aws-post-exploit

An AWS post-compromise security skill for situations where someone already has high-level access to Amazon Web Services accounts or specific services.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for assessing access to services such as S3 storage, databases, and server disks; checking movement between accounts or regions; and reviewing persistence and logging controls.
Why use it?
It guides work after access has been obtained, including checking what data and accounts may be reachable, maintaining access, and hiding activity.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/wgpsec/aboutsecurity/aws-post-exploit
Any agent
npx skills add wgpsec/AboutSecurity --skill aws-post-exploit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wgpsec/AboutSecurity

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,393 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 3 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00110 $0.05393
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.02697
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.01079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00539

Measured 2d ago against content hash cc0bad732311, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

aws-post-exploit scanned grade C with 3 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 2d 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.

Reaches for credential filesmediumPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

--ssh-public-key file://~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Cloud metadata endpointmediumServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

--parameters 'commands=["curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/ && whoami"]'

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.

--parameters 'commands=["curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/ && whoami"]'
skills/cloud/aws-post-exploit/SKILL.md · 415 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 2d ago First seen · 415 lines · 110 tokens per session scan C cc0bad732311

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aws-post-exploit is a skill published in the GitHub repository wgpsec/AboutSecurity (1,709 stars, last pushed 2d ago), with no licence file. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 5,393 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 3 findings (reaches for credential files, cloud metadata endpoint, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.