Claude Security

by anthropics

Claude Security is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by anthropics in claude-plugins-official.

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Install Claude Security

Copy Claude 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/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/tree/main/plugins/claude-security/skills/claude-security ~/.claude/skills/claude-security

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/anthropics/claude-plugins-official.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/claude-security/skills/claude-security/SKILL.md in anthropics/claude-plugins-official
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/claude-security
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Claude Security does

Claude Security offers a menu of security jobs: scanning the codebase or a scoped part of it, scanning changes (a branch, pull request, or commit), or suggesting patches verified by a panel of agents that the user applies themselves.

Claude Security is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Claude Security comes from a repository tagged claude-code, mcp and skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Claude Security

Session start time (UTC, the stamp report directories are named with): !date -u +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S

This is the front desk. Its whole purpose is to work out which job the user wants and drive it, following that job's recipe.

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

Frequently asked about Claude Security

What else does anthropics publish alongside Claude Security?
Claude Security is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from anthropics/claude-plugins-official, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Development, Build MCP App and Build MCP Server. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Claude Security does, and is maintained by anthropics in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the anthropics/claude-plugins-official page.
How does Claude Security compare to other Quality skills?
Claude Security ranks #84 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 Claude Security against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.