playbook-social-engineering

playbook-social-engineering is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from s0ld13rr/pentestcode. It costs 37 tokens per session (607 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security-assessment playbook for phishing, phone-based deception, and physical tests. Social engineering means testing whether people can be persuaded to reveal information or take unsafe actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for authorized phishing campaigns, vishing calls, physical tests, campaign measurement, and controlled credential-harvesting exercises.
Why use it?
These tests can harm people or systems if they are run without explicit permission, defined targets, and rules for handling collected data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for authorized phishing campaigns, vishing calls, physical tests, campaign measurement, and controlled credential-harvesting exercises.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/s0ld13rr/pentestcode/social-engineering
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add s0ld13rr/pentestcode --skill social-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/s0ld13rr/pentestcode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 607 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.
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 $0.00037 $0.00607
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00243
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00061

Measured 2d ago against content hash 98f9e896eaa1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

playbook-social-engineering 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 2d 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.

skills/playbooks/social-engineering/SKILL.md · 41 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Social Engineering — Phishing, Vishing, Physical

HARD GATE: this playbook requires the RoE to EXPLICITLY name social engineering/physical testing, the exact target population size, and data-handling rules. If the scope is silent → DO NOT run, ask the operator to confirm authorization.

Phishing (GoPhish)

  1. Pretext selection from OSINT (recon phase): org tools, HR processes, recent events (reorg, new VPN, survey, invoice).
  2. Infrastructure: own domain similar to org's, SPF/DKIM/DMARC properly set (deliverability), dedicated sending IPs warmed up, URL shorteners avoided (flagged).
  3. Payload tiers (escalate only if authorized): credential harvest page (clone org login, HTTPS, valid cert) → macro doc → link to landing.
  4. Campaign metrics: sent / opened / clicked / submitted / creds validated. Report EACH — click-through is the real risk indicator, not submissions.
  5. Timing: Tue-Thu 09:00-11:00 local typically highest engagement; avoid month-end (finance busy, but BEC tests may target it deliberately — RoE call).

Vishing

  • Same pretext as the phishing campaign; call targets who clicked but didn't submit ("IT follow-up").
  • OTP/2FA social-engineering: "read me the code you just received" is the highest-impact finding possible — proves full account takeover.
  • Record calls ONLY if RoE allows (consent laws vary by jurisdiction — check two-party consent).

Physical

  • Tailgating at badge-controlled entrances, badge cloning (Proxmark), lock picking, dumpster diving, USB drops.
  • Escort rules and safety: never confrontation, abort word agreed, no bypassing locks that damage property.
  • Environmental findings count: whiteboards, unlocked screens, unattended reception, printed creds.

Reporting angle

  • Map each success to impact: "phished creds → mailbox access → BEC risk" with ATT&CK T1566/T1534/T1556.
  • Compare results by department — one department at 40% submission rate = targeted training recommendation.
  • NEVER store harvested real credentials beyond the engagement; hash/redact in report, deliver for reset.

Read the full file on GitHub · 41 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. 2d ago First seen · 41 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 98f9e896eaa1

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playbook-social-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository s0ld13rr/pentestcode (884 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 607 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-24.

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