aws-penetration-testing

aws-penetration-testing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rootcastleco/rei-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (2,539 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

An AWS penetration-testing skill for authorised security testing of AWS environments. Penetration testing is a controlled attempt to find and demonstrate security weaknesses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Testing AWS security, reviewing IAM permissions, checking S3 buckets, and assessing possible cloud privilege-escalation paths.
Why use it?
It supports structured checks for cloud security issues such as exposed storage, weak permissions, and excessive AWS access.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Testing AWS security, reviewing IAM permissions, checking S3 buckets, and assessing possible cloud privilege-escalation paths.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rootcastleco/rei-skills/aws-penetration-testing
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 rootcastleco/rei-skills --skill aws-penetration-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rootcastleco/rei-skills

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.

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README.md
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,539 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 4 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00048 $0.02539
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01269
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00508
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00254

Measured 10d ago against content hash c3d75ad63840, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

aws-penetration-testing scanned grade C with 4 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 10d 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.

Harvests environment variablesmediumData exfiltration

Enumerating or grepping the environment for keys collects credentials unrelated to what the mod says it does.

# 3. Extract credentials

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo mkdir /mnt/stolen

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Cloud metadata endpointmediumServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

TOKEN=$(curl -X PUT -H "X-aws-ec2-metadata-token-ttl-seconds: 21600" \
skills/aws-penetration-testing/SKILL.md · 416 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 416 lines · 48 tokens per session scan C c3d75ad63840

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aws-penetration-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository rootcastleco/rei-skills (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,539 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 4 findings (harvests environment variables, asks for root, cloud metadata endpoint). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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