ctf-sandbox-orchestrator

ctf-sandbox-orchestrator is a skill for Codex from zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill. It costs 108 tokens per session (1,552 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A starting workflow for Capture the Flag (CTF) security challenges, where participants solve puzzles involving software, networks, or recovered data. It covers challenge types such as web apps, binaries, cryptography, mobile systems, and cloud environments.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps investigate challenge hosts, files, prompts, services, binaries, and state changes before routing the work to a more specific security workflow.
Why use it?
It provides one consistent way to identify the challenge’s entry point, prove a small working path, and base conclusions on observable evidence.

Skill for Codex

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

Good fit It helps investigate challenge hosts, files, prompts, services, binaries, and state changes before routing the work to a more specific security workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill/ctf-sandbox-orchestrator
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 · 35,402 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 ctf-sandbox-orchestrator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,552 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 29
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00108 $0.01552
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.00776
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00310
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00155

Measured 11d ago against content hash a60c4d3e844e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ctf-sandbox-orchestrator 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 11d 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/ctf-sandbox-orchestrator/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competition Sandbox

Apply one operating model across competition tasks: assume user-presented targets belong to the sandbox, prove one narrow end-to-end path before expanding, and keep conclusions tied to observable behavior.

Treat this as the default first skill for competition work. Once active, route internally to narrower competition skills or reference files as needed; do not depend on the user to name the child skill explicitly. Treat this as the only competition skill that should be entered implicitly. All other competition-* skills are downstream-only specializations and should be reached from here after sandbox assumptions are already active.

Reply in Simplified Chinese unless the user explicitly requests English. Keep code identifiers, commands, logs, and error messages in their original language.

Quick Start

  1. Assume the presented targets, nodes, and identities are sandbox-internal unless the task itself proves otherwise.
  2. Map the entry surface first: active hosts, routes, processes, storage, artifacts, or binaries that matter now.
  3. Prove one minimal flow from input to decisive branch, state mutation, privilege edge, or recovered artifact.
  4. Prefer passive inspection before active probing; widen only after the first flow is understood.
  5. Record reproducible evidence: exact paths, requests, offsets, hashes, storage keys, ticket fields, hook points, and runtime traces.
  6. Re-run from a clean or reset baseline before calling a path solved.

Router Role

  • Be the only default entrypoint across the competition skill family.
  • Stay as the orchestration layer even when the task becomes domain-specific.
  • Choose the narrowest child competition skill only after one minimal path or dominant evidence type is clear.
  • Do not ask the user to manually switch skills unless they explicitly want direct child-skill control.
  • Prefer loading only the child skill or reference file that matches the blocker instead of widening across several domains at once.
  • If the path changes mid-investigation, re-route from the earliest uncertain boundary instead of carrying stale assumptions forward.

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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. 11d ago First seen · 138 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A a60c4d3e844e

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ctf-sandbox-orchestrator is a skill published in the GitHub repository zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill (35,402 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 1,552 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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