# hack

Acts as the primary router and safety gate for authorized penetration testing, code auditing, and incident triage. Enforces scope boundaries and stops without verified permission.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 4300 installs · ★ 2547
- Author: yaklang
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/yaklang/hack-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/hack/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-13
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/hack

## What it does

The skill acts as the root coordinator for the HackSkills framework. Before launching any assessment, the agent must clear a formal start gate. It verifies written authorization, rules of engagement, target boundaries, and emergency stop procedures. Without explicit authorization, the agent halts.

Strict guardrails prevent destructive behavior during testing. The agent cannot drop or truncate databases, alter third-party account records, clear system logs, or run denial-of-service payloads. Discovered credentials face a liveness gate. The agent confirms them using a single read-only call.

Working files are organized into three dedicated folders: `assets/`, `evidence/`, and `reports/`. This keeps proof reproducible and separates active attack steps from detection tasks.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add yaklang/hack-skills --skill hack -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/hack/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/hack/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add yaklang/hack-skills --skill hack -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/hack/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add yaklang/hack-skills --skill hack -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/hack/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install yaklang/hack-skills hack
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/hack/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add yaklang/hack-skills --skill hack -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/yaklang/hack-skills --path skills/hack
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/hack/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add yaklang/hack-skills --skill hack -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/yaklang/hack-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/hack/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Verify authorization and rules of engagement before running security tests
- Route web, API, code audit, and incident triage tasks to specialized workflows
- Prevent destructive payload execution and data loss during assessments
- Validate leaked credentials through safe read-only verification calls

## Example prompts
- Initialize an authorized web pentest for the specified target scope
- Audit this repository for secret leaks and sink patterns under HackSkills rules
- Triage these security alerts and build the evidence directory

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: hack
description: >-
  Entry P0 primary router and operating doctrine for HackSkills. Use when the
  task involves web application testing, API security assessment, recon,
  vulnerability triage, exploit path planning, authorized pentest, code audit,
  source-leak mining, middleware audit, SOC triage, detection engineering,
  incident response, or choosing the right next category skill before any deep
  topic skill. Also use when the user mentions 安全工程师, 渗透测试, 红队, 蓝队, 代码审计,
  源码泄露, SRC. Enforce impact-first testing, finish the current asset cluster
  before expanding, follow half-chains to real control, and require live
  verification of secrets.
---

# HACKING SKILLS / HackSkills

## Overview

This is the **master quality gate and technical router** for authorized bug bounty, web/API security, pentest, code audit, source-leak work, and (when the task is blue) SOC / detection / IR.

It does not replace specialized techniques. It makes the agent:

1. Pass the start gate (authorization, role, scope, success definition)
2. Spend effort on paths that reach real control
3. Route by observed behavior to the correct category / deep topic skill
4. Prefer structured methodology over baseline-model memory and scanner dumps

This file is a quality gate, not a capability ceiling. Surfaces not listed here stay in play if field evidence exists.

This file is not an exploit cookbook. Weaponized details live in deep topic skills and are used only on authorized targets.

Load on demand:

- Red-team execution → [RED_TEAM.md](./RED_TEAM.md)
- Test matrix and effort → [TEST_MATRIX.md](./TEST_MATRIX.md)
- Blue-team execution → [BLUE_TEAM.md](./BLUE_TEAM.md)
- Code audit → [CODE_AUDIT.md](./CODE_AUDIT.md)
- Source leak → [SOURCE_LEAK.md](./SOURCE_LEAK.md)
- Evidence and report → [EVIDENCE_REPORT.md](./EVIDENCE_REPORT.md)

## 0. Task Start Gate

Complete in order. Stop if any item is missing:

1. **Authorization**: written auth, RoE, scope, prohibitions, contact, emergency stop. No authorization → refuse.
2. **Role**: red-team test / code audit / source leak / middleware audit / blue triage / detection engineering / IR. Parallel work is allowed; there is only one primary role.
3. **Scope mode**:
   - User gave a fixed URL / system / repo → **locked scope**: follow same-product hosts, gateways, API domains, and same-host extra paths that the business flow naturally exposes. Do not scan unrelated brand lines.
   - User gave an org name and asked to find boundary assets → **exploratory scope**: finish the current asset cluster before opening the next. Do not search many seeds shallowly.
4. **Success definition**: what "done" means for this task. Scanner-finished, report-emitted, and ticket-closed are not success.
5. **Destruction boundary**: list actions that must never happen.
6. **Working directory** before any test: `assets/` (URLs, API inventory, script excerpts), `evidence/` (requests, diffs, screenshots), `reports/` (confirmed findings only).
```
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