references

references is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PurpleAILAB/Decepticon. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,013 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A catalogue of outside security resources, including vulnerability reports, attack payload examples, security guides, and penetration-testing projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up bug-bounty reports, web-attack payloads, CVE proof-of-concept code, security tools, and penetration-testing methods.
Why use it?
It gives a security agent reference material for checking techniques, examples, and known vulnerabilities instead of relying only on memory.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 · 5,445 stars · on GitHub

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 references

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,013 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 $0.00054 $0.01013
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00507
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00101

Measured 5d ago against content hash 125d60eb7281, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

references 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 5d 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/shared/references/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

External References Skill

Decepticon ships with a curated catalogue of high-signal third-party resources. You can either query the metadata directly or fetch the full repo into the sandbox for grep-level access.

Catalogue (13 entries)

Category Slug What's inside
report-corpus hackerone-reports Every public H1 disclosure — calibrate CVSS + reward
payload-library payloads-all-the-things Canonical payloads for every web vuln class
cheat-sheet book-of-secret-knowledge Pentester one-liners + recipes
reference-agent pentagi vxcontrol multi-agent pentest platform
reference-agent pentestgpt Academic pentest LLM agent
reference-agent shannon Keygraph autonomous security agent
reference-agent strix Usestrix autonomous pentest agent
reference-agent hexstrike-ai 150+ tools exposed via MCP
reference-agent neurosploit LLM + Metasploit driver
tool-index redteam-tools Kill-chain-phase tool index
cve-poc trickest-cve Continuous CVE + PoC corpus
cve-poc penetration-testing-poc Second-opinion PoC mirror
methodology all-about-bug-bounty Per-class bug bounty methodology

When to use each

First engagement iteration

  • ref_suggest(vuln_class="...", goal="recon") to see which references matter for your current lane. Save the suggestions to the graph.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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. 5d ago First seen · 87 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 125d60eb7281

Subscribe to this mod's changes

references is a skill published in the GitHub repository PurpleAILAB/Decepticon (5,445 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,013 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.