insecure-source-code-management

An authorized security-testing guide for finding exposed source-control folders and backup or configuration files, such as .git, .svn, .hg, .env, and .DS_Store.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during reconnaissance to check common exposed paths, distinguish likely 403 and 404 responses, and assess whether Git or other version-control data can be reconstructed.
Why use it?
It helps identify leaks that may reveal source code, repository history, internal URLs, or credentials while keeping recovered information within the test scope.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/miru-zero/zero-brain/insecure-source-code-management
Any agent
npx skills add miru-zero/zero-brain --skill insecure-source-code-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/miru-zero/zero-brain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,473 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00047 $0.01473
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00737
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00295
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00147

Measured yesterday against content hash b6f85a8f6f27, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

insecure-source-code-management 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to insecure-source-code-management — 4 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/insecure-source-code-management/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Insecure Source Code Management

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: This skill covers detection and recovery of exposed version-control metadata, common backup artifacts, and related misconfigurations. Use only in authorized assessments. Treat recovered credentials and URLs as sensitive; do not exfiltrate real data beyond scope. For broad discovery workflow, cross-load recon-for-sec and recon-and-methodology when those skills exist in the workspace.

0. QUICK START

High-value paths to probe first (GET or HEAD, respect rate limits):

/.git/HEAD
/.git/config
/.svn/entries
/.svn/wc.db
/.hg/requires
/.bzr/README
/.DS_Store
/.env

Routing note: quickly probe these paths first; for full recon workflow, load methodology from recon-for-sec and recon-and-methodology before deeper testing.


1. GIT EXPOSURE

Detection

  • /.git/HEAD — valid repo often returns plain text like:
ref: refs/heads/main
  • /.git/config — may expose remote.origin.url, user identity, or embedded credentials.
  • /.git/index, /.git/objects/ — partial object store access enables reconstruction with the right tools.

403 vs 404

  • 404 — path likely absent or fully blocked at the edge.
  • 403 on /.git/ — directory may exist but listing is denied; still try direct file URLs:
/.git/HEAD
/.git/config
/.git/logs/HEAD
/.git/refs/heads/main

A 403 on the directory plus 200 on HEAD strongly indicates exposure.

Recovery tools (open source)

  • arthaud/git-dumper — dumps reachable .git tree when individual files are fetchable.
  • internetwache/GitTools — Dumper, Extractor, Finder modules for partial/corrupt dumps.
  • WangYihang/GitHacker — alternative recovery when standard dumpers miss edge cases.

Key files to prioritize

Path Why it matters
.git/config Remotes, credentials, hooks paths
.git/logs/HEAD Commit history, reflog-style leakage
.git/refs/heads/* Branch tips, commit SHAs
.git/packed-refs Packed branch/tag refs
.git/objects/** Object blobs for reconstruction

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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. yesterday First seen · 162 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A b6f85a8f6f27

Subscribe to this mod's changes

insecure-source-code-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository miru-zero/zero-brain (0 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,473 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 insecure-source-code-management, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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