race-condition

race-condition is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JustineDevs/premortem. It costs 50 tokens per session (5,005 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of race-condition, Apache-2.0.

A security testing guide for race conditions, where simultaneous requests can pass a check before the application's state is updated. TOCTOU means “time of check to time of use,” a gap between verifying something and using it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test one-time actions, coupons, balances, inventory, quotas, referral bonuses, password changes, email verification, and multi-factor authentication flows.
Why use it?
It helps find operations that should happen once but may happen multiple times under concurrent requests. This can expose duplicate rewards, purchases, transfers, reservations, or verification actions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to test one-time actions, coupons, balances, inventory, quotas, referral bonuses, password changes, email verification, and multi-factor authentication flows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/justinedevs/premortem/race-condition
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add JustineDevs/premortem --skill race-condition
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JustineDevs/premortem

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 5,005 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00050 $0.05005
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.02502
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01001
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00500

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2fc1e1623968, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

race-condition 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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to race-condition — 0 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.

.agents/skills/race-condition/SKILL.md · 527 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 527 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Race Conditions — Testing & Exploitation Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Treat race conditions as authorization/state integrity issues: non-atomic read-then-write lets multiple requests observe stale state. Prioritize one-time or balance-like operations. Combine parallel transport (HTTP/1.1 last-byte sync, HTTP/2 single-packet, Turbo Intruder gates) with application evidence (duplicate success responses, inconsistent balances, duplicate ledger rows). Authorized testing only. Routing note: for business workflows, coupons, inventory, or one-time rewards, start with this skill and cross-load business-logic-vulnerabilities.


0. QUICK START — What to Test First

Target endpoints where check and update are unlikely to be a single atomic database operation:

Priority Operation class Example paths / parameters
1 One-time redeem / coupon / bonus redeem, apply_coupon, claim_reward, voucher
2 Balance / quota / stock deduction transfer, purchase, reserve, inventory
3 Invite / referral / signup bonus invite_accept, referral_claim
4 Password / email / MFA verification verify_token, confirm_email, reset_password
5 Idempotent-looking APIs without strong keys POST that should succeed only once per user

First moves (conceptual):

  1. Capture the state-changing request in a proxy.
  2. Send 20–100 copies as simultaneously as your tooling allows.
  3. Classify outcome: 0/1 expected successes vs N successes or inconsistent final state.

1. CORE CONCEPT

1.1 TOCTOU (Time-of-check to time-of-use)

Thread A                    Thread B
   |                            |
   +-- CHECK (resource OK)      |
   |                            +-- CHECK (resource OK)  ← both see "OK"
   +-- USE / UPDATE             |
   |                            +-- USE / UPDATE           ← duplicate effect

Read the full file on GitHub · 527 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. 5d ago First seen · 527 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 2fc1e1623968

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race-condition is a skill published in the GitHub repository JustineDevs/premortem (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 5,005 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to race-condition, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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