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Overview

claude-red is a curated library of offensive security skills for the Claude Skills system. Each skill is a structured SKILL.md file that primes Claude with expert-level methodology for a specific attack surface — from SQL injection to shellcode, EDR evasion to ADCS abuse.

Drop a skill into your Claude environment and it behaves like a domain specialist: it knows the techniques, the tooling, the edge cases, and the escalation paths. Skills load on demand based on conversational triggers — you don't pay context for skills you aren't using.

Use cases: authorized red team engagements, bug bounty triage, security research, CTF preparation, operator training, and methodical attack surface exploration.

for our actual research using skills -> https://snailsploit.com

Quickstart

Claude Skills System (Recommended)

git clone https://github.com/SnailSploit/claude-red ~/.claude/skills/claude-red

Claude auto-loads matching skills based on conversational triggers (e.g., mentioning SQL injection loads offensive-sqli).

To install a single category:

git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/SnailSploit/claude-red
cd claude-red && git sparse-checkout set Skills/web Skills/active-directory

Claude Code

cat Skills/web/offensive-sqli/SKILL.md | claude --system-file -

cat Skills/active-directory/**/SKILL.md | claude --system-file -

Claude.ai (Manual)

Paste the contents of a SKILL.md into a Project's system prompt or prepend it to your conversation.

Install Script

./install.sh                           # interactive
./install.sh --target ~/.claude/skills # explicit target
./install.sh --category web            # single category

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Categories

Category	Skills	Focus
Web Application	16	OWASP Top 10, business logic, advanced web vulnerability classes
Auth & Identity	2	JWT exploitation, OAuth/OIDC abuse
Active Directory	1	On-prem AD attack methodology
Wireless	14	802.11, WPA2/3, EAP, WPS, evil-twin, BLE, Zigbee, Z-Wave, LoRa, sub-GHz
Cloud	1	AWS, Azure, GCP attack paths
Mobile	1	Android and iOS application testing
IoT & Embedded	1	Hardware, firmware, RTOS, ICS/OT
Infrastructure & Red Team	7	Initial access, EDR evasion, advanced red team operations, Windows internals
Exploit Development	6	Stack/heap corruption, ROP, mitigations, crash analysis, TOCTOU
Fuzzing & Vulnerability Research	4	libFuzzer, AFL++, coverage-guided fuzzing, vulnerability taxonomy
Reconnaissance	2	OSINT tooling and structured intelligence collection
API Security	2	REST/gRPC/WebSocket testing, business logic abuse
Container & Kubernetes	2	Container escape, Kubernetes cluster exploitation
CI/CD & Pipeline	2	Pipeline exploitation, secrets extraction
Cryptography	2	Cryptographic implementation attacks, TLS/SSL
Privilege Escalation	2	Linux and Windows privilege escalation
Post-Exploitation	3	Lateral movement, persistence mechanisms, data exfiltration
Forensics & C2	2	Anti-forensics tradecraft, C2 framework operations
Supply Chain	2	Supply chain attacks, dependency confusion
Social Engineering	2	Phishing campaigns, physical/vishing/smishing
Network Attacks	1	Layer 2/3 attacks, MITM, protocol poisoning
AI Security	1	Prompt injection, jailbreaking, RAG poisoning
Utility	2	Fast triage checklists, professional reporting

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Skill Index

Web Application

Skills/web/

Skill	Description
offensive-sqli	SQL injection — error-based, blind, OOB, DB-specific payloads, ORM CVEs
offensive-xss	Cross-site scripting — stored, reflected, DOM-based, mutation XSS
offensive-ssrf	Server-side request forgery — cloud metadata pivots, filter bypass
offensive-ssti	Server-side template injection — engine fingerprinting, RCE chains
offensive-xxe	XML external entity — OOB exfiltration, blind XXE techniques
offensive-idor	Insecure direct object references — enumeration, authorization bypass
offensive-file-upload	File upload — extension bypass, polyglot files, webshell deployment
offensive-rce	Remote code execution — command injection, deserialization chains
offensive-deserialization	Insecure deserialization — Java, PHP, .NET gadget chains
offensive-race-condition	Race conditions — TOCTOU, single-packet attacks, limit bypass
offensive-request-smuggling	HTTP request smuggling — CL.TE, TE.CL, H2 desync
offensive-open-redirect	Open redirect — OAuth token theft, phishing, SSRF pivots
offensive-parameter-pollution	HTTP parameter pollution — WAF bypass, logic confusion
offensive-graphql	GraphQL — introspection abuse, batching attacks, alias-based IDOR
offensive-waf-bypass	WAF bypass — encoding tricks, chunked transfer, case mutation
offensive-business-logic	Business logic — workflow bypass, pricing abuse, multi-step chains

