Security Architecture

by ancoleman

Security Architecture is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by ancoleman in ai-design-components.

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Install Security Architecture

Copy Security Architecture 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/ancoleman/ai-design-components/tree/main/skills/architecting-security ~/.claude/skills/architecting-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/ancoleman/ai-design-components.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/architecting-security/SKILL.md in ancoleman/ai-design-components
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/architecting-security
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Security Architecture does

Security Architecture designs layered security for systems using defense in depth, zero trust, and threat modeling. Use it for new architectures, security reviews, and mapping controls to frameworks like NIST CSF, CIS Controls, and ISO 27001.

Security Architecture is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Security Architecture comes from a repository tagged ai-design, anthropic, claude, claude-code and claude-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Security Architecture

Design and implement comprehensive security architectures that protect systems, data, and users through layered defense strategies, zero trust principles, and risk-based security controls.

Purpose

Security architecture provides the strategic foundation for building resilient, compliant, and trustworthy systems. This skill guides the design of defense-in-depth layers, zero trust implementations, threat modeling methodologies, and mapping to control frameworks (NIST CSF, CIS Controls, ISO 27001).

Unlike tactical security skills (configuring firewalls, implementing authentication, scanning vulnerabilities), security architecture focuses on strategic planning, comprehensive defense strategies, and governance frameworks.

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

Frequently asked about Security Architecture

What else does ancoleman publish alongside Security Architecture?
Security Architecture is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ancoleman/ai-design-components, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Chat Interface Components, AI Data Engineering and AWS Patterns. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Security Architecture does, and is maintained by ancoleman in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ancoleman/ai-design-components page.
How does Security Architecture compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Security Architecture ranks #2147 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 Security Architecture against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.