type-juggling

type-juggling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JustineDevs/premortem. It costs 54 tokens per session (3,204 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of type-juggling, Apache-2.0.

A guide to PHP type juggling, where loose comparisons can convert different values into the same type and treat them as equal. It focuses on weak checks involving passwords, hashes, HMACs, tokens, and input values.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review legacy PHP login and token-validation code, investigate hash comparisons, and test these weaknesses in authorised labs or CTFs.
Why use it?
It helps find authentication and signature checks that can be bypassed because they use loose equality instead of strict comparison.

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 review legacy PHP login and token-validation code, investigate hash…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/justinedevs/premortem/type-juggling
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 type-juggling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JustineDevs/premortem

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,204 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 $0.00054 $0.03204
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01602
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00641
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00320

Measured 3d ago against content hash b8da531733cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

type-juggling 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to type-juggling — 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/type-juggling/SKILL.md · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: PHP Type Juggling — Weak Comparison & Magic Hash Bypass

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: PHP == coercion, magic hashes (0e…), HMAC/hash loose checks, NULL from bad types, and CTF-style strcmp / json_decode / intval tricks. Use strict routing: map the sink (== vs hash_equals), PHP major version, and whether both operands are attacker-controlled. Routing note: when you encounter PHP login/signature logic or code like md5($_GET['x'])==md5($_GET['y']), start with this skill; if hash_equals/=== is already used, this path usually does not apply.

0. QUICK START

First-pass goal: prove the server branch treats unequal secrets/tokens as equal via coercion, not guess the real password.

First-pass payloads (auth / token shape)

password[]=x
password=
0
0e12345
240610708
QNKCDZO
true
[]
{"password":true}
admin%00

Minimal PHP probes (local or php -r in lab)

<?php
// Loose compare probes — run in target PHP major version if possible
var_dump('0e123' == '0e999');
var_dump('123a' == 123);
var_dump(md5('240610708') == md5('QNKCDZO'));

Routing hints

Clue Next step
Source code uses == to compare passwords, tokens, or HMAC values Go to Sections 1-3
md5($a) == md5($b) or loose sha1 comparison Section 2 magic hashes
hash_hmac(...) != '0' or compared with "0" Section 3
strcmpjson_decode(..., true)intval Section 5

1. LOOSE COMPARISON (==) — TRUTH TABLE & VERSIONS

PHP compares operands with type juggling unless you use === or hash_equals() for secrets.

1.1 Core examples (strings vs numbers)

Expression Result Mechanism (short)
'0010e2' == '1e3' true Both strings look numeric → compared as floats; both parse to 1000.0 (not zero — common exam trap; see next row for real “both zero”)
'0e462097431906509019562988736854' == '0e830400451993494058024219903391' true Both parse as 0.0 in scientific notation
'123a' == 123 true String cast to int stops at first non-digit → 123
'abc' == 0 true (PHP 7.x and earlier) Non-numeric string compared to int → string becomes 0
'' == 0 true Empty string → 0
'' == false true both “falsy” in loose rules
false == NULL true loose equality
0 == false true loose equality
'' == 0 == false == NULL true (chain) Each adjacent pair is true under == (''==0, 0==false, false==NULL) — classic “falsy” chain
'0' == false true String '0' is the only non-empty string that compares as false to boolean
'php' == 0 false (PHP 8+) PHP 8: non-numeric string no longer equals 0

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 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 · 292 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A b8da531733cb

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type-juggling is a skill published in the GitHub repository JustineDevs/premortem (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 3,204 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 type-juggling, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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