Auth & Identity

Skills/auth/

Skill	Description
offensive-jwt	JWT attacks — alg:none, key confusion, secret cracking, claim tampering
offensive-oauth	OAuth/OIDC — redirect URI abuse, token leakage, PKCE bypass

Active Directory

Skills/active-directory/

Skill	Description
offensive-active-directory	AD methodology — Kerberoast, ASREProast, ACL abuse, ADCS ESC1-15, delegation, hybrid AAD

Wireless

Skills/wireless/

Skill	Description
offensive-wifi	802.11 overview — entrypoint for wireless assessments
offensive-wifi-recon	Adapter configuration, monitor mode, multi-band airspace mapping
offensive-wpa2-psk	WPA2-PSK — handshake capture, PMKID extraction, hashcat cracking
offensive-wpa3-sae	WPA3-SAE — transition-mode downgrade, Dragonblood, side-channel attacks
offensive-wpa-enterprise	802.1X/EAP — credential relay, evil-twin RADIUS, certificate abuse
offensive-wps	WPS — Pixie Dust offline attack, online PIN brute force, vendor PIN prediction
offensive-evil-twin	Evil twin — KARMA, Mana, captive portal credential capture, MITM
offensive-krack-fragattacks	KRACK and FragAttacks — supplicant vulnerability testing
offensive-deauth-disassoc	Deauthentication — targeted/broadcast frames, PMF awareness
offensive-bluetooth-ble	Bluetooth LE — GATT enumeration, pairing downgrade, sniffing, MITM
offensive-bluetooth-classic	Bluetooth BR/EDR — SDP probing, KNOB attack, BlueBorne, HID spoofing
offensive-zigbee-thread-matter	802.15.4 mesh — KillerBee, Touchlink commissioning abuse, ZCL injection
offensive-z-wave	Z-Wave — S0 key derivation, S2 commissioning attacks, hub pivots
offensive-lorawan-sub-ghz	LoRaWAN and sub-GHz — ABP/OTAA attacks, KeeLoq, fixed-code replay, TPMS

Cloud

Skills/cloud/

Skill	Description
offensive-cloud	Multi-cloud — privilege escalation, IMDS abuse, cross-account pivots, CSPM evasion

Mobile

Skills/mobile/

Skill	Description
offensive-mobile	Android and iOS — Frida hooking, certificate pinning bypass, storage, biometric flaws

IoT & Embedded

Skills/iot/

Skill	Description
offensive-iot	IoT/OT — hardware interfaces, firmware extraction, RTOS, ICS protocols, MQTT/CoAP

Infrastructure & Red Team

Skills/infrastructure/

Skill	Description
offensive-initial-access	Initial access — phishing payloads, drive-by delivery, supply chain vectors (TA0001)
offensive-advanced-redteam	Full kill chain — C2 infrastructure, OPSEC, lateral movement, persistence
offensive-edr-evasion	EDR evasion — userland unhooking, indirect syscalls, PPID spoofing
offensive-shellcode	Shellcode — writing, encoding, injection techniques, position-independent code
offensive-keylogger-arch	Input capture — keylogger architecture, hooking mechanisms
offensive-windows-mitigations	Windows mitigations — ACG, CIG, CFG, CET bypass techniques
offensive-windows-boundaries	Windows boundary defeat — sandbox escape, integrity level bypass

Exploit Development

Skills/exploit-dev/

Skill	Description
offensive-exploit-development	Exploit development — stack/heap corruption, ROP chains, mitigation bypass
offensive-exploit-dev-course	Structured exploit development curriculum
offensive-basic-exploitation	Linux binary exploitation — beginner to intermediate, mitigations disabled
offensive-crash-analysis	Crash triage — exploitability assessment, root-cause analysis
offensive-mitigations	Modern mitigations — ASLR, CFG, CET, PAC analysis and bypass
offensive-toctou	TOCTOU race conditions — binary, kernel, web, and container contexts

Fuzzing & Vulnerability Research

Skills/fuzzing/

Skill	Description
offensive-fuzzing	Fuzzing — libFuzzer, AFL++, coverage-guided strategies, mutation engines
offensive-fuzzing-course	Vulnerability discovery through fuzzing — structured curriculum
offensive-bug-identification	Bug identification — code review patterns, static analysis triggers
offensive-vuln-classes	Vulnerability taxonomy — real-world examples, classification frameworks

Reconnaissance

Skills/recon/

Skill	Description
offensive-osint	OSINT tooling — recon-ng, theHarvester, Maltego, Spiderfoot
offensive-osint-methodology	OSINT methodology — structured intelligence collection and analysis

