behavior-with-cuckoo-sandbox

Detonate malware samples in Cuckoo Sandbox to observe runtime behavior — process creation, file system and registry changes, network communications, and API calls — and generate behavioral…

36k113kSecurity

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

76
mukul975

analyzing-malware-family-relationships-with-malpedia

Query the Malpedia API to look up malware family aliases and naming (platform.family_name), pull community/vendor YARA rules, link families to threat actors, and map family relationships…

36k113kSecurity

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

75
mukul975

analyzing-linux-kernel-rootkits

Detect kernel-level rootkits in Linux memory dumps using Volatility3 linux plugins (check_syscall, lsmod, hidden_modules), rkhunter system scanning, and /proc vs /sys discrepancy analysis…

36k113kSecurity

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

74
mukul975

analyzing-active-directory-acl-abuse

Detect dangerous ACL misconfigurations in Active Directory using ldap3 to identify GenericAll, WriteDACL, and WriteOwner abuse paths

36k113kSecurity

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

74
mukul975

analyzing-malware-persistence-with-autoruns

Use Sysinternals Autoruns to systematically enumerate and analyze malware persistence mechanisms across Windows registry run keys, scheduled tasks, services, drivers, and startup locations…

36k113kSecurity

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

73
mukul975

analyzing-malicious-url-with-urlscan

URLScan.io is a free service for scanning and analyzing suspicious URLs. It captures screenshots, DOM content, HTTP transactions, JavaScript behavior, and network connections of web pages…

36k113kSecurity

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

72
mukul975

analyzing-cobaltstrike-malleable-c2-profiles

Parse and analyze Cobalt Strike Malleable C2 profiles with dissect.cobaltstrike (profiles and beacon-payload configs) and pyMalleableC2 (AST parsing) to extract HTTP/DNS transforms, URIs…

36k113kSecurity

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

72
mukul975

analyzing-ethereum-smart-contract-vulnerabilities

Perform static and symbolic analysis of Solidity smart contracts using Slither and Mythril to detect reentrancy, integer overflow, access control, and other vulnerability classes before…

36k113kSecurity

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

72
mukul975

analyzing-heap-spray-exploitation

Detect and analyze heap spray attacks in memory dumps using Volatility3 plugins to identify NOP sled patterns, shellcode landing zones, and suspicious large allocations in process virtual…

36k113kSecurity

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

72
mukul975

analyzing-malicious-pdf-with-peepdf

Perform static analysis of malicious PDF documents using peepdf, pdfid, and pdf-parser to extract embedded JavaScript, shellcode, and suspicious objects. Use when triaging a suspicious PDF…

36k113kDocuments

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

72
mukul975

analyzing-malware-sandbox-evasion-techniques

Detect sandbox and VM evasion techniques in malware samples by analyzing timing checks, VM/hypervisor artifact queries, user-interaction checks, and sleep-inflation patterns from Cuckoo or…

36k113kSecurity

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

71
mukul975

analyzing-android-malware-with-apktool

Perform static analysis of Android APK malware using apktool for resource decompilation, jadx for Java source recovery, and androguard for manifest inspection, dangerous…

36k113kSecurity

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

71
mukul975

analyzing-api-gateway-access-logs

Parses API Gateway access logs (AWS API Gateway, Kong, Nginx) to detect BOLA/IDOR attacks, rate limit bypass, credential scanning, and injection attempts. Uses pandas for statistical…

36k113kSecurity

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

71
mukul975

analyzing-azure-activity-logs-for-threats

Queries Azure Monitor activity logs and sign-in logs via azure-monitor-query to detect suspicious administrative operations, impossible travel, privilege escalation, and resource…

36k113kDevOps

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

71
mukul975

analyzing-cloud-storage-access-patterns

Detect abnormal access in AWS S3, GCS, and Azure Blob Storage by analyzing CloudTrail Data Events, GCS audit logs, and Azure Storage Analytics for after-hours bulk downloads, new-IP access…

36k113kSecurity

mukul975

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills

71
mukul975

analyzing-kubernetes-audit-logs

Parses Kubernetes API server audit logs (JSON lines) to detect exec-into-pod, secret access, RBAC modifications, privileged pod creation, and anonymous API access, and builds SIEM detection…

