redteam-mindset

redteam-mindset is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai. It costs 94 tokens per session (5,855 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of redteam-mindset, MIT.

A set of operating principles for authorized red-team work, where the goal is to gain access and prove real impact. Red teaming is a security exercise that imitates an attacker to test an organization’s defenses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning an adversary-emulation exercise, deciding what to do after a blocker, checking related applications, and keeping testing focused on access and impact.
Why use it?
It helps you make better decisions when a blocker, failed reproduction, or apparent defense might otherwise cause you to stop testing too early. It also distinguishes red-team work from bug bounty and standard web assessments.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it when planning an adversary-emulation exercise, deciding what to do after a blocker, checking related applications, and keeping testing focused on access and impact.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai/redteam-mindset
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 redteam-mindset
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 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,855 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 86% 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 $0.00094 $0.05855
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.02927
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.01171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00585

Measured 7d ago against content hash 2dc462992616, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

redteam-mindset 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 7d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to redteam-mindset — 39 lines 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/redteam-mindset/SKILL.md · 388 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 388 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to use this skill

Trigger when:

  • Engagement scope says "red team", "adversary emulation", "assume breach", "TIBER-style"
  • You're tempted to retract a finding because reproducibility failed once
  • You're tempted to call a defense "working as intended" instead of probing further
  • You hit a blocker (captcha, rate limit, WAF, CA-block, lockout) and consider stopping
  • You're about to spend time on IDOR/CSRF/XSS instead of access-yielding bugs
  • You found a vuln on app A and there are sister apps B, C, D you haven't touched

DO NOT use for:

  • Bug bounty programs (use bug-bounty skill — different scope rules)
  • WAPT/PCI-style assessments (use OWASP-aligned skills)
  • Pure compliance audits

The one-line summary

Red team scope = "gain access, prove impact". Bug bounty / WAPT scope = "find a bug, write a report".

These produce DIFFERENT decisions at every blocker. Internalize the difference before starting.


DO NOT STOP — primary directive (read this twice)

The 9 corrections below are nuance. THIS is the core. If you only retain one thing from this skill, retain this.

Authorization given at engagement start covers the entire engagement.

Do not insert mid-engagement permission gates. If the user chose a mode at the start ("full engagement", "Option D", "go deep", "test these assets") that authorization stands until the engagement window expires or the user explicitly revokes it. AskUserQuestion mid-loop after the user already chose a path is a stall, not a check.

Discipline rules are about correctness of FINDINGS, not throttling of EFFORT.

Read this twice. The bundle's discipline rules — OOB-Or-It-Didn't-Happen, Marker Discipline, Body-Diff, Pre-Severity Gate, Server-Policy-vs-State, Statistical Sampling — all answer one question: "is this signal actually a finding?". None of them answer the question "should I send the next probe?" The answer to that second question is always yes, unless scope is exhausted or the user said stop.

Read the full file on GitHub · 388 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. 7d ago First seen · 388 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 2dc462992616

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redteam-mindset is a skill published in the GitHub repository adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai (57 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 5,855 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to redteam-mindset, differing in 39 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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