What the reviewer found
A red-team exploitation playbook (Decepticon's edge-device-exploitation skill) covering FortiManager credential extraction, a Cisco IOS EEM backdoor, and the Palo Alto CVE-2024-3400 chain, all against placeholder <TARGET>/<C2> hosts. It documents attacks for an authorized engagement; it does not run anything against whoever installs it.
dual-use— a security tool that can be misusedremote-exec— runs code fetched from the networkpersistence— changes the machine outside the projectcredential-access— reads credentials
What was read
The file as it ships in PurpleAILAB/Decepticon:
packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/exploit/edge-device-exploitation/SKILL.md
What the static scan said
The scan flagged 4things. The reviewer kept 4 and dismissed 0 as false.
E2Harvests environment variables — realSC2Downloads and executes remote code — realSC3Encoded or obfuscated payload — realNETMakes network calls — real
How this review was made
Sonnet 5 read the files above on 7 September 2026 and answered three questions: is it dangerous to whoever installs it, is each scanner finding real, and what should the installer know. The verdict is bound to the file's hash; when the file changes, it is scanned afresh and reviewed again. A script that changes while the definition does not is not re-reviewed — that is a known gap. How the scan and the review work.