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I pointed my AI security plugin at my own prod app – it refused to invent a bug

Kenji Christopher's securitymaxxing plugin for Claude Code, which audits application security with commands that prove findings and skills that promote secure coding, is now available via the plugin marketplace. The plugin includes 18 commands such as /securitymaxxing:audit, /securitymaxxing:redteam, and /securitymaxxing:fix, and it emphasizes traced exploit paths, realistic severity, and zero-finding reports. It is designed to give engineers and builders rigorous, evidence-based security reviews of their code before shipping.

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I pointed my AI security plugin at my own prod app – it refused to invent a bug
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Application security for Claude Code. Audit commands that prove their findings, plus skills that make Claude write secure code before you ask.

Built for two people: the engineer who knows what an IDOR is and wants a rigorous second pair of eyes, and the builder who shipped something with AI help and needs a straight answer to "is this safe to put on the internet?"

Ask any AI to "check my code for security issues" and you get a page of confident, plausible, mostly-wrong findings. Missing headers on a JSON API. SQL injection in a parameterized query. A CVE number that doesn't exist. You read it twice, find nothing real, and never run it again — so the one endpoint that does leak your customers' addresses ships anyway.

The problem isn't the model. It's the prompt.

securitymaxxing encodes the discipline a real security engineer applies:

No finding without a traced path from an attacker-controlled source to a dangerous sink. Both ends named, or it's flagged "needs verification" instead of reported as fact.Check the mitigation first. Most "SQL injection in an ORM" findings die once you read what the framework actually does in that version.Severity by realistic exploitability × impact, not by how frightening the bug class sounds.** Zero findings is a valid result.No padding a report to look thorough. Every finding carries the exploit path and the patch**— the requests an attacker sends, and the corrected code.

/plugin marketplace add kenjichristopherv-del/securitymaxxing
/plugin install securitymaxxing

Or, for local development:

/plugin marketplace add ~/Developer/securitymaxxing
/plugin install securitymaxxing

Type /sec

in Claude Code and they'll all filter into view.

Command What it does
/securitymaxxing:audit
Full audit — maps the attack surface first, then works every vulnerability class with traced evidence
/securitymaxxing:diff
Reviews a diff, branch, or PR. Catches the removed guard clause and the route registered on the wrong router
/securitymaxxing:vibe-check
Plain-English safety check. No jargon, real rigor, direct verdict
/securitymaxxing:ship-check
Pre-launch gate. Ten blockers, then should-fixes, then a SHIP / DO NOT SHIP verdict
/securitymaxxing:threat-model
STRIDE model with a Mermaid data-flow diagram and trust boundaries
/securitymaxxing:authz
Broken access control — IDOR, mass assignment, tenant isolation. The highest-yield review
/securitymaxxing:authn
Auth, sessions, JWTs, password reset, OAuth account-linking takeover
/securitymaxxing:injection
Source-to-sink tracing: SQL, command, XSS, SSRF, path traversal, deserialization, SSTI
/securitymaxxing:secrets
Sweeps the working tree and git history. Outputs a rotation list, not a cleanup list
/securitymaxxing:api
CORS, CSRF, headers, rate limits, over-fetching, GraphQL, file uploads
/securitymaxxing:crypto
Algorithms, IV reuse, key management, TLS verification, what shouldn't be stored at all
/securitymaxxing:deps
Runs the real auditor, then triages — which of the 140 alerts are actually reachable
/securitymaxxing:harden
Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud IAM, and detection readiness
/securitymaxxing:llm
Prompt injection, tool authority, RAG tenant isolation, unsafe model output
/securitymaxxing:redteam
Proves it. Builds a working PoC against your own app, and attacks your defenses to confirm they hold
/securitymaxxing:fix
The only command that writes code. Fixes the class, verifies the patch, adds the regression test
/securitymaxxing:explain
Explains a vulnerability against your code, so you can spot it yourself next time

Every command is read-only except fix

(which writes patches) and redteam

(which sends active attacks against an app you own).

Skills load automatically when Claude detects the relevant work — no command needed.

Skill Triggers on
secure-coding
Writing routes, queries, auth, uploads, shell calls, crypto, or anything taking a resource ID. Supplies the correct pattern first, so the bug never exists
llm-app-security
Building agents, tool calling, RAG, MCP servers, or any LLM feature
security-review-method
Any security review — the evidence discipline, severity rubric, and finding format the commands share

secure-coding

is the quiet one that matters most. It doesn't wait for an audit; it makes the ownership check part of the query the first time the query gets written.

/securitymaxxing:vibe-check          # start here if you're not sure what you have
/securitymaxxing:authz src/api       # start here if you are
/securitymaxxing:diff                # before every commit that touches a route

A good workflow: authz

and injection

on the code you actually shipped, secrets

once against full history, redteam

to prove the findings are real, diff

on every PR, ship-check

before launch.

Find → prove → fix. The commands come as a loop: a review command surfaces a hypothesis, redteam

builds a working proof-of-concept against your own app (and attacks your existing defenses to confirm they hold), and fix

closes it with a regression test that keeps the PoC from ever coming back. A finding you've watched get exploited and then blocked is a finding you can trust.

** PROMPTS.md** — 75+ security prompts as raw, copy-pasteable text. Use them in Cursor, Copilot, ChatGPT, or anywhere else; edit them for your stack; or read them to see exactly what the commands are asking for.

Start with Section 0, the preamble. It's the highest-leverage paragraph in the repo — paste it before any security prompt in any tool and the output quality changes immediately.

OWASP Top 10 (2021), OWASP API Security Top 10 (2023), and OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, plus the things those lists don't cover well: business logic and race conditions, CI/CD and supply chain, cloud IAM, cost-based denial of service, and incident readiness.

This is a very good first pass and a genuinely good teacher. It is not a penetration test.

It reads code — it doesn't run your application, fuzz it, or test it live, so it can't find what only appears at runtime, under load, or in your cloud console. Findings are hypotheses until you verify them. For anything holding real money or real personal data, this belongs alongside a human review, not instead of one.

New prompts, better prompts, and corrections are all welcome — especially real false positives you hit, since those become anti-false-positive rules in security-review-method

. Open an issue with the code that got misreported and what the review should have said.

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.

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