hack

hack is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,912 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of hack, MIT.

A starting guide for authorized web and API security testing. It helps determine what phase of an assessment you are in and which specialized security area to investigate next.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose the next checks for web applications and APIs, triage possible vulnerabilities, plan exploit paths, and route findings to more specific testing guides.
Why use it?
It gives a structured route through reconnaissance, validation, privilege escalation, and attack-chain planning instead of relying on ad hoc checks. It is intended for bug bounties, legitimate research, and approved penetration tests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to choose the next checks for web applications and APIs, triage possible vulnerabilities, plan exploit paths, and route findings to more specific testing guides.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/securitytalent/bugskill-ai/hack
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 SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai --skill hack
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,912 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00047 $0.01912
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00765
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00382
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00191

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cc093d046689, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hack 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 1mo 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

This is a copy

100% identical to hack — 324 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

Awesome-Claude-Code-Agent-Skills/09-AI-Security-and-Orchestration/hack/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HACKING SKILLS / HackSkills

Overview

This is a top-level routing skill for bug bounty, web security, API security, and authorized penetration testing.

Its core role is not to replace all specialized techniques, but to help the agent:

  1. First determine the testing phase (Recon / Validation / Privilege Escalation / Chain building)
  2. Then select the correct vulnerability category
  3. Avoid relying only on baseline model memory; prefer structured methodology
  4. Prioritize boundary conditions AI often misses but that matter in real engagements

Trust Model

  • This knowledge base emphasizes content safety and auditability.
  • Use this only within authorized targets, legitimate research, defensive validation, and bug-bounty-approved rules.
  • Do not use these techniques for unauthorized attacks.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill first in the following scenarios:

  • You just received a new bug bounty target and do not know where to start
  • You need to decide whether to load XSS / SQLi / SSRF / IDOR / JWT / API tracks first
  • You want the agent to perform Web/API security testing with a more stable methodology
  • You need to route scattered findings to the right attack surface
  • You want AI to miss fewer critical test points in security work

Operating Model

Step 1: Start with Recon and context validation

Collect first:

  • Target type: classic web, REST API, mobile backend, admin panel, payment flow, file upload, GraphQL
  • Identity and permission model: anonymous, regular user, admin, multi-tenant
  • Input locations: URL, query parameters, JSON, headers, cookies, filenames, imported files, templates, reflection points
  • Output locations: HTML, attributes, JS, PDF, email, logs, background tasks, mobile endpoints

Step 2: Route by observed behavior

Signal Priority direction
Input reflects into HTML / JS XSS / SSTI
Server actively fetches URL / hostname SSRF
Accepts XML / Office / SVG XXE
Path, filename, or download endpoint is controllable Path Traversal / LFI
Many object IDs appear in APIs IDOR / BOLA / BFLA
Login, reset password, 2FA, sessions Auth Bypass / JWT / OAuth
Multi-step transactions, coupons, pricing, inventory Business Logic
MongoDB / JSON query syntax exposure NoSQL Injection
CLI tools, image processing, importers Command Injection
HTTP parsing anomalies / front-back framing mismatch Request Smuggling
Node.js JSON handling / controllable __proto__ Prototype Pollution
PHP weak comparison / 0e hash / loose conditions Type Juggling
Repeated parameter names / WAF-app parsing mismatch HTTP Parameter Pollution
One-time operations (coupon/inventory/reset) Race Condition
XML/XSLT template processing XSLT Injection
Accessible .git/.svn/.env paths Insecure SCM
CSV/Excel export features CSV Formula Injection
WebSocket protocol upgrades WebSocket Security
Internal package names / supply-chain inventory Dependency Confusion

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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. 1mo ago First seen · 163 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A cc093d046689

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hack is a skill published in the GitHub repository SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai (13 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,912 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to hack, differing in 324 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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