attack-tree-construction

attack-tree-construction is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (527 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for drawing attack trees: diagrams that break a security goal into the different paths an attacker might take.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map threats, review defensive gaps, and explain security risks to other stakeholders.
Why use it?
It helps teams see possible attack routes, missing defenses, and which risks need attention.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to map threats, review defensive gaps, and explain security risks to other stakeholders.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/attack-tree-construction
About the project

AAS Core is a local control plane for coding agents that lets them search a large catalogue of skills, choose a stack, validate it, and create a reproducible plan. It is used to assemble and review agent workflows through its CLI, local MCP server, catalogue, plugins, and Workbench. The catalogue add-ons provide the skills, plugins, bundles, and workflows that AAS Core helps agents select and validate.

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · 46,133 stars · on GitHub · sickn33.github.io

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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill attack-tree-construction
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 527 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00031 $0.00527
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00264
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00053

Measured 4d ago against content hash 48d328cbbdb9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

attack-tree-construction 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 4d 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

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/attack-tree-construction/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

⚠️ AUTHORIZED USE ONLY This skill is for educational purposes or authorized security assessments only. You must have explicit, written permission from the system owner before using this tool. Misuse of this tool is illegal and strictly prohibited.

Mandatory confirmation gate Before running any command that probes, exploits, changes, persists on, extracts data from, or attempts credential access against a target:

  1. Ask the user to state the exact target URL, IP, account, or resource.
  2. Ask the user to confirm written authorization and the permitted scope.
  3. Show the exact command(s) and explain their expected effect.
  4. Wait for explicit confirmation in the current conversation.

Without that confirmation, remain read-only and provide defensive guidance only. Prefer a sandbox, disposable VM, or controlled lab.

AUTHORIZED USE ONLY: Use this skill only for authorized security assessments, defensive validation, or controlled educational environments.

Attack Tree Construction

Systematic attack path visualization and analysis.

Use this skill when

  • Visualizing complex attack scenarios
  • Identifying defense gaps and priorities
  • Communicating risks to stakeholders
  • Planning defensive investments or test scopes

Do not use this skill when

  • You lack authorization or a defined scope to model the system
  • The task is a general risk review without attack-path modeling
  • The request is unrelated to security assessment or design

Instructions

  • Confirm scope, assets, and the attacker goal for the root node.
  • Decompose into sub-goals with AND/OR structure.
  • Annotate leaves with cost, skill, time, and detectability.
  • Map mitigations per branch and prioritize high-impact paths.
  • If detailed templates are required, open resources/implementation-playbook.md.

Safety

  • Share attack trees only with authorized stakeholders.
  • Avoid including sensitive exploit details unless required.

Resources

  • resources/implementation-playbook.md for detailed patterns, templates, and examples.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 63 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 48d328cbbdb9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

attack-tree-construction is a skill published in the GitHub repository sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (46,133 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 527 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 2026-09-05.

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