hunt-macos

hunt-macos is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Encod3d-Sec/TORCH. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,950 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A macOS security-testing guide covering protections such as TCC, SIP, Gatekeeper, AMFI, the keychain, XPC, application sandboxes, and code signing. It accounts for different starting points, such as an administrator or a sandboxed app.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate macOS applications, services, keychain data, code-signing entitlements, XPC communication, TCC, SIP, Gatekeeper, and related privilege-escalation paths.
Why use it?
It helps choose tests that match the machine and the attacker's access level, especially when checking privilege escalation, sandbox escapes, or privacy-control bypasses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to investigate macOS applications, services, keychain data, code-signing entitlements, XPC communication, TCC, SIP, Gatekeeper, and related privilege-escalation paths.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/encod3d-sec/torch/hunt-macos
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 Encod3d-Sec/TORCH --skill hunt-macos
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Encod3d-Sec/TORCH

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,950 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 $0.00071 $0.01950
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00975
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00390
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00195

Measured 7d ago against content hash 605649bb3808, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hunt-macos 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 7d 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/hunt/hunt-macos/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hunt: macOS

Assumes hunt-core for the scope gate, two-account rule, confirmation gate, enumeration limits, stop conditions, wiki protocol, FIND output, and Deadends. Do not re-derive any of that here.

Wiki

qmd_query "macOS TCC SIP Gatekeeper AMFI keychain XPC dylib injection sandbox escape code signing entitlements" via wiki-search MCP

Hub: [[macos-moc]] (live index). Primary page: [[macos-tcc]]. Payload arsenal: wiki/payloads/macos-app-injection.md. Anchors: [[macos-privesc]] (general privesc checklist), [[macos-keychain]] (credential/DB harvest).

Environment note

macOS boxes on THM/HTB are usually a VM (not real Apple hardware) - SIP/Gatekeeper/TCC still apply as shipped, but device-specific protections (Secure Enclave, T2) generally do not. Confirm root/admin vs a sandboxed app context before picking an escalation path - the sandbox-escape and TCC-bypass techniques below assume different starting points.

Attack surface signals

Detected via: SSH/service banner (Darwin, Mac OS X 10., macOS 1[1-5]), a .app bundle / .plist delivered as a foothold vector, Bonjour/mDNS (5353), ARD/screen-sharing (5900/3283), SMB served by smbd with a macOS-flavoured share layout, or a CTF prompt naming macOS/Darwin explicitly. Footholds: a delivered .pkg/.dmg/.app (installer/Gatekeeper abuse), a web app or service running as a low-priv user, physical/VNC/screen-sharing access to a logged-in session.

Rank the surface once you have a foothold:

  • TCC / SIP / Gatekeeper / AMFI - the macOS-specific security stack; a bypass here is the signature finding of this class and the primary path to protected data or unsigned code exec.
  • Keychain / credential loot - highest reward-per-effort; a login-keychain dump or a reused hash often beats grinding a hardened control (see chaining note).
  • XPC / dylib / library injection - inherit a privileged or entitled process's rights; the main local-privesc lever once enumeration finds a vulnerable service or a hijackable load path.
  • Sandbox escape - only relevant from a sandboxed app context; escapes to the full user context.
  • MDM / installer abuse - a .pkg postinstall runs as root at install time; MDM enrollment reaches the whole fleet. Highest blast radius when either is present.

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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. 7d ago First seen · 117 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 605649bb3808

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hunt-macos is a skill published in the GitHub repository Encod3d-Sec/TORCH (303 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,950 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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