recon-and-methodology

recon-and-methodology is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JustineDevs/premortem. It costs 37 tokens per session (3,284 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of recon-and-methodology, Apache-2.0.

A security testing guide for examining a new website or service before looking for specific bugs. It explains how to map domains, subdomains, technologies, and API endpoints, then turn those findings into a testing plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for authorized bug-bounty reconnaissance, asset discovery, technology identification, endpoint mapping, and security test planning.
Why use it?
It replaces random testing with a structured view of what the target exposes. This reduces the chance of missing important systems or attack paths.

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 for authorized bug-bounty reconnaissance, asset discovery, technology identification, endpoint mapping, and security test planning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/justinedevs/premortem/recon-and-methodology
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 JustineDevs/premortem --skill recon-and-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JustineDevs/premortem

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,284 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00037 $0.03284
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01642
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00657
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00328

Measured 9d ago against content hash e2536d18ddb0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

recon-and-methodology scanned grade C with 2 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.

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.

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

/.aws/credentials → AWS credentials

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s "https://crt.sh/?q=%.target.com&output=json" | jq -r '.[].name_value' | sort -u
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to recon-and-methodology — 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/recon-and-methodology/SKILL.md · 390 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 390 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Recon and Methodology — Expert Bug Bounty Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Systematic recon and bug-finding methodology from top bug hunters. Covers subdomain enumeration, endpoint discovery, tech fingerprinting, and the hunter's mental model for finding bugs that others miss. Key insight: most high-severity bugs are found through systematic coverage, not just clever payloads.


1. RECON HIERARCHY

Target Selection
└── Scope Definition (in-scope assets)
    └── Asset Discovery (subdomains, IPs, domains)
        └── Tech Fingerprinting (what's running)
            └── Endpoint Discovery (attack surface)
                └── Vulnerability Testing (per vulnerability type)

2. SUBDOMAIN ENUMERATION (CRITICAL FIRST STEP)

Passive (no DNS queries to target)

# Subfinder (aggregates multiple sources):
subfinder -d target.com -o subdomains.txt

# Amass passive:
amass enum -passive -d target.com

# Certsh (certificate transparency):
curl -s "https://crt.sh/?q=%.target.com&output=json" | jq -r '.[].name_value' | sort -u

# SecurityTrails API, Shodan:
# Web: https://securitytrails.com/list/apex_domain/target.com

Active (DNS brute force + resolution)

# Massdns + wordlist:
massdns -r /path/to/resolvers.txt -t A -o S -w output.txt \
  <(cat wordlist.txt | sed 's/$/.target.com/')

# ffuf for subdomain brute:
ffuf -w subdomains-wordlist.txt -u https://FUZZ.target.com \
  -mc 200,301,302,403 -H "Host: FUZZ.target.com"

# DNSx for bulk resolution:
cat subdomains.txt | dnsx -a -resp -o resolved.txt

# Recommended wordlist: SecLists/Discovery/DNS/

Virtual Host Discovery

# ffuf vhost mode:
ffuf -w wordlist.txt -u https://target.com \
  -H "Host: FUZZ.target.com" -mc 200,301,403

# gobuster vhost:
gobuster vhost -u https://target.com -w wordlist.txt

3. SERVICE AND PORT DISCOVERY

# Fast port scan (common ports):
nmap -T4 -F target.com -oN ports.txt

# Comprehensive scan on resolved subdomains:
cat resolved_ips.txt | nmap -iL - --open -p 80,443,8080,8443,8888,3000,5000 -oG scan.txt

# httpx for HTTP probing:
cat subdomains.txt | httpx -title -tech-detect -status-code -o live_hosts.txt

# masscan for speed on large IP ranges:
masscan -p 80,443,8080,8443 10.0.0.0/8 --rate=1000

Read the full file on GitHub · 390 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. 9d ago First seen · 390 lines · 37 tokens per session scan C e2536d18ddb0

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recon-and-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository JustineDevs/premortem (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 3,284 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (reaches for credential files, makes network calls). It is 100% identical to recon-and-methodology, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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