Agent skill

Vendor Security Review

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Run a third-party / vendor security review and assign a risk tier with required controls.

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Install Vendor Security Review

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill vendor-security-review -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills vendor-security-review --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/vendor-security-review .claude/skills/vendor-security-review && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
vendor-security-review
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
487 words
Files
2 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Run a third-party / vendor security review and assign a risk tier with required controls.

  • Asked to assess a vendors security
  • SKILL.md covers Required Inputs, Output Format, Programmatic Helper and Quality Checks, plus 3 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python3
  • Run a third-party risk assessment

What it does

Vendor Security Review is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Run a third-party / vendor security review and assign a risk tier with required controls. Use when asked to assess a vendor's security, run a third-party risk assessment, complete a security questionnaire about a vendor, or decide what due diligence a new tool needs. Produces a vendor risk assessment — a data/access-driven risk tier, the questionnaire focus, required evidence (SOC 2, pen test, DPA), residual risk, and an approve/conditional/reject recommendation.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including scripts (for example `scripts/vendor_risk.py`).

It sits in Security, covering Security review, SOC 2 and security compliance and Penetration testing. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to assess a vendors security
  • Run a third-party risk assessment
  • Complete a security questionnaire about a vendor
  • Decide what due diligence a new tool needs

Example prompts

  • “/vendor-security-review”

Requirements

  • Python 3

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python3

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Vendor Security Review loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 123 tokens; SKILL.md has 487 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~123
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 487 words, ~1,080 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/vendor-security-review/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
vendor-security-review
description
Run a third-party / vendor security review and assign a risk tier with required controls. Use when asked to assess a vendor's security, run a third-party risk assessment, complete a security questionnaire about a vendor, or decide what due diligence a new tool needs. Produces a vendor risk assessment — a data/access-driven risk tier, the questionnaire focus, required evidence (SOC 2, pen test, DPA), residual risk, and an approve/conditional/reject recommendation.

Vendor Security Review Skill

You inherit the security posture of every vendor that touches your data — and the right level of scrutiny depends on what they touch, not on how big their logo is. This skill tiers a vendor by data sensitivity and access, scopes the diligence to that tier (so a low-risk tool isn't over-audited and a high-risk one isn't waved through), and lands on a defensible approve / conditional / reject call.

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:

  • What the vendor does and the data they'll access (none / internal / customer PII / sensitive / regulated).
  • Access level — no system access, limited, or privileged/admin to your environment.
  • Criticality — would an outage or breach of this vendor materially hurt you?
  • Evidence available — SOC 2 / ISO 27001 reports, pen-test summary, DPA, security questionnaire responses.

Output Format

Vendor Security Review: [vendor] — [service]

1. Risk tiering — the tier (Low / Medium / High / Critical) driven by data sensitivity × access × criticality, with the reasoning. The tier sets how much diligence is warranted.

2. Diligence scope — what to require at this tier: e.g. Low = self-attestation; High/Critical = SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001, pen-test summary, DPA/sub-processor list, incident-response and breach-notification terms.

3. Findings — a table of assessed areas and status:

AreaExpectationFindingRisk
EncryptionAt rest + in transitTLS + AES-256🟢
ComplianceSOC 2 Type IIType I only🟡
Sub-processorsDisclosed + DPANot disclosed🔴

4. Residual risk & recommendation — what's left after compensating controls, and a clear Approve / Approve with conditions / Reject with the conditions and a re-review date.

Programmatic Helper

scripts/vendor_risk.py (stdlib only) computes the risk tier and the baseline required evidence from the vendor's data/access/criticality profile, so tiering is consistent across reviewers:

bash
# vendor.json: {"name":"Acme","data_sensitivity":"customer_pii","access":"privileged","criticality":"high","certs":["soc2_type1"]}
python3 scripts/vendor_risk.py vendor.json
python3 scripts/vendor_risk.py vendor.json --json
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Quality Checks

  • The risk tier is driven by data sensitivity × access × criticality — not vendor size or reputation
  • Diligence depth matches the tier (no rubber-stamping high-risk; no over-auditing low-risk)
  • High/Critical vendors are required to provide independent evidence (SOC 2 Type II / ISO 27001 / pen test), not self-attestation
  • A DPA + sub-processor disclosure is required where the vendor handles personal data
  • The recommendation is explicit (approve / conditional / reject) with conditions and a re-review date

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not size diligence by the vendor's brand — a small vendor with privileged access to PII outranks a famous one with none
  • Do not accept a SOC 2 Type I as equivalent to Type II — Type I is a point-in-time design check, not operating effectiveness
  • Do not skip the sub-processor question — your data may flow to fourth parties you never assessed
  • Do not approve high-risk vendors on a promise — require evidence and bind it in the contract (DPA, breach notice SLA)
  • Do not treat the review as one-and-done — set a re-review cadence tied to the tier

Based On

Third-party / vendor risk management practice — data-and-access-driven tiering, evidence-based diligence, and contractual risk transfer.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Assess a vendor's security."
  • "Run a third-party risk assessment."
  • "Complete a security questionnaire about a vendor."
  • "Decide what due diligence a new tool needs."

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (scripts) in skills/vendor-security-review of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • scripts/vendor_risk.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Vendor Security Review

What does Vendor Security Review do?

Run a third-party / vendor security review and assign a risk tier with required controls. Vendor Security Review is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Run a third-party / vendor security review and assign a risk tier with required controls.

When should I use Vendor Security Review?

Vendor Security Review fits situations like: asked to assess a vendors security; run a third-party risk assessment; complete a security questionnaire about a vendor; decide what due diligence a new tool needs.

How do I install Vendor Security Review in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill vendor-security-review -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/vendor-security-review in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/vendor-security-review in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Vendor Security Review in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill vendor-security-review -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/vendor-security-review in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/vendor-security-review in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Vendor Security Review in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill vendor-security-review -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/vendor-security-review, .gemini/skills/vendor-security-review, .github/skills/vendor-security-review and .opencode/skills/vendor-security-review in your project.

What does Vendor Security Review need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Vendor Security Review needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Vendor Security Review access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Vendor Security Review safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Vendor Security Review use?

Vendor Security Review is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Vendor Security Review use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Vendor Security Review?

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Who maintains Vendor Security Review?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.