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.
npx agentmods add skills/aveproject/ave/research-new-attack-classesnpx skills add aveproject/ave --skill research-new-attack-classesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aveproject/aveWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00000 | $0.02730 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.01365 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00546 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00273 |
Grade A, and why
research-new-attack-classes 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 2d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 278 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
research-new-attack-classes
Keep AVE current with the real threat landscape. This skill researches agentic AI / MCP attack classes from primary sources, benchmarks each against the existing AVE record set, and for every class decides one of three outcomes: ALREADY COVERED, VARIANT OF EXISTING, or NEW CLASS.
For NEW CLASS only, it opens a GitHub issue and hands off to add-ave-record.
This skill never pads. It maps to distinct behavioral classes that exist in cited research. If a "new" attack is just a textual variant of a class AVE already covers, it is logged as a variant, not a new record.
When to run this
- Monthly cadence (the field moves fast — set a recurring reminder)
- After a major disclosure (a new CVE, a new OX/Invariant/HiddenLayer report)
- After a new academic taxonomy or benchmark paper drops
- Before a release (close the gap deliberately)
Do NOT run this to hit a record-count target. Run it to stay current. There is no quota. The right number of records equals the number of distinct behavioral classes that exist — no more.
Inputs
- The current record set in
records/*.json - The schema in
schema/ave-record.schema.json - LANGUAGE.md (attack_class vocabulary, behavioral_fingerprint discipline)
- docs/adr/0001-behavioral-fingerprints.md (the no-signatures rule)
The pipeline — five phases
Phase 1: Research (gather, do not judge yet)
Search primary sources only. Rank by authority:
- MITRE ATLAS (atlas.mitre.org) — the AI-specific ATT&CK. The most authoritative existing enumeration of adversarial AI tactics and techniques. Treat it as BOTH a primary source AND a benchmark target. Capture the ATLAS technique ID (AML.Txxxx) for every candidate that maps to one — these IDs go in the AVE record for cross-referencing.
- CVE/NVD entries and vendor disclosures (OX Security, Invariant Labs, HiddenLayer, Unit 42, Snyk, Trail of Bits)
- Peer-reviewed / arXiv taxonomies and benchmarks (MCPSecBench, MCP-SafetyBench, MCPTox, Formal Security Framework, Hou et al. lifecycle taxonomy, parasitic toolchain studies)
- OWASP updates (MCP Top 10, Agentic AI Top 10, AIVSS, AIBOM)
- Microsoft / Google / NSA / NIST taxonomy and guidance updates (note: ATT&CK proper for any technique that crosses into conventional TTPs)
- Framework changelogs and security advisories (MCP spec, OpenClaw, etc.)
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 278 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e47bb3bfc39a
research-new-attack-classes is a skill published in the GitHub repository aveproject/ave (17 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,730 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.
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