mapping-attack-surface

mapping-attack-surface is a skill for Claude Code from UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills. It costs 111 tokens per session (1,363 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security-planning guide for surveying an authorized web application without access to its source code. It builds an inventory of hosts, pages, inputs, login paths, and technologies, then ranks areas for testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of an approved security review or bug bounty assessment when you have a URL or app but no source code. It helps decide what to inspect first and how to record the testing scope.
Why use it?
It prevents testers from missing reachable parts of an application or spending time on low-value areas. It also keeps reconnaissance within the target's written authorization and safety limits.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the security-agent-skills plugin — 194 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it at the start of an approved security review or bug bounty assessment when you have a URL or app but no source code. It helps decide what to inspect first and how to record the testing scope.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/mapping-attack-surface
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 UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills --skill mapping-attack-surface
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install security-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 194 skills.

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Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,363 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 $0.00111 $0.01363
Opus 5.5 $0.00044 $0.00545
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00273
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00136

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ea403f3f2401, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mapping-attack-surface 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 1mo 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/mapping-attack-surface/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mapping attack surface (black-box)

You can't test what you haven't found, and you'll waste the engagement testing low-value surface first. Recon is the discipline of turning "here's a URL" into a prioritized inventory of everything that takes input, ordered by where bugs live. This skill is the front of the black-box workflow; per-class hunting skills act on its output.

Scope gate - before anything else

Establish and write down scope first, and check every action against it:

  • Record the authorization: which hosts/domains/apps are in scope, which are explicitly out, the rules (rate limits, no-DoS, no social engineering, test- account only), and the reporting channel. Keep it where you'll re-read it.
  • Check every request against scope before sending it. A wildcard in a program's scope is not permission to hit a third party's system that happens to be reachable.
  • Passive before active; low-impact before high. Prefer observation over probing until you've confirmed a target is in scope and the action is allowed.
  • Never run destructive or state-changing actions (delete, mass-write, account takeover attempts) without explicit authorization for them.

If you can't point to the authorization for a host or an action, it's out of scope. Stop and confirm.

The recon loop

  1. Enumerate hosts. From the in-scope roots: subdomains, related domains, and the apps behind them. Distinguish the origin from CDN/WAF front - testing a CDN edge as if it were the origin yields noise.

  2. Fingerprint the stack. Server, framework, language, CMS, reverse proxy, auth provider, cloud. The stack tells you which bug classes are plausible and which default misconfigurations to check.

  3. Enumerate endpoints and parameters. Walk the app as an authenticated user (with an in-scope test account), capture the real traffic, and pull the API surface from it. Add documented surface (OpenAPI/GraphQL introspection, JS bundles that reveal routes and params). Most surface is not what you clicked

    • it's referenced in client code and specs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 1mo ago First seen · 115 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A ea403f3f2401

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mapping-attack-surface is a skill published in the GitHub repository UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 1,363 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-05.

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