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Auth0 Express

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auth0·vlatest·security·Apache-2.0

Auth0 Express simplifies authentication by integrating Auth0’s robust identity solutions into your Node.js applications seamlessly, boosting security and developer efficiency.

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Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

Installs under a different name. Its SKILL.md names it auth0, not the name it is listed under, so the command below uses that name.
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    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add auth0/agent-skills --skill auth0 -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

auth0

Matched to the vendor's own GitHub organisation.

Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill failed 2 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.

  • No undeclared network calls: failed

    Contacts 1 host that is neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: mcp.cloudflare.com.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

    Hosts contacted

    mcp.cloudflare.comundeclaredschemas.openid.netnamespace identifier

    What it found

    • plugins/auth0/skills/auth0/references/feature-custom-domains/index.md:782contacts mcp.cloudflare.com
      claude mcp add --transport http cloudflare https://mcp.cloudflare.com/mcp

  • No credential access: failed

    Touches credential material in 2 places.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

    What it found

    • plugins/auth0/skills/auth0/references/feature-audit/index.md:189environment file outside the project
      ENV_FILE="$HOME/.auth0-checkmate.env"
    • plugins/auth0/skills/auth0/references/feature-audit/index.md:257environment file outside the project
      source ~/.auth0-checkmate.env 2>/dev/null  # ensure env vars are available

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned auth0/agent-skills at 818a2ffb64.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
818a2ffb64
Manifest
plugins/auth0/skills/auth0/SKILL.md
Scanned
60 files, 12,454 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill integrates Auth0's identity solutions into Express.js web applications using the express-openid-connect package. It simplifies adding authentication features like login, logout, and user profile information to your Node.js backend. The integration automatically creates necessary endpoints for OAuth flows, making secure user management easier for developers.

When to use it

  • Adding authentication to existing Express.js web applications.
  • Building new Express.js-based backends that require user login and authorization.
  • When you want to leverage Auth0's identity platform without extensive custom coding.
  • For projects where session-based authentication is appropriate (as opposed to JWT validation).

Key capabilities

  • Automatic creation of /login, /logout, and /callback endpoints.
  • Integration with Auth0 for user authentication and authorization.
  • Provides access to authenticated user profile information via req.oidc.user.
  • Supports both login and logout functionality.
  • Allows specifying configuration parameters like client ID, secret, issuer base URL, and base URL through environment variables.

Example prompts

  • "Add Auth0 authentication to my Express.js application."
  • "Create a protected route that requires user authentication using Auth0."
  • "Configure the Auth0 middleware with my application's client ID and secret."

Tips & gotchas

  • Requires an existing Express.js application and a configured Auth0 account and application.
  • This skill is not suitable for Single Page Applications (use auth0-react, auth0-vue, or auth0-angular instead), Next.js applications (use auth0-nextjs), mobile apps (use auth0-react-native), or stateless APIs/microservices (consider JWT validation).
  • Environment variables like SECRET, BASE_URL, CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET, and ISSUER_BASE_URL must be configured correctly.