# Persona Security Basics

> Persona Security Basics is an Agent Skill for devops & security published in the jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.

Secure Persona API keys, webhook secrets, PII handling in verification data. Use when working with Persona identity verification. Trigger with phrases like "persona security-basics", "persona security-basics".

- Skill name: `persona-security-basics`
- Category: [DevOps & Security](https://www.openparable.com/skill/devops-security/1)
- Source: https://github.com/jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills/blob/HEAD/plugins/saas-packs/persona-pack/skills/persona-security-basics/SKILL.md
- Repository: jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills (2,518 GitHub stars when collected)

## SKILL.md

# persona security basics | sed 's/\b\(.\)/\u\1/g'

## Overview

API key rotation, webhook HMAC verification, PII encryption at rest, audit logging.

## Prerequisites

- Completed `persona-install-auth` setup
- Valid Persona API key (sandbox or production)

## Instructions

### Step 1: Implementation

```python
import os, requests

HEADERS = {
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['PERSONA_API_KEY']}",
    "Persona-Version": "2023-01-05",
}
BASE = "https://withpersona.com/api/v1"

# Secure Persona API keys, webhook secrets, PII handling in verification data
resp = requests.get(f"{BASE}/inquiries?page[size]=10", headers=HEADERS)
resp.raise_for_status()
inquiries = resp.json()["data"]
for inq in inquiries:
    print(f"  {inq['id']}: {inq['attributes']['status']}")
```

## Output

- API key rotation, webhook HMAC verification, PII encryption at rest, audit logging.

## Error Handling

| Error | Cause | Solution |
|-------|-------|----------|
| 401 Unauthorized | Invalid API key | Check PERSONA_API_KEY |
| 429 Rate Limited | Too many requests | Implement backoff |
| 404 Not Found | Wrong resource ID | Verify ID format |

## Resources

- [Persona API Reference](https://docs.withpersona.com/reference/introduction)
- [Persona Documentation](https://docs.withpersona.com)

## Next Steps

See related Persona skills for more workflows.

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