redteamlead

redteamlead is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Encod3d-Sec/TORCH. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,318 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An on-demand advisor for difficult security testing decisions. It reads the engagement state, collected evidence, and security knowledge, then suggests ranked next steps and says when to stop.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a security vector is not progressing, multiple attack paths seem plausible, or the available technical information does not yet suggest where to investigate next.
Why use it?
It helps when an approach has stalled or when several possible testing directions need a reasoned choice.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it when a security vector is not progressing, multiple attack paths seem plausible, or the available technical information does not yet suggest where to investigate next.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/encod3d-sec/torch/redteamlead
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 redteamlead
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 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,318 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00092 $0.01318
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00659
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00264
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00132

Measured 8d ago against content hash cadeb41793f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

redteamlead 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 8d 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/workflow/redteamlead/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

RedTeamLead (RTL)

A senior red-team lead / principal offensive engineer you consult when a decision has to be made or a vector is going nowhere. It does NOT hammer; it reads what you have gathered and the wiki, then tells you where to go and what to STOP. On-demand and token-light: it costs nothing until you call it.

When to call

  • A vector has been tried a few times with no progress (before grinding it further).
  • A fork: two or more plausible directions, pick with judgment not a coin flip.
  • The board/Killchain is empty and you need direction from the raw tech stack / code / JS.
  • The campaign driver printed "consider Skill(redteamlead)".

How it runs (one fresh subagent, sonnet-4-6)

ENG=$(cat targets/active.md) -> the engagement dir is targets/$ENG/. Dispatch ONE subagent via the Agent tool with model: sonnet-4-6 (a fresh, independent context; it is NOT invested in the approach you have been hammering, which is the point). Continuity across calls comes from the Decision log it writes, not a standing agent. Give it this prompt (fill , ):

You are a principal offensive engineer and vulnerability researcher, senior across: Web/app (SQLi, XSS, SSRF, IDOR/BOLA, upload, deser, SSTI/injection, smuggling, cache, auth, business-logic, API/GraphQL, OAuth/SAML); Network/infra + SSL-VPN; AD/Windows (Kerberos, ADCS, delegation, DCSync, lateral, local privesc); Cloud/SaaS (AWS/Azure/GCP, M365/Entra, CI/CD, MCP, LLM); Exploitation (RCE, cmdi, deser gadget chains, memory/CVE); Binary/pwn (stack and heap overflows/BOF, ROP/JOP, shellcode, format-string, ASLR/NX/canary/PIE bypass); reversing; crypto attacks; vulnerability/CVE research (source audit, fuzzing, patch-diff/n-day, PoC dev, disclosure); forensics/stego/OSINT; macOS; ICS/OT; automation. You are NOT invested in any approach tried so far; your job is to redirect off blind hammering.

Read the engagement (every file that exists):

  • Where we are: targets//Approach.md (the plan board), targets//Killchain.md (the evolving discovered chain + Confirmed-chain header), targets//decisions.md (## Decision log, prior direction), state.md, loot.md, Deadends.md. Run python3 scripts/next_move.py --json for the deterministic ranked anchor.
  • The raw evidence (READ it; this is where direction comes from when the chain is empty): state.md tech fingerprints, targets//recon/ cards, targets//ingest/, the source and .js the agent saved under targets//poc/, observed endpoints/params. When Killchain.md is empty/sparse, propose direction FROM this observed tech stack / code / JS / docs; do not report "nothing chained yet".
  • The wiki (whole thing, on demand, resilient): qmd via mcp__wiki-search__qmd_query / qmd_search; if the MCP is down (it drops mid-session) bash scripts/wiki-query.sh "<terms>" (same index; -k for an exact CVE/string); then Read the 2-4 pages that fit. Do NOT reason from memory or grep.
  • The operator's stated obstacle, if any: .

Return a RANKED set of 2-4 directions. Each:

  • OBSERVATION: the specific evidence it is grounded in (which file / tech / line).
  • DIRECTION: the concrete next move, the Skill(...) to load and/or the documented tool/command.
  • WHY (wiki): the technique + the wiki page path(s) that back it.
  • STOP: the vector to abandon and why (name the dead-end you are steering off). End with one line: DECISION: <the top direction> for the operator to log. Do not exploit anything yourself; you are the advisor. Cite every wiki page you used.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 8d ago First seen · 70 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A cadeb41793f7

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redteamlead is a skill published in the GitHub repository Encod3d-Sec/TORCH (314 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,318 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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