OWASP Security Skill for Claude Code

A Claude Code skill providing the latest OWASP security best practices (2025-2026) for developers building secure applications.

Quick Install

Install as a Claude Code plugin:

/plugin marketplace add agamm/claude-code-owasp
/plugin install owasp-security@agamm

Updating

Third-party marketplaces don't auto-update by default. Either update by hand:

claude plugin marketplace update agamm
claude plugin update owasp-security@agamm

or turn on auto-update once: run /plugin, open the Marketplaces tab, select agamm, and choose Enable auto-update. Updates apply to the next session, or run /reload-plugins.

Install as a plain skill

The skill is a directory (SKILL.md plus on-demand reference/ files), so install the whole folder. The easiest way is degit, which copies a GitHub subdirectory without the .git history:

npx degit agamm/claude-code-owasp/.claude/skills/owasp-security .claude/skills/owasp-security

Or install globally for all projects:

npx degit agamm/claude-code-owasp/.claude/skills/owasp-security ~/.claude/skills/owasp-security

What's Included

Claude Code Skill

Location: .claude/skills/owasp-security/

SKILL.md (loaded when the skill triggers):

Security review workflow - a five-step checklist from entry points to report
Finding-triage rubric - confirm attacker-controlled input, sink reachability, and blast radius before reporting, to cut false positives
Reporting format - fixed finding structure (location, input-to-sink path, impact, fix, confidence) with severity rated by exploitability
OWASP Top 10:2025 quick reference table
OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications (2026) - LLM01-LLM10 risks for chatbots, RAG, and tool-calling apps
OWASP Agentic AI Security (2026) - ASI01-ASI10 risks for AI agent systems
ASVS 5.0 key requirements with real 5.0 requirement IDs and levels

reference/ (loaded on demand, following Claude Code progressive-disclosure best practices):

review-checklist.md - coverage checklist for every Top 10 category (including SSRF, file handling, JWTs, CORS, and CSRF) plus LLM and agent features
languages.md - language-specific security quirks for 20+ languages with unsafe/safe examples
config-and-supply-chain.md - A02 and A03 where they actually live: Dockerfiles, Kubernetes, Terraform, framework config, security headers, lockfiles, dependency confusion, install scripts, and CI/CD workflows
owasp-report.md - deep-dive on the Top 10:2025, ASVS 5.0, the LLM Top 10 (2026), and the Agentic list (2026), with per-item attack vectors and mitigations

Accuracy

Category names, ASVS chapter structure, and ASVS requirement IDs and levels are verified directly against owasp.org/Top10/2025, github.com/OWASP/ASVS, and the LLM Top 10 2026 PDF rather than paraphrased. The Agentic Top 10 names are checked against that PDF's framework-mapping appendix.

This matters more than it sounds: ASVS 5.0 renumbered every chapter, so 4.0 requirement IDs do not carry over, three Top 10 categories were renamed in 2025, and the LLM Top 10 2026 reordered eight of its ten entries. Much of the OWASP material circulating online still cites the old IDs and names.

Usage

Once installed, Claude Code automatically activates this skill when you:

Review code for security vulnerabilities
Implement authentication or authorization
Handle user input or external data
Work with cryptography or password storage
Design API endpoints
Build AI agent systems

Example Prompts

"Review this code for security issues"
"Is this authentication implementation secure?"
"What are the security risks in this Python code?"
"Help me implement secure session management"
"Check this AI agent for OWASP agentic risks"

Covered Standards

Standard	Version	Focus
OWASP Top 10	2025	Web application vulnerabilities
OWASP ASVS	5.0.0	Security verification requirements
OWASP Top 10 for LLM Apps	2026	LLM/RAG/tool-calling app risks
OWASP Agentic	2026	AI agent security risks

Language Coverage

Security quirks for 20+ languages including:

Web	Systems	Mobile	Scripting
JavaScript/TypeScript	C/C++	Swift	Python
PHP	Rust	Kotlin	Ruby
Java	Go	Dart	Perl
C#			Shell

Each language section includes common vulnerabilities, unsafe/safe code patterns, and key functions to watch for.

Evals

evals/ holds test cases for claude plugin eval: a real finding next to a safe look-alike, safe code that should not draw High findings, a real but conditional risk that should be rated below High, an LLM agent that runs model output in a shell, and an unrelated request that should not load the skill. Each case runs with and without the skill, so the score shows what the skill adds. Evals target Sonnet and Opus; each case pins model: sonnet.

claude plugin eval .               # Sonnet, the pinned default
claude plugin eval . --model opus

Runs are real model calls billed to your account. Run the suite before and after any change to SKILL.md or its description.

Alternative Installation

Clone Full Repository

git clone https://github.com/agamm/claude-code-owasp.git
cp -r claude-code-owasp/.claude/skills/owasp-security YOUR_PROJECT/.claude/skills/

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Please:

Fork the repository
Create a feature branch
Run the evals, and add a case if you are fixing a behavior they missed
Submit a pull request

The skill follows Anthropic's skill authoring best practices: keep SKILL.md to what Claude would otherwise get wrong, and put depth in reference/.

Sources

OWASP Top 10:2025
OWASP ASVS 5.0 — chapter files, one per V-number
OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2026
OWASP GenAI Security Project — home of the LLM and Agentic lists
OWASP Cheat Sheet Series

License

MIT License - See LICENSE file for details.

Keywords: OWASP, security, Claude Code, AI security, application security, ASVS, secure coding, vulnerability, injection, XSS, CSRF, authentication, authorization

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