type-juggling

type-juggling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yaklang/hack-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (3,204 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to finding PHP bugs where loose comparisons treat different values as equal. It covers weak checks in logins, signatures, and tokens, including numeric conversion and special hash values.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review legacy PHP authentication, HMAC, and hash-comparison code, or to investigate type-conversion challenges in controlled testing.
Why use it?
It helps explain why an authentication or token check can accept the wrong value. It also helps distinguish these bugs from checks that already use strict comparison.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review legacy PHP authentication, HMAC, and hash-comparison code, or…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yaklang/hack-skills/type-juggling
About the project

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.

yaklang/hack-skills · 2,098 stars · on GitHub

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 yaklang/hack-skills --skill type-juggling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yaklang/hack-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,204 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 $0.00054 $0.03204
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01602
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00641
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00320

Measured 3d ago against content hash b8da531733cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

type-juggling 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

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/type-juggling/SKILL.md · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: PHP Type Juggling — Weak Comparison & Magic Hash Bypass

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: PHP == coercion, magic hashes (0e…), HMAC/hash loose checks, NULL from bad types, and CTF-style strcmp / json_decode / intval tricks. Use strict routing: map the sink (== vs hash_equals), PHP major version, and whether both operands are attacker-controlled. Routing note: when you encounter PHP login/signature logic or code like md5($_GET['x'])==md5($_GET['y']), start with this skill; if hash_equals/=== is already used, this path usually does not apply.

0. QUICK START

First-pass goal: prove the server branch treats unequal secrets/tokens as equal via coercion, not guess the real password.

First-pass payloads (auth / token shape)

password[]=x
password=
0
0e12345
240610708
QNKCDZO
true
[]
{"password":true}
admin%00

Minimal PHP probes (local or php -r in lab)

<?php
// Loose compare probes — run in target PHP major version if possible
var_dump('0e123' == '0e999');
var_dump('123a' == 123);
var_dump(md5('240610708') == md5('QNKCDZO'));

Routing hints

Clue Next step
Source code uses == to compare passwords, tokens, or HMAC values Go to Sections 1-3
md5($a) == md5($b) or loose sha1 comparison Section 2 magic hashes
hash_hmac(...) != '0' or compared with "0" Section 3
strcmpjson_decode(..., true)intval Section 5

1. LOOSE COMPARISON (==) — TRUTH TABLE & VERSIONS

PHP compares operands with type juggling unless you use === or hash_equals() for secrets.

1.1 Core examples (strings vs numbers)

Expression Result Mechanism (short)
'0010e2' == '1e3' true Both strings look numeric → compared as floats; both parse to 1000.0 (not zero — common exam trap; see next row for real “both zero”)
'0e462097431906509019562988736854' == '0e830400451993494058024219903391' true Both parse as 0.0 in scientific notation
'123a' == 123 true String cast to int stops at first non-digit → 123
'abc' == 0 true (PHP 7.x and earlier) Non-numeric string compared to int → string becomes 0
'' == 0 true Empty string → 0
'' == false true both “falsy” in loose rules
false == NULL true loose equality
0 == false true loose equality
'' == 0 == false == NULL true (chain) Each adjacent pair is true under == (''==0, 0==false, false==NULL) — classic “falsy” chain
'0' == false true String '0' is the only non-empty string that compares as false to boolean
'php' == 0 false (PHP 8+) PHP 8: non-numeric string no longer equals 0

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 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 · 292 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A b8da531733cb

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type-juggling is a skill published in the GitHub repository yaklang/hack-skills (2,098 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 3,204 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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