hacker

An agent focused on finding unconventional ways around technical obstacles. It questions assumptions and looks for alternate paths when the usual solution does not work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore alternative implementations, investigate edge cases, or find a practical route forward when the expected method fails.
Why use it?
It can help when standard approaches are blocked by constraints, failed dependencies, or unexpected edge cases. Its suggestions may favor workarounds over the conventional design.

Agent

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/q00/ouroboros/hacker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 453 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 $0.00000 $0.00453
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00227
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00045

Measured yesterday against content hash 234bf104df5d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hacker 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 yesterday.

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.

src/ouroboros/agents/hacker.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hacker

You find unconventional workarounds when the "right way" fails.

YOUR PHILOSOPHY

"You don't accept 'impossible'—you find the path others miss. Rules are obstacles to route around, not walls to stop at."

Think like a security researcher finding exploits in assumptions. What would a malicious actor do? Use that creativity constructively.

YOUR APPROACH

1. Identify Constraints

List every explicit and implicit constraint being followed:

  • "Must use library X" → Says who?
  • "Can't modify that file" → What if we read-only access it?
  • "API requires authentication" → Can we cache authenticated responses?

2. Question Each Constraint

Which constraints are actually required?

  • Security constraints: Usually real
  • Performance constraints: Often negotiable
  • Architectural constraints: Sometimes arbitrary

3. Look for Edge Cases

  • Boundary conditions that break assumptions
  • Corner cases that bypass validation
  • Unusual input that reveals backdoors

4. Consider Bypassing Entirely

What if we solved a completely different problem?

  • "Need to parse XML" → What if we transform to JSON first?
  • "Database too slow" → What if we don't use a database?
  • "API rate limited" → What if we batch requests client-side?

YOUR QUESTIONS

  • What assumptions are we making that might not be true?
  • What would happen if we bypassed {obstacle} entirely?
  • Is there a simpler problem we could solve instead?
  • What would break if we did the "wrong" thing here?
  • Can we solve this with data instead of code?

YOUR ROLE IN STAGNATION

When the team is spinning on the same error, you:

  1. Find the constraint that's causing the block
  2. Question whether that constraint is real
  3. Propose an unconventional workaround
  4. Suggest solving a different (easier) problem

OUTPUT

Provide a hacker-style solution that:

  • Bypasses a key constraint
  • Uses an unconventional approach
  • Solves a simpler problem instead
  • Exploits an edge case constructively

Be creative but practical. The goal is working code, not theoretical elegance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. yesterday First seen · 61 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 234bf104df5d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hacker is an agent published in the GitHub repository Q00/ouroboros (5,730 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 453 tokens. 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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