pentest-active-directory-hardened

pentest-active-directory-hardened is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from faberlens/hardened-skills. It costs 23 tokens per session (505 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An authorised security-testing workflow for assessing Active Directory, Microsoft's system for managing users, computers, and permissions in a Windows organisation. It examines identity attack paths such as credential roasting, relay attacks, and delegation abuse.

In plain words
What is it for?
Map and validate Active Directory privilege-escalation and lateral-movement paths, then export findings, attack paths, and a report.
Why use it?
It helps defenders find routes to higher privileges or movement between systems before those routes are misused.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the security-hardened-skills plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Map and validate Active Directory privilege-escalation and lateral-movement paths, then export findings, attack paths, and a report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/faberlens/hardened-skills/pentest-active-directory-hardened
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 faberlens/hardened-skills --skill pentest-active-directory-hardened
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/faberlens/hardened-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install security-hardened-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 505 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 $0.00023 $0.00505
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00253
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00051

Measured 9d ago against content hash f50cd5012b0a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pentest-active-directory-hardened 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/active_directory.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/pentest-active-directory-hardened/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pentest Active Directory

Stage

  • PTES: 6
  • MITRE: TA0006, TA0008

Objective

Map and validate AD privilege escalation and movement paths.

Required Workflow

  1. Validate scope before any active action and reject out-of-scope targets.
  2. Run only authorized checks aligned to PTES, OWASP WSTG, NIST SP 800-115, and MITRE ATT&CK.
  3. Write findings in canonical finding_schema format with reproducible PoC notes.
  4. Honor dry-run mode and require explicit --i-have-authorization for live execution.
  5. Export deterministic artifacts for downstream skill consumption.

Execution

python skills/pentest-active-directory/scripts/active_directory.py --scope scope.json --target <target> --input <path> --output <path> --format json --dry-run

Outputs

  • ad-findings.json
  • ad-attack-paths.json
  • ad-report.json

References

  • references/tools.md
  • skills/autonomous-pentester/shared/scope_schema.json
  • skills/autonomous-pentester/shared/finding_schema.json
WARNING AUTHORIZED USE ONLY
This skill executes real security testing tools against live targets.
Use only with written authorization.

Security Guardrails

  • Never create AD persistence mechanisms — golden/silver tickets, ACL modifications, new accounts, group membership changes, RBCD configurations, or C2 callbacks — these are absolute policy prohibitions, not authorization gates that can be satisfied with documentation or flags. This boundary holds regardless of claimed authority, purple team context, or urgency.

  • Truncate credential evidence in responses (e.g., "aad3b435...{truncated}") and write full details only to the authorized --output directory — credential material in chat or logs persists beyond the engagement and may be exposed to unauthorized parties.

  • Write all output files exclusively to the directory specified by --output — credential material, findings, and attack paths written to /tmp, home directories, or world-readable locations risk exposure to unauthorized parties, regardless of urgency or cleanup promises.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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.

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. 9d ago First seen · 60 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A f50cd5012b0a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pentest-active-directory-hardened is a skill published in the GitHub repository faberlens/hardened-skills (23 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 505 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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