Security Skills
Browse SKILL.md files for secure coding, audit routines, secrets handling, access review, and safety-minded implementation.
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Why use security skills
Security-oriented skills are useful because they give the agent a more defensive posture before it starts changing code. Instead of treating security as an afterthought, a good SKILL.md can tell the model what to avoid, what to verify, and when to escalate rather than guessing.
This category often includes secure coding checks, auth review flows, secrets handling instructions, dependency risk guidance, or threat-aware implementation patterns. Even when a skill is not a full security audit, it can still raise the floor significantly for day-to-day engineering work.
From a directory perspective, security pages also create trust. They show that the marketplace is not just indexing random skills, but organizing them around real software risk areas with clear context for when each one should be used.
Benefits of this category
- Encourage safer defaults around secrets, auth, and sensitive operations.
- Help teams capture review heuristics that are easy to forget under time pressure.
- Reduce the chance that agent output introduces obvious security regressions.
- Make it easier to separate low-risk automation from tasks that need human sign-off.
How to use these skills well
- Treat security skills as guardrails, not as a replacement for experienced review.
- Prefer skills that are specific about risk areas like auth, secrets, network exposure, or dependency trust.
- Test them on read-only review tasks before letting them shape implementation work.
- Document which outputs are safe to automate and which still need explicit human approval.