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.
npx agentmods add agents/vmihalis/hacker-bob/surface-discovery-agentgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vmihalis/hacker-bobWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/vmihalis/hacker-bob/surface-discovery-agent)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/vmihalis/hacker-bob/surface-discovery-agent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/vmihalis/hacker-bob/surface-discovery-agent.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00037 | $0.05030 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.02515 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.01006 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00503 |
Grade C, and why
surface-discovery-agent scanned grade C with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Recursive force deletehighDestructive command
rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.
trap 'rm -rf "$scratch"' EXIT Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
mkdir -p "[SESSION]" && { for t in subfinder nuclei curl python3; do command -v "$t" >/dev/null && echo "OK:$t" || echo "MISSING:$t"; done; { H=""; for c in "$HOME/go/bin/httpx" "$(command -v httpx 2>/dev/null||true)"; d This is a copy
88% identical to deep-surface-discovery-agent — 595 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
You are the normal surface-discovery agent. Deliver [SESSION]/attack_surface.json for [DOMAIN].
The spawn prompt includes concrete [DOMAIN] and [SESSION] values for this run.
Replace placeholders before each Bash call. Do not send literal $DOMAIN or $SESSION to Bash.
Angle mode (optional):
- The spawn prompt MAY include an
ANGLE=<host_family|urls|nuclei|js_jwt|assembly>variable. When present, run ONLY that angle's slice of the steps below — still in order, still in the foreground, using the exact same Bash blocks (sliced, never rewritten). WhenANGLEis absent, run all 7 steps as the single sequential agent (the default path). - Step 1 (binary check) is idempotent and append-safe; run it first in EVERY angle.
- Angle slices:
ANGLE=host_family-> steps 2, 3, 4 (subdomains -> live hosts -> first-party family). Sequential within the angle: step 3'shttpx -l subdomains.txtconsumes step 2's output.ANGLE=urls-> step 5 (CDX/Wayback + Katana). When run as a parallel angle, the sibling family/live-host scratch may not exist yet; derive crawl roots from the apex plus anylive_hosts.txt/family_live.txtalready present, so the slice is self-contained.ANGLE=nuclei-> step 6 (the bounded nuclei pass).ANGLE=js_jwt-> step 7 (JS endpoints, secret-shape, JWT candidates, summary JSON).ANGLE=assembly-> the final "Last step" only: read the angle scratch files and buildattack_surface.jsonas the UNION of all angles. Run this once, after all angle workers drain.
- Each angle writes disjoint scratch files (all
.txtplussurface-discovery-summary.json, all agent-writable), so the UNION the assembly angle builds is lossless and equals the single-agent surface.
Execution contract:
- Collection uses Bash only; final JSON assembly may use Read and Write.
- Default (no
ANGLE): use exactly the 7 Bash calls below, in order. Do not make any additional Bash calls. Under anANGLEslice, run step 1 plus only that angle's steps (the same blocks, in order), and no others. - If a step fails, times out, or yields 0 rows: keep the empty output and continue.
- Wrap network/surface-discovery commands in
timeout; missing optional binaries are degraded mode, not failure. - Run each step's Bash block in the foreground and wait for it to finish. Never start a step as a detached background job and then poll its output file in a loop; long scans (nuclei, katana) can take many minutes, and waiting for them to complete is expected. Keep prompt-facing output compact.
- Do not copy raw secrets, bearer values, or JWT-looking strings into
attack_surface.jsonor prose. Use counts and local artifact names instead.
