open-redirect

open-redirect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from miru-zero/zero-brain. It costs 33 tokens per session (2,952 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of open-redirect, MIT.

A security testing guide for open redirects, where a website sends users to a destination chosen from untrusted input.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for testing URL parameters, form actions, JavaScript navigation, and redirect behavior for validation weaknesses.
Why use it?
It helps find trusted-looking links that can send users to attacker-controlled sites or support larger attack chains.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for testing URL parameters, form actions, JavaScript navigation, and redirect behavior for validation weaknesses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/miru-zero/zero-brain/open-redirect
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 miru-zero/zero-brain --skill open-redirect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/miru-zero/zero-brain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,952 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 92% 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 $0.00033 $0.02952
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01476
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00590
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00295

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4fc8cc7e952f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

open-redirect 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 6d 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.

# attacker.com returns 302 → http://169.254.169.254/

Makes network callslowCapability

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

Not all HTTP clients follow cross-protocol redirects, but `curl` (default) and some libraries do.
Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to open-redirect — 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/open-redirect/SKILL.md · 381 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 381 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Open Redirect — Expert Attack Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Open redirect techniques. Covers parameter-based redirects, JavaScript sinks, filter bypass, and chaining with phishing, CSRF Referer bypass, OAuth token theft, and SSRF. Often underrated but critical for phishing and as a building block in multi-step exploit chains.

1. CORE CONCEPT

Open redirect occurs when an application redirects users to a URL derived from user input without validation. The trusted domain acts as a "launchpad" for phishing or token theft.

https://trusted.com/redirect?url=https://evil.com
→ User sees trusted.com in the link → clicks → lands on evil.com

2. FINDING REDIRECT PARAMETERS

Common Parameter Names

?url=           ?redirect=      ?next=          ?dest=
?destination=   ?redir=         ?return=        ?returnUrl=
?go=            ?forward=       ?target=        ?out=
?continue=      ?link=          ?view=          ?to=
?ref=           ?callback=      ?path=          ?rurl=

Server-Side Sinks

HTTP 301/302 Location header
PHP: header("Location: $input")
Python: redirect(input)
Java: response.sendRedirect(input)
Node: res.redirect(input)

Client-Side (JavaScript) Sinks

window.location = input
window.location.href = input
window.location.replace(input)
window.open(input)
document.location = input

3. FILTER BYPASS TECHNIQUES

Validation Bypass
Checks if URL starts with / //evil.com (protocol-relative)
Checks domain contains trusted.com evil.com?trusted.com or trusted.com.evil.com
Blocks http:// //evil.com, https://evil.com, \/\/evil.com
Checks URL starts with https://trusted.com https://[email protected] (userinfo)
Regex ^/[^/] (relative only) /\evil.com (backslash treated as path in some browsers)
Django endswith('target.com') http://evil.com/www.target.com — URL path ends with target domain
Whitelist by domain suffix Subdomain takeover on *.trusted.com

Read the full file on GitHub · 381 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. 6d ago First seen · 381 lines · 33 tokens per session scan C 4fc8cc7e952f

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open-redirect is a skill published in the GitHub repository miru-zero/zero-brain (0 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,952 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (cloud metadata endpoint, makes network calls). It is 92% identical to open-redirect, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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