claude-red is a library of structured skills that give Claude specialized offensive-security methods for areas such as web vulnerabilities, shellcode, exploit development, and identity systems. It is intended for authorized red-team work, bug-bounty triage, security research, CTF preparation, and operator training. Its catalogue contains the project's skills for loading these security specializations into Claude.
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.
npx agentmods add skills/snailsploit/claude-red/offensive-xxenpx skills add SnailSploit/Claude-Red --skill offensive-xxegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SnailSploit/Claude-RedWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/snailsploit/claude-red/offensive-xxe)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/snailsploit/claude-red/offensive-xxe"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/snailsploit/claude-red/offensive-xxe.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.07872 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.03936 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.01574 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00787 |
Grade C, and why
offensive-xxe scanned grade C 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 6d 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.
Reaches for credential filesmediumPrivilege escalation
SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.
<!DOCTYPE root [<!ENTITY xxe SYSTEM "file:///home/runner/.ssh/id_rsa">]> Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.
Cloud metadata endpointmediumServer-side request forgery
One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.
S->>C: Request cloud metadata (169.254.169.254) 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.
curl -k https://kubernetes.default.svc/api/v1/namespaces/default/pods \ How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 995 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
SKILL: XML External Entity (XXE) Injection
Metadata
- Skill Name: xxe
- Folder: offensive-xxe
- Source: https://github.com/SnailSploit/offensive-checklist/blob/main/xxe.md
Description
XML External Entity injection testing checklist: classic XXE, blind XXE (out-of-band), XXE via file upload (SVG/docx), XXE in SOAP/REST, error-based XXE, XInclude attacks, and XXE filter bypass. Use for web app XXE testing and bug bounty.
Trigger Phrases
Use this skill when the conversation involves any of:
XXE, XML external entity, blind XXE, out-of-band XXE, XXE file upload, SVG XXE, SOAP XXE, XInclude, entity bypass, XXE SSRF, XXE file read
Instructions for Claude
When this skill is active:
- Load and apply the full methodology below as your operational checklist
- Follow steps in order unless the user specifies otherwise
- For each technique, consider applicability to the current target/context
- Track which checklist items have been completed
- Suggest next steps based on findings
Full Methodology
XML External Entity (XXE) Injection
Shortcut
- Find data entry points that you can use to submit XML data.
- Determine whether the entry point is a candidate for a classic or blind XXE. The endpoint might be vulnerable to classic XXE if it returns the parsed XML data in the HTTP response. If the endpoint does not return results, it might still be vulnerable to blind XXE, and you should set up a callback listener for your tests.
- Try out a few test payloads to see if the parser is improperly configured. In the case of classic XXE, you can check whether the parser is processing external entities. In the case of blind XXE, you can make the server send requests to your callback listener to see if you can trigger outbound interaction.
- Try to exfiltrate a common system file, like /etc/hostname.
- You can also try to retrieve some more sensitive system files, like /etc/shadow or ~/.bash_history.
- If you cannot exfiltrate the entire file with a simple XXE payload, try to use an alternative data exfiltration method.
- See if you can launch an SSRF attack using the XXE.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 995 lines · 0 tokens per session scan C b56c15801faa
offensive-xxe is a skill published in the GitHub repository SnailSploit/Claude-Red (3,026 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 7,872 tokens. A static security scan graded it C with 3 findings (reaches for credential files, cloud metadata endpoint, 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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