cross-pollination

cross-pollination is a skill for Claude Code from ByamB4/find-cve-agent. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,109 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for finding the same confirmed security flaw across similar packages or codebases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after confirming a finding to search comparable XML parsers, archive libraries, validators, serializers, or other packages.
Why use it?
It prevents a vulnerability discovered in one component from being overlooked in related components that use the same pattern.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the find-cve-agent plugin — 21 skills, 7 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it after confirming a finding to search comparable XML parsers, archive libraries, validators, serializers, or other packages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/byamb4/find-cve-agent/cross-pollination
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 ByamB4/find-cve-agent --skill cross-pollination
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ByamB4/find-cve-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install find-cve-agent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 7 commands, 5 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 cross-pollination

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/byamb4/find-cve-agent/cross-pollination/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/byamb4/find-cve-agent/cross-pollination)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/byamb4/find-cve-agent/cross-pollination"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/byamb4/find-cve-agent/cross-pollination/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for cross-pollination

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/byamb4/find-cve-agent/cross-pollination"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/byamb4/find-cve-agent/cross-pollination.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,109 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 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 5.1 $0.00033 $0.01109
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00554
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00222
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00111

Measured 10d ago against content hash 22692d444fc0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cross-pollination 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 10d 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.

skills/cross-pollination/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cross-Pollination -- Multiplying Findings

When to Use

After confirming a vulnerability in package-A, use this technique to find the same vulnerable pattern in packages B through Z. One finding can multiply into 5-20 findings.

The Multiplier Effect

Starting Finding Pattern Typical Yield
Entity expansion in XML parser A All XML parsers with no entity limit 3-8 findings
Zip Slip in archive lib A All archive extraction libs 2-5 findings
Proto pollution in merge lib A All deep merge/clone libs 5-10 findings
ReDoS in validator A All validators using same regex pattern 3-7 findings
Code injection in schema validator A All schema validators with code gen 2-5 findings
Recursion DoS in serializer A All recursive serializers 5-15 findings
Method clobbering in parser A All parsers creating objects from input 3-8 findings

Process

Step 1: Confirm the Original Finding

Before cross-pollinating, ensure the original finding is confirmed:

  • PoC works
  • fp-check passes
  • Submitted or ready to submit

Step 2: Extract the Vulnerable Pattern

Identify the core vulnerable code pattern as a regex:

# Example: recursive function without depth limit
Pattern: function\s+\w+\(.*\)\s*\{.*\w+\(  (self-call without depth check)

# Example: new Function with template literal
Pattern: new\s+Function\s*\(.*\$\{

# Example: path.join without startsWith check
Pattern: path\.join\(.*req\.(params|body|query)

Step 3: Search via grep.app

https://grep.app/search?q=PATTERN&regexp=true&filter[lang][0]=JavaScript

Tips:

  • Start with a specific pattern, then broaden if too few results
  • Filter by language to reduce noise
  • Look at file context, not just the matching line
  • Skip node_modules, test files, documentation

Step 4: Evaluate Each Match

For each match:

  1. Is this a different package? (not a fork/copy of the original)
  2. Does user input reach this code? (trace the data flow)
  3. Is the pattern actually vulnerable in this context? (check for mitigations)
  4. Does the package have enough usage to warrant a CVE? (check downloads)
  5. Does a CVE already exist for this package? (check NVD)

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 10d ago First seen · 146 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 22692d444fc0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cross-pollination is a skill published in the GitHub repository ByamB4/find-cve-agent (48 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,109 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 2026-08-30.

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