reverse-shell-async

reverse-shell-async is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from 02loveslollipop/OpenCROW. It costs 61 tokens per session (813 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A listener for one authorized inbound reverse-shell TCP connection. A reverse shell is a command session opened from another machine back to a waiting listener.

In plain words
What is it for?
Listening during authorized CTF challenges or lab work, exchanging text or exact bytes, reviewing captured output, and stopping the named listener afterward.
Why use it?
It provides a controlled way to receive and inspect one connection without creating or deploying a connection payload.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/02loveslollipop/opencrow/reverse-shell-async
Any agent
npx skills add 02loveslollipop/OpenCROW --skill reverse-shell-async
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/02loveslollipop/OpenCROW

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 813 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 $0.00061 $0.00813
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00407
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00081

Measured 3d ago against content hash 514084699cf4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reverse-shell-async 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 3d 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.

skills/reverse-shell-async/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenCROW I/O - Reverse Shell Async

Use this skill only for authorized CTF challenges, isolated labs, or systems you own. It manages the listener side of one inbound TCP session. It does not generate, suggest, or deploy reverse-shell payloads.

Runtime preflight

Prefer the opencrow-netcat-mcp server in a full installation. Start with toolbox_info, toolbox_verify, and toolbox_capabilities, then use session_listen. In a skills-only installation, probe rsx with command -v rsx; if it is unavailable, use the relative scripts/rsx resource. Report the exact missing command if neither path exists.

Safety defaults

  • The listener binds to 127.0.0.1 unless --bind-host is supplied.
  • A non-loopback bind is rejected unless --allow-remote is explicit.
  • Use --expected-peer IP_OR_CIDR whenever the peer address is known. Mismatches are logged, closed, and do not consume the listener.
  • A named listener accepts exactly one matching connection. It does not reconnect and does not serve multiple clients.
  • Use a distinct session name for each authorized target flow, and stop live sessions when work is complete.

MCP-first workflow

  1. Call session_listen with a name and port. Port 0 requests an available local port; read the actual port from the returned status.
  2. Poll session_status until its state is connected.
  3. Use session_send with exactly one of data, hex, or base64.
  4. Use session_read for the escaped event log. Treat the rx.raw artifact as the exact received bytes.
  5. Call session_stop if the listener or connection is still running.

CLI fallback

# Loopback listener on an automatically selected port
rsx listen --name lab --port 0

# Explicit authorized remote listener restricted to one source CIDR
rsx listen --name lab --bind-host 0.0.0.0 --port 4444 \
  --allow-remote --expected-peer 192.0.2.25/32

# Text and exact-byte input
rsx send --name lab --data 'id' --newline
rsx send --name lab --hex '03'
rsx send --name lab --base64 'AAEC/w=='

# Observe and stop
rsx status --name lab
rsx read --name lab --tail 40
rsx stop --name lab

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 66 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 514084699cf4

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reverse-shell-async is a skill published in the GitHub repository 02loveslollipop/OpenCROW (8 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 813 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.