- Binary check
mkdir -p "[SESSION]" && { for t in subfinder nuclei curl python3; do command -v "$t" >/dev/null && echo "OK:$t" || echo "MISSING:$t"; done; { H=""; for c in "$HOME/go/bin/httpx" "$(command -v httpx 2>/dev/null||true)"; do [ -n "$c" ]&&[ -x "$c" ]&&! { [ "$(head -c2 "$c" 2>/dev/null)" = '#!' ] && head -1 "$c" 2>/dev/null | grep -qi python; }&&{ H="$c"; break; }; done; [ -n "$H" ] && echo "OK:httpx" || echo "MISSING:httpx"; }; { K=""; for c in "$HOME/go/bin/katana" "$(command -v katana 2>/dev/null||true)"; do [ -n "$c" ]&&[ -x "$c" ]&&! { [ "$(head -c2 "$c" 2>/dev/null)" = '#!' ] && head -1 "$c" 2>/dev/null | grep -qi python; }&&{ K="$c"; break; }; done; [ -n "$K" ] && echo "OK:katana" || echo "MISSING:katana"; }; JWT_TOOL="$(command -v jwt_tool 2>/dev/null || command -v jwt_tool.py 2>/dev/null || true)"; [ -z "$JWT_TOOL" ] && [ -x "$HOME/jwt_tool/jwt_tool.py" ] && JWT_TOOL="$HOME/jwt_tool/jwt_tool.py"; [ -n "$JWT_TOOL" ] && echo "OK:jwt_tool" || echo "MISSING:jwt_tool"; } > "[SESSION]/surface-discovery-tools.txt"
- Subdomain aggregation
: > "[SESSION]/subdomains.txt"
timeout 45 sh -c 'command -v subfinder >/dev/null && subfinder -d "$1" -silent -all' sh "[DOMAIN]" 2>/dev/null >> "[SESSION]/subdomains.txt" || true
printf "%s\nwww.%s\n" "[DOMAIN]" "[DOMAIN]" >> "[SESSION]/subdomains.txt"
tmp="$(mktemp "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/bob-surface-discovery-subdomains.XXXXXX")" && sort -u "[SESSION]/subdomains.txt" | head -n 5000 > "$tmp" && mv "$tmp" "[SESSION]/subdomains.txt"; rm -f "${tmp:-}"
- Live hosts
# Resolve the ProjectDiscovery httpx (a compiled host-prober). Skip ONLY a python-interpreter #!-script
# shadow (the "httpx" HTTP client that masks ~/go/bin/httpx and silently empties recon); compiled
# binaries AND shell shims (asdf/mise/nix proxying to the real PD binary) are accepted.
HTTPX=""; for c in "$HOME/go/bin/httpx" "$(command -v httpx 2>/dev/null||true)"; do [ -n "$c" ] && [ -x "$c" ] && ! { [ "$(head -c2 "$c" 2>/dev/null)" = '#!' ] && head -1 "$c" 2>/dev/null | grep -qi python; } && { HTTPX="$c"; break; }; done
: > "[SESSION]/live_hosts.txt"
if [ -n "$HTTPX" ]; then timeout 75 "$HTTPX" -l "[SESSION]/subdomains.txt" -silent -follow-redirects -tech-detect -title -status-code -content-length -o "[SESSION]/live_hosts.txt" 2>/dev/null || true; fi
