insecure-source-code-management

A guide for authorized security checks for exposed source-control files and backup or configuration files. Source-control metadata includes folders such as .git, .svn, and .hg, which can reveal project history or settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check paths such as /.git/HEAD, /.env, or /.svn/entries, distinguish likely 403 and 404 responses, and assess whether exposed metadata can reveal source code or credentials.
Why use it?
It helps identify accidental exposure of repository data, environment files, backups, and related sensitive configuration while limiting handling of recovered secrets.

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/yaklang/hack-skills/insecure-source-code-management
Any agent
npx skills add yaklang/hack-skills --skill insecure-source-code-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yaklang/hack-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,441 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.00047 $0.01441
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00720
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00144

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7e033f796ec8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

insecure-source-code-management 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 3d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/insecure-source-code-management/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Insecure Source Code Management

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: This skill covers detection and recovery of exposed version-control metadata, common backup artifacts, and related misconfigurations. Use only in authorized assessments. Treat recovered credentials and URLs as sensitive; do not exfiltrate real data beyond scope. For broad discovery workflow, cross-load recon-for-sec and recon-and-methodology when those skills exist in the workspace.

0. QUICK START

High-value paths to probe first (GET or HEAD, respect rate limits):

/.git/HEAD
/.git/config
/.svn/entries
/.svn/wc.db
/.hg/requires
/.bzr/README
/.DS_Store
/.env

Routing note: quickly probe these paths first; for full recon workflow, load methodology from recon-for-sec and recon-and-methodology before deeper testing.


1. GIT EXPOSURE

Detection

  • /.git/HEAD — valid repo often returns plain text like:
ref: refs/heads/main
  • /.git/config — may expose remote.origin.url, user identity, or embedded credentials.
  • /.git/index, /.git/objects/ — partial object store access enables reconstruction with the right tools.

403 vs 404

  • 404 — path likely absent or fully blocked at the edge.
  • 403 on /.git/ — directory may exist but listing is denied; still try direct file URLs:
/.git/HEAD
/.git/config
/.git/logs/HEAD
/.git/refs/heads/main

A 403 on the directory plus 200 on HEAD strongly indicates exposure.

Recovery tools (open source)

  • arthaud/git-dumper — dumps reachable .git tree when individual files are fetchable.
  • internetwache/GitTools — Dumper, Extractor, Finder modules for partial/corrupt dumps.
  • WangYihang/GitHacker — alternative recovery when standard dumpers miss edge cases.

Key files to prioritize

Path Why it matters
.git/config Remotes, credentials, hooks paths
.git/logs/HEAD Commit history, reflog-style leakage
.git/refs/heads/* Branch tips, commit SHAs
.git/packed-refs Packed branch/tag refs
.git/objects/** Object blobs for reconstruction

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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. 3d ago First seen · 162 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 7e033f796ec8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

insecure-source-code-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository yaklang/hack-skills (2,004 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,441 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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