ato-methodology

ato-methodology is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,090 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ato-methodology, Apache-2.0.

An account-takeover guide for finding flaws that let someone gain control of another user's account.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess password recovery, email changes, sessions, JWTs, OAuth sign-ins, object access, cross-site scripting, and multi-factor authentication flows.
Why use it?
It organizes common paths such as weak password resets, session problems, OAuth mistakes, and missing authorization checks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to assess password recovery, email changes, sessions, JWTs, OAuth sign-ins, object access, cross-site scripting, and multi-factor authentication flows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mingyiseclab/mingyi-atlas/ato-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 MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas --skill ato-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,090 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 97% 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 $0.00039 $0.01090
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00545
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00218
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00109

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1461e8d8d390, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ato-methodology 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 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.

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

97% identical to ato-methodology — 2 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.

src/skills/standard/exploit/web/ato-methodology/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Account Takeover (ATO) Methodology

ATO is an outcome, not a vuln class. Reach it via 9 canonical paths.

1. Password reset flaws

  • Token in URL leaked to Referer (3rd-party CDN, analytics)
  • Token guessable (timestamp + user_id, sequential int, predictable RNG)
  • Token-no-expiry → reuse forever
  • Reset accepts arbitrary email param (mass-assignment style)
  • Token not invalidated after password change
  • "Forgot username" flows revealing existence

2. Email change without re-auth

POST /api/users/me/email {email: ...} without verifying current password. Or with verification but verification token leaks.

3. Session fixation

Server accepts attacker-set session cookie. Victim's actions bind to attacker's session.

4. JWT-based ATO

See skills/exploit/web/jwt/SKILL.md — alg confusion, weak secret, kid injection.

5. OAuth-based ATO

See skills/exploit/web/oauth/SKILL.md — redirect_uri bypass + open-redirect chain → code to attacker.

6. IDOR-based ATO

  • PATCH /api/users/<id> w/o auth check → change victim's email/password
  • GET /api/users/<id>/sessions → harvest victim's session tokens

7. XSS-based ATO

Stored XSS on victim-visible page → exfil cookie / session token to attacker.

8. CSRF on critical state

  • CSRF on password change endpoint (no anti-CSRF token)
  • CSRF on email change
  • CSRF on MFA disable

9. MFA bypass

  • TOTP code accepted multiple times w/ short delay (race)
  • TOTP code accepted from past N-step (clock skew abuse)
  • Backup-code flow doesn't enforce TOTP
  • "Trust this device" w/o re-auth on critical action
  • Account recovery bypasses MFA entirely
  • Phone-number takeover (SIM swap) → SMS 2FA hijack

Chain table

Primary vuln Chain partner Outcome
Open redirect OAuth redirect_uri allowlist OAuth code → attacker → ATO
XSS (reflected) session cookie not HttpOnly Cookie exfil → ATO
XSS (stored) victim views page Cookie / session-storage exfil → ATO
IDOR on email change reset flow Change victim's email, reset, login
CSRF on password change predictable URL Phishing email triggers password change
Predictable reset token weak RNG audit Generate victim's token offline → reset
OAuth state missing account linking by email Attacker pre-creates account, links victim's OAuth → ATO
JWT alg=none server accepts Mint admin JWT → ATO
Email change w/o re-auth + ATO of email full account graph Standard playbook for multi-tenant SaaS

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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 · 105 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 1461e8d8d390

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ato-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,090 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to ato-methodology, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.