Use for authorized security assessment of REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, or SOAP APIs, including discovery, authentication, authorization, rate-limit, and CI/CD testing.
Use for authorized security assessment of LLM applications and AI agents, including prompt injection, tool abuse, RAG exposure, memory poisoning, and model supply-chain risks.
Use for a standard, single-pass security audit of an entire repository or a scoped path, package, folder, or submodule with no diff to review. This is the default repository scan. Do not use for PR, commit, branch, or working-tree diffs, or for deep, multi-pass scans.
STRIDE + OWASP-based security audit with optional auto-fix. Scans code for vulnerabilities, categorizes by severity, and can iteratively fix findings using vc-autoresearch pattern.
Sentry-specific security review based on real vulnerability history. Use when reviewing Sentry endpoints, serializers, or views for security issues. Trigger keywords: "sentry security review", "check for IDOR", "access control review", "org scoping", "cross-org", "security audit endpoint".
Covers AWS security services and workflows — Security Hub V2 (OCSF) findings, connectors, aggregators, automation rules, and security posture summaries; Security Hub CSPM (V1/ASFF) controls and compliance standards; GuardDuty threat findings; Inspector vulnerability findings; Macie sensitive data findings; Detective investigation; and Security Lake configuration and data aggregation. Applicable when questions involve security posture, Exposure findings, CSPM failed controls, threat findings, vulnerability findings, sensitive data findings, automation rules, or cross-service security configuration across AWS environments. Procedures use standard AWS CLI syntax and work with or without the AWS MCP server.
Comprehensive security scanning and vulnerability detection. Includes input validation, path traversal prevention, CVE detection, and secure coding pattern enforcement. Use when: authentication implementation, authorization logic, payment processing, user data handling, API endpoint creation, file upload handling, database queries, external API integration. Skip when: read-only operations on public data, internal development tooling, static documentation, styling changes.
Focused security audit of code, calibrated to surface real exploitable bugs and suppress theoretical findings. Use when the user asks to "audit", "security-audit", "find vulnerabilities", "check for IDOR/SSRF/XSS/injection", or wants a security review of a file, directory, branch diff, or PR. Covers access control, injection, auth/secrets, sensitive data, business logic, web boundary, and AI agent/LLM trifecta risks. Produces calibrated findings with data flow, exploit request, fix, and confidence — no theoretical or defense-in-depth nits.
Use for authorized email security review including phishing analysis, header authentication (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), BEC patterns, and mailbox token abuse research.
Use this skill when adding authentication, handling user input, working with secrets, creating API endpoints, or implementing payment/sensitive features. Provides comprehensive security checklist and patterns.
Security guidance and vulnerability review for codebases, APIs, services, CLI tools, libraries, and daemons. Use for security questions, focused reviews, vulnerability research, security audits, or pen tests. Run the complete workflow only for explicit codebase audit or pen-test requests, full/comprehensive/end-to-end reviews, or requested report artifacts.
AI-powered codebase security scanner that reasons about code like a security researcher — tracing data flows, understanding component interactions, and catching vulnerabilities that pattern-matching tools miss. Use this skill when asked to scan code for security vulnerabilities, find bugs, check for SQL injection, XSS, command injection, exposed API keys, hardcoded secrets, insecure dependencies, access control issues, or any request like "is my code secure?", "review for security issues", "audit this codebase", or "check for vulnerabilities". Covers injection flaws, authentication and access control bugs, secrets exposure, weak cryptography, insecure dependencies, and business logic issues across JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, PHP, Go, Ruby, and Rust.
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 into targeted patch files, each verified by a panel of agents, that you apply when you choose). Use when the user asks to scan, audit or check code with Claude Security, to scan their changes with Claude Security, or to fix or patch Claude Security findings.
Use when reviewing code security, auditing dependencies for CVEs, checking configuration or secret security, assessing authentication and authorization patterns, identifying OWASP vulnerabilities (injection, XSS, CSRF), or addressing security concerns about implementations.
Run OpenAlgo's periodic security audit across backend, frontend, database, cache, routes and dependencies, producing a dated xlsx report. Use for the monthly or twice-monthly review, before a release, after a dependency bump, or when the user asks for a security check, vulnerability scan, or audit report.
Plain text files in a repository that tell a coding agent how the project works: commands to run, conventions to follow and things to avoid. CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, cursor rules and skills are the common kinds.
CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md?
CLAUDE.md is read by Claude Code. AGENTS.md is an open format that Codex, Cursor and other agents read. Many projects keep one and point the other at it.
What is a skill?
A folder with a SKILL.md that describes one capability, such as filling PDFs or reviewing code. The agent loads it only when the task calls for it.
Can I search my own team's files too?
Your agents already can, over MCP, limited to the files you're allowed to read. Searching them from this page is coming.