Exploit Techniques

Exploit Techniques is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from allsmog/vuln-scout. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,713 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security-review guide for creating proof-of-concept exploits after a vulnerability has been confirmed. A proof of concept is a small demonstration that shows how a security weakness can be triggered.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose an implementation language and structure an exploit script for web, browser, binary, Windows, Linux, or mixed targets.
Why use it?
It gives reviewers a structured way to demonstrate and document a confirmed weakness rather than only describing it in theory.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the vuln-scout plugin — 32 skills, 15 commands, 9 agents 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/vuln-scout/exploit-techniques
Any agent
npx skills add allsmog/vuln-scout --skill exploit-techniques
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/allsmog/vuln-scout

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install vuln-scout, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 15 commands, 9 agents.

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 Exploit Techniques

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/allsmog/vuln-scout/exploit-techniques"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/allsmog/vuln-scout/exploit-techniques.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,713 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00057 $0.01713
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00856
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00343
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00171

Measured 5d ago against content hash 350f555379a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Exploit Techniques scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (examples/cmdi-template.py, examples/deser-template.py, examples/sqli-template.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

response = requests.get(f"{target}/path", params={"key": "value"})
vuln-scout/skills/exploit-techniques/SKILL.md · 297 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 297 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Exploit Development Techniques

Purpose

Guide the development of Proof of Concept (PoC) exploits to demonstrate confirmed vulnerabilities. This is Phase 3 of the whitebox security review process.

When to Use

Activate this skill when:

  • A vulnerability has been confirmed through local testing
  • Writing automated exploit scripts
  • Documenting exploitation steps
  • Bypassing security controls

Language Selection

Choose exploit language based on target:

Scenario Recommended Language
Web application (server-side) Python
Client-side attack (browser) JavaScript
Mixed (client + server chain) Python + JavaScript
Binary exploitation Python (pwntools)
Windows target Python or PowerShell
Linux target Python or Bash
Reusing application logic Same as application

Python Exploit Structure

Basic Template

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Exploit: [Application Name] [Vulnerability Type]
Author: [Your Name]
Date: [Date]
CVE: [If applicable]

Description:
[Brief description of the vulnerability]

Usage:
python3 exploit.py <target_url>
"""

import requests
import sys
import argparse

class Exploit:
    def __init__(self, target):
        self.target = target.rstrip('/')
        self.session = requests.Session()
    
    def check_vulnerable(self):
        """Verify target is vulnerable"""
        # Implementation
        pass
    
    def exploit(self):
        """Execute the exploit"""
        # Implementation
        pass
    
    def cleanup(self):
        """Remove any artifacts"""
        # Implementation
        pass

def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Exploit description')
    parser.add_argument('target', help='Target URL')
    parser.add_argument('--check', action='store_true', help='Check only')
    args = parser.parse_args()
    
    exploit = Exploit(args.target)
    
    if args.check:
        if exploit.check_vulnerable():
            print("[+] Target is vulnerable")
        else:
            print("[-] Target is not vulnerable")
        return
    
    try:
        exploit.exploit()
    finally:
        exploit.cleanup()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Read the full file on GitHub · 297 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 5d ago First seen · 297 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 350f555379a7

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Exploit Techniques is a skill published in the GitHub repository allsmog/vuln-scout (24 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,713 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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