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.
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.
npx skills add PurpleAILAB/Decepticon --skill t05-api-exploitationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PurpleAILAB/DecepticonWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 YARA Match · line 3 YARA rule matched a hack tool or exploit indicator (offensive tools, reconnaissance, privilege escalation, or exploit frameworks).Fix: Remove offensive tool references and exploit code. Legitimate agent skills should not contain penetration testing tools, exploit frameworks, or reconnaissance utilities.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00036 | $0.01049 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00524 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00210 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00105 |
Grade A, and why
aatmf-t05-api-exploitation 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 8d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
T5 — Model & API Exploitation
Attack the LLM as an API service — its rate limits, billing, schema expectations, version routing. Adjacent to classical API security but LLM-specific.
Techniques
T5.001 — Rate-limit / quota abuse
Standard distributed-request patterns: multiple accounts, IP rotation, free-tier exploitation. Specifically interesting for LLM APIs:
- Free-tier exhaustion via automation (DDoS of competitor's free tier)
- Per-user rate limit on multi-user platforms — single attacker exhausts shared quota
- Burst pattern matching specifically targeting the upstream provider's rate limits (Anthropic, OpenAI) to cause downstream service degradation
T5.002 — Token-cost amplification
Make the model produce expensive outputs to bleed the operator's budget:
- "Repeat the word 'token' 500 times then continue..."
- Generate maximum-token responses every time via prompt engineering
- Exploit streaming endpoints to keep response generation going past cost reasonability
- Quadratic prompts: "Each turn double the length of the last response"
Variant: prompt-amplification attack — small attacker request triggers massive computation (T5.002 ↔ T14 economic warfare overlap).
T5.003 — Schema bypass via raw text
APIs that wrap LLMs often enforce JSON schemas on outputs (structured output mode). Bypass via:
- Prompt the model to return raw text where JSON is expected
- Embed structured markers that the schema validator strips
- Function-calling endpoints: induce model to NOT call the function
- Request format that confuses parsing (extra commas, unicode whitespace)
T5.004 — Model-version manipulation
APIs that expose model_id parameter sometimes accept unintended
values (cheaper / older / less-aligned models). Probe:
model_id=base(pre-RLHF base model)model_id=test,model_id=stagingmodel_id=<provider>/<wrong-prefix>/<actual-model>- Wildcard matches:
model_id=*
T5.005 — Context window probing
Some endpoints reveal model identity by returning errors specific to context size. Probe with increasingly-long inputs to fingerprint:
- 128k? 200k? 1M?
- Failure mode reveals model family
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 117 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 3c9bf2eb79e9
aatmf-t05-api-exploitation is a skill published in the GitHub repository PurpleAILAB/Decepticon (5,463 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,049 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 2026-08-30.
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