What problem does it solve?
It helps prevent real-world security failures by catching common cryptography mistakes that lead to token forgery, padding oracles, weak password storage, signature verification bypasses, and secret leakage.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Anti-pattern detection for auth & crypto code paths: Targets risky constructs like weak RNG, IV reuse, unauthenticated encryption, JWT verification issues, and missing claim validation.
- Evidence-driven review guidance: Provides concrete detection signals and fix directions so reviewers can quickly confirm issues in the diff.
- Practical coverage of common developer footguns: Addresses TLS verification disabled, RSA/AES misuse, constant-time comparison requirements, key separation, and logging/redaction concerns for secrets.
Quick Start
Use the crypto skill when reviewing a PR that changes authentication, token generation, encryption/decryption, JWT handling, password hashing, or TLS-related code so the reviewer can get a focused anti-pattern checklist with prioritized fixes.