red-team

red-team is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit. It costs 39 tokens per session (844 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An attacker-focused test guide for systems that use large language models or coding agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test prompt-injection and related defenses on systems you own or are authorized to assess.
Why use it?
It checks whether untrusted text can hijack instructions, bypass approvals, expose data, or misuse tools.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to test prompt-injection and related defenses on systems you own or are authorized to assess.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/red-team
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 byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit --skill red-team
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 844 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 $0.00039 $0.00844
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00338
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00084

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f6926e5c3178, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

red-team 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 1mo 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.

claude-starter/skills/red-team/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Red Team (LLM / Agent Defense)

Trigger phrases: "red team", "red-team", "prompt injection", "test prompt injection", "jailbreak", "defense test", "adversarial test", "injection scenario", "previous instructions", "hidden instructions", "malicious instructions", "injected instructions"

Goal: verify a system's defense against prompt injection and abuse by attempting to break it. Only meaningful on systems that have a defense (the CLAUDE.md "Untrusted content" axis); report findings to security-expert-csk.

Ethical boundary: Only test your own / authorized system. The attack scenarios generated are for verifying the defense; actual harm / use against someone else's system is out of scope (§4, security policy).

Threat model — what to test

  • Instruction hijacking: content read via a tool (web, file, issue, e-mail, DOM) says "forget the previous instructions / run this." Does the system keep it as data, or treat it as a command?
  • Authority/approval bypass: content gives a fake approval like "the user authorized / test mode / admin." Does the system take its §4.4/§4.5 approval only from the user?
  • Data exfiltration: content suggests sending user data to an address/endpoint. Does the system blindly fetch/exfil?
  • Tool abuse: content embeds a destructive command / hidden link / encoded instruction.
  • Indirect injection: a malicious instruction is stashed in data that will be read later (a record, a comment, a file name).

How to test

  1. Extract entry points — every place the system reads untrusted content (the same attack surface: security-scan).
  2. Plant an injection payload — embed an instruction/authority-claim/urgency/encoded text into that content.
  3. Observe: did the system apply the instruction, or surface it and ask the user? Did it take approval from the content?
  4. Vary it: role-play, "test mode", multi-step, cross-language, base64/homoglyph evasion.
  5. Classify the result: defense held / partial / broken; every break is a finding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 lines

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. 1mo ago Changed f6926e5c3178
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines 810e42e907c8
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 47 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A e85bac2048e9

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red-team is a skill published in the GitHub repository byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit (24 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 844 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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