What the reviewer found

A PTES-structured pentest post-exploitation playbook (claude-pentest-skills): the attacker.com beacons, IMDS credential reads, shadow theft and backdoor-user steps are documented techniques and detection guidance, not actions taken against the installer. Dual-use security content, not malware.

• dual-use — a security tool that can be misused
• exfiltration — sends data out
• credential-access — reads credentials
• persistence — changes the machine outside the project
• remote-exec — runs code fetched from the network

What was read

The file as it ships in bob-reis/claude-pentest-skills:

• pentest-post-exploitation/SKILL.md

What the static scan said

The scan flagged 10things. The reviewer kept 0 and dismissed 10 as false.

• E1Sends data to an external URL — false positive
• E2Harvests environment variables — false positive
• E3Enumerates the file system for secrets — false positive
• PE2Asks for root — false positive
• PE3Reaches for credential files — false positive
• SC2Downloads and executes remote code — false positive
• AS1Reads agent configuration directories — false positive
• SSRF1Cloud metadata endpoint — false positive
• RMRecursive force delete — false positive
• NETMakes network calls — false positive

How this review was made

Fable 5.1 read the files above on 7 September 2026 and answered three questions: is it dangerous to whoever installs it, is each scanner finding real, and what should the installer know. The verdict is bound to the file's hash; when the file changes, it is scanned afresh and reviewed again. A script that changes while the definition does not is not re-reviewed — that is a known gap. How the scan and the review work.

Produced by agentmods.dev · Fable 5.1 · 7 September 2026