security-practices

Q: How do I install security-practices?

Run npx skills add https://github.com/miles990/claude-software-skills --skill security-practices in your project. The skills CLI detects the agents you use and copies the skill into the right folder. For Claude Code you can also place the skill folder at ~/.claude/skills/security-practices/ (personal) or .claude/skills/security-practices/ (project).

by miles990Security

OWASP Top 10, authentication, and secure coding practices

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Install

Works with every agent the skills CLI supports.

npx skills add https://github.com/miles990/claude-software-skills --skill security-practices

01
Install
Run the command in your project. The CLI asks which agents to install for.
02
Describe the task
Ask your agent for something this skill covers. It loads security-practices automatically when relevant.
03
Review the result
The agent follows the SKILL.md steps, scripts and references bundled with the skill.

SKILL.md

The instructions your agent reads when the skill is triggered.

Security Practices

Overview

Essential security practices for application development. Covers OWASP Top 10 and secure coding guidelines.

OWASP Top 10

1. Injection (SQL, NoSQL, Command)

// ❌ SQL Injection vulnerable
const query = `SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = '${email}'`;
// Attack: email = "'; DROP TABLE users; --"

// ✅ Parameterized query
const result = await db.query(
  'SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = $1',
  [email]
);

// ✅ ORM with parameterization
const user = await prisma.user.findUnique({
  where: { email }
});

// ❌ Command injection vulnerable
exec(`ping ${userInput}`);
// Attack: userInput = "google.com; rm -rf /"

// ✅ Use arrays, not string concatenation
execFile('ping', ['-c', '4', hostname]);

2. Broken Authentication

// Strong password requirements
const passwordSchema = z.string()
  .min(12)
  .regex(/[A-Z]/, 'Must contain uppercase')
  .regex(/[a-z]/, 'Must contain lowercase')
  .regex(/[0-9]/, 'Must contain number')
  .regex(/[^A-Za-z0-9]/, 'Must contain special character');

// Secure password hashing
import argon2 from 'argon2';

async function hashPassword(password: string): Promise<string> {
  return argon2.hash(password, {
    type: argon2.argon2id,
    memoryCost: 65536,  // 64 MB
    timeCost: 3,
    parallelism: 4
  });
}

async function verifyPassword(hash: string, password: string): Promise<boolean> {
  return argon2.verify(hash, password);
}

// Rate limiting login attempts
const loginLimiter = rateLimit({
  windowMs: 15 * 60 * 1000, // 15 minutes
  max: 5, // 5 attempts
  message: 'Too many login attempts'
});

app.post('/login', loginLimiter, handleLogin);

3. Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

// ❌ Direct HTML insertion
element.innerHTML = userInput;
// Attack: userInput = "<script>stealCookies()</script>"

// ✅ Use textContent for text
element.textContent = userInput;

// ✅ React auto-escapes by default
function UserName({ name }: { name: string }) {
  return <span>{name}</span>; // Safe
}

// ⚠️ dangerouslySetInnerHTML requires sanitization
import DOMPurify from 'dompurify';

function RichContent({ html }: { html: string }) {
  const sanitized = DOMPurify.sanitize(html, {
    ALLOWED_TAGS: ['b', 'i', 'em', 'strong', 'a', 'p'],
    ALLOWED_ATTR: ['href']
  });

  return <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: sanitized }} />;
}

// Content Security Policy header
app.use((req, res, next) => {
  res.setHeader('Content-Security-Policy',
    "default-src 'self'; " +
    "script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; " +
    "style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; " +
    "img-src 'self' data: https:;"
  );
  next();
});

4. Insecure Direct Object References

// ❌ No authorization check
app.get('/api/documents/:id', async (req, res) => {
  const doc = await db.documents.findById(req.params.id);
  res.json(doc);
});
// Attack: User can access any document by guessing ID

// ✅ Verify ownership
app.get('/api/documents/:id', auth, async (req, res) => {
  const doc = await db.documents.findById(req.params.id);

  if (!doc) {
    return res.status(404).json({ error: 'Not found' });
  }

  if (doc.ownerId !== req.user.id && !req.user.isAdmin) {
    return res.status(403).json({ error: 'Forbidden' });
  }

  res.json(doc);
});

// ✅ Use UUIDs instead of sequential IDs
// Harder to guess, but still check authorization!
const docId = crypto.randomUUID();

5. Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

// CSRF token middleware
import csrf from 'csurf';

const csrfProtection = csrf({ cookie: true });

app.get('/form', csrfProtection, (req, res) => {
  res.render('form', { csrfToken: req.csrfToken() });
});

app.post('/submit', csrfProtection, (req, res) => {
  // Token automatically validated
  // ...
});

// In form
<form action="/submit" method="POST">
  <input type="hidden" name="_csrf" value="{{csrfToken}}" />
  <!-- form fields -->
</form>

// SameSite cookies
res.cookie('sessionId', token, {
  httpOnly: true,
  secure: true,
  sameSite: 'strict' // or 'lax'
});

Authentication

JWT Best Practices

import jwt from 'jsonwebtoken';

// Access token (short-lived)
function generateAccessToken(user: User): string {
  return jwt.sign(
    { sub: user.id, role: user.role },
    process.env.JWT_SECRET!,
    { expiresIn: '15m' }
  );
}

// Refresh token (long-lived, stored securely)
function generateRefreshToken(user: User): string {
  const token = jwt.sign(
    { sub: user.id, type: 'refresh' },
    process.env.JWT_REFRESH_SECRET!,
    { expiresIn: '7d' }
  );

  // Store in database to allow revocation
  db.refreshTokens.create({
    userId: user.id,
    token: hashToken(token),
    expiresAt: new Date(Date.now() + 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)
  });

  return token;
}

// Verify and refresh
async function refreshAccessToken(refreshToken: string) {
  const payload = jwt.verify(refreshToken, process.env.JWT_REFRESH_SECRET!);

  // Check if token is revoked
  const storedToken = await db.refreshTokens.findOne({
    userId: payload.sub,
    token: hashToken(refreshToken)
  });

  if (!storedToken) {
    throw new Error('Token revoked');
  }

  const user = await db.users.findById(payload.sub);
  return generateAccessToken(user);
}

OAuth 2.0 / OIDC

import { OAuth2Client } from 'google-auth-library';

const client = new OAuth2Client(
  process.env.GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID,
  process.env.GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET,
  'https://myapp.com/auth/google/callback'
);

// Generate auth URL
app.get('/auth/google', (req, res) => {
  const url = client.generateAuthUrl({
    scope: ['openid', 'email', 'profile'],
    state: generateState(req.session.id) // CSRF protection
  });
  res.redirect(url);
});

// Handle callback
app.get('/auth/google/callback', async (req, res) => {
  const { code, state } = req.query;

  // Verify state
  if (!verifyState(state, req.session.id)) {
    return res.status(400).send('Invalid state');
  }

  // Exchange code for tokens
  const { tokens } = await client.getToken(code);

  // Verify ID token
  const ticket = await client.verifyIdToken({
    idToken: tokens.id_token,
    audience: process.env.GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID
  });

  const payload = ticket.getPayload();

  // Create or update user
  const user = await upsertUser({
    email: payload.email,
    name: payload.name,
    picture: payload.picture
  });

  // Create session
  req.session.userId = user.id;
  res.redirect('/dashboard');
});

Authorization

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

// Define permissions
const PERMISSIONS = {
  admin: ['read', 'write', 'delete', 'admin'],
  editor: ['read', 'write'],
  viewer: ['read']
} as const;

// Middleware
function requirePermission(permission: string) {
  return (req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) => {
    const userPermissions = PERMISSIONS[req.user.role] || [];

    if (!userPermissions.includes(permission)) {
      return res.status(403).json({ error: 'Forbidden' });
    }

    next();
  };
}

// Usage
app.delete('/api/posts/:id', auth, requirePermission('delete'), deletePost);

Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

interface Policy {
  effect: 'allow' | 'deny';
  resource: string;
  action: string;
  condition?: (context: Context) => boolean;
}

const policies: Policy[] = [
  {
    effect: 'allow',
    resource: 'document',
    action: 'read',
    condition: (ctx) => ctx.resource.isPublic || ctx.user.id === ctx.resource.ownerId
  },
  {
    effect: 'allow',
    resource: 'document',
    action: 'write',
    condition: (ctx) => ctx.user.id === ctx.resource.ownerId
  },
  {
    effect: 'allow',
    resource: '*',
    action: '*',
    condition: (ctx) => ctx.user.role === 'admin'
  }
];

function isAllowed(user: User, action: string, resource: Resource): boolean {
  const context = { user, resource };

  for (const policy of policies) {
    if (
      (policy.resource === '*' || policy.resource === resource.type) &&
      (policy.action === '*' || policy.action === action)
    ) {
      if (!policy.condition || policy.condition(context)) {
        return policy.effect === 'allow';
      }
    }
  }

  return false; // Deny by default
}

Secrets Management

// ❌ Never hardcode secrets
const apiKey = 'sk_live_1234567890';

