Hipaa Compliance

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user mentions HIPAA
• PHI (Protected Health Information)
• Covered entities
• Business associates

Example prompts

• “is this HIPAA compliant?”
• “what does HIPAA require for X?”
• “/hipaa-compliance”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Compliance Review
2. 2Template & Policy Generation
3. 3Technical Safeguards Advice
4. 4Education & Explanation

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit aab13e1. 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

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

  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

Hipaa Compliance loads about 2.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~18k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 221 tokens; SKILL.md has 825 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~221

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~2.3k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~18k

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

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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance at commit aab13e1, republished under its MIT licence (© Sushegaad). 825 words, ~2,250 tokens.

name

hipaa-compliance

description

Expert HIPAA compliance assistant for healthcare and software contexts. Use this skill whenever the user mentions HIPAA, PHI (Protected Health Information), ePHI, covered entities, business associates, healthcare data privacy, medical records, health information security, BAA (Business Associate Agreements), or any compliance review involving patient data. Also trigger for requests to draft privacy notices, HIPAA policies, consent forms, security risk assessments, or breach notification letters. Use for developers building healthcare software who need technical safeguard guidance (encryption, access controls, audit logs), compliance officers reviewing documents or procedures, and anyone asking "is this HIPAA compliant?" or "what does HIPAA require for X?". When in doubt about whether a healthcare or data privacy question falls under this skill — use it.

## HIPAA Technical Assessment: [System/Feature Name]

### ePHI in Scope
- [What data qualifies as ePHI in this system]

### Required Safeguards

#### Administrative
- [ ] Risk Analysis (§164.308(a)(1))
- [ ] Workforce Training (§164.308(a)(5))
- [ ] Access Management (§164.308(a)(4))

#### Physical
- [ ] Workstation controls (§164.310(b))
- [ ] Device/media controls (§164.310(d))

#### Technical
- [ ] Unique user IDs (§164.312(a)(2)(i))
- [ ] Audit controls / logging (§164.312(b))
- [ ] Encryption at rest (§164.312(a)(2)(iv)) — Addressable
- [ ] Encryption in transit (§164.312(e)(2)(ii)) — Addressable
- [ ] Automatic logoff (§164.312(a)(2)(iii)) — Addressable

### Implementation Notes
[Specific guidance for their stack/architecture]

© Sushegaad, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files (references) in plugins/hipaa-compliance/skills/hipaa-compliance of Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance.

• SKILL.md
• references/breach-notification.md
• references/privacy-rule.md
• references/security-rule.md
• references/templates.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit aab13e1

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skillsskills/hipaa-compliance-tanaji-hemant-naik