Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Encod3d-Sec/TORCHnpx agentmods add skills/encod3d-sec/torch/ctf-boxWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/encod3d-sec/torch/ctf-box)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/encod3d-sec/torch/ctf-box"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/encod3d-sec/torch/ctf-box.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00099 | $0.09065 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00049 | $0.04533 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00020 | $0.01813 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00907 |
Grade D, and why
ctf-box scanned grade D with 3 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 6d 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.
Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation
A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.
| sudo rights | `sudo -l` | NOPASSWD/GTFObin -> root | Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation
SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.
- **Stabilize EVERY Linux shell the moment it lands** (a raw `nc` shell has no job control, no arrow keys, no tab-complete, and Ctrl-C kills it). Full TTY-upgrade dance, in order: `python3 -c 'import pty;pty.spawn("/bin/ Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
Tooling-first: rustscan/nmap/feroxbuster/ffuf/nuclei/nxc, never a hand-rolled `/dev/tcp` or curl fuzz loop (skips the fingerprint router). **feroxbuster is the DEFAULT web content-discovery tool** (recursive, faster than How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 253 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CTF / Boot-to-Root Box
Own a whole machine: recon -> service triage -> foothold -> user.txt -> privesc -> root.txt.
Run everything from the engagement tooling host (e.g. Kali in tmux), capture into targets/<eng>/.
Track progress in targets/<eng>/Approach.md -- work the current phase's open items, mark [x] as each
lands; honor GATE 1 (no hand-rolled exploit before its wiki item is [x]), GATE 2 (no exploit step [x]
without a poc/ image), GATE 3 (exhausted vector -> [!] + one Deadends.md line, never re-run it).
Run python3 scripts/campaign.py next before every exploit step, and done/pass-done after each lands. The driver reprints the required posture (msf-shell rule, searchsploit+msf-first, the RTL stop-tells) and is the forcing function now that the drift-guard block is advisory-only - do not free-hand a box off the board.
Standing mandate: Wiki-first, tools-before-scripts (GATE 1, all phases)
This mandate stands over every phase below. Before writing ANY custom script or recalling an exploit from memory:
qmd_query "<tech/version> exploit"andqmd_query "<service> privilege escalation"via wiki-search MCP. Read matches. If the MCP is down (it drops mid-session), runbash scripts/wiki-query.sh "<tech> exploit"(same qmd index;-kfor an exact CVE) - do NOT skip wiki-first or fall back to grep.- Pull payloads from
wiki/payloads/and chains fromwiki/cheatsheets/attack-chains.md+wiki/cheatsheets/cve-arsenal.md, orSkill(arsenal)to resolve the exact file. - Privesc reference:
wiki/techniques/linux/linux-privesc.md/wiki/cheatsheets/linux-privesc.md(or windows-privesc). Only after the wiki has nothing do you write a custom PoC. Do not reinvent what the wiki already documents.
Tooling home: check /opt/arsenal first for pspy/linpeas/shot/capture. pspy64/linpeas/winPEAS live in /opt/arsenal, seeded by vm-provision.sh from their GitHub releases; our own helpers (shot.py, capture.sh) are pushed on demand by bash scripts/vm-sync.sh <name> from the vault.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 253 lines · 99 tokens per session scan D 82ab0cf57cff
ctf-box is a skill published in the GitHub repository Encod3d-Sec/TORCH (303 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 9,065 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, reaches for credential files, 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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