// ✅ Use environment variables
const apiKey = process.env.API_KEY;

// ✅ Use secret managers
import { SecretManagerServiceClient } from '@google-cloud/secret-manager';

const client = new SecretManagerServiceClient();

async function getSecret(name: string): Promise<string> {
  const [version] = await client.accessSecretVersion({
    name: `projects/my-project/secrets/${name}/versions/latest`
  });

  return version.payload.data.toString();
}

// ✅ Rotate secrets regularly
// Store secret versions, not raw secrets
// Use short-lived tokens where possible

Input Validation

import { z } from 'zod';

// Define strict schemas
const createUserSchema = z.object({
  email: z.string().email().max(255),
  name: z.string().min(1).max(100).regex(/^[\w\s-]+$/),
  age: z.number().int().min(0).max(150).optional()
});

// Validate at boundaries
app.post('/api/users', async (req, res) => {
  const result = createUserSchema.safeParse(req.body);

  if (!result.success) {
    return res.status(400).json({
      error: 'Validation failed',
      details: result.error.flatten()
    });
  }

  // result.data is typed and validated
  const user = await createUser(result.data);
  res.json(user);
});

// File upload validation
const MAX_FILE_SIZE = 5 * 1024 * 1024; // 5MB
const ALLOWED_TYPES = ['image/jpeg', 'image/png', 'image/webp'];

function validateFile(file: Express.Multer.File) {
  if (file.size > MAX_FILE_SIZE) {
    throw new Error('File too large');
  }

  if (!ALLOWED_TYPES.includes(file.mimetype)) {
    throw new Error('Invalid file type');
  }

  // Also check magic bytes, not just extension
  const fileType = await fileTypeFromBuffer(file.buffer);
  if (!fileType || !ALLOWED_TYPES.includes(fileType.mime)) {
    throw new Error('Invalid file content');
  }
}

Security Headers

import helmet from 'helmet';

app.use(helmet());

// Or configure individually
app.use(helmet.contentSecurityPolicy({
  directives: {
    defaultSrc: ["'self'"],
    scriptSrc: ["'self'", "'unsafe-inline'"],
    styleSrc: ["'self'", "'unsafe-inline'"],
    imgSrc: ["'self'", "data:", "https:"],
    connectSrc: ["'self'", "https://api.example.com"],
    fontSrc: ["'self'"],
    objectSrc: ["'none'"],
    frameAncestors: ["'none'"]
  }
}));

app.use(helmet.hsts({
  maxAge: 31536000,
  includeSubDomains: true,
  preload: true
}));

Related Skills

[[authentication]] - Auth patterns
[[api-design]] - API security
[[devops-cicd]] - Security in pipelines

FAQ

What does the security-practices skill do?

OWASP Top 10, authentication, and secure coding practices

How do I install security-practices?

Run npx skills add https://github.com/miles990/claude-software-skills --skill security-practices in your project. The skills CLI detects the agents you use and copies the skill into the right folder. For Claude Code you can also place the skill folder at ~/.claude/skills/security-practices/ (personal) or .claude/skills/security-practices/ (project).

Which AI agents can use security-practices?

Any agent that supports the open Agent Skills format (a folder with a SKILL.md file), including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Cline, OpenCode and more.

Is security-practices safe to install?

No partner security audit is available yet. Skills can run commands and scripts, so read the SKILL.md and any bundled files before installing.

Who maintains security-practices?

It is published by miles990 in miles990/claude-software-skills. It has 63 recorded installs.

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security-practices

Install

Install

Describe the task

Review the result

SKILL.md

Security Practices

Overview

OWASP Top 10

1. Injection (SQL, NoSQL, Command)

2. Broken Authentication

3. Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

4. Insecure Direct Object References

5. Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Authentication

JWT Best Practices

OAuth 2.0 / OIDC

Authorization

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

Secrets Management

Input Validation

Security Headers

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