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security-best-practices Skill

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Perform language and framework specific security best-practice reviews and suggest improvements. Trigger only when the user explicitly requests security best practices guidance, a security review/report, or secure-by-default coding help. Trigger only for supported languages (python, javascript/typescript, go). Do not t Published by openai in skills.

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Security review, Documentation, Writing, Includes SKILL.md

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Setup

Copy skill directory

Project health

2 months ago

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What is security-best-practices Skill?

Perform language and framework specific security best-practice reviews and suggest improvements. Trigger only when the user explicitly requests security best practices guidance, a security review/report, or secure-by-default coding help. Trigger only for supported languages (python, javascript/typescript, go). Do not t Published by openai in skills. This profile combines repository metadata with install, compatibility, and usage signals so developers can quickly decide whether it fits their agent workflow before opening the source repository.

Trust signal
95/100
Maintenance signal
90/100
Adoption signal
100/100

Automated repository signals based on public metadata such as recency, license, installation evidence, and adoption. These are not a security audit or endorsement. See how SkillIndex evaluates profiles.

Key capabilities

  • Includes SKILL.md support
  • Reusable instructions support
  • Security review
  • Documentation
  • Writing
  • Security review use cases
  • Documentation use cases

Declared skill metadata

  • Source file: skills/.curated/security-best-practices/SKILL.md

These fields retain source and confidence evidence from the indexed SKILL.md.

Compatibility and setup

Copy skill directory
  • Install or run with Copy skill directory

When to use security-best-practices Skill

  • Use it for security review.
  • Use it for documentation.
  • Use it for writing.

Built with

PythonCopy skill directory

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Source

  • Creator: openai
  • Repository: openai/skills
  • Skill file: skills/.curated/security-best-practices/SKILL.md

What it does

Perform language and framework specific security best-practice reviews and suggest improvements. Trigger only when the user explicitly requests security best practices guidance, a security review/report, or secure-by-default coding help. Trigger only for supported languages (python, javascript/typescript, go). Do not t

Skill instructions

Security Best Practices Overview This skill provides a description of how to identify the language and frameworks used by the current context, and then to load information from this skill's references directory about the security best practices for this language and or frameworks. This information, if present, can be used to write new secure by default code, or to passively detect major issues within existing code, or (if requested by the user) provide a vulnerability report and suggest fixes. Workflow The initial step for this skill is to identify ALL languages and ALL frameworks which you are being asked to use or already exist in the scope of the project you are working in. Focus on the primary core frameworks. Often you will want to identify both frontend and backend languages and frameworks. Then check this skill's references directory to see if there are any relevant documentation for the language and or frameworks. Make sure you read ALL reference files which relate to the speci

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Frequently asked questions

What is security-best-practices?

security-best-practices is a open-source AI agent skill with Copy skill directory. Perform language and framework specific security best-practice reviews and suggest improvements.

Who is security-best-practices best for?

security-best-practices is best for reusing agent instructions, scripts, and references, security review workflows, documentation workflows, writing workflows.

How do I install security-best-practices?

Install or run security-best-practices using Copy skill directory. Check security-best-practices for the latest setup command.

Is security-best-practices actively maintained?

security-best-practices may need a closer maintenance check before production use.

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