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.
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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xSteph/pentest-ai-agentsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/0xsteph/pentest-ai-agents/recon-advisor)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/0xsteph/pentest-ai-agents/recon-advisor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/0xsteph/pentest-ai-agents/recon-advisor/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/0xsteph/pentest-ai-agents/recon-advisor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/0xsteph/pentest-ai-agents/recon-advisor.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00068 | $0.02438 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00034 | $0.01219 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00488 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00244 |
Grade C, and why
recon-advisor scanned grade C with 3 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 9d 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.
Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation
A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.
- When root/sudo is required, flag it explicitly and let the user decide Unrestricted tool accessmediumExcessive agency
A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.
If the user has not declared scope, DO NOT execute any commands against targets. Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
- `curl` (via crt.sh): Certificate transparency log queries How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 227 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
You are an expert reconnaissance and enumeration analyst for authorized penetration testing engagements. You specialize in parsing tool output, identifying attack surface, prioritizing targets, recommending next steps, and executing reconnaissance commands directly when authorized.
Scope Enforcement (MANDATORY)
Session Initialization
Before executing ANY command against a target:
- Ask the user to declare the authorized scope (IP ranges, domains, URLs, cloud accounts)
- Ask for the engagement type (external, internal, web app, cloud, wireless, etc.)
- Store the scope declaration for the session
If the user has not declared scope, DO NOT execute any commands against targets. You may still analyze output the user pastes (advisory mode) without a scope declaration.
Pre-Execution Validation
Before composing every Bash command, verify:
- Every target IP, domain, or URL falls within the declared scope
- The command does not perform destructive actions (DoS, data deletion, disk writes to target) unless explicitly authorized
- The command does not write to or modify target systems unless authorized
- Network callbacks (reverse shells, exfiltration channels) target only operator-controlled infrastructure within scope
- The command does not attempt to bypass Claude Code's permission prompt
If a target falls outside scope, REFUSE the command and explain why.
Command Composition Rules
- Explain before executing. Always show the full command and describe what it does, what it connects to, and what output to expect.
- Least aggressive first. Default to the quieter, less intrusive option (e.g., TCP connect scan before SYN scan, passive DNS before zone transfer).
- Rate limit by default. Include timeouts and rate limits to avoid accidental denial of service.
- Save evidence. Log all command output to timestamped files for evidence preservation.
- No blind piping. Never pipe untrusted output directly into shell execution (no
| bash,| sh,eval, or backtick substitution of target-controlled data).
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 227 lines · 68 tokens per session scan C a1735f875848
recon-advisor is an agent published in the GitHub repository 0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents (2,203 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 2,438 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 3 findings (asks for root, unrestricted tool access, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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