36k113kDevOps

ljagiello

Ctf Skills

68
ljagiello

ctf-ai-ml

Provides AI and machine learning techniques for CTF challenges. Use when attacking ML models, crafting adversarial examples, performing model extraction, prompt injection, membership…

3.7k107kSecurity

ljagiello

Ctf Skills

68
ljagiello

ctf-crypto

Provides cryptography attack techniques for CTF challenges. Use when attacking encryption, hashing, signatures, ZKP, PRNG, or mathematical crypto problems involving RSA, AES, ECC, lattices…

3.7k107kSecurity

ljagiello

Ctf Skills

68
ljagiello

ctf-forensics

Provides digital forensics and signal analysis techniques for CTF challenges. Use when analyzing disk images, memory dumps, event logs, network captures, cryptocurrency transactions…

3.7k107kSecurity

ljagiello

Ctf Skills

68
ljagiello

ctf-malware

Provides malware analysis and network traffic techniques for CTF challenges. Use when analyzing obfuscated scripts, malicious packages, custom crypto protocols, C2 traffic, PE/.NET…

3.7k107kSecurity

ljagiello

Ctf Skills

68
ljagiello

ctf-misc

Provides miscellaneous CTF challenge techniques for problems that do not cleanly fit the main categories. Use for encoding puzzles, pyjails, bash jails, RF/SDR, DNS oddities, unicode…

3.7k107kSecurity

ljagiello

Ctf Skills

68
ljagiello

ctf-osint

Provides open source intelligence techniques for CTF challenges. Use when gathering information from public sources, social media, geolocation, DNS records, username enumeration, reverse…

3.7k107kSecurity

ljagiello

Ctf Skills

68
ljagiello

ctf-reverse

Provides reverse engineering techniques for CTF challenges. Use when the main job is to understand how a compiled, obfuscated, packed, or virtualized target works before exploiting or…

3.7k107kSecurity

ljagiello

Ctf Skills

68
ljagiello

solve-challenge

Solves CTF challenges by performing first-pass triage, identifying the dominant category, and routing execution to the right specialized ctf-* skill. Use when the user gives you a challenge…

3.7k107kSecurity

ljagiello

Ctf Skills

67
ljagiello

ctf-writeup

Generates a single standardized submission-style CTF writeup for competition handoff and organizer review. Use after solving a CTF challenge to document the solution steps, tools used, and…

3.7k107kSecurity

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…

9436kLegal

lawve-ai

Awesome Legal Skills

59
lawve-ai

cmmc

Expert CMMC 2.0 (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) advisor for US defense contractors and subcontractors in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB). Use this skill whenever a user asks…

9436kLegal

lawve-ai

Awesome Legal Skills

59
lawve-ai

security-review-openai

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…

9436kSecurity

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)…

9436kLegal

BagelHole

DevOps Security Agent Skills

54
BagelHole

github-actions

Build, test, and deploy applications using GitHub Actions workflows. Create CI/CD pipelines, configure runners, manage secrets, and automate software delivery. Use when working with GitHub…

1.2k62kDevOps

BagelHole

DevOps Security Agent Skills

54
BagelHole

jenkins

Create and manage Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, configure agents, manage plugins, and automate builds. Use when working with Jenkins servers, creating Jenkinsfiles, or setting up build…

1.2k62kDevOps

BagelHole

DevOps Security Agent Skills

53
BagelHole

gitlab-ci

Configure GitLab CI/CD pipelines and runners for automated building, testing, and deployment. Create .gitlab-ci.yml configurations, manage runners, and implement DevOps workflows. Use when…

1.2k62kDevOps

BagelHole

DevOps Security Agent Skills

52
BagelHole

access-review

Conduct periodic access reviews and certifications. Implement access governance and recertification workflows. Use when managing access compliance.

1.2k62kSecurity

BagelHole

DevOps Security Agent Skills

52
BagelHole

agent-evals

Build automated evaluation suites for AI agents using golden datasets, rubrics, and regression gates. Use when shipping agent features, validating prompt changes, or gating deployments on…

1.2k62kDevOps

BagelHole

DevOps Security Agent Skills

52
BagelHole

agent-observability

Instrument AI agents with tracing, token metrics, latency, and cost visibility. Use for reliability and debugging.

1.2k62kDevOps

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.

Built a security skill? Get it ranked.

Submit a skill