vuln-research

vuln-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AeonDave/malskill. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,473 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A workflow for researching software vulnerabilities using a target version or CVE, including severity review, public proof-of-concept searches, exploitability assessment, and Metasploit module lookup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Investigating CVEs, comparing public exploits, assessing exploitability, and finding related Metasploit modules.
Why use it?
It gathers the main pieces needed to judge whether a reported vulnerability is relevant and practically exploitable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Investigating CVEs, comparing public exploits, assessing exploitability, and finding related Metasploit modules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aeondave/malskill/vuln-research
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 AeonDave/malskill --skill vuln-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AeonDave/malskill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for vuln-research

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aeondave/malskill/vuln-research.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/aeondave/malskill/vuln-research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aeondave/malskill/vuln-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aeondave/malskill/vuln-research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,473 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 2 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 $0.00063 $0.01473
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00737
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00295
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00147

Measured 5d ago against content hash 28012e8d9b0e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vuln-research scanned grade A 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 5d 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.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

| LPE | CVE-2021-4034 | Polkit pkexec | Local root |

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.

compatibility: "uses web sources and CLI tools (searchsploit, msfconsole, curl, gh)."
offensive-tools/exploits/vuln-research/SKILL.md · 174 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.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago First seen · 174 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 28012e8d9b0e

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vuln-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository AeonDave/malskill (18 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,473 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (asks for root, 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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