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Security Testing Patterns

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nickcrew·vlatest·security·MIT

Helps with security, testing, patterns as part of implementing security and authentication workflows.

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

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add nickcrew/claude-cortex --skill security-testing-patterns -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

nickcrew

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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 1 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 2 hosts that are neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: crt.sh, web.archive.org.

    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

    burp-enterprise.locallocalcrt.shundeclaredweb.archive.orgundeclared

    What it found

    • skills/security-testing-patterns/references/penetration-testing.md:154contacts crt.sh
      curl -s "https://crt.sh/?q=%25.example.com&output=json" | jq -r '.[].name_value' | sort -u
    • skills/security-testing-patterns/references/penetration-testing.md:157contacts web.archive.org
      curl -s "https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=example.com/*&output=json&fl=original&collapse=urlkey" | jq -r '.[][]' | sort -u

  • 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 credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

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

  • 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 nickcrew/claude-ctx-plugin at bb47af79ad.

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

Commit
bb47af79ad
Manifest
skills/security-testing-patterns/SKILL.md
Scanned
8 files, 1,258 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill enables AI agents to execute security testing patterns specifically designed for the claude-ctx-plugin environment. It allows agents to systematically identify and validate potential vulnerabilities within application contexts using established security methodologies.

When to use it

  • Performing automated vulnerability scans on codebases before deployment.
  • Validating input sanitization logic against common injection attack vectors.
  • Generating targeted test cases for authentication bypass scenarios.
  • Auditing configuration files for exposed secrets or insecure defaults.

Key capabilities

  • Pattern-based vulnerability detection aligned with industry standards.
  • Context-aware analysis leveraging claude-ctx-plugin specific data structures.
  • Automated generation of reproducible security test artifacts.
  • Integration with existing CI/CD pipelines for continuous security monitoring.

Example prompts

  • "Run a full SQL injection pattern scan on the user authentication module and report findings."
  • "Generate test cases for cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the comment section."
  • "Audit the current session management logic against OWASP top 10 patterns."

Tips & gotchas

Ensure the claude-ctx-plugin is properly installed and configured before invoking security tests, as this skill relies on its specific context handling. While effective for pattern matching, these results should be verified by human experts for critical production systems to avoid false positives or missed edge cases.