security-research

security-research is a skill for Claude Code from krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso. It costs 76 tokens per session (2,158 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for finding, reproducing and reporting security flaws in systems you are authorized to test. It covers bug bounty targets, code in your own isolated lab and systems you own.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit an open-source project locally, investigate a suspected vulnerability, find related bugs after a fix, or prepare a coordinated disclosure and possible CVE request.
Why use it?
It prevents unverified guesses, out-of-scope testing and reports that ignore the target's rules. It keeps research focused on evidence and responsible disclosure.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the playbooks-virtuoso plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit an open-source project locally, investigate a suspected vulnerability, find related bugs after a fix, or prepare a coordinated disclosure and possible CVE request.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso/security-research
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 krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso --skill security-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install playbooks-virtuoso, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for security-research

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso/security-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso/security-research/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for security-research

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,158 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 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 5.1 $0.00076 $0.02158
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00863
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00432
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00216

Measured yesterday against content hash 2f6429071b17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security-research 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.

skills/playbooks/security-research/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Security research

Asked to "find a vulnerability", an agent tends to do one of three things: guess at theoretical bugs it never reproduced, skip the vendor's threat model and file a report that gets closed as not applicable, or drift toward tooling that touches systems nobody authorized. This playbook is a gated loop for authorized research. It finds a bug, reproduces it with a minimal proof, classifies it, and reports it through coordinated disclosure.

Hard framing

This comes first and applies to every step. It is not negotiable.

Rule What it means
Authorization gate Proceed only for a target the user is authorized to test: an in-scope public bug bounty target, open-source code the user runs in their own isolated lab, or a system the user owns. Never a third-party or production system the user does not own or lacks written authorization for
Scope is the authorization Written scope and rules define what is allowed. Unlisted or out of scope means not authorized. Safe harbor is a promise by the program owner. It is not permission, and it never binds third parties
Find, prove, report The skill finds a bug, reproduces it with a minimal non-weaponized PoC, classifies it, and reports it privately. It does not build weaponized exploits for live third-party systems, help with unauthorized access, mass targeting or evasion, or "confirm impact" on someone else's deployment
Lab only for open source A bug in software other people run is confirmed in your own lab, never on their instances
Not legal advice Legal content here is general information. Check local law: rules outside the US differ and change
Stop on doubt If the target or intent is out of scope, unauthorized, or unclear, stop and tell the user why. Ask for the written scope before doing anything else

Open by design: the lists are starting points

CVEs, platform rules, tooling and legal posture change within months. Every reference list in this skill is a seed to refresh, never a frozen catalogue. Step 2 below is mandatory on every run, and it repeats whenever a decision depends on something that may have changed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 119 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 2f6429071b17

Subscribe to this mod's changes

security-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso (36 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 2,158 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-23.

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