social-engineering

social-engineering is a skill for Claude Code from transilienceai/communitytools. It costs 23 tokens per session (162 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security-testing guide for checking how people respond to simulated phishing, impersonation, phone scams, and physical access attempts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan campaigns, prepare scenarios, track responses, collect evidence, measure results, and recommend security awareness improvements.
Why use it?
It helps organisations find weaknesses in human and physical security through authorised tests, before real attackers exploit them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the communitytools plugin — 48 skills, 5 commands, 9 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan campaigns, prepare scenarios, track responses, collect evidence, measure results, and recommend security awareness improvements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/transilienceai/communitytools/social-engineering
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 transilienceai/communitytools --skill social-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/transilienceai/communitytools

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install communitytools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 48 skills, 5 commands, 9 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for social-engineering

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/transilienceai/communitytools/social-engineering.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/transilienceai/communitytools/social-engineering)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/transilienceai/communitytools/social-engineering"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/transilienceai/communitytools/social-engineering.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 162 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high YARA Match · line 2
    YARA rule matched a hack tool or exploit indicator (offensive tools, reconnaissance, privilege escalation, or exploit frameworks).
    Fix: Remove offensive tool references and exploit code. Legitimate agent skills should not contain penetration testing tools, exploit frameworks, or reconnaissance utilities.
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 $0.00023 $0.00162
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00081
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00016

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4ad34230eb22, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

social-engineering 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 8d 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/social-engineering/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Social Engineering

Test human-factor security through authorized social engineering campaigns.

Techniques

  • Phishing - Email campaigns, spear phishing, credential harvesting
  • Pretexting - Scenario-based manipulation, impersonation
  • Vishing - Voice-based social engineering
  • Physical - Tailgating, badge cloning, dumpster diving

Workflow

  1. Define campaign scope and authorization
  2. Develop pretexts and materials
  3. Execute campaign with tracking
  4. Measure success rates and capture evidence
  5. Report findings with awareness recommendations

Reference

  • reference/social-engineering.md - Social engineering techniques and methodologies
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. 8d ago First seen · 28 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 4ad34230eb22

Subscribe to this mod's changes

social-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository transilienceai/communitytools (511 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 162 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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