security-vuln-gauntlet

security-vuln-gauntlet is a skill for Claude Code from trilwu/gauntlet-loop-skills. It costs 196 tokens per session (1,301 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security-testing workflow for finding real weaknesses in software, services, computer programs, or cloud settings. It uses one role to suggest issues and another to verify each one with a harmless proof.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding and confirming web, API, binary, memory, and cloud-configuration vulnerabilities during authorized security reviews or penetration tests.
Why use it?
It reduces false alarms by requiring evidence that a suspected weakness can actually be exploited and linked to a known weakness category. Testing is limited to systems you are authorized to assess.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the gauntlet-loop plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Finding and confirming web, API, binary, memory, and cloud-configuration vulnerabilities during authorized security reviews or penetration tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/trilwu/gauntlet-loop-skills/security-vuln-gauntlet
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 trilwu/gauntlet-loop-skills --skill security-vuln-gauntlet
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trilwu/gauntlet-loop-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gauntlet-loop, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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Per session 196 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,301 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.
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 $0.00196 $0.01301
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.00651
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00130

Measured 11d ago against content hash 26096f739f9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

security-vuln-gauntlet 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 11d 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/security-vuln-gauntlet/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Security Vuln Gauntlet

The Gauntlet Loop applied to finding real vulnerabilities: a HUNTER (builder) proposes candidates and a blind VALIDATOR (critic) demands a working PoC before anything counts. The bar is exploitability + CWE mapping + real precedent. Covers web, API, binary/memory, and cloud/IaC.

Kept separate from the core gauntlet-loop skill because its triggers and safety requirements differ: written authorization (ROE) is mandatory and every PoC must be non-destructive. The method itself is the core loop.

SCOPE AND AUTHORIZATION — mandatory

Use only on assets you own or are authorized in writing to test. If there is no ROE, STOP and ask the user for one. Read references/safety-and-scope.md first.

Every PoC must be non-destructive: no data destruction, no lateral movement, no exfiltration, no denial of service. This is a defensive/AppSec tool. Unauthorized access is a crime in most jurisdictions (CFAA in the US, the Computer Misuse Act in the UK, equivalent computer-crime statutes elsewhere) and the operator carries that responsibility.

When to use it

Reviewing or pentesting an authorized codebase, service, binary, or cloud configuration — or triaging an existing scan down to what is actually exploitable.

Role mapping

Core role Security role
LEAD Split by trust boundary / entry point / high-value asset; maintain the coverage map
BUILDER HUNTER (clean context): propose candidates with an exploitation hypothesis (source → sink)
CRITIC VALIDATOR (blind): inspect the real artifact, check reachability and taint, build the PoC. No PoC, no pass

The bar (three axes, all required)

  1. Exploitability: a working PoC or equivalent evidence under the target's actual conditions — not "theoretically possible".
  2. CWE mapping (prefer the CWE Top 25): map to a meaningful weakness class, e.g. CWE-89, CWE-79, CWE-787, CWE-416, CWE-918, CWE-862, CWE-22, CWE-502.
  3. Real precedent (never fabricated): point to the real-world vulnerability class or a genuine CVE to calibrate severity and credibility. If you cannot find a precedent, write "novel/uncertain" — do not invent a CVE ID.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 76 lines · 196 tokens per session scan A 26096f739f9f

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security-vuln-gauntlet is a skill published in the GitHub repository trilwu/gauntlet-loop-skills (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 196 tokens to every session and 1,301 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.

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