pentestagent CLAUDE.md

Instructions for PentestAgent, a Python framework for penetration testing, which is security testing that looks for weaknesses in systems. It provides terminal, command-line, and server interfaces and can run tools locally or in Docker.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when editing agents, configuration, interfaces, browser automation, sandbox execution, integrations, or optional search over security data.
Why use it?
They explain the framework's parts and technology choices so an agent can make security-tooling changes in the intended locations.

Instructions file

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 instructions/gh05tcrew/pentestagent/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GH05TCREW/pentestagent
Per session 2,345 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,345 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.02345 $0.02345
Opus 5 $0.01172 $0.01172
Sonnet 5 $0.00469 $0.00469
Haiku 4.5 $0.00234 $0.00234

Measured yesterday against content hash 8071367d7012, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pentestagent 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 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.

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 · 251 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PentestAgent — CLAUDE.md

Project overview

PentestAgent (v0.2.0) is an AI-powered penetration testing framework built in Python. It wraps LiteLLM to support any provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.) and exposes a TUI, a CLI, and an MCP server interface. The agent can run tools locally or inside a Docker sandbox (base or Kali image).

Tech stack

  • Python 3.10+, packaged with Hatchling (pyproject.toml)
  • LiteLLM — provider-agnostic LLM wrapper
  • Textual — TUI framework (pentestagent/interface/)
  • Typer — CLI framework
  • Playwright — browser tool
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol) — both client (consuming external servers) and server (exposing PentestAgent to Claude Desktop / Cursor / etc.)
  • FAISS + sentence-transformers — optional RAG engine (pip install -e ".[rag]")

Repository layout

pentestagent/
  agents/
    crew/           # Multi-agent mode: orchestrator + worker pool + shadow graph
    pa_agent/       # Single-agent implementation
    state.py        # Shared agent state
  config/
    settings.py     # Global Settings dataclass (singleton via get_settings())
    constants.py    # Model defaults, iteration limits, etc.
  interface/
    cli.py          # Typer CLI entry-point
    notifier.py     # Event bus between agent and UI
    utils.py        # Shared UI helpers
  knowledge/
    graph.py        # ShadowGraph — derives strategic insights from notes
    indexer.py      # Indexes knowledge sources for RAG
    rag.py          # FAISS-backed retrieval
  llm/
    config.py       # LiteLLM configuration
    memory.py       # Conversation/token management
    utils.py        # Streaming helpers
  mcp/
    stdio_adapter.py    # STDIO MCP server transport
    example_adapter.py  # SSE MCP server transport
  playbooks/
    base_playbook.py
    thp3_recon.py / thp3_network.py / thp3_web.py
  runtime/
    docker_runtime.py   # Runs tool commands inside Docker
    tool_server.py      # Local runtime
  tools/
    loader.py       # Discovers & dynamically imports tool modules
    executor.py     # Executes tool calls, tracks tokens
    token_tracker.py
    terminal/       # Shell execution tool
    browser/        # Playwright browser tool
    web_search/     # Tavily web search (needs TAVILY_API_KEY)
    notes/          # Persistent findings store → loot/notes.json
    finish/         # Signals task completion
  workspaces/       # Workspace isolation helpers
loot/               # Persisted notes and findings (git-ignored)
mcp_examples/       # Example MCP configs and adapters
scripts/            # setup.sh / setup.ps1
tests/              # pytest suite

Read the full file on GitHub · 251 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. yesterday First seen · 251 lines · 2,345 tokens per session scan A 8071367d7012

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pentestagent CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository GH05TCREW/pentestagent (3,026 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,345 tokens to every session, about $0.0117 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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