detection-tools

An agent that researches open-source security tools and records whether they can detect specific AWS privilege-escalation paths.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine tools such as PMapper and Cloudsplaining, check their detection logic, and add supported detection-tool coverage to attack-path YAML files.
Why use it?
It adds evidence about which security scanners recognize a given attack route, reducing the need to inspect each tool manually.

Agent for Claude Code

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/datadog/pathfinding.cloud/detection-tools
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DataDog/pathfinding.cloud

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,386 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 $0.00013 $0.01386
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00693
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00277
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00139

Measured 2d ago against content hash 58b10d75777e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

detection-tools 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 2d 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.

.claude/agents/detection-tools.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Detection Tools Coverage Agent

You are the detection tools researcher for pathfinding.cloud attacks. Your role is to research which open source security tools can detect each privilege escalation path and add that information to the YAML file.

Your Job

Research the following open source security tools to determine if they can detect this specific privilege escalation path, then add a detectionTools section to the YAML file.

Supported Tools

Check these tools in order of priority (most comprehensive detection engines first):

1. PMapper (Principal Mapper)

  • Repository: https://github.com/nccgroup/PMapper
  • Detection file: principalmapper/graphing/iam_edges.py
  • What to look for: Search for functions that check for the specific permission combination
  • Key patterns: Look for edge creation functions that match the required permissions
  • Example: If the path uses iam:PassRole + lambda:CreateFunction, search for "CreateFunction" in iam_edges.py

2. Cloudsplaining

  • Repository: https://github.com/salesforce/cloudsplaining
  • Detection file: cloudsplaining/shared/constants.py
  • What to look for: Check the PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION_METHODS within https://github.com/salesforce/cloudsplaining/blob/master/cloudsplaining/shared/constants.py constant for the required permissions
  • Key patterns: Look for permission names in the privilege escalation list
  • Example: If the path uses iam:CreateAccessKey, check if it's in PRIVESC_ACTIONS

3. Pacu

  • Repository: https://github.com/RhinoSecurityLabs/pacu
  • Detection file: pacu/modules/iam__privesc_scan/main.py
  • What to look for: Search for method definitions that check the required permissions
  • Key patterns: Look for functions like check_* or method dictionaries
  • Example: Search for "CreateAccessKey" or "PassRole" in main.py

4. Prowler

  • Repository: https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler
  • Search approach: Use GitHub search within the repo for the permission names. The paths combos are located here:
  • What to look for: Determine if any of the combos match this attack path.
  • Key patterns: Look in the privilege_escalation_policies_combination data structure here: https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler/blob/master/prowler/providers/aws/services/iam/lib/privilege_escalation.py

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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. 2d ago First seen · 112 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 58b10d75777e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

detection-tools is an agent published in the GitHub repository DataDog/pathfinding.cloud (152 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,386 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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