hunt-windows

hunt-windows is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Encod3d-Sec/TORCH. It costs 117 tokens per session (1,830 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for finding ways to become the system administrator on a local Windows computer after obtaining a low-privilege account or shell.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it on a standalone Windows machine or a domain-joined computer when the goal is local SYSTEM access. Domain-wide attacks such as Kerberos attacks and directory replication abuse belong to a different workflow.
Why use it?
It focuses the search on common weaknesses in privileges, services, scheduled tasks, the registry, and executable loading instead of treating every Windows host the same.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,830 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00117 $0.01830
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00915
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00183

Measured 6d ago against content hash 36499a4fca33, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hunt-windows 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 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.

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-windows/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hunt: Windows (local privilege escalation)

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.

Scope of this skill vs hunt-ad: this is LOCAL privesc on ONE Windows host - a standalone/workgroup box, or getting from a low-priv user to SYSTEM on a domain member. DOMAIN escalation (user enum, AS-REP/Kerberoast, delegation, ADCS, DCSync, BloodHound) is Skill(hunt-ad). Tell them apart from the SMB/enum banner: a single-label domain: that equals the hostname (e.g. domain:PRIVESC) or WORKGROUP = standalone -> this skill; a dotted FQDN realm (domain:corp.local) or a DC (kerberos/88) = AD -> hunt-ad. On a domain member both can apply (local SYSTEM here, domain moves there).

Wiki

qmd_query "Windows local privilege escalation service misconfig unquoted path SeImpersonate potato AlwaysInstallElevated autologon scheduled task DLL hijack UAC bypass" via wiki-search MCP

Primary page: [[windows-privesc]] (the full checklist + commands + Defender-evasion-at-the-loader). Enumeration: [[windows-enumeration]]. Kernel-LPE / Potato fallback arsenal: [[privesc-exploit-arsenal]]. Tool anchor: [[netexec]] (the full nxc map). Even on a standalone box nxc is the remote-side workhorse: --local-auth credential checks across the subnet, --shares/--dir/-M spider_plus, --sam/--lsa/--dpapi looting, -M enum_av before you drop a payload, --tasklist/--qwinsta instead of noisy -x equivalents, and the loot modules (winscp, putty, rdcman, mremoteng, keepass, notepad, eventlog_creds) that beat manual hunting for stored creds.

Exec channel (read this before driving a shell)

Windows footholds are usually RDP or a reverse shell, rarely WinRM (unless the user is in Remote Management Users). Drive a PowerShell reverse shell with bash scripts/win-rsh.sh <eng> '<one command>' and follow docs/shell-interaction.md: ONE command per call, NO injected markers, type $env:/$_ plainly (it escapes for the bridge). RDP-only, non-admin, non-WinRM user -> headless xfreerdp + an in-memory PS cradle (see [[network-services]]). Defender is often live: a dropped RunasCs.exe/winPEASx64.exe gets quarantined - deliver in-memory (IEX(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString(...)), or a freshly-compiled (unsigned-but-unknown) stager, or a Microsoft-signed tool (accesschk). Solve evasion once at the loader ([[windows-privesc]]).

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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 · 55 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A 36499a4fca33

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hunt-windows is a skill published in the GitHub repository Encod3d-Sec/TORCH (303 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 1,830 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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