ClaudSkills / Security / identity-access

Apex Named Credentials Patterns

Quality score: 70/100  ·  Category: Security  ·  Sub-category: identity-access
type:debug
Use when writing Apex that calls out to external endpoints via Named Credentials, working with custom header formula tokens ({!$Credential.OAuthToken}), querying per-user auth state through the UserExternalCredential SObject, or diagnosing why Named Credential callouts fail. Trigger keywords: 'callout: prefix', 'named credential header formula', 'UserExternalCredential', 'External Credential per-user principal', 'Named Credential oauth token apex'. NOT for Named Credential setup in the Salesforce Setup UI — use integration/named-credentials-setup. NOT for general HTTP callout mechanics (HttpRequest, HttpResponse, mock patterns) — use integration/callouts-and-http-integrations.

What this skill does

Apex Named Credentials Patterns is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the identity-access sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/apex-named-credentials-patterns/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when writing Apex that calls out to external endpoints via Named Credentials, working with custom header formula tokens ({!$Credential.OAuthToken}), querying per-user auth state through the UserExternalCredential SObject, or diagnosing why Named Credential callouts fail.

Who uses this skill

The Apex Named Credentials Patterns skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/apex-named-credentials-patterns
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/apex-named-credentials-patterns/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/apex-named-credentials-patterns/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/apex-named-credentials-patterns/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/apex-named-credentials-patterns/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\apex-named-credentials-patterns\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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