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Talon: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

Talon CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from CarbeneAI/Talon. It costs 479 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Talon, a penetration-testing toolkit that connects Claude Code to a Kali Linux virtual machine over SSH.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them for authorized reconnaissance, service discovery, exploitation, post-exploitation checks, and structured security reports, with notes for each engagement and target.
Why use it?
They keep security work organized into consistent stages and clarify that commands should run on the remote testing machine rather than the local computer.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

This is CarbeneAI/Talon's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Talon itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Talon configures →

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Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to CarbeneAI/Talon. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CarbeneAI/Talon/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CarbeneAI/Talon

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security scan A 0 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 $0.00479 $0.00479
Opus 5 $0.00239 $0.00239
Sonnet 5 $0.00096 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00048 $0.00048

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2219aacc1f39, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Talon CLAUDE.md 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 8d 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.

CLAUDE.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Talon — Claude Code Project Instructions

Talon is a penetration testing workflow toolkit that connects Claude Code to a Kali Linux VM via SSH MCP.

MCP Server

The kali-ssh MCP server (configured in mcp-config.example.json) provides SSH access to your pentest VM. Copy the example config to ~/.claude/mcp.json and update with your host/username before use.

All shell commands in this project are intended to run on the remote Kali VM via the MCP connection, not locally.

Methodology

Follow the 5-phase pentest methodology defined in references/ and SKILL.md:

  1. Recon — scripts/recon.sh <target-ip> for automated initial recon
  2. Enumeration — Use references/service-enum.md for per-service commands
  3. Exploitation — Document and execute with searchsploit / metasploit / manual exploits
  4. Post-Exploitation — PrivEsc enumeration, credential harvesting, persistence
  5. Reporting — Use references/report-template.md for structured findings

Obsidian Notes

Use templates in templates/ for engagement tracking:

  • templates/engagement.md — One per engagement, tracks all targets and credentials
  • templates/target.md — One per machine, tracks recon, foothold, and PrivEsc

Key References

  • references/service-enum.md — Enumeration commands for 13 service types
  • references/report-template.md — OSCP-style report structure
  • docs/setup-kali.md — Kali VM setup guide
  • docs/ssh-access.md — Remote access methods (SSH tunnel, VPN, ngrok, Cloudflare)
  • docs/usage.md — Example prompts and workflows

Security Rules

  • Always confirm you have written authorization before testing any target
  • Never store credentials, flags, or loot in this repository
  • Keep scan output and results in local directories (gitignored)
  • Rotate SSH keys regularly

Common Prompts

Ask Claude:

  • "Run recon on [IP] using Kali"
  • "Enumerate [service] on [IP]"
  • "I have a shell as [user] — check for PrivEsc paths"
  • "Generate a report for this engagement"

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 8d ago First seen · 51 lines · 479 tokens per session scan A 2219aacc1f39

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Talon CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository CarbeneAI/Talon (58 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 479 tokens to every session, about $0.0024 per session on Opus 5. 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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