scope-exploit-playbook

A guide for writing approved cloud attack paths as a red-team playbook, including execution, persistence, post-exploitation, and IAM policy sections. It describes commands but does not run them or change AWS resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document AWS attack paths with real account, resource, and permission evidence, ordered by technical dependency.
Why use it?
It turns reviewed attack-path findings into a consistent document without mixing planning with live cloud actions or detection guidance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/tayontech/scope/scope-exploit-playbook
Any agent
npx skills add tayontech/SCOPE --skill scope-exploit-playbook
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tayontech/SCOPE

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 705 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.00046 $0.00705
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00352
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00071

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0208752ee4b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scope-exploit-playbook 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 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.

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/scope-exploit-playbook/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SCOPE Exploit Playbook

Use this skill after scope-exploit Gate 3 approval and before Gate 4 display.

The top-level agent owns permission discovery, path reasoning, research dispatch, gates, artifact writes, and results.json. This skill owns the playbook document shape only.

Inputs

  • TARGET_ARN
  • RUN_ID
  • DISCOVERY_MODE: standalone or audit
  • discovery summary
  • operator-approved paths
  • research results from scope-research
  • AWS_CLI_REPLAY from scope-awscli-replay
  • real account IDs, ARNs, resource names, and permission evidence

Hard Rules

  • Generate-only. Do not execute AWS CLI commands from this skill.
  • Do not deploy or mutate AWS resources. The playbook may contain operator-reviewed commands, but SCOPE agents must not run them.
  • Use actual ARNs, account IDs, resource names, and permissions from discovery. No placeholders except operator-supplied values already marked in AWS_CLI_REPLAY.
  • Use command blocks from AWS_CLI_REPLAY.paths[].commands[].
  • Start each path with narrative context before commands.
  • Order steps by technical dependency, not quietness or stealth.
  • Persistence and post-exploitation sections require explicit operator approval before inclusion. If the operator approved only escalation paths, omit those sections or mark them skipped.
  • Include a minimal IAM policy document per path.
  • Do not include CloudTrail event names, GuardDuty finding types, detection likelihood, OPSEC notes, SOC recommendations, numeric confidence scores, or stealth-ordering headers.
  • Do not tag steps with static CloudTrail visibility classes. Detection and visibility analysis belongs to scope-controls and scope-investigate.
  • Do not invent permissions, resources, or prerequisites.

Required Format

# Red Team Playbook — [TARGET_ARN]

**Run ID:** [RUN_ID]
**Discovery mode:** [standalone | audit]
**Generated:** [ISO-8601 timestamp]

## Discovery Summary

[What was probed or loaded, what succeeded, what was denied, and what those results revealed.]

## Path 1: [Descriptive Name]

[Narrative explanation of the attack chain, the permissions that enable it, and where the chain leads. Weave research citations inline when present.]

### Step 1: [Action Description]

```bash
[Command from AWS_CLI_REPLAY.paths[].commands[]]

[Why this step comes first and what it enables.]

Establish Persistence

[Persistence steps available from this path.]

Post-Exploitation

[Data access, lateral movement, or impact unlocked by the path.]

IAM Policy Document

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": []
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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 · 97 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 0208752ee4b1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scope-exploit-playbook is a skill published in the GitHub repository tayontech/SCOPE (54 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 705 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 2026-08-30.

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