awesome-pentest SKILL.md skillA
awesome-pentest from khasky/awesome-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add khasky/awesome-agent-skills/awesome-pentest@git:20261018.a4259a5Pins git:20261018.a4259a5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- khasky/awesome-agent-skills
- Path
skills/awesome-pentest/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 12
- Latest version
- git:20261018.a4259a5, committed Oct 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 2, 2026
- Size
- 25,277 bytes
- Repository stars
- 30
- License
- MIT
Runs an authorized penetration test (web app, API, network, cloud, mobile) per PTES and OWASP, with CWE/CVSS findings and a retest. Use for a pentest or red team engagement against a live target.
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
# Penetration Test Assessment Run an authorized penetration test the way a professional engagement does: scope and rules of engagement first, then work the target from an attacker's perspective through recognized methodology, and end with a report a client could act on. This skill is the engagement lifecycle and orchestration layer — it drives the deep-dive siblings (`awesome-security-audit` for static code review, `awesome-dependency-audit` for supply chain, `awesome-leak-audit` for client disclosure) and adds what they don't cover: scoping, attack-surface enumeration, dynamic/runtime testing, exploitation-to-proof, post-exploitation impact, and the engagement report. It is defensive by intent: the goal is to find and prove real risk so it can be fixed, using a proof-of-concept that demonstrates impact — never a weaponized exploit, never persistence or data theft beyond what the rules of engagement permit. It refuses to attack a target the user is not authorized to test. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add khasky/awesome-agent-skills/awesome-pentest@sha256:3e5040ccc56020e9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261018.a4259a5, 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_4rveifoac7kt57nt)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 12 versions of this file, between Aug 2, 2026 and Oct 18, 2026, about one every 7 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261018.a4259a5 latest | 2026-10-18 | a4259a5 | 25,277 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.eca990b | 2026-09-25 | eca990b | 25,226 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.d850440 | 2026-09-25 | d850440 | 25,308 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.34d9fac | 2026-09-25 | 34d9fac | 25,618 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260918.18278a0 | 2026-09-18 | 18278a0 | 25,174 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260918.427dc55 | 2026-09-18 | 427dc55 | 25,102 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260910.ad72ad4 | 2026-09-10 | ad72ad4 | 24,726 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.35af86b | 2026-09-05 | 35af86b | 24,986 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260903.308080e | 2026-09-03 | 308080e | 25,314 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260830.5b9b9d2 | 2026-08-30 | 5b9b9d2 | 25,308 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.f590d99 | 2026-08-09 | f590d99 | 25,051 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260802.d60e467 | 2026-08-02 | d60e467 | 22,009 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (25277 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
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
khasky/awesome-agent-skills · 30 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4rveifoac7kt57nt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=khasky/awesome-agent-skills/awesome-pentest GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3e5040ccc56020e9edf4aac4fb15577ace0e4e71f1b0ac19e395128a3de61c16
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