pentest-agents: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

providers/copilot/.github/instructions/pentest-agents-techniques.instructions.md

techniques is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from H-mmer/pentest-agents. It costs 4,484 tokens per session, scanned B, original, no licence file.

A reference for testing specific web security weaknesses, including GraphQL authorization bypasses and authentication behavior in Django REST Framework. GraphQL is an API query system, and authorization controls what each user may access.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when checking API endpoints for resolver-level access-control errors or proving how an application handles authentication.
Why use it?
It provides concrete ways to verify whether an API enforces access rules consistently with no login, fake login details, or real authentication.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is H-mmer/pentest-agents's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on pentest-agents 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 pentest-agents configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to H-mmer/pentest-agents. 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/H-mmer/pentest-agents/main/providers/copilot/.github/instructions/pentest-agents-techniques.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/H-mmer/pentest-agents

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 4,484 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 4,484 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 3 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.04484 $0.04484
Opus 5 $0.02242 $0.02242
Sonnet 5 $0.00897 $0.00897
Haiku 4.5 $0.00448 $0.00448

Measured 4d ago against content hash 9694a3f271ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

techniques 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 4d 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.

Sends data to an external URLlowData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

curl -X POST target/graphql -d '{"query":"mutation{updateUser(userData:{email:\"x\"},currentUserName:\"[email protected]\"){success}}"}'

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

Downloads and executes remote codemediumSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -s "https://target.com/static/js/main.abc123.js.map" | python3 -c "

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.

curl -X POST https://target/graphql -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
providers/copilot/.github/instructions/pentest-agents-techniques.instructions.md · 395 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.

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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. 4d ago First seen · 395 lines · 4,484 tokens per session scan B 9694a3f271ed

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techniques is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository H-mmer/pentest-agents (817 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 4,484 tokens to every session, about $0.0224 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 3 findings (sends data to an external url, downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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