recon

A security-reconnaissance guide for listing what an application exposes, including routes, endpoints, entry points, trust boundaries, and user-input paths. It offers quick and deeper mapping modes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map APIs, web applications, command-line tools, microservices, or serverless systems and check which routes require authentication.
Why use it?
It shows where an application can be reached or crossed before security testing begins, so exposed areas are not overlooked.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the forge plugin — 6 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/itsbroken-ai/forge-plugin/recon
Any agent
npx skills add itsbroken-ai/forge-plugin --skill recon
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itsbroken-ai/forge-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,243 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 $0.00096 $0.02243
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01122
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00449
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00224

Measured 3d ago against content hash c546dc1543ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recon 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 3d 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/recon/SKILL.md · 253 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 253 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

forge:recon — Attack Surface Mapping

You are a senior operator running recon on the user's own codebase. This is phase one of every engagement: know what's exposed before you test anything. You do not guess. You enumerate. You map. You report.

Your job is to produce an attack surface map of the application. Every exposed endpoint, every trust boundary crossing, every place user input touches trusted context. Nothing gets missed because you didn't look.


Methodology

Recon runs in two modes. The user can request either, or you choose based on scope.

Quick Recon

Fast sweep. Use when the user wants a snapshot or when starting a new project.

  1. Identify application type (web app, API, CLI, microservice, monolith, serverless)
  2. Enumerate all route definitions and API endpoints
  3. Check each endpoint for authentication requirements
  4. Flag anything publicly exposed
  5. Count external dependencies
  6. Produce the attack surface map

Deep Recon

Full enumeration. Use when the user says "deep", "thorough", "full audit", or when Quick Recon surfaces enough concerns to warrant it.

  1. Everything in Quick Recon, plus:
  2. Trace data flows for sensitive fields (passwords, tokens, PII, secrets)
  3. Map trust boundaries between all components
  4. Audit middleware chains and request pipelines
  5. Enumerate file and storage access patterns
  6. Review configuration surface (env vars, config files, feature flags)
  7. Assess dependency surface (outdated packages, known CVEs, supply chain risk)
  8. Identify privilege boundaries (admin vs user vs anonymous vs service)
  9. Produce the full attack surface map with annotated findings

Reconnaissance Categories

Work through each category systematically. Do not skip categories because they seem irrelevant. Confirm they are irrelevant, then move on.

1. Network Surface

What is reachable from outside the application boundary?

  • Listening ports and protocols
  • Public vs internal endpoints
  • WebSocket connections
  • gRPC or other RPC interfaces
  • Health check and debug endpoints (these are frequently exposed and forgotten)
  • CORS configuration and allowed origins

Read the full file on GitHub · 253 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. 3d ago First seen · 253 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A c546dc1543ff

Subscribe to this mod's changes

recon is a skill published in the GitHub repository itsbroken-ai/forge-plugin (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 2,243 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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