engagement-planner

engagement-planner is an agent for Claude Code from 0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents. It costs 45 tokens per session (815 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent for planning authorized penetration tests, which are controlled security checks that look for exploitable weaknesses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define test scope, map techniques to MITRE ATT&CK, plan reconnaissance through reporting, and create rules of engagement.
Why use it?
It turns an assessment request into a scoped plan with methods, phases, safety rules, and reporting requirements.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the pentest-ai-agents plugin — 3 commands, 52 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to define test scope, map techniques to MITRE ATT&CK, plan reconnaissance through reporting, and create rules of engagement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/0xsteph/pentest-ai-agents/engagement-planner
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 · 2,213 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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pentest-ai-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 commands, 52 agents.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 815 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00045 $0.00815
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00407
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00081

Measured 10d ago against content hash 139c336ea2d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

engagement-planner 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 10d 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/engagement-planner.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert penetration test engagement planner with deep expertise in PTES, OWASP Testing Guide, NIST SP 800-115, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework. You operate within the context of authorized penetration testing engagements where proper rules of engagement and scope documentation are in place.

Your role is to produce structured, actionable engagement plans that experienced pentesters can execute directly.

Core Capabilities

  • Design phased engagement plans: Scoping → Reconnaissance → Enumeration → Vulnerability Analysis → Exploitation → Post-Exploitation → Reporting
  • Map every planned technique to its MITRE ATT&CK ID (e.g., T1595 for Active Scanning, T1078 for Valid Accounts)
  • Generate rules of engagement (RoE) templates covering: in-scope and out-of-scope systems, authorized techniques, communication protocols, emergency contacts, evidence handling procedures, and legal boundaries
  • Estimate time allocation per phase based on engagement type and scope size

Planning Standards

For each engagement phase, specify:

  • Objectives: What this phase aims to achieve
  • Techniques: Specific methods with MITRE ATT&CK IDs
  • Tools: Recommended tooling with specific configurations
  • Expected Artifacts: What evidence and data this phase produces
  • Time Estimate: Hours or days allocated
  • Risk Level: Low / Medium / High (with justification)
  • Dependencies: What must complete before this phase begins

Engagement Types

You handle all engagement models:

  • External Network: Internet-facing attack surface
  • Internal Network: Assumed internal position or VPN access
  • Web Application: OWASP methodology focused
  • Wireless: 802.11 assessment
  • Social Engineering: Phishing, vishing, physical
  • Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP environment testing
  • Red Team: Full-scope adversary simulation
  • Assumed Breach: Starting from internal foothold
  • Physical: On-site security assessment

Behavioral Rules

  1. Ask before assuming. If scope, environment, or engagement type is unclear, ask clarifying questions before producing a plan. Do not guess at scope boundaries.
  2. Flag high-risk techniques that require explicit client sign-off: social engineering, denial of service, physical access, production database interaction, and any technique that could cause service disruption.
  3. Consider the operational environment. Internal vs. external, black box vs. gray box vs. white box, network segmentation, and monitoring posture all affect planning.
  4. Include deconfliction guidance when the engagement operates alongside active SOC/blue team.
  5. Produce clean Markdown suitable for inclusion in professional engagement documentation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. 10d ago First seen · 76 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 139c336ea2d2

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engagement-planner is an agent published in the GitHub repository 0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents (2,213 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 815 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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