bb-methodology

bb-methodology is a skill for Claude Code from elementalsouls/Claude-BugHunter. It costs 90 tokens per session (7,321 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A guide for organizing bug-bounty and security-testing work, from choosing the engagement type to deciding what counts as a valid finding.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a hunt or when changing targets. It combines a testing workflow with ways to question assumptions, investigate unusual behavior, and plan follow-up tests.
Why use it?
It helps when you are unsure where to start, what to test next, or whether an observation is worth reporting.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the Claude-BugHunter plugin — 11 skills, 15 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it at the start of a hunt or when changing targets. It combines a testing workflow with ways to question assumptions, investigate unusual behavior, and plan follow-up tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elementalsouls/claude-bughunter/bb-methodology
About the project

Claude Code Spec Workflow is a set of Claude Code commands and agents that organizes software work into documented stages for new features and bug fixes. It is for developers who want Claude Code to handle requirements, design, implementation, issue resolution, and verification through repeatable workflows, with the catalogue entries providing the associated commands and agents.

elementalsouls/Claude-BugHunter · 4,298 stars · on GitHub · elementalsouls.github.io

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 elementalsouls/Claude-BugHunter --skill bb-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elementalsouls/Claude-BugHunter

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install Claude-BugHunter, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 15 commands.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,321 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Server-Side Request Forgery · line 271
    Code accesses a cloud instance metadata endpoint (e.g. 169.254.169.254). A single request can return temporary IAM credentials, making this a high-value SSRF target for credential theft.
    Fix: Remove access to cloud metadata endpoints unless strictly required. If metadata is needed, restrict it (e.g. IMDSv2 with hop limit) and never expose returned credentials.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00090 $0.07321
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.03660
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.01464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00732

Measured 9d ago against content hash 687af8873d83, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

bb-methodology scanned grade C with 2 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 9d 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.

Cloud metadata endpointhighServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

| +-- Can reach 169.254.169.254? -> Extract keys -> RCE

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

3. No time diff? OOB (`curl attacker.com`, interactsh) -- watch for DNS callback
Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/bb-methodology/SKILL.md · 514 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 514 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bug Bounty Methodology: Workflow + Mindset

Master orchestrator for hunting sessions. Combines the 5-phase non-linear workflow with the critical thinking framework that separates top 1% hunters from the rest.


PART 0: MODE CONFIRMATION (Before Anything Else)

Confirm the engagement type before deciding what counts as a finding. The same target produces a different report shape depending on which mode applies. Getting this wrong is the single biggest waste of time in this workflow — answer it explicitly before Phase 0.

Engagement type What counts as a finding What gets rejected
Bug bounty (H1 / Bugcrowd / Intigriti / private VDP) Impact-demonstrated bugs ONLY. Full chain to attacker-attainable harm. Hygiene (EoL software alone, permissive CSP alone, stack traces, info disclosure without concrete impact, "best practice" violations)
Red team (external client engagement) Hygiene findings + recon + IoCs + defensive-state observations are ALL deliverables Nothing — even "no finding here" is reportable as a positive defensive observation
Pentest (signed SoW / WAPT) Depends on SoW. Read scope explicitly. Usually accepts hygiene + impact + recon Out-of-scope assets, unsigned testing
Internal audit Compliance-mapped findings (PCI / ISO / NIST / DPDPA / GDPR) Findings without a control-mapping

Hard rule: Before Phase 0 runs, write the engagement type as the first line in your hunt notes. If you can't answer it from the user's instruction, ASK once. Don't assume — the mistake costs both you and the triager.

Lesson from an authorized engagement: First-pass on this target produced 5 hygiene findings (SP2013 EoL, permissive CSP, stack traces) shipped in red-team format. The engagement was bug-bounty. Findings would have been N/A'd as "informational, no impact demonstrated." After the corrected pass with hygiene-as-context-not-finding, the same target yielded 11 impact-demonstrated bugs including 3 Critical.

Read the full file on GitHub · 514 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. 9d ago First seen · 514 lines · 90 tokens per session scan C 687af8873d83

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bb-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository elementalsouls/Claude-BugHunter (4,298 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 7,321 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (cloud metadata endpoint, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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