ctf_misc

A collection of methods for solving varied capture-the-flag competition challenges, including puzzles that do not fit one security category.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for scripting tasks, encoding puzzles, esoteric programming languages, automation, open-source intelligence, and mixed-category challenges.
Why use it?
It helps tackle challenges that require scripting, decoding, automation, information gathering, or unusual programming techniques.

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/zebbern/termstack/ctf_misc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zebbern/termstack
Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,372 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 3 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00031 $0.04372
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.02186
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00874
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00437

Measured yesterday against content hash 9c86b17dd8d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

ctf_misc scanned grade B with 3 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.

Unrestricted tool accessmediumExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

# breakpoint() drops to pdb (Python 3.7+) — can execute arbitrary code

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl "http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=target.com/*&output=text&fl=original&collapse=urlkey"

Runs shell commandslowCapability

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

''.__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__() # find subprocess.Popen, os._wrap_close
.github/agents/ctf_misc.agent.md · 391 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 391 lines · 31 tokens per session scan B 9c86b17dd8d5

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ctf_misc is an agent published in the GitHub repository zebbern/termstack (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 4,372 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 3 findings (unrestricted tool access, makes network calls, runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.