SnailSploit/Claude-Red
claude-red is a curated library of offensive security skills designed 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 SQLi to shellcode, EDR evasion to exploit development.
README
claude-red
Offensive security skills for Claude — drop-in SKILL.md files that turn Claude into a context-aware red team operator.
Overview • Quickstart • Categories • Skill Index • Roadmap • Contributing
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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.
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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
Give Claude the right skill and it stops being a chatbot — it becomes an operator.
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