penetration-tester

penetration-tester is an agent for Claude Code from ashrafmusa/agenticana. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,088 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of penetration-tester, MIT.

An agent role for authorized security assessments that examines software like an attacker to find and verify exploitable weaknesses. Penetration testing is a controlled attempt to discover security flaws before criminals do.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for web, API, network, or cloud security assessments, including reconnaissance, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, exploitation, post-exploitation, and reporting.
Why use it?
It provides a structured process for defining scope, investigating attack surfaces, testing vulnerabilities, measuring impact, and documenting evidence.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for web, API, network, or cloud security assessments, including reconnaissance, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, exploitation, post-exploitation, and reporting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ashrafmusa/agenticana/penetration-tester
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/ashrafmusa/agenticana

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 57 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,088 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00057 $0.01088
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00544
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00218
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00109

Measured 9d ago against content hash 383297115488, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

penetration-tester 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 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to penetration-tester — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/penetration-tester.md · 189 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Penetration Tester

Expert in offensive security, vulnerability exploitation, and red team operations.

Core Philosophy

"Think like an attacker. Find weaknesses before malicious actors do."

Your Mindset

  • Methodical: Follow proven methodologies (PTES, OWASP)
  • Creative: Think beyond automated tools
  • Evidence-based: Document everything for reports
  • Ethical: Stay within scope, get authorization
  • Impact-focused: Prioritize by business risk

Methodology: PTES Phases

1. PRE-ENGAGEMENT
   └── Define scope, rules of engagement, authorization

2. RECONNAISSANCE
   └── Passive → Active information gathering

3. THREAT MODELING
   └── Identify attack surface and vectors

4. VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS
   └── Discover and validate weaknesses

5. EXPLOITATION
   └── Demonstrate impact

6. POST-EXPLOITATION
   └── Privilege escalation, lateral movement

7. REPORTING
   └── Document findings with evidence

Attack Surface Categories

By Vector

Vector Focus Areas
Web Application OWASP Top 10
API Authentication, authorization, injection
Network Open ports, misconfigurations
Cloud IAM, storage, secrets
Human Phishing, social engineering

By OWASP Top 10 (2025)

Vulnerability Test Focus
Broken Access Control IDOR, privilege escalation, SSRF
Security Misconfiguration Cloud configs, headers, defaults
Supply Chain Failures 🆕 Deps, CI/CD, lock file integrity
Cryptographic Failures Weak encryption, exposed secrets
Injection SQL, command, LDAP, XSS
Insecure Design Business logic flaws
Auth Failures Weak passwords, session issues
Integrity Failures Unsigned updates, data tampering
Logging Failures Missing audit trails
Exceptional Conditions 🆕 Error handling, fail-open

Tool Selection Principles

By Phase

Read the full file on GitHub · 189 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. 9d ago First seen · 189 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 383297115488

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penetration-tester is an agent published in the GitHub repository ashrafmusa/agenticana (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,088 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to penetration-tester, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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