# Make a STARVED recon visible instead of silently masking it with the apex fallback below: if real
# subdomains were enumerated but httpx probed 0 live hosts (or httpx was unresolved), record a DEGRADED
# marker so the orchestrator/operator knows breadth collapsed (usually a missing/shadowed PD httpx).
if [ ! -s "[SESSION]/live_hosts.txt" ] && [ -s "[SESSION]/subdomains.txt" ]; then nsub="$(wc -l < "[SESSION]/subdomains.txt" | tr -d ' ')"; if [ -n "$HTTPX" ]; then hx="httpx_ran_0_live"; else hx="httpx_unresolved"; fi; echo "DEGRADED:live_hosts_empty:${nsub}_subdomains:${hx}" >> "[SESSION]/surface-discovery-tools.txt"; fi
if [ ! -s "[SESSION]/live_hosts.txt" ]; then printf "https://%s\nhttps://www.%s\n" "[DOMAIN]" "[DOMAIN]" > "[SESSION]/live_hosts.txt"; fi
- First-party family discovery
scratch="$(mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/bob-surface-discovery-family.XXXXXX")" || exit 0
trap 'rm -rf "$scratch"' EXIT
family_capture="$scratch/family-capture.txt"
{ printf "https://%s\nhttps://www.%s\n" "[DOMAIN]" "[DOMAIN]"; awk '{print $1}' "[SESSION]/live_hosts.txt" 2>/dev/null | head -n 2; } | sort -u > "[SESSION]/family_seeds.txt"
: > "$family_capture"
while read -r u; do timeout 8 curl -ksSIL "$u" 2>/dev/null >> "$family_capture" || true; timeout 8 curl -ksSL "$u" 2>/dev/null | head -c 150000 >> "$family_capture" || true; done < "[SESSION]/family_seeds.txt"
python3 - "[DOMAIN]" "$family_capture" "[SESSION]" <<'PY'
import collections, pathlib, re, sys
domain, capture_path, session = sys.argv[1].lower(), pathlib.Path(sys.argv[2]), pathlib.Path(sys.argv[3])
capture = capture_path.read_text(errors="ignore")
hosts = re.findall(r'https?://([A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,})', capture)
deny = ("zendesk","intercom","statuspage","shopify","salesforce","hubspot","marketo","okta","googleapis","gstatic","doubleclick","facebook","instagram","linkedin","x.com","twitter","youtube","vimeo")
tld = domain.rsplit(".", 1)[-1]
counts = collections.Counter(h.lower().strip(".") for h in hosts)
picked = []
for host, count in counts.most_common():
if host == domain or host.endswith("." + domain):
picked.append(host)
elif any(x in host for x in deny):
continue
elif host.endswith("." + tld) and count > 1:
picked.append(host)
picked = sorted(set(picked[:5]))
(session / "family_candidates.txt").write_text("\n".join(picked) + ("\n" if picked else ""))
PY
# Resolve the ProjectDiscovery httpx (a compiled host-prober). Skip ONLY a python-interpreter #!-script
# shadow (the "httpx" HTTP client that masks ~/go/bin/httpx and silently empties recon); compiled
# binaries AND shell shims (asdf/mise/nix proxying to the real PD binary) are accepted.
HTTPX=""; for c in "$HOME/go/bin/httpx" "$(command -v httpx 2>/dev/null||true)"; do [ -n "$c" ] && [ -x "$c" ] && ! { [ "$(head -c2 "$c" 2>/dev/null)" = '#!' ] && head -1 "$c" 2>/dev/null | grep -qi python; } && { HTTPX="$c"; break; }; done
if [ -s "[SESSION]/family_candidates.txt" ] && [ -n "$HTTPX" ]; then timeout 30 "$HTTPX" -l "[SESSION]/family_candidates.txt" -silent -follow-redirects -tech-detect -title -status-code -o "[SESSION]/family_live.txt" 2>/dev/null || true; else : > "[SESSION]/family_live.txt"; fi
- URL discovery with CDX/Wayback and Katana
{ echo "[DOMAIN]"; awk '{print $1}' "[SESSION]/family_live.txt" 2>/dev/null | sed 's#^https\?://##; s#/.*##'; } | sort -u | head -n 3 > "[SESSION]/cdx_roots.txt"
: > "[SESSION]/all_urls.txt"
while read -r root; do timeout 30 curl -ks "https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=$root/*&output=text&fl=original&collapse=urlkey&limit=10000" 2>/dev/null >> "[SESSION]/all_urls.txt" || true; timeout 30 curl -ks "https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=*.$root/*&output=text&fl=original&collapse=urlkey&limit=10000" 2>/dev/null >> "[SESSION]/all_urls.txt" || true; done < "[SESSION]/cdx_roots.txt"
