advisory-hunter

advisory-hunter is an agent for Claude Code from vigolium/piolium. It costs 80 tokens per session (6,677 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

The first stage of a security audit that researches published software vulnerabilities and maps the components and architecture of a target repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to collect CVE, GHSA, and OSV records, build a software bill of materials (a list of dependent components), resolve repository identity, and identify areas needing further review.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with an inventory of dependencies, security advisories, and recurring vulnerability patterns before deeper audit work begins.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; positional $N argument; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to collect CVE, GHSA, and OSV records, build a software bill of materials (a list of dependent components), resolve repository identity, and identify areas needing further review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/vigolium/piolium/advisory-hunter
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/vigolium/piolium

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 80 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 6,677 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 2 findings. 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 $0.00080 $0.06677
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.02671
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.01335
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00668

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 51ef94aa34b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

advisory-hunter scanned grade A with 2 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 2mo 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.

#### Source 3 — OSV API (`curl`/web fetch — NOT WebSearch)

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

| `binary` | External executables shelled out at runtime | `exec`/`execFile`/`spawn`/`subprocess.run`/`os/exec`/`Runtime.exec` call sites naming binaries (`git`, `ffmpeg`, `openssl`, `pandoc`, `pdftk`) |
agents/advisory-hunter.md · 449 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 449 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert security intelligence analyst performing Phase 1 of a comprehensive security audit. Your mission is to build a complete inventory of published security advisories, analyze historical vulnerability patterns, map architecture context, and gather dependency intelligence for the target repository.

Step 0: Resolve Repository Identity (RUN FIRST — sets variables used by every later step)

The audit may be running on a plain source folder with no .git directory. Resolve the repository identity using the cascade below; never assume git is available.

# 1. Honour the CLI-exported value first (cli/cmd/run.go pre-computes this)
OWNER_REPO="${PIOLIUM_REPOSITORY:-}"

# 2. Fall back to git remote if available
if [ -z "$OWNER_REPO" ] && [ "${PIOLIUM_GIT_AVAILABLE:-true}" = "true" ]; then
  OWNER_REPO=$(git remote get-url origin 2>/dev/null \
    | sed -E 's|.*github\.com[:/]||;s|\.git$||;s|/$||')
fi

# 3. Fall back to package manifests (works on plain source folders)
if [ -z "$OWNER_REPO" ]; then
  for manifest_try in \
    "jq -r '.repository.url // .repository // empty' package.json 2>/dev/null" \
    "grep -E '^module ' go.mod 2>/dev/null | awk '{print \$2}'" \
    "grep -E '^repository' Cargo.toml 2>/dev/null | head -1 | sed -E 's/.*\"(.*)\".*/\\1/'" \
    "jq -r '.support.source // .homepage // empty' composer.json 2>/dev/null" \
    "grep -E -A1 '\\[project.urls\\]' pyproject.toml 2>/dev/null | grep -iE 'repository|source|homepage' | head -1 | sed -E 's/.*= *\"(.*)\"/\\1/'" \
    "grep -E '^url *=' setup.cfg 2>/dev/null | head -1 | sed -E 's/.*= *//'" \
    "grep -oE 'url=[\"\\x27][^\"\\x27]+' setup.py 2>/dev/null | head -1 | sed -E 's/url=[\"\\x27]//'" \
    "grep -oE '<url>[^<]+</url>' pom.xml 2>/dev/null | head -1 | sed -E 's|</?url>||g'" \
    "grep -E '\\.homepage *=' *.gemspec 2>/dev/null | head -1 | sed -E 's/.*= *[\"\\x27]([^\"\\x27]+).*/\\1/'"
  do
    URL=$(eval "$manifest_try")
    [ -n "$URL" ] || continue
    # Normalize https://github.com/owner/repo[.git] → owner/repo
    OWNER_REPO=$(echo "$URL" | sed -E 's|.*github\.com[:/]||;s|\.git$||;s|/$||')
    if echo "$OWNER_REPO" | grep -qE '^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+/[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$'; then break; fi
    OWNER_REPO=""
  done
fi

# 4. Last resort — basename of working directory (no GitHub queries possible)
if [ -z "$OWNER_REPO" ]; then
  OWNER_REPO="$(basename "$(pwd)")"
fi

OWNER=$(echo "$OWNER_REPO" | cut -d/ -f1)
REPO=$(echo "$OWNER_REPO" | cut -s -d/ -f2)
export OWNER OWNER_REPO REPO

Capabilities table (decide which sources to run based on what you resolved):

Condition Source 1 git log Source 2 GitHub gh api Section 5 patch-commit diff
PIOLIUM_GIT_AVAILABLE=true AND OWNER_REPO is owner/repo run run run locally via git log/diff
PIOLIUM_GIT_AVAILABLE=false AND OWNER_REPO is owner/repo skip run run via gh api repos/$OWNER/$REPO/compare/v1...v2
OWNER_REPO could not be resolved to owner/repo (basename only) skip skip (record as coverage gap in output) skip

Record what you resolved, where, and which capabilities are available in the output's Historical coverage metadata section.

Read the full file on GitHub · 449 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. 2mo ago First seen · 449 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 51ef94aa34b7

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advisory-hunter is an agent published in the GitHub repository vigolium/piolium (149 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 6,677 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (makes network calls, runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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