hunt-graphql

hunt-graphql is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from uphiago/recon-skills. It costs 99 tokens per session (5,035 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security-testing guide for GraphQL, an API format where clients request specific fields and can change data through mutations. It covers authorization, data exposure, server-side requests, and resource exhaustion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test GraphQL schemas, queries, mutations, batching, query limits, object permissions, and arguments that reach internal services.
Why use it?
It helps find cases where users can access another tenant's data, perform unauthorized changes, or submit overly expensive queries.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to test GraphQL schemas, queries, mutations, batching, query limits, object permissions, and arguments that reach internal services.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uphiago/recon-skills/hunt-graphql
About the project

Recon Skills is a pack of security-testing skills covering reconnaissance, web applications, APIs, authentication, vulnerability validation, cloud infrastructure, and reporting. Security professionals use it for authorized assessments of systems they own or have written permission to test. The catalogue entries are individual skills from the pack.

uphiago/recon-skills · 1,254 stars · on GitHub · hiago.sh

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 uphiago/recon-skills --skill hunt-graphql
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uphiago/recon-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,035 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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: 6 findings, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 131
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 157
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 157
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 162
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 166
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 171
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00099 $0.05035
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.02518
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.01007
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00504

Measured 8d ago against content hash b90b2ed23c32, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hunt-graphql scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

**curl introspection test:**
redteam/hunt-graphql/SKILL.md · 383 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 383 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Crown Jewel Targets

GraphQL vulnerabilities are high-value because the attack surface is both broad and deep — a single endpoint can expose entire data models, privilege escalation paths, and cross-API state confusion. Highest payouts occur in:

  • Platform APIs (GitHub, Shopify, Stripe-tier targets) where GraphQL mutations interact with REST APIs managing the same resources
  • Race conditions between GraphQL mutations and REST endpoints where state synchronization is non-atomic — these hit medium-to-high severity reliably
  • Authorization persistence bugs where team/org/repo membership state is controlled by one API but readable/writable by another
  • B2B SaaS platforms where one tenant affecting another via schema traversal = critical
  • Internal admin GraphQL endpoints accidentally exposed to lower-privilege users

The GitHub reports demonstrate the crown jewel pattern: privilege that should be revoked persists because two APIs disagree on ground truth.


Attack Surface Signals

URL Patterns:

/graphql
/api/graphql
/v1/graphql
/query
/gql
/graph
/api/v2/graphql
/internal/graphql

Response Headers:

Content-Type: application/json  (with query body)
X-Request-Id + no REST-style path params = likely GraphQL

JavaScript Source Patterns:

// grep for these in JS bundles
"query {"
"mutation {"
"__typename"
"apollo"
"ApolloClient"
"graphql-tag"
"gql`"
"operationName"
"GRAPHQL_URI"

Tech Stack Signals:

  • Apollo Server/Client in JS bundles
  • Relay in React apps
  • graphene or strawberry (Python), graphql-ruby, gqlgen (Go), Lighthouse (Laravel)
  • POST requests with {"query": "..."} body shape in Burp history
  • __schema or __type in any response = confirmed GraphQL

Recon Sources:

  • github.com search: "graphql" site:target.com
  • Wayback Machine for /graphql paths
  • JS bundle scanning with LinkFinder or getallurls

Step-by-Step Hunting Methodology

  1. Discover the endpoint — spider JS bundles, check /graphql, /api/graphql, review Burp passive scan hits for application/json POST with query fields

Read the full file on GitHub · 383 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. 8d ago First seen · 383 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A b90b2ed23c32

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hunt-graphql is a skill published in the GitHub repository uphiago/recon-skills (1,254 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 5,035 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (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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