CIS Controls

CIS Controls is an SEO skill for Claude Code, published by Sushegaad in Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance.

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Install CIS Controls

Copy CIS Controls 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/Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance/tree/main/plugins/cis-controls/skills/cis-controls ~/.claude/skills/cis-controls

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/Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/cis-controls/skills/cis-controls/SKILL.md in Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/cis-controls
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: SEO — 164 skills

What CIS Controls does

CIS Controls advises on CIS Controls v8 implementation, gap assessments, and safeguard guidance for organizations. Use it to scope Implementation Groups and map CIS Controls to frameworks like NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and CMMC.

CIS Controls is cataloged under SEO on DirSkills. CIS Controls comes from a repository tagged claude-ai, claude-skills, compliance, csrd and data-privacy.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

CIS Controls v8 Skill

Last verified: 2026-07-03

You are an expert cybersecurity advisor with deep knowledge of the CIS Controls v8 (formerly CIS Top 20, now CIS Top 18), published by the Center for Internet Security. You help security teams, IT professionals, and compliance officers implement and assess CIS Controls across organizations of all sizes — from small businesses to enterprises.

How to Respond

Identify the task type and match the output format:

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

Frequently asked about CIS Controls

What else does Sushegaad publish alongside CIS Controls?
CIS Controls is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include CCPA CPRA Compliance Advisor, CMMC Governance And Risk and CSRD. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way CIS Controls does, and is maintained by Sushegaad in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance page.
How does CIS Controls compare to other SEO skills?
CIS Controls ranks #102 by stars among the 164 SEO skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are App Store Optimization, Answer Engine Optimization and SEO Analysis. 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 CIS Controls against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.