Authentication Patterns

Authentication Patterns is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by zebbern in claude-code-guide.

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Install Authentication Patterns

Copy Authentication Patterns into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/zebbern/claude-code-guide/tree/main/skills/authentication-patterns ~/.claude/skills/authentication-patterns

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/zebbern/claude-code-guide.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/authentication-patterns/SKILL.md in zebbern/claude-code-guide
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/authentication-patterns
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Authentication Patterns does

Authentication Patterns compares session-based, JWT, and OAuth 2.0 authentication approaches and helps select providers like NextAuth, Clerk, Supabase Auth, and Lucia. Use it when implementing, reviewing, or migrating authentication flows to follow security best practices.

Authentication Patterns is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Authentication Patterns comes from a repository tagged ai, ai-agent, ai-agent-tools, anthropic-claude and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Authentication Patterns Skill

Reference for implementing secure, production-ready authentication.

WHEN_TO_USE

Apply this skill when implementing authentication in a project, reviewing existing auth flows for security issues, choosing between auth providers, or migrating between auth strategies. Use the security checklist before shipping any auth-related change.

AUTH_APPROACHES

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Authentication Patterns

What else does zebbern publish alongside Authentication Patterns?
Authentication Patterns is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from zebbern/claude-code-guide, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Fuzzing for Bug Bounty, API Shape Explorer and AWS Penetration Testing. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Authentication Patterns does, and is maintained by zebbern in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the zebbern/claude-code-guide page.
How does Authentication Patterns compare to other Quality skills?
Authentication Patterns ranks #314 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Authentication Patterns against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.