performing-social-engineering

performing-social-engineering is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from EvilFreelancer/secs. It costs 105 tokens per session (1,520 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A framework for authorized tests of how people respond to phishing, phone scams, text messages, or physical deception. Social engineering means manipulating people rather than exploiting software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for approved phishing, vishing, smishing, or physical-pretext campaigns, including lure design, Gophish campaigns, awareness measurement, and reporting of lessons learned.
Why use it?
People and reporting habits are part of an organization’s security, but poorly controlled tests can cause harm, embarrassment, or legal problems. This framework requires explicit permission, defined scope, and careful handling of results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/evilfreelancer/secs/performing-social-engineering
Any agent
npx skills add EvilFreelancer/secs --skill performing-social-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EvilFreelancer/secs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,520 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 $0.00105 $0.01520
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00760
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00304
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00152

Measured 4d ago against content hash 9760fae4d0ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performing-social-engineering 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 4d 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.

.agents/skills/performing-social-engineering/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Performing Social Engineering

Social engineering tests the one control you cannot patch: people. Done right, it measures how a real lure would fare against the organization's training, email controls, and reporting culture, and it produces the metrics and teachable moments that actually move that culture. Done wrong, it humiliates employees, leaks real personal data, or crosses into fraud. The line between the two is authorization and restraint, so this skill is gated harder than most.

Authorization here is organizational and specific: written executive sign-off, legal clearance, a defined scope (which groups, which vectors, which exclusions), and HR/legal coordination for how results are handled and disclosed. Per AGENTS.md you target a consenting organization's controls, not non-consenting private individuals; you never misattribute the campaign to a real named third party (no false flag); and you demonstrate susceptibility without causing real loss. Assume every phish is LOUD and will be reported — that is the point.

When to Use

  • The engagement explicitly authorizes testing people, with executive sign-off
  • Developing a pretext and phishing/spearphishing campaign against in-scope groups
  • Vishing or smishing scenarios to test help-desk and verification procedures
  • Physical pretexting (tailgating, USB drops) where the ROE permits it
  • Producing susceptibility metrics and awareness recommendations

When NOT to Use

  • Analyzing an inbound phishing email defensively — use analyzing-phishing-emails
  • OSINT and target-surface mapping only — use performing-reconnaissance; come here to weaponize it into a pretext
  • Building the credential-harvesting landing page's web flaws — use testing-web-applications
  • Any test of non-consenting individuals or without org sign-off — refuse and escalate; scope on paper for an individual is not consent
  • Writing up results — use reporting-security-findings

Method (authorization-gated at every phase)

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 4d ago First seen · 113 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 9760fae4d0ee

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performing-social-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository EvilFreelancer/secs (10 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 1,520 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 2026-08-31.

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