cicd

cicd is a skill for Claude Code from PurpleAILAB/Decepticon. It costs 49 tokens per session (2,007 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A security guide to attacking CI/CD pipelines, the automated jobs that test, build, and release software.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for routing CI/CD security reviews toward poisoned pipelines, GitHub Actions injection, self-hosted runners, and secret or cloud-token exposure.
Why use it?
It helps find ways that untrusted pull requests, dependencies, build scripts, or workflow settings could run code with pipeline permissions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

About the project

Decepticon is an autonomous red-team agent that coordinates AI agents, security tools, sandboxes, and supporting services for authorized cybersecurity assessments. Security researchers and red teams can run it through its Docker stack, cloud service, command-line interface, or Python SDK, with the catalogue entries representing its available skills.

PurpleAILAB/Decepticon · 5,450 stars · on GitHub · decepticon.red

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/purpleailab/decepticon/cicd
Any agent
npx skills add PurpleAILAB/Decepticon --skill cicd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PurpleAILAB/Decepticon

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

agentmods badge for cicd

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/purpleailab/decepticon/cicd.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/purpleailab/decepticon/cicd)
Your own site
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,007 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00049 $0.02007
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01004
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00401
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00201

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4bae8df8bf39, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cicd 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 2d 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.

packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/exploit/cicd/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CI/CD Pipeline Exploitation — Category Overview

Routing skill for attacks against build / deployment pipelines. Pipelines run attacker-influenced code (PRs, dependencies, build scripts) with privileged tokens, cloud OIDC, and write access to artifacts that downstream consumers trust. Compromise of a single pipeline often equals compromise of every release built by it.

Sub-Skills

Sub-Skill Covers When to Load
poisoned-pipeline-execution Direct + Indirect PPE: injecting commands via attacker-controllable build files (Makefile, package.json scripts, build.gradle, Dangerfile, .pre-commit-config.yaml), pull_request_target abuse, fork-PR build triggers, dependency/test-script execution. Target builds untrusted PR code; you can land a malicious file or dependency.
github-actions-injection ${{ }} template injection via untrusted context (issue/PR title, body, branch name, commit message) into run: steps, pull_request_target + PR-head checkout, GITHUB_TOKEN permission abuse, artifact/cache poisoning, action pinning (tag vs SHA). Target uses GitHub Actions and accepts external contributors.
self-hosted-runner-abuse Non-ephemeral runner persistence, fork-PR job execution on self-hosted, runner-label targeting, secret theft from runner env, lateral movement into internal network / cloud metadata. Target advertises self-hosted runners (workflow runs-on: label or public job logs).
cicd-secrets-exfil Extracting CI secrets / OIDC tokens: echo / printenv exfil, masking bypass (base64, char-split), OIDC -> cloud role assumption, GITHUB_TOKEN / CI_JOB_TOKEN scope abuse, cache / artifact secret leakage. You already have code execution in a CI job; need to convert it into durable cloud / registry access.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 111 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 4bae8df8bf39

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cicd is a skill published in the GitHub repository PurpleAILAB/Decepticon (5,450 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 2,007 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-03.