scope-authorized-security-test

scope-authorized-security-test is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gaelic-ghost/socket. It costs 50 tokens per session (429 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning guide for getting permission and setting boundaries before active security testing. It records targets, allowed techniques, safety controls, and stop conditions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare the scope for penetration tests, bug-bounty work, web and API checks, network scans, and vulnerability validation.
Why use it?
It prevents testing systems without clear authority or causing avoidable disruption during scans, exploit checks, or probing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the cybersecurity-skills plugin — 31 skills shipped together

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/gaelic-ghost/socket/scope-authorized-security-test
Any agent
npx skills add gaelic-ghost/socket --skill scope-authorized-security-test
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaelic-ghost/socket

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cybersecurity-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 429 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 $0.00050 $0.00429
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00215
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00043

Measured yesterday against content hash bc66e7655dc7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scope-authorized-security-test 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/cybersecurity-skills/skills/scope-authorized-security-test/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Scope Authorized Security Test

Overview

Turn permission into an executable scope record before sending active traffic or running a proof of concept. Authorization must identify the owner and boundaries; access to a target or a public address is not permission.

Read references/active-test-scope.md and complete every applicable field.

Workflow

  1. Identify authority.
    • Record target owner, authorizing person/record, tester, contacts, dates, jurisdiction or program policy, and evidence of permission.
  2. Resolve targets precisely.
    • List domains, hosts, addresses/ranges, applications, APIs, repositories, accounts, environments, and third-party dependencies.
    • List exclusions explicitly and define how dynamic/cloud/CDN targets are resolved.
  3. Define allowed techniques.
    • Separate passive review, discovery, authenticated testing, automated scanning, fuzzing, exploit validation, social/physical testing, persistence, credential access, data access, and denial-of-service.
    • Default unlisted techniques to disallowed.
  4. Set operational controls.
    • Define source addresses, accounts, rate/concurrency, time windows, test data, logging, notification, emergency stop, cleanup, and restoration.
  5. Define data handling.
    • Minimize accessed data; specify retention, encryption, screenshots/logs, secrets, evidence transfer, disclosure, and deletion.
  6. Establish stop conditions.
    • Stop on target drift, third-party impact, instability, sensitive data beyond minimum proof, unexpected privileges, scope ambiguity, or an unapproved technique.
  7. Approve the test plan.
    • Show exact targets and effects before tools run; update the scope record before expanding work.

Output

Return authority, included/excluded targets, allowed/disallowed techniques, operational controls, data handling, stop/escalation contacts, and approval state.

Files

What ships with it

2 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. yesterday First seen · 36 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A bc66e7655dc7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scope-authorized-security-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaelic-ghost/socket (7 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 429 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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