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/windows-privilege-escalationnpx skills add yaklang/hack-skills --skill windows-privilege-escalationgit 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/windows-privilege-escalation)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yaklang/hack-skills/windows-privilege-escalation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yaklang/hack-skills/windows-privilege-escalation.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 | $0.00056 | $0.02872 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00028 | $0.01436 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00574 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00287 |
Grade A, and why
windows-privilege-escalation 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 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.
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.
Copies of this mod
3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- windows-privilege-escalation — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- windows-privilege-escalation — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- windows-privilege-escalation — 94% identical, 4 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 329 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
SKILL: Windows Local Privilege Escalation — Expert Attack Playbook
AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert Windows privesc techniques. Covers token manipulation, Potato family, service misconfigurations, DLL hijacking, AlwaysInstallElevated, scheduled task abuse, registry autoruns, and named pipe impersonation. Base models miss nuanced privilege prerequisites and OS-version-specific constraints.
0. RELATED ROUTING
Before going deep, consider loading:
- windows-lateral-movement after escalation for pivoting to other hosts
- windows-av-evasion when AV/EDR blocks your privesc tools
- active-directory-kerberos-attacks when the host is domain-joined and you need AD-level escalation
- active-directory-acl-abuse for domain privilege escalation via ACL misconfigurations
Advanced Reference
Also load TOKEN_POTATO_TRICKS.md when you need:
- Detailed Potato family comparison (JuicyPotato → GodPotato evolution)
- OS-version-specific exploit selection
- Required privileges and protocol details per variant
Also load UAC_BYPASS_METHODS.md when you need:
- UAC bypass technique matrix (fodhelper, eventvwr, sdclt, etc.)
- Auto-elevate binary abuse
- Mock trusted directory tricks
1. ENUMERATION CHECKLIST
System Context
whoami /all & REM Current user, groups, privileges
systeminfo & REM OS version, hotfixes, architecture
hostname & REM Machine name
net user %USERNAME% & REM Group memberships
Token Privileges (Critical)
whoami /priv
| Privilege | Escalation Path |
|---|---|
SeImpersonatePrivilege |
Potato family exploits (§2) |
SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege |
Token manipulation, Potato variants |
SeDebugPrivilege |
Dump LSASS, inject into SYSTEM processes |
SeBackupPrivilege |
Read any file (SAM/SYSTEM/NTDS.dit) |
SeRestorePrivilege |
Write any file (DLL hijack, service binary) |
SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege |
Take ownership of any object |
SeLoadDriverPrivilege |
Load vulnerable kernel driver → kernel exploit |
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.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 329 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A f9a84405529a
windows-privilege-escalation is a skill published in the GitHub repository yaklang/hack-skills (2,098 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 2,872 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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