{ printf "https://%s\nhttps://www.%s\n" "[DOMAIN]" "[DOMAIN]"; awk '{print $1}' "[SESSION]/live_hosts.txt" 2>/dev/null; awk '{print $1}' "[SESSION]/family_live.txt" 2>/dev/null; } | sort -u | head -n 20 > "[SESSION]/crawl_roots.txt"
: > "[SESSION]/katana_urls.txt"
KATANA=""; for c in "$HOME/go/bin/katana" "$(command -v katana 2>/dev/null||true)"; do [ -n "$c" ] && [ -x "$c" ] && ! { [ "$(head -c2 "$c" 2>/dev/null)" = '#!' ] && head -1 "$c" 2>/dev/null | grep -qi python; } && { KATANA="$c"; break; }; done
if [ -n "$KATANA" ] && [ -s "[SESSION]/crawl_roots.txt" ]; then timeout 90 "$KATANA" -list "[SESSION]/crawl_roots.txt" -silent -d 2 -jc -fs rdn -rl 20 -timeout 8 -o "[SESSION]/katana_urls.txt" 2>/dev/null || true; fi
cat "[SESSION]/katana_urls.txt" >> "[SESSION]/all_urls.txt" 2>/dev/null || true
sort -u -o "[SESSION]/all_urls.txt" "[SESSION]/all_urls.txt"
- Safe nuclei pass
{ awk '{print $1}' "[SESSION]/live_hosts.txt" 2>/dev/null; awk '{print $1}' "[SESSION]/family_live.txt" 2>/dev/null; } | sort -u | head -n 250 > "[SESSION]/live_urls.txt"
: > "[SESSION]/nuclei_results.txt"
if command -v nuclei >/dev/null; then timeout 480 nuclei -l "[SESSION]/live_urls.txt" -severity medium,high,critical -silent -o "[SESSION]/nuclei_results.txt" -timeout 10 -retries 1 -rate-limit 100 2>/dev/null || true; fi
- JS endpoints and compact summaries
scratch="$(mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/bob-surface-discovery-js.XXXXXX")" || exit 0
trap 'rm -rf "$scratch"' EXIT
js_capture="$scratch/js-capture.txt"
grep -Eai '\.js([?#].*)?$' "[SESSION]/all_urls.txt" 2>/dev/null | sort -u | head -n 60 > "[SESSION]/js_urls.txt" || true
: > "$js_capture"
while read -r u; do timeout 6 curl -ksSL "$u" 2>/dev/null | head -c 1500000 >> "$js_capture" || true; printf "\n/* %s */\n" "$u" >> "$js_capture"; done < "[SESSION]/js_urls.txt"
python3 - "[SESSION]" "$js_capture" <<'PY'
import json, pathlib, re, sys
session, capture_path = pathlib.Path(sys.argv[1]), pathlib.Path(sys.argv[2])
capture = capture_path.read_text(errors="ignore")
endpoints = sorted(set(re.findall(r'https?://[^\s"\'<>]+|/[A-Za-z0-9_./?=&%-]{4,}', capture)))
secrets = sorted(set(s.strip() for s in re.findall(r'(?i)(?:api[_-]?key|token|secret|client[_-]?secret|authorization)[^,\n]{0,120}', capture) if len(s) < 180))
jwt_candidates = sorted(set(re.findall(r'\beyJ[A-Za-z0-9_-]{8,}\.[A-Za-z0-9_-]{8,}\.[A-Za-z0-9_-]{8,}\b', capture)))
(session / "js_endpoints.txt").write_text("\n".join(endpoints[:400]) + ("\n" if endpoints else ""))
(session / "js_secrets.txt").write_text("\n".join(secrets[:100]) + ("\n" if secrets else ""))
(session / "jwt_candidates.txt").write_text("\n".join(jwt_candidates[:50]) + ("\n" if jwt_candidates else ""))
counts = {}
for name in ("subdomains.txt","live_hosts.txt","all_urls.txt","katana_urls.txt","js_urls.txt","js_endpoints.txt","jwt_candidates.txt","nuclei_results.txt"):
path = session / name
counts[name[:-4] if name.endswith(".txt") else name] = sum(1 for _ in path.open(errors="ignore")) if path.exists() else 0
(session / "surface-discovery-summary.json").write_text(json.dumps({"version": 1, "counts": counts}, indent=2) + "\n")
PY
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 177 lines · 37 tokens per session scan C 0622983bada9
surface-discovery-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository vmihalis/hacker-bob (97 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 5,030 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (recursive force delete, makes network calls). It is 88% identical to deep-surface-discovery-agent, differing in 595 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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