competition-cloud-metadata-path

competition-cloud-metadata-path is a skill for Codex from zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill. It costs 118 tokens per session (675 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist guide for tracing cloud metadata services, which provide identity or credentials to cloud workloads, through to the privilege accepted by another service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in authorized CTF sandbox investigations to examine instance or workload identity, metadata routes, token requirements, role scope, and the API that accepts the resulting identity.
Why use it?
It separates reaching a metadata endpoint from receiving credentials and proving that those credentials grant useful access.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it in authorized CTF sandbox investigations to examine instance or workload identity, metadata routes, token requirements, role scope, and the API that accepts the resulting identity.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill/competition-cloud-metadata-path
About the project

Reverse Skill is a routing package for AI coding agents that selects appropriate reverse-engineering, penetration-testing, and security-research methods and tools for a given target. It is used for tasks involving APKs, binaries, frontend JavaScript, packet captures, CTF challenges, and authorized penetration testing. Its catalogue add-ons provide the skills and instructions that guide these workflows.

zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill · 35,183 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 zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill --skill competition-cloud-metadata-path
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill

Made for: Codex.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for competition-cloud-metadata-path

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill/competition-cloud-metadata-path/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill/competition-cloud-metadata-path)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill/competition-cloud-metadata-path"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill/competition-cloud-metadata-path/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for competition-cloud-metadata-path

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill/competition-cloud-metadata-path"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill/competition-cloud-metadata-path.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 675 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00118 $0.00675
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00338
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00068

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5f15e808652c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competition-cloud-metadata-path 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 10d 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

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

CTF-Sandbox-Orchestrator/competition-cloud-metadata-path/SKILL.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competition Cloud Metadata Path

Use this skill only as a downstream specialization after $ctf-sandbox-orchestrator is already active and has established sandbox assumptions, node ownership, and evidence priorities. If that has not happened yet, return to $ctf-sandbox-orchestrator first.

Use this skill when the decisive edge is not just reaching metadata, but proving how metadata-derived identity becomes accepted privilege.

Reply in Simplified Chinese unless the user explicitly requests English.

Quick Start

  1. Identify which metadata surface is active: instance metadata, workload identity, node identity, task role, or platform-specific token endpoint.
  2. Record the exact reachability path: local process, pod, container, proxy, SSRF surface, or host route.
  3. Separate metadata reachability from credential issuance and from downstream privilege acceptance.
  4. Keep token format, role identity, scope, and accepting API in compact evidence blocks.
  5. Reproduce the smallest metadata-to-accepted-privilege path that proves the challenge edge.

Workflow

1. Map Metadata Reachability

  • Record the metadata endpoint, required headers, hop limits, session tokens, workload selectors, or path prefixes.
  • Note whether access comes from direct local calls, pod networking, SSRF, sidecar, or host-level routing.
  • Keep the reaching surface and the metadata endpoint in one chain.

2. Prove Credential Or Identity Issuance

  • Show how the metadata response becomes a token, temporary credential, signed identity doc, or platform-specific workload identity.
  • Record expiration, role name, subject, audience, issuer, or cloud account mapping that matters downstream.
  • Distinguish raw metadata from usable credential material.

3. Reduce To The Decisive Trust Path

  • Compress the result to the smallest sequence: reaching surface -> metadata call -> credential issued -> accepted cloud or cluster action.
  • State clearly whether the weakness lives in reachability, metadata config, role trust, downstream policy, or workload binding.
  • If the challenge narrows to RBAC or cluster mutation after credential issuance, switch back to the tighter control-plane skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 52 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 52 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A 5f15e808652c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

competition-cloud-metadata-path is a skill published in the GitHub repository zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill (35,183 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 675 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

gke-compute-classes

Configures, optimizes, and troubleshoots GKE ComputeClasses. Use when configuring Spot VMs with on-demand fallback, targeting specific accelerators (GPUs/TPUs) or machine families, restricting ComputeClass access, or debugging pending pods related to node pool auto-creation. Do not use for cluster-level Node Auto…

google/skills · 83 tokens

gke-workload-security

Audits, configures, and hardens workload-level security controls for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) applications and namespaces. Covers running cluster security audits (auditcluster.sh), configuring Workload Identity Federation (impersonation, KSA/GSA binding, and pod setup), enforcing Network Policies (default-deny…

google/skills · 181 tokens

gke-reliability

Improves GKE workload reliability, using PDBs, health probes, and topology spread constraints. Use when configuring GKE workload reliability, setting up PDBs, or configuring GKE health probes (liveness, readiness, startup). Don't use for disaster recovery setup or full cluster backups (use gke-backup-dr instead).

google/skills · 73 tokens

nemo-automodel-launcher-config

Configure NeMo AutoModel job launches for interactive runs, Slurm clusters, and SkyPilot cloud execution.

NVIDIA/skills · 30 tokens

azure-mgmt-botservice-dotnet

Azure Resource Manager SDK for Bot Service in .NET. Management plane operations for creating and managing Azure Bot resources, channels (Teams, DirectLine, Slack), and connection settings. Triggers: "Bot Service", "BotResource", "Azure Bot", "DirectLine channel", "Teams channel", "bot management .NET", "create bot".

microsoft/skills · 78 tokens

cloud-architect

Designs cloud architectures, creates migration plans, generates cost optimization recommendations, and produces disaster recovery strategies across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Use when designing cloud architectures, planning migrations, or optimizing multi-cloud deployments. Invoke for Well-Architected Framework, cost…

Jeffallan/claude-skills · 71 tokens