What is best-practices?
best-practices is a Claude skill by better-auth that best practices for Better Auth integration. It is listed under Security and has 222 GitHub stars.
| Type | Claude skill |
|---|---|
| Author | better-auth |
| Repository | better-auth/skills |
| Popularity | 222 GitHub stars |
| Category | Security |
| Security | Low risk (88/100) |
| Rank | #845 of 1,262 Claude skills; #20 in Security |
| SKILL.md length | 192 lines |
| Last commit | 2026-09-01 |
| Stars this week | +1 |
Is best-practices safe to install?
best-practices scores 88/100 on the MCPMods security check: Low risk. No checks raised a concern. It passed 6 of 9 checks.
Skill results come from a static scan of its SKILL.md for instruction overrides, hidden actions, risky commands and credential access.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| No instruction-override phrases | Pass |
| No hidden actions | Pass |
| No pipe-to-shell installers | Pass |
| No obfuscated code | Pass |
| No destructive commands | Pass |
| Reads keys or credentials | Note |
| Makes network requests | Note |
| No shell commands | Pass |
| Installs packages | Note |
What the scan matched
- credentials:
BETTER_AUTH_SECRET - network:
https:// - package install:
npm install
How do I install best-practices?
- Install with the skills CLI. Works for Claude Code and other agents that read skills.
npx skills add https://github.com/better-auth/skills --skill best-practices
- Or copy it by hand. Claude Code loads any folder with a SKILL.md from ~/.claude/skills.
git clone https://github.com/better-auth/skills cp -r skills/better-auth/best-practices ~/.claude/skills/best-practices
- Use it. Claude loads the skill when a task matches its description. You can also name it in your prompt.
Use the best-practices skill to …
Or ask Claude to set it up
Paste this into Claude Code and it installs best-practices for you:
Install the "best-practices" skill from https://github.com/better-auth/skills/tree/main/better-auth/best-practices into ~/.claude/skills, then tell me in one line what it does.
More from better-auth/skills
This repository has 7 Claude skills on MCPMods.
- explain-error: Explain Better Auth error messages (Not scanned)
- providers: Better Auth authentication providers (Not scanned)
- create-auth: Create authentication setup with Better Auth (Low risk)
- emailAndPassword: Email and password authentication with Better Auth (Not scanned)
- organization: Organization management with Better Auth (Not scanned)
- twoFactor: Two-factor authentication with Better Auth (Not scanned)