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/EvilFreelancer/secsnpx agentmods add skills/evilfreelancer/secs/exploiting-cloud-platformsWrote 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/evilfreelancer/secs/exploiting-cloud-platforms)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/evilfreelancer/secs/exploiting-cloud-platforms"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/evilfreelancer/secs/exploiting-cloud-platforms/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/evilfreelancer/secs/exploiting-cloud-platforms"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/evilfreelancer/secs/exploiting-cloud-platforms.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 | $0.00052 | $0.03037 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00021 | $0.01215 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00607 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00304 |
Grade B, and why
exploiting-cloud-platforms scanned grade B with 2 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 1mo 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.
Cloud metadata endpointmediumServer-side request forgery
One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.
curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/ Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl https://bucket-name.s3.amazonaws.com/ This is a copy
92% identical to exploiting-cloud-platforms — 18 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 467 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Exploiting Cloud Platforms
When to Use
- AWS, Azure, or GCP security assessment
- Cloud misconfiguration exploitation
- S3/Blob/Storage bucket hunting
- Cloud IAM privilege escalation
- Serverless function exploitation
- Cloud metadata service abuse
When NOT to Use
- On-premises Active Directory — use
attacking-active-directory - Container and Kubernetes internals — use
container-security - IaC and pipeline review from source — use
auditing-supply-chain - Investigating a cloud compromise — use
responding-to-incidents - Hardening an account's posture rather than attacking it — use
hardening-cloud-posture
Route to a Depth Skill
Cloud has grown several attack surfaces deep enough to warrant their own procedure skill. When the assessment narrows to one of these, switch — the IAM-and-storage methodology here does not carry their specific detail.
| Signal | Skill |
|---|---|
| A managed Kubernetes cluster (EKS/GKE/AKS): pod-to-cloud IMDS, IRSA/Workload Identity, k8s RBAC | container-security |
| CI/CD pipeline with OIDC federation to the cloud: broad trust policies, runner compromise | auditing-supply-chain |
AWS Security
AWS CLI Setup
# Configure credentials
aws configure
# Or export directly
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1
# Test credentials
aws sts get-caller-identity
# List available regions
aws ec2 describe-regions
S3 Bucket Enumeration
# List buckets
aws s3 ls
# List bucket contents
aws s3 ls s3://bucket-name/
aws s3 ls s3://bucket-name/ --recursive
# Download bucket contents
aws s3 sync s3://bucket-name/ ./local-folder/
# Check public access
aws s3api get-bucket-acl --bucket bucket-name
aws s3api get-bucket-policy --bucket bucket-name
# Test unauthenticated access
aws s3 ls s3://bucket-name/ --no-sign-request
curl https://bucket-name.s3.amazonaws.com/
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 467 lines · 52 tokens per session scan B e4db8c090c52
exploiting-cloud-platforms is a skill published in the GitHub repository EvilFreelancer/secs (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 3,037 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (cloud metadata endpoint, makes network calls). It is 92% identical to exploiting-cloud-platforms, differing in 18 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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