pentest-api-attacker

pentest-api-attacker is a skill for Codex from 0x-Professor/Agent-Skills-Hub. It costs 27 tokens per session (311 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An authorized security-testing tool for APIs, which are interfaces that let software exchange data and perform actions. It checks API endpoints, authentication, protocols, and business rules against common security guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for API discovery, authorized checks based on the OWASP API Security Top 10, reproducible proof-of-concept notes, and structured security reports. Live testing requires authorization.
Why use it?
It helps identify API weaknesses in a controlled, documented way while keeping tests within an approved scope.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it for API discovery, authorized checks based on the OWASP API Security Top 10, reproducible proof-of-concept notes, and structured security reports. Live testing requires authorization.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/0x-professor/agent-skills-hub/pentest-api-attacker
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 0x-Professor/Agent-Skills-Hub --skill pentest-api-attacker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0x-Professor/Agent-Skills-Hub

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 311 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00027 $0.00311
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00156
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00031

Measured 10d ago against content hash c2cb3ba7a1fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pentest-api-attacker 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/api_attacker.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/pentest-api-attacker/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Pentest API Attacker

Stage

  • PTES: 5
  • MITRE: T1190

Objective

Enumerate and test API endpoints and business logic attack vectors.

Required Workflow

  1. Validate scope before any active action and reject out-of-scope targets.
  2. Run only authorized checks aligned to PTES, OWASP WSTG, NIST SP 800-115, and MITRE ATT&CK.
  3. Write findings in canonical finding_schema format with reproducible PoC notes.
  4. Honor dry-run mode and require explicit --i-have-authorization for live execution.
  5. Export deterministic artifacts for downstream skill consumption.

Execution

python skills/pentest-api-attacker/scripts/api_attacker.py --scope scope.json --target <target> --input <path> --output <path> --format json --dry-run

Outputs

  • api-endpoints.json
  • api-findings.json
  • api-attack-report.json

References

  • references/tools.md
  • skills/autonomous-pentester/shared/scope_schema.json
  • skills/autonomous-pentester/shared/finding_schema.json
WARNING AUTHORIZED USE ONLY
This skill executes real security testing tools against live targets.
Use only with written authorization.

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 10d ago First seen · 51 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A c2cb3ba7a1fa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pentest-api-attacker is a skill published in the GitHub repository 0x-Professor/Agent-Skills-Hub (10 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 311 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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