offensive-exploit-dev-course

A course plan for learning exploit development, the practice of creating programs that take advantage of software vulnerabilities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organise exploit-development training, onboard vulnerability researchers, and study topics from fuzzing to advanced exploitation.
Why use it?
It turns a broad security topic into a staged learning path with recommended reading, lab setup, and weekly subjects.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/snailsploit/claude-red/offensive-exploit-dev-course
Any agent
npx skills add SnailSploit/Claude-Red --skill offensive-exploit-dev-course
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SnailSploit/Claude-Red

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,471 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 3 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.05471
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.02736
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.01094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00547

Measured 2d ago against content hash b3b87666645d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

offensive-exploit-dev-course scanned grade B with 3 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.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

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

sudo apt install build-essential gcc-13-plugin-dev cpio python3-dev libcapstone-dev pkg-config libglib2.0-dev libpixman-1-dev automake autoconf python3-pip ninja-build cmake

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

Downloads and executes remote codemediumSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf "https://sh.rustup.rs" | sh

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.

wget https://apt.llvm.org/llvm.sh
Skills/exploit-dev/offensive-exploit-dev-course/SKILL.md · 427 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 427 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Exploit Development

Metadata

Description

Full exploit development course roadmap and syllabus: weekly topics, recommended reading, lab setup, and learning path from vulnerability classes through advanced exploitation. Use to structure exploit dev training or onboard new researchers.

Trigger Phrases

Use this skill when the conversation involves any of: exploit development course, exploit dev curriculum, learning path, syllabus, exploit dev training, vulnerability research training, course overview

Instructions for Claude

When this skill is active:

  1. Load and apply the full methodology below as your operational checklist
  2. Follow steps in order unless the user specifies otherwise
  3. For each technique, consider applicability to the current target/context
  4. Track which checklist items have been completed
  5. Suggest next steps based on findings

Full Methodology

Exploit Development

Week 1: Foundations and Fuzzing Basics

Day 1: Introduction to Fuzzing

  • Goal: Understand the fundamentals of fuzzing and get hands-on experience with AFL++.
  • Activities:
    • Reading: "Fuzzing for Software Security Testing and Quality Assurance" by Ari Takanen(From 1.3.2 to 1.3.8 and 2.4.1 to 2.7.5.7).
    • Online Resource:
    • Exercise:
      • Set up a Linux virtual machine (VM) with the necessary tools installed, including compilers and debuggers
      • Run AFL++ on a C program
# Setting up AFL++
sudo apt install build-essential gcc-13-plugin-dev cpio python3-dev libcapstone-dev pkg-config libglib2.0-dev libpixman-1-dev automake autoconf python3-pip ninja-build cmake
wget https://apt.llvm.org/llvm.sh
chmod +x llvm.sh
sudo ./llvm.sh 19 all
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf "https://sh.rustup.rs" | sh
mkdir soft
cd soft
git clone --branch dev --depth 1 https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus
cd AFLplusplus
make distrib
sudo make install
# Phase 1
cd ~/ && mkdir tuts && cd tuts
git clone --branch main --depth 1 https://github.com/alex-maleno/Fuzzing-Module.git
cd Fuzzing-Module/exercise1 && mkdir build && cd build
CC=/usr/local/bin/afl-clang-fast CXX=/usr/local/bin/afl-clang-fast++ cmake ..
make && cd ../ && mkdir seeds && cd seeds && for i in {0..4}; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=seed_$i bs=64 count=10; done && cd ../build
afl-fuzz -i /home/dev/tuts/Fuzzing-Module/exercise1/seeds/ -o out -m none -d -- /home/dev/tuts/Fuzzing-Module/exercise1/build/simple_crash
# Phase 2
cd /home/dev/tuts/Fuzzing-Module/exercise2 && mkdir build && cd build
CC=/usr/local/bin/afl-clang-lto CXX=/usr/local/bin/afl-clang-lto++ cmake ..
make && cd ../ && mkdir seeds && cd seeds && for i in {0..4}; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=seed_$i bs=64 count=10; done && cd ../build
afl-fuzz -i /home/dev/tuts/Fuzzing-Module/exercise2/seeds/ -o out -m none -d -- /home/dev/tuts/Fuzzing-Module/exercise2/build/medium

Read the full file on GitHub · 427 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 · 427 lines · 0 tokens per session scan B b3b87666645d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

offensive-exploit-dev-course is a skill published in the GitHub repository SnailSploit/Claude-Red (3,009 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 5,471 tokens. A static security scan graded it B with 3 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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