competition-kernel-container-escape

competition-kernel-container-escape is a skill for Codex from zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill. It costs 102 tokens per session (580 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialized CTF workflow for investigating whether a process inside a container can cross into the host through the Linux kernel or container boundary.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for examining namespaces, cgroups, capabilities, system-call restrictions, security controls, mounts, runtime sockets, kernel details, and a minimal container-to-host escape path.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish an exploit prerequisite from a working escape and records the evidence needed to show that the boundary was actually crossed.

Skill for Codex

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

Good fit It is for examining namespaces, cgroups, capabilities, system-call restrictions, security controls, mounts, runtime sockets, kernel details, and a minimal container-to-host escape path.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill/competition-kernel-container-escape
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 · 42,152 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-kernel-container-escape
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 580 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 $0.00102 $0.00580
Opus 5.5 $0.00041 $0.00232
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00058

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c6e840b0365e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competition-kernel-container-escape 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 1mo 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-kernel-container-escape/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competition Kernel Container Escape

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 step is proving a boundary crossing between containerized context and host or higher-privilege kernel context.

Reply in Simplified Chinese unless the user explicitly requests English.

Quick Start

  1. Map runtime isolation first: namespaces, cgroups, seccomp, capabilities, LSM, and mount boundaries.
  2. Separate exploit prerequisite, primitive, and boundary-crossing proof.
  3. Record kernel version, config hints, runtime options, and reachable syscall surface.
  4. Keep instrumented observations separate from pristine challenge path.
  5. Reproduce one minimal primitive-to-boundary-crossing chain.

Workflow

1. Map Isolation And Kernel Surface

  • Record namespace map, cgroup mode, capabilities, seccomp profile, AppArmor or SELinux state, mounted filesystems, and runtime sockets.
  • Note kernel version, distro build hints, module exposure, and container runtime behavior.
  • Keep host and container observations linked to exact node and context.

2. Prove Exploit Primitive And Crossover

  • Show controllable input, trigger condition, affected object, and observable kernel or runtime state change.
  • Capture before and after identity, namespace, mount, or process visibility to prove boundary crossing.
  • Distinguish crash-only behavior from stable capability gain.

3. Reduce To Decisive Escape Chain

  • Compress to: prerequisite state -> primitive trigger -> boundary crossing evidence -> resulting host-level capability.
  • State whether root cause is kernel vulnerability, runtime misconfiguration, capability overgrant, or namespace leak.
  • If path relies mostly on credential replay after initial foothold, hand off to Linux credential pivot skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 1mo ago First seen · 51 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A c6e840b0365e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

competition-kernel-container-escape is a skill published in the GitHub repository zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill (42,152 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 580 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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