API Security

Skills/api/

Skill	Description
offensive-api-security	API testing — OWASP API Top 10, BOLA, BFLA, mass assignment, rate limiting
offensive-api-abuse	API business logic — endpoint chaining, batching abuse, webhook hijacking

Container & Kubernetes

Skills/container/

Skill	Description
offensive-container-escape	Container breakout — privileged mode, Docker socket, capabilities, runc CVEs
offensive-k8s-attacks	Kubernetes attacks — RBAC abuse, etcd access, kubelet API, pod escape, CRD exploitation

CI/CD & Pipeline

Skills/cicd/

Skill	Description
offensive-cicd-pipeline	CI/CD exploitation — GitHub Actions injection, Jenkins RCE, GitLab CI abuse
offensive-cicd-secrets	CI/CD secrets — environment variable extraction, vault misconfigs, runner token abuse

Cryptography

Skills/crypto/

Skill	Description
offensive-crypto-attacks	Cryptographic attacks — padding oracle, ECB manipulation, hash extension, weak PRNG
offensive-tls-attacks	TLS/SSL attacks — POODLE, DROWN, Heartbleed, pinning bypass, 0-RTT replay

Privilege Escalation

Skills/privesc/

Skill	Description
offensive-linux-privesc	Linux privilege escalation — SUID, capabilities, sudo, cron, kernel exploits
offensive-windows-privesc	Windows privilege escalation — Potato family, service misconfigs, DLL hijacking, UAC bypass

Post-Exploitation

Skills/post-exploitation/

Skill	Description
offensive-lateral-movement	Lateral movement — PTH, PTT, NTLM relay, WMI/WinRM/DCOM, tunneling
offensive-persistence	Persistence — registry, scheduled tasks, WMI subscriptions, ticket forgery, PAM backdoors
offensive-data-exfiltration	Data exfiltration — DNS/HTTPS/ICMP tunneling, cloud staging, steganography

Forensics & C2

Skills/forensics/

Skill	Description
offensive-anti-forensics	Anti-forensics — log manipulation, timestomping, ADS abuse, memory cleanup
offensive-c2-frameworks	C2 tradecraft — Cobalt Strike, Sliver, Mythic, Havoc, redirectors, domain fronting

Supply Chain

Skills/supply-chain/

Skill	Description
offensive-supply-chain	Supply chain attacks — dependency confusion, typosquatting, build system compromise
offensive-dependency-confusion	Dependency confusion — npm/PyPI/NuGet/Maven namespace attacks, safe PoC methodology

Social Engineering

Skills/social-engineering/

Skill	Description
offensive-phishing	Phishing — GoPhish, EvilGinx2, payload delivery, email authentication bypass
offensive-social-engineering	Social engineering — pretexting, vishing, smishing, physical SE, USB drops

Network Attacks

Skills/network/

Skill	Description
offensive-network-attacks	Network layer attacks — ARP spoofing, LLMNR/NBT-NS poisoning, VLAN hopping, MITM

AI Security

Skills/ai/

Skill	Description
offensive-ai-security	AI/ML security — prompt injection, jailbreaking, RAG poisoning, model extraction

Utility

Skills/utility/

Skill	Description
offensive-fast-checking	Fast triage — quick-win identification checklists
offensive-reporting	Professional reporting — CVSS scoring, evidence standards, executive summaries

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Roadmap

The library is being expanded across multiple phases. See CHANGELOG.md for release history.

Phase	Focus	Skills	Status
1	Internal AD/Windows — split into focused skills	+16	Planned
2	Cloud Identity — Entra, ADFS, Okta, M365	+10	Planned
3	Wireless — WPA2/3, EAP, BLE, Zigbee, Z-Wave, LoRa, sub-GHz	+12	Complete
4	IoT — UART/JTAG, flash extraction, fault injection, RTOS, ICS	+10	Planned
5	Web Fundamentals — recon, auth bypass, access control, CSRF, CORS	+8	Planned
6	Web Advanced — proto pollution, SAML, OIDC, WebSocket, SSI/ESI	+10	Planned
7	Documentation and tooling polish	—	Complete
8	New categories — 10 new domains with 20 skills	+20	Complete
9	Deep rewrites — deserialization, GraphQL, advanced red team, SSTI	—	Complete

Target: ~130 skills across 23+ categories.

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Contributing

Contributions welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the skill template, frontmatter standard, and review process. Focused, single-surface skills are preferred over monolithic overviews.

License

MIT — use freely, attribution appreciated.

Acknowledgements

• Author: Kai Aizen (SnailSploit) — GenAI security research
• Original Checklists: Sahar Shlichov — the offensive checklist collection that many of these skills build on
• Community: Pull requests and feedback that keep the library aligned with the evolving threat landscape

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