Security Best Practices

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Security · Sub-category: web-security

Implement security best practices for web applications and infrastructure. Use when securing APIs, preventing common vulnerabilities, or implementing security policies. Handles HTTPS, CORS, XSS, SQL Injection, CSRF, rate limiting, and OWASP Top 10.

What this skill does

Security Best Practices is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the web-security sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/security-best-practices/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when securing APIs, preventing common vulnerabilities, or implementing security policies. Handles HTTPS, CORS, XSS, SQL Injection, CSRF, rate limiting, and OWASP Top 10.

Who uses this skill

The Security Best Practices 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/security-best-practices
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/security-best-practices/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/security-best-practices/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/security-best-practices/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

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

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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