hunting-for-unusual-network-connections

hunting-for-unusual-network-connections is a skill for Claude Code from balsm-health/Balsm-AI. It costs 36 tokens per session (792 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A security analysis method for finding unusual network connections from computers and other endpoints. It checks outbound traffic for rare destinations, unusual ports, and unexpected connection frequencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Investigating suspicious outbound traffic and looking for possible signs of compromised devices or unwanted software.
Why use it?
It helps reveal network activity that may be missed when reviewing connections one by one.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the balsm-ai plugin — 66 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 2 hooks, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Investigating suspicious outbound traffic and looking for possible signs of compromised devices or unwanted software.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/balsm-health/balsm-ai/hunting-for-unusual-network-connections
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 balsm-health/Balsm-AI --skill hunting-for-unusual-network-connections
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/balsm-health/Balsm-AI

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install balsm-ai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 66 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 2 hooks, 3 MCP servers.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 792 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 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 $0.00036 $0.00792
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00396
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00079

Measured 12d ago against content hash 27d21f517b9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hunting-for-unusual-network-connections 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/agent.py, scripts/process.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.

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.

plugin/skills/hunting-for-unusual-network-connections/SKILL.md · 104 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

7 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. 12d ago First seen · 104 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 27d21f517b9f

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hunting-for-unusual-network-connections is a skill published in the GitHub repository balsm-health/Balsm-AI (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 792 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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