bb-methodology

bb-methodology is a skill for Claude Code from Zyrexnn/Cybermes. It costs 90 tokens per session (7,313 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of bb-methodology, Apache-2.0.

A bug-bounty hunting workflow and decision guide that combines target selection, investigation phases, and critical-thinking questions. A bug bounty is a program that rewards valid security reports; the guide also distinguishes it from red-team and penetration-test engagements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a bug-bounty session, when changing targets, or when you are unsure what to investigate next.
Why use it?
It clarifies what counts as a report in each engagement type and helps stop work on findings that cannot be demonstrated or accepted by the program.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the Claude-BugHunter plugin — 11 skills, 15 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it at the start of a bug-bounty session, when changing targets, or when you are unsure what to investigate next.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zyrexnn/cybermes/bb-methodology
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 Zyrexnn/Cybermes --skill bb-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zyrexnn/Cybermes

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install Claude-BugHunter, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 15 commands.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,313 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00090 $0.07313
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.02925
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01463
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00731

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 437537867336, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

bb-methodology scanned grade C with 2 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.

Cloud metadata endpointhighServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

| +-- Can reach 169.254.169.254? -> Extract keys -> RCE

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

3. No time diff? OOB (`curl attacker.com`, interactsh) -- watch for DNS callback
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to bb-methodology — 1 line differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

knowledge/Claude-BugHunter/skills/bb-methodology/SKILL.md · 513 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 513 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bug Bounty Methodology: Workflow + Mindset

Master orchestrator for hunting sessions. Combines the 5-phase non-linear workflow with the critical thinking framework that separates top 1% hunters from the rest.


PART 0: MODE CONFIRMATION (Before Anything Else)

Confirm the engagement type before deciding what counts as a finding. The same target produces a different report shape depending on which mode applies. Getting this wrong is the single biggest waste of time in this workflow — answer it explicitly before Phase 0.

Engagement type What counts as a finding What gets rejected
Bug bounty (H1 / Bugcrowd / Intigriti / private VDP) Impact-demonstrated bugs ONLY. Full chain to attacker-attainable harm. Hygiene (EoL software alone, permissive CSP alone, stack traces, info disclosure without concrete impact, "best practice" violations)
Red team (external client engagement) Hygiene findings + recon + IoCs + defensive-state observations are ALL deliverables Nothing — even "no finding here" is reportable as a positive defensive observation
Pentest (signed SoW / WAPT) Depends on SoW. Read scope explicitly. Usually accepts hygiene + impact + recon Out-of-scope assets, unsigned testing
Internal audit Compliance-mapped findings (PCI / ISO / NIST / DPDPA / GDPR) Findings without a control-mapping

Hard rule: Before Phase 0 runs, write the engagement type as the first line in your hunt notes. If you can't answer it from the user's instruction, ASK once. Don't assume — the mistake costs both you and the triager.

Lesson from an authorized engagement: First-pass on this target produced 5 hygiene findings (SP2013 EoL, permissive CSP, stack traces) shipped in red-team format. The engagement was bug-bounty. Findings would have been N/A'd as "informational, no impact demonstrated." After the corrected pass with hygiene-as-context-not-finding, the same target yielded 11 impact-demonstrated bugs including 3 Critical.

Read the full file on GitHub · 513 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. 1mo ago First seen · 513 lines · 90 tokens per session scan C 437537867336

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bb-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zyrexnn/Cybermes (668 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 7,313 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (cloud metadata endpoint, makes network calls). It is 100% identical to bb-methodology, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.

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