ctf_web

A collection of methods for solving web security challenges in capture-the-flag competitions, where participants find and exploit weaknesses in test systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for challenges involving SQL injection, cross-site scripting, server-side request forgery, file inclusion, command injection, authentication bypasses, directory traversal, and API abuse.
Why use it?
It helps organize approaches to common web vulnerabilities instead of treating each challenge as an entirely new problem.

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_web
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zebbern/termstack
Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,142 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 4 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 $0.00036 $0.04142
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.02071
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00828
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00414

Measured yesterday against content hash 3352138eed0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

ctf_web scanned grade C with 4 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.

Cloud metadata endpointmediumServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

| **SSRF** | URL parameters, redirect endpoints | Target `127.0.0.1`, `169.254.169.254`, internal services |

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Unrestricted tool accesslowExcessive agency

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

| Run any command | `mcp_kali-tools_zebbern_exec` | Generic terminal fallback |

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

1. **Technology fingerprint** — `whatweb`, `curl -I`, response headers, error pages

Runs shell commandslowCapability

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

| **Pug/Jade** | `#{7*7}` → `49` | `-var x=root.process.mainModule.require('child_process').execSync('id')` |
.github/agents/ctf_web.agent.md · 307 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 · 307 lines · 36 tokens per session scan C 3352138eed0b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ctf_web is an agent published in the GitHub repository zebbern/termstack (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 4,142 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 4 findings (cloud metadata endpoint, unrestricted tool access, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.