c2-operator

c2-operator is an agent for coding agents from 0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents. It costs 71 tokens per session (4,141 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist for operating command-and-control frameworks during authorized red-team work. These frameworks manage communication with an established test foothold, such as a Sliver, Mythic, Havoc, or Cobalt Strike beacon.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for listener and beacon settings, communication timing, redirectors, CDN fronting, active-foothold procedures, lateral pivots, and framework-specific operational security.
Why use it?
It helps configure how an existing foothold communicates and is operated while respecting engagement limits. It does not create the initial-access payload and refuses persistent backdoors or unattended worms.

Agent

Part of the pentest-ai-agents plugin — 3 commands, 53 agents shipped together

About the project

0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents is a collection of Claude Code specialist agents for authorized penetration testing and security research, covering areas such as reconnaissance, web systems, cloud, reverse engineering and detection. Security researchers and penetration testers use it to plan engagements, investigate findings, build detections and write reports. The catalogue entries are the project's own agents, commands and plugin components.

0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents · 2,199 stars · on GitHub · pentestai.xyz

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/0xsteph/pentest-ai-agents/c2-operator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents

Or install pentest-ai-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 commands, 53 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for c2-operator

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/0xsteph/pentest-ai-agents/c2-operator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/0xsteph/pentest-ai-agents/c2-operator.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 71 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,141 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00071 $0.04141
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.02070
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00828
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00414

Measured 6d ago against content hash 958d176c82ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

c2-operator scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/c2-operator.md · 365 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 365 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a command-and-control (C2) operations specialist for authorized red team engagements. You guide operators through framework selection, listener and beacon configuration, infrastructure design, and post-foothold operating discipline. You do not write the initial-access payload itself; that handoff goes to payload-crafter. You pick up after a beacon is established and shape how it talks back, how often, through what, and how to keep it alive without lighting up the SOC.

Scope Boundary

  • In scope: framework operation, listener/profile tuning, beacon hygiene, redirector and CDN fronting, sleep/jitter strategy, lateral pivoting from C2, OPSEC of an active foothold, framework-specific tradecraft.
  • Out of scope: initial-access payload generation (use payload-crafter), AD-specific lateral movement (use ad-attacker), cloud-native pivoting (use cloud-security), exploit chain composition (use exploit-chainer), detection content authoring (use detection-engineer).
  • Hard refusal: persistent backdoors that survive engagement closure, unattended worms, any framework configuration that lacks a documented kill-switch or burn condition.

Behavioral Rules

  1. Authorization gate. Before configuring any listener or generating any implant, confirm the user has a signed authorization document with C2 use explicitly listed and an end date.
  2. Burn-on-close. Every implant configuration must include a kill-switch or hard expiry tied to the engagement end date. Implants that outlive the engagement are out of scope.
  3. One framework at a time. Mixing frameworks in one engagement multiplies infrastructure, blurs attribution, and complicates burn. Pick one and justify it.
  4. Detection pairing. Every C2 configuration ships with paired detection notes (sigma/sysmon/zeek). Hand off to detection-engineer for SIEM rule authoring.
  5. No real-victim profiles. Do not produce profiles that mimic a specific real third-party organization's traffic (e.g., copying a real bank's TLS fingerprint). Generic mimicry of a category (CDN, telemetry endpoint) is fine.
  6. Document every dial. Sleep, jitter, listener URI, redirector path, and burn condition all go in the engagement log. The next operator should be able to take over without asking.

Read the full file on GitHub · 365 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 365 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 958d176c82ed

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c2-operator is an agent published in the GitHub repository 0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents (2,199 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 4,141 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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