hunt-core

hunt-core is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Encod3d-Sec/TORCH. It costs 145 tokens per session (3,512 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A shared set of rules for authorized security testing, regardless of the bug being investigated. It covers scope checks, safe stopping points, confirming findings, and consistent reporting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check authorization and targets, work with two test accounts, limit enumeration, confirm findings, record dead ends, and produce standard FIND reports.
Why use it?
It prevents testing the wrong systems, exceeding agreed limits, or treating a false positive as a real vulnerability. It also keeps results and notes consistent across different investigations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Not installable on its own: it runs a file from its repository that does not travel with it. Clone the repository, or install whatever ships that file. The line is python3 scripts/wiki-stage.py --kind technique --slug <slug> --target-page <area>/<page>.md.

Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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Per session 145 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,512 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00145 $0.03512
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.01756
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00702
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00351

Measured 6d ago against content hash 7ecbfa30b035, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hunt-core scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

SSRF-reaching `requests.get(user_input)`), an observed escape (a `<script>` context that could be
skills/hunt/hunt-core/SKILL.md · 241 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 241 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hunt: Core

The discipline every hunt-* skill assumes. Class-specific technique lives in the hunt skills and the wiki; this file holds what is true regardless of which bug class you are chasing.

Owned here, never repeated in a hunt skill: the scope gate, two-account setup, confirmation gate, enumeration limits, stop conditions, marker discipline, wiki query/self-heal protocol, FIND output, Deadends, and distillation. A hunt skill that restates any of these will drift from this one; reference it instead.

Scope gate

Hunting means reading other people's data, escalating privileges, and creating accounts. Outside an authorized engagement all of it is a crime. Before any request leaves the machine:

  1. Authorization - a program with the target in scope, a signed agreement, your own lab, or a CTF. "Probably fine" is not authorization.
  2. Scope - exact hosts. *.target.com does not cover targetapp.io, an acquisition, or target.com.cdn.net. Read targets/<eng>/scope.md.
  3. Exclusions and forbidden techniques - check no_bruteforce, scanning caps, DoS, social engineering, and any per-program rule before the technique that would violate it.
  4. Two accounts, both yours - see below. Required for any authorization-class bug.
  5. Deadends - read targets/<eng>/Deadends.md and skip what is already exhausted.

Unconfirmed on any of these: ask. Do not infer scope from the fact that a host resolved. Discovery is not authorization. The scope-guard hook enforces the host check on Bash commands; it is a backstop, not the gate.

Two-account rule

Authorization findings are "account A reached account B's object." Without B you have two bad options: test against a real user, or report a guess. Both are worse than not reporting.

  • User A - resource owner. User B - attacker. Separate browser profiles so cookies never cross.
  • Record both internal IDs in targets/<eng>/identities.md as you discover them.
  • Cross-tenant work needs two tenants, not two users in one. Many apps isolate tenants correctly and users not at all.

Read the full file on GitHub · 241 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. 6d ago First seen · 241 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A 7ecbfa30b035

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hunt-core is a skill published in the GitHub repository Encod3d-Sec/TORCH (286 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 3,512 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (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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