A guide to denial-of-service testing, which checks whether repeated or specially formed work can make a service slow or unavailable. It includes regular-expression, resource-exhaustion, and algorithmic-complexity cases.

Use it to test application availability and resistance to resource-heavy requests.

It helps reveal inputs or operations that consume too many system resources or cause outages.

dos — Skill for Claude Code by mohdhaji87

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 mohdhaji87/payloadsallthethings-skills --skill dos

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohdhaji87/payloadsallthethings-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install payloadsallthethings, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 61 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mohdhaji87/payloadsallthethings-skills/dos/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mohdhaji87/payloadsallthethings-skills/dos)

Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,392 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin unknown 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00024	$0.02392
Opus 5	$0.00012	$0.01196
Sonnet 5	$0.00005	$0.00478
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00239

Measured 11d ago against content hash fe65fc2bdf38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dos scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 11d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -X POST "https://target.com/login" \

payloadsallthethings/skills/dos/SKILL.md · 344 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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.

11d ago First seen · 344 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A fe65fc2bdf38

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dos is a skill published in the GitHub repository mohdhaji87/payloadsallthethings-skills (21 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 2,392 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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