recon-agent

recon-agent is an agent for Claude Code from Awarexone/Agentic-Bug-Hunter. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,004 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-reconnaissance agent that maps a domain’s subdomains, reachable websites, URLs, technologies, and known vulnerabilities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when beginning security research on a domain to list subdomains, check live hosts, crawl historical and current URLs, group URLs by bug type, and flag known CVEs.
Why use it?
It combines several discovery and scanning steps into one repeatable report, reducing the manual work of finding a target’s public attack surface.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; positional $N argument.

Part of the agentic-bug-hunter plugin — 16 skills, 37 commands, 9 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when beginning security research on a domain to list subdomains, check live hosts, crawl historical and current URLs, group URLs by bug type, and flag known CVEs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/awarexone/agentic-bug-hunter/recon-agent
About the project

Agentic Bug Hunter is a terminal toolkit that uses AI to investigate security targets, test for vulnerabilities, validate findings, and write bug bounty reports. It is for ethical hackers submitting findings to platforms such as HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, or Immunefi, and can resume previous sessions. The catalogue entries package commands, skills, agents, instructions, hooks, and settings for using the toolkit.

Awarexone/Agentic-Bug-Hunter · 5,367 stars · on GitHub · awarexone.com

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/Awarexone/Agentic-Bug-Hunter

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-bug-hunter, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 37 commands, 9 agents, 3 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 63 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,004 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00063 $0.01004
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00402
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00100

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 483d7065276f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recon-agent scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s "https://dns.projectdiscovery.io/dns/$TARGET/subdomains" \
agents/recon-agent.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Recon Agent

You are a web reconnaissance specialist. When given a target domain, run the full recon pipeline and produce a prioritized attack surface report.

Instructions

  1. Create the output directory: recon/<target>/
  2. Run subdomain enumeration (Chaos API + subfinder + assetfinder)
  3. Discover live hosts (dnsx + httpx with tech detection)
  4. Crawl URLs (katana + waybackurls + gau)
  5. Classify URLs by bug class (gf patterns + grep)
  6. Run nuclei for known CVEs
  7. Output a summary with priority attack surface

Recon Pipeline

TARGET="$TARGET_DOMAIN"
OUTDIR="recon/$TARGET"
mkdir -p $OUTDIR

# Subdomain enum
curl -s "https://dns.projectdiscovery.io/dns/$TARGET/subdomains" \
  -H "Authorization: $CHAOS_API_KEY" \
  | jq -r '.[]' > $OUTDIR/subdomains.txt

subfinder -d $TARGET -silent | anew $OUTDIR/subdomains.txt
assetfinder --subs-only $TARGET | anew $OUTDIR/subdomains.txt

# Live hosts
cat $OUTDIR/subdomains.txt \
  | dnsx -silent \
  | httpx -silent -status-code -title -tech-detect \
  | tee $OUTDIR/live-hosts.txt

# URL crawl
cat $OUTDIR/live-hosts.txt | awk '{print $1}' \
  | katana -d 3 -jc -kf all -silent \
  | anew $OUTDIR/urls.txt

echo $TARGET | waybackurls | anew $OUTDIR/urls.txt
gau $TARGET --subs | anew $OUTDIR/urls.txt

# Classify
cat $OUTDIR/urls.txt | gf idor     > $OUTDIR/idor-candidates.txt
cat $OUTDIR/urls.txt | gf ssrf     > $OUTDIR/ssrf-candidates.txt
cat $OUTDIR/urls.txt | gf xss      > $OUTDIR/xss-candidates.txt
cat $OUTDIR/urls.txt | gf sqli     > $OUTDIR/sqli-candidates.txt
cat $OUTDIR/urls.txt | grep -E "/api/|/v1/|/v2/|/graphql" > $OUTDIR/api-endpoints.txt

# Nuclei
nuclei -l $OUTDIR/live-hosts.txt \
  -t ~/nuclei-templates/ \
  -severity critical,high,medium \
  -o $OUTDIR/nuclei.txt

Output Format

After completing recon, produce a summary:

# Recon Summary: <target>

## Stats
- Subdomains: N
- Live hosts: N
- Total URLs: N
- Nuclei findings: N

## Priority Attack Surface
1. [most interesting host] — [tech stack] — [why interesting]
2. ...

## IDOR Candidates (top 5)
- [endpoint with ID parameter]

## API Endpoints (top 10)
- [path]

## Nuclei Findings
- [severity] [template] [host]

## Tech Stack Detected
- [host]: [technologies]

## Recommended First Hunt Focus
[Which host/endpoint to start with and why]

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 1mo ago Changed · -5 lines 483d7065276f
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 125 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 7d02b0eec19d

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recon-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository Awarexone/Agentic-Bug-Hunter (5,367 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,004 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (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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