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security-review

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.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

57%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The content is highly concrete and actionable, with executable FAIL/PASS pairs and per-topic verification checklists that give it real review value. Its weaknesses are structural and volumetric: a ~490-line monolith that re-covers knowledge Claude already has, no explicit sequence for conducting the review itself, and no use of separate reference files despite topic-specific material that warrants them.

Suggestions

Add an explicit review workflow at the top (e.g., 1. Identify changed code areas, 2. Match each area to checklist sections, 3. Verify each 'Verification Steps' list, 4. Report failures with the PASS-pattern fix) so the process doesn't have to be inferred from section order.

Split topic-specific detail (Solana/blockchain, Supabase RLS, CSP header config, full code examples) into references/ files and keep SKILL.md as a lean overview with one-line pointers, per progressive disclosure.

Trim sections that re-teach what Claude already knows (generic rate-limiting, DOMPurify, npm audit basics) down to checklist items, keeping only the project-specific conventions and limits inline; also fix the Solana snippet (use tweetnacl's nacl.sign.detached.verify with base58 public keys) or drop it into a reference.

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Conciseness

There is no prose padding and the FAIL/PASS/Verification structure is tight, but ~490 lines re-teach standard security knowledge Claude already has (parameterized queries, httpOnly cookies, DOMPurify, express-rate-limit, npm audit). The genuine value is the project-specific norms (Supabase RLS policies, allowed upload types, 5MB limits, CSP config) buried among generic material that could be trimmed or replaced by one-line checklist pointers.

3 / 5

Actionability

Nearly every section gives copy-paste-ready TypeScript, SQL, or bash (zod schemas, RLS policies, CSP headers, rate-limit configs, test cases). The Solana section is not executable as written: '@solana/web3.js' exports no 'verify' function and Solana keys are base58, not base64, so that snippet fails both anchors of correctness — a minor but real gap in otherwise executable guidance.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Each topic has explicit 'Verification Steps' checkboxes and a pre-deployment checklist, but the skill never sequences how to actually conduct a review (scan the diff, map changes to sections, report/fix findings) — the process must be inferred from document order. It matches 'steps listed but the overall workflow sequence and checkpoints for the review itself are implicit'.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body has clear section headers but is a single 12KB monolith with no references/, scripts/, or assets/ files; topic-specific material that clearly belongs in separate files (Solana specifics, Supabase RLS details, CSP header config, full code examples) is inlined. This fits 'some structure but content that should be separate is inline' rather than a well-split overview.

3 / 5

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20

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Description

66%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description has a strong explicit trigger clause with natural, relevant keywords, but the capability statement is thin ('comprehensive security checklist and patterns' is buzzword-adjacent) and several triggers are so broad (user input, API endpoints) that conflict risk with adjacent skills is material. It lands above midpoint overall, held back mainly by the vague 'what'.

Suggestions

Replace 'Provides comprehensive security checklist and patterns' with concrete skill actions, e.g. 'Reviews code for vulnerabilities (secrets, injection, XSS, CSRF) against a FAIL/PASS checklist and provides secure-pattern fixes'.

Add natural trigger synonyms users would say, such as 'security review', 'vulnerabilities', 'authorization', 'credentials', or 'before deploying to production'.

Narrow the over-broad triggers ('handling user input', 'creating API endpoints') to security-relevant framings like 'validating untrusted input' or 'exposing new API endpoints' to reduce overlap with general coding skills.

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Specificity

The only action the skill itself performs is 'Provides comprehensive security checklist and patterns', which is a single vague action; the enumerated items (adding authentication, handling user input, creating API endpoints) are usage contexts, not capabilities of the skill. It names the security domain with one action but no concrete verbs like audit, scan, or review code.

3 / 5

Completeness

Both parts are present: an explicit 'Use this skill when adding authentication...' trigger clause with concrete conditions, and a 'what' statement. The 'what' ('Provides comprehensive security checklist and patterns') relies on the over-claim 'comprehensive' rather than listing concrete actions, so it fits the 'when is strong, what could be more explicit' anchor rather than the fully-explicit one.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

'authentication', 'user input', 'secrets', 'API endpoints', 'payment/sensitive features' are phrases users naturally say when they need this. Common variations like 'security review', 'vulnerability', 'authorization', 'credentials', and 'XSS/SQL injection' are missing, which keeps it just short of the comprehensive anchor.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The security niche is identifiable via 'security checklist', but triggers like 'handling user input' and 'creating API endpoints' are near-universal web-development activities that would overlap with input-validation, API-design, and general coding skills. It is somewhat specific but still has real overlap risk with closely related skills.

3 / 5

Total

14

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20

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Validation

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository

ysyecust/everything-claude-code

Path

.agents/skills/security-review/SKILL.md

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