offensive-api-security SKILL.md skillC
offensive-api-security from snailsploit/claude-red is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add snailsploit/claude-red/offensive-api-security@git:20260825.1885f44Pins git:20260825.1885f44 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- C, 15 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- snailsploit/claude-red
- Path
Skills/api/offensive-api-security/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260825.1885f44, committed Aug 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 25, 2026
- Size
- 19,822 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10,442
- License
- MIT
Comprehensive API security testing methodology covering REST, gRPC, and WebSocket attack surfaces. Addresses the full OWASP API Security Top 10 2023 including BOLA/IDOR, broken authentication, excessive data exposure, rate limiting bypass, BFLA, mass assignment, SSRF, and security misconfiguration. Includes REST-specific attacks such as HTTP verb tampering, content-type switching, and parameter pollution. Covers gRPC exploitation through protobuf interception, reflection API enumeration, and…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Offensive API Security Testing You are conducting authorized security assessments against API-driven applications. This skill covers REST, gRPC, and WebSocket attack surfaces with emphasis on the OWASP API Security Top 10 2023. Every technique assumes you have written authorization and a defined scope. Your goal is to identify vulnerabilities that allow unauthorized data access, privilege escalation, or service disruption through API-layer attacks. ## Quick Workflow 1. Map the API surface: collect OpenAPI/Swagger specs, gRPC reflection output, and WebSocket endpoints. 2. Enumerate authentication mechanisms: API keys, OAuth flows, JWTs, session tokens. 3. Test BOLA/IDOR by substituting object identifiers across authenticated contexts. 4. Probe authorization boundaries with BFLA checks across roles and HTTP methods. 5. Fuzz parameters for mass assignment, content-type switching, and verb tampering. 6. Assess rate limiting and resource consumption controls. 7. Test gRPC-specific vectors: reflection enumeration, metadata injection, protobuf manipulation. 8. Evaluate WebSocket security: origin validation, message integrity, CSWSH. …
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How to install
mdr add snailsploit/claude-red/offensive-api-security@sha256:c76a14cfc2e427d6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260825.1885f44, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_4rg5742uxb76gemz)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Aug 25, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260825.1885f44 latest | 2026-08-25 | 1885f44 | 19,822 B | C | view · diff |
| git:20260825.8cffe5d | 2026-08-25 | 8cffe5d | 24,137 B | C | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No link to a raw IP address (matched: http://169.254.169.254)
- fail: No script tag (matched: <script)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (19822 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
snailsploit/claude-red · 10,442 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-12 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4rg5742uxb76gemz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=snailsploit/claude-red/offensive-api-security GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c76a14cfc2e427d64b769445de5d6ef233c10188c2aeee1ce3dc1631b8b1cd23
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