exploiting-cloud-platforms

exploiting-cloud-platforms is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from trilwu/secskills. It costs 52 tokens per session (3,159 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A cloud security-testing guide for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It focuses on misconfigured storage, identity permissions, cloud metadata services, serverless functions, and related cloud controls.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for authorized cloud assessments, including storage bucket checks, IAM privilege testing, serverless function testing, and cloud metadata testing.
Why use it?
It helps find cloud settings that could let an attacker access data, obtain credentials, or gain more permissions than intended.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the secskills-offense plugin — 40 skills shipped together

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/trilwu/secskills/exploiting-cloud-platforms
Any agent
npx skills add trilwu/secskills --skill exploiting-cloud-platforms
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trilwu/secskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install secskills-offense, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,159 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00052 $0.03159
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01580
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00632
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00316

Measured yesterday against content hash f584a4f132c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

exploiting-cloud-platforms scanned grade B with 2 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 yesterday.

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.

Cloud metadata endpointmediumServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/

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 https://bucket-name.s3.amazonaws.com/
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

secskills-offense/skills/exploiting-cloud-platforms/SKILL.md · 469 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 469 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Exploiting Cloud Platforms

When to Use

  • AWS, Azure, or GCP security assessment
  • Cloud misconfiguration exploitation
  • S3/Blob/Storage bucket hunting
  • Cloud IAM privilege escalation
  • Serverless function exploitation
  • Cloud metadata service abuse

When NOT to Use

  • On-premises Active Directory — use attacking-active-directory
  • Container and Kubernetes internals — use exploiting-containers
  • IaC and pipeline review from source — use auditing-supply-chain
  • Investigating a cloud compromise — use responding-to-incidents
  • Hardening an account's posture rather than attacking it — use hardening-cloud-posture

Route to a Depth Skill

Cloud has grown several attack surfaces deep enough to warrant their own procedure skill. When the assessment narrows to one of these, switch — the IAM-and-storage methodology here does not carry their specific detail.

Signal Skill
Entra ID / Azure AD as the identity target: tokens, PRTs, consent grants, hybrid sync attacking-entra-id
A managed Kubernetes cluster (EKS/GKE/AKS): pod-to-cloud IMDS, IRSA/Workload Identity, k8s RBAC attacking-eks-gke-aks
Lambda / Azure Functions / Cloud Functions / Workers: event injection, execution-role abuse attacking-serverless
CI/CD pipeline with OIDC federation to the cloud: broad trust policies, runner compromise abusing-ci-cd-oidc

AWS Security

AWS CLI Setup

# Configure credentials
aws configure
# Or export directly
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1

# Test credentials
aws sts get-caller-identity

# List available regions
aws ec2 describe-regions

S3 Bucket Enumeration

# List buckets
aws s3 ls

# List bucket contents
aws s3 ls s3://bucket-name/
aws s3 ls s3://bucket-name/ --recursive

# Download bucket contents
aws s3 sync s3://bucket-name/ ./local-folder/

# Check public access
aws s3api get-bucket-acl --bucket bucket-name
aws s3api get-bucket-policy --bucket bucket-name

# Test unauthenticated access
aws s3 ls s3://bucket-name/ --no-sign-request
curl https://bucket-name.s3.amazonaws.com/

Read the full file on GitHub · 469 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday First seen · 469 lines · 52 tokens per session scan B f584a4f132c5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

exploiting-cloud-platforms is a skill published in the GitHub repository trilwu/secskills (134 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 3,159 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (cloud metadata endpoint, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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