Checkov IaC Security

Checkov IaC Security is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by AgentSecOps in SecOpsAgentKit.

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Install in seconds

Install Checkov IaC Security

Copy Checkov IaC Security 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/AgentSecOps/SecOpsAgentKit/tree/main/skills/devsecops/iac-checkov ~/.claude/skills/iac-checkov

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/AgentSecOps/SecOpsAgentKit.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/devsecops/iac-checkov/SKILL.md in AgentSecOps/SecOpsAgentKit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/iac-checkov
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 973 skills

What Checkov IaC Security does

Checkov IaC Security scans Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Dockerfiles, and ARM templates for misconfigurations, secrets, and compliance issues. Use it to validate infrastructure before deployment and generate audit reports.

Checkov IaC Security is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Checkov IaC Security comes from a repository tagged agents, ai-agents, anthropic, appsec and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Infrastructure as Code Security with Checkov

Overview

Checkov is a static code analysis tool that scans Infrastructure as Code (IaC) files for security misconfigurations and compliance violations before deployment. With 750+ built-in policies, Checkov helps prevent cloud security issues by detecting problems in Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Dockerfiles, Helm charts, and ARM templates.

Checkov performs graph-based scanning to understand resource relationships and detect complex misconfigurations that span multiple resources, making it more powerful than simple pattern matching.

Quick Start

Install Checkov

# Via pip
pip install checkov

# Via Homebrew (macOS)
brew install checkov

# Via Docker
docker pull bridgecrew/checkov

Scan Terraform Directory

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

Frequently asked about Checkov IaC Security

What else does AgentSecOps publish alongside Checkov IaC Security?
Checkov IaC Security is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from AgentSecOps/SecOpsAgentKit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Api Spectral, Bandit Python SAST and Black Duck SCA. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Checkov IaC Security does, and is maintained by AgentSecOps in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the AgentSecOps/SecOpsAgentKit page.
How does Checkov IaC Security compare to other DevOps skills?
Checkov IaC Security ranks #853 by stars among the 973 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. 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 Checkov IaC Security against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.