vuln-assess-phase

vuln-assess-phase is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from s0ld13rr/pentestcode. It costs 41 tokens per session (538 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for reviewing vulnerability-scanner findings, manually checking whether they are real, and ranking confirmed issues with CVSS, a common severity-scoring system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run scans, verify each result with evidence, record false positives, defer findings needing credentials, and prioritize confirmed vulnerabilities.
Why use it?
Scanner results often include false alarms or lack the context needed to judge risk, so collecting them alone can waste time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to run scans, verify each result with evidence, record false positives, defer findings needing credentials, and prioritize confirmed vulnerabilities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/s0ld13rr/pentestcode/vuln-assess
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 s0ld13rr/pentestcode --skill vuln-assess
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/s0ld13rr/pentestcode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 538 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 $0.00041 $0.00538
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00215
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00054

Measured yesterday against content hash 060b39eed563, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vuln-assess-phase 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 yesterday.

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/phases/vuln-assess/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Vulnerability Analysis — Scan, Verify, Score

Raw scanner output is 80% noise. This phase exists to VERIFY and PRIORITIZE, not to collect CVEs.

Automated scan

nuclei -u TARGET -severity critical,high -t ~/nuclei-templates/ -json -o nuclei.json
# authenticated nuclei when creds exist (10x coverage): -H 'Authorization: Bearer ...'
nikto -h https://target -Format json -o nikto.json        # web misconfig baseline
  • Authenticated scans > anonymous scans everywhere (Nessus/OpenVAS/Nuclei): login first, then scan.
  • Parse into state with nuclei_parse — dedupes and links vulns to hosts automatically.

Manual verification — MANDATORY before marking confirmed

Every scanner hit gets one of:

  1. Confirmed — reproduce manually, capture request/response as evidence
  2. False positive — record WHY (version patched, control in place); don't just delete
  3. Needs auth/context — defer to exploitation phase with the required creds attached

Classic FP sources: version banners lying (custom builds), WAF returning 200 for everything, template regex matching error pages.

CVSS scoring for prioritization

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H = 9.8 Critical

  • Prioritize by: exploitability (AV:N + no auth + public PoC) × impact, not by CVSS alone.
  • A 9.8 unauthenticated RCE beats a 9.1 post-auth one. An exposure with active in-the-wild exploitation (CISA KEV) beats both.

Correlation across findings

  • 3 "medium" findings chaining to RCE = one "critical" attack path (attack_path_suggest).
  • Info leaks (versions, stack traces, .git exposure) feed other findings — chain them, don't score them isolated.

Gotchas

  • Never report a vuln you could not reproduce — the retest will destroy client trust.
  • Keep scanner timing/rate in evidence: a DoS-looking outage during scan ruins the report.
  • Store evidence (PoC requests, screenshots) at confirmation time, not at reporting time.
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. yesterday First seen · 41 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 060b39eed563

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vuln-assess-phase is a skill published in the GitHub repository s0ld13rr/pentestcode (883 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 538 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.