vulnerability-validation-skill: Skill for Claude Code

.agent/skills/vulnerability-validation/SKILL.md

vulnerability-validation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from omkhar/vulnerability-validation-skill. It costs 149 tokens per session (7,962 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A security investigation workflow for finding and validating previously unknown vulnerabilities in a code repository. It examines whether a suspected flaw is reachable, exploitable, and relevant to the defined threat model.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate new vulnerability leads or discover flaws directly in code. It supports attack-surface analysis, proof-of-concept testing, reachability checks, and replayable evidence.
Why use it?
Security findings can be false positives or lack enough evidence to act on. This guides careful validation, reproducible proof, risk assessment, and minimal fixes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

This is omkhar/vulnerability-validation-skill's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on vulnerability-validation-skill itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything vulnerability-validation-skill configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to omkhar/vulnerability-validation-skill. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/omkhar/vulnerability-validation-skill/main/.agent/skills/vulnerability-validation/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/omkhar/vulnerability-validation-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 149 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,962 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 original 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00149 $0.07962
Opus 5.5 $0.00060 $0.03185
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00030 $0.01592
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00796

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fcdec5b0c18d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vulnerability-validation 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/discovery_engine.py, scripts/quarantine_extract.py, scripts/surface_tool_inventory.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.agent/skills/vulnerability-validation/SKILL.md · 450 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 450 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vulnerability Validation

Use this workflow to discover new vulnerabilities (0-days) in a target repository and validate them. By default it runs native discovery: with no findings list it analyzes the code to find vulnerabilities itself; a scanner finding, researcher report, or PoC is only an optional seed. Reduce every candidate to a defensible disposition, fix true issues with minimal idiomatic patches, and leave evidence another engineer can replay.

Quick Start

For target reads, PHASE-0 starts with an external operator-controlled verifier authenticating the whole package outside the target and neutralizing project-local discovery before startup; the loaded package cannot attest itself. Without both proofs, stop at documentation/package compatibility with no target read. After proof and operator authorization, record run-state.bootstrap.json, then search AI-use/security policy, threat model/boundaries, disclosure process, and upstream sources. Collect target repository/branch, latest upstream HEAD, baseline SHA, dirty state, finding source type, frozen snapshot or seed sources/counts, artifact root, local-only validation environment, dependency installation/provisioning method, upstream URL, repo commands, and output mode.

Read references/portable-invariants.md and create run-state.json before triage. For the default native discovery run, load references/discovery-intake.md; optionally run scripts/discovery_engine.py for a first pass. Load references/artifact-contract.md when needed: references/artifact-index.md, references/controlled-fields.md, references/closure-bundle.md, references/drift-gate.md, references/evidence-bundle.md. Read references/review-lenses.md before claiming review consensus and references/policy-friction.md when the LLM refuses or hedges.

Read the full file on GitHub · 450 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. 1mo ago Changed fcdec5b0c18d
  2. 1mo ago Changed 1035f651d55c
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 450 lines · 149 tokens per session scan A 039d31bb8cae

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vulnerability-validation is a skill published in the GitHub repository omkhar/vulnerability-validation-skill (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 7,962 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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