ics-overview

ics-overview is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PurpleAILAB/Decepticon. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,054 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A safety-focused guide for industrial control and operational technology networks, including PLC, HMI, SCADA, and industrial communication systems. It defines cautious procedures for inspecting these systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan read-only discovery, set rules of engagement, and handle Modbus, BACnet, S7Comm, DNP3, OPC-UA, PLC, HMI, and SCADA environments.
Why use it?
It helps prevent changes or probes that could disrupt physical processes or endanger people in a working plant.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan read-only discovery, set rules of engagement, and handle Modbus, BACnet, S7Comm, DNP3, OPC-UA, PLC, HMI, and SCADA environments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/purpleailab/decepticon/ics
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 · 5,497 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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,054 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00081 $0.01054
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00527
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00105

Measured 9d ago against content hash a3c0432e114e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ics-overview 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 9d 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/ics/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ICS / OT Operator Skill Catalog

Industrial engagements are not application security with longer rules of engagement — they are a different discipline. A miswritten Modbus coil on a real plant kills people. This catalog is read-mostly by default; every write-scope skill carries an explicit safety gate.

Hard rules

  1. No writes without OPPLAN.safety_critical confirmation. The middleware refuses writes when the active OPPLAN objective does not carry safety_critical_confirmed=true. Bypass requires operator signature in /workspace/safety-attestation.txt.
  2. Read-only protocol discovery first. Identify what's on the wire before any active probing. Many ICS protocols are unauthenticated; a single malformed read can crash an old PLC.
  3. Out-of-band physical safety. The blue team includes plant ops. A ConOps with blue_team.plant_ops_phone is mandatory for engagements on active production lines.

Playbooks

Inline technique reference — not separately loadable skills. The entries below are summarized here for direct use; there is no separate SKILL.md to open for each. Do NOT call the skill loader on them — apply the technique with your tools using this summary and the Workflow in this file.

Technique Use for
modbus-discovery Read-only Modbus TCP/RTU enumeration, function code 3/4 polling
modbus-write GATED Write coils / registers; safety gate enforced
bacnet-discovery BACnet/IP Who-Is, object enumeration, device profile
s7comm Siemens S7 / S7Comm Plus enumeration via Snap7 / python-snap7
dnp3 DNP3 outstation / master discovery; integrity poll
opcua OPC-UA browse, anonymous auth check, certificate analysis
hmi-web HMI web stacks (Wonderware, Iconics, Schneider) — known CVEs
engineering-software TIA Portal / Studio 5000 / Unity Pro project extraction

Workflow

  1. Passive observation: tap a SPAN port if available. Identify protocols on the wire (tshark -Y modbus || tshark -Y bacnet || ...).
  2. Network-layer discovery: nmap with -sV --script modbus-discover, bacnet-info, s7-info, dnp3-info (NSE scripts ship in Kali by default; some are slow — set -T2 for production networks).
  3. Function-code-3 polling: read holding registers from every Modbus device discovered. Log register maps to the knowledge graph as :Service nodes with protocol=modbus.
  4. Identify the safety integrity level (SIL) of any device touched. SIL 3+ devices NEVER get write probes without plant-ops sign-off.
  5. Engineering software attack path: if you can reach the engineering workstation, extract the project archive (.s7p, .acd, .stp). The project file is the crown jewel — it reveals the entire process model.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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. 9d ago First seen · 89 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A a3c0432e114e

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ics-overview is a skill published in the GitHub repository PurpleAILAB/Decepticon (5,497 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,054 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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