validate

A command for checking whether a security finding is ready to report. It asks whether the finding can be reproduced, is allowed by the program, and passes several submission checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after finding a possible security bug to record the endpoint, bug type, proof of concept, impact, and target program, then receive a pass-or-stop decision.
Why use it?
It filters out findings that are unclear, unprovable, out of scope, or likely to be rejected before time is spent writing a report.

Command

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 commands/awarexone/agentic-bug-hunter/validate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Awarexone/Agentic-Bug-Hunter
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 1,187 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 $0.01187
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00593
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00119

Measured 2d ago against content hash 05619757a222, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate 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 2d 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.

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.

commands/validate.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/validate

Run full validation on the current finding before writing a report.

What This Does

  1. Runs 7-Question Gate (one wrong answer = kill it)
  2. Checks against the always-rejected list
  3. Runs 4 pre-submission gates
  4. Outputs: PASS (write the report) or KILL (move on)

Usage

/validate

Describe the finding when prompted. Include:

  • The endpoint
  • The bug class
  • What the PoC shows
  • The target program

If you already ran the scanner, pass its summary.json with --scanner-summary findings/<target>/summary.json so the validation record captures the scanner tiering that led to this finding.

The 7-Question Gate

Answer each. ONE wrong answer = STOP.

Q1: Can I demonstrate this step-by-step RIGHT NOW?

Write this out:

1. Setup:   I need [own account / another user's ID / no account]
2. Request: [exact HTTP method, URL, headers, body]
3. Result:  Response shows [exact data / action completed]
4. Impact:  Real consequence is [account takeover / PII exposed / money stolen]
5. Cost:    Time: [X min], Capital: [$0 / $X]

If step 2 is "I need to look at the code more" → KILL IT.

Q2: Is the impact accepted by this program?

Check program scope page. Is your bug class listed? Is it excluded?

Q3: Is the vulnerable asset in scope?

Exact domain in scope? Not staging/dev? Not a third-party service?

Q4: Does it need admin or privileged access that an attacker can't get?

"Admin can do X" → KILL IT. "Regular user can do X that only admin should" → valid.

Q5: Is this known or documented behavior?

Search disclosed reports + changelog + API docs.

Q6: Can you prove impact beyond "technically possible"?

  • XSS → actual cookie value in exfil request, not just alert()
  • SSRF → response body from internal service, not just DNS callback
  • IDOR → actual other-user's private data in response, not just 200 status

Q7: Is this on the never-submit list?

Missing headers, GraphQL introspection alone, clickjacking without PoC,
self-XSS, open redirect alone, SSRF DNS-only, logout CSRF, banner disclosure,
rate limit on non-critical forms, missing cookie flags alone...

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. 2d ago First seen · 160 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 05619757a222

Subscribe to this mod's changes

validate is a command published in the GitHub repository Awarexone/Agentic-Bug-Hunter (4,651 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,187 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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