redteam-mindset SKILL.md skillA

redteam-mindset from adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai/redteam-mindset@git:20260611.ff4cc7c

Pins git:20260611.ff4cc7c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai
Path
cursor-claude-codex/skills/bug-hunter/skills/redteam-mindset/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
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Latest version
git:20260611.ff4cc7c, committed Jun 11, 2026
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Repository stars
69
License
MIT

Red-team operator discipline — the mindset corrections that separate offensive testing from defensive WAPT. Built from authorized red-team work where conservative defaults caused multiple findings to be missed and one to be incorrectly retracted. Use at the START of any red-team engagement and again whenever feeling stuck or considering "stopping" on a defended target. The single most important skill to load when scope is "external red team" not "bug bounty / WAPT".

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

## When to use this skill

Trigger when:
- Engagement scope says "red team", "adversary emulation", "assume breach", "TIBER-style"
- You're tempted to retract a finding because reproducibility failed once
- You're tempted to call a defense "working as intended" instead of probing further
- You hit a blocker (captcha, rate limit, WAF, CA-block, lockout) and consider stopping
- You're about to spend time on IDOR/CSRF/XSS instead of access-yielding bugs
- You found a vuln on app A and there are sister apps B, C, D you haven't touched

DO NOT use for:
- Bug bounty programs (use bug-bounty skill — different scope rules)
- WAPT/PCI-style assessments (use OWASP-aligned skills)
- Pure compliance audits

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## The one-line summary

**Red team scope = "gain access, prove impact". Bug bounty / WAPT scope = "find a bug, write a report".**

These produce DIFFERENT decisions at every blocker. Internalize the difference before starting.

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## DO NOT STOP — primary directive (read this twice)

The 9 corrections below are nuance. THIS is the core. If you only retain one thing from this skill, retain this.

### Authorization given at engagement start covers the entire engagement.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai/redteam-mindset@sha256:2dc462992616d081

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260611.ff4cc7c, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 11, 2026.

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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (24976 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

GitHub

adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai · 69 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-10 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7bozsxm4dc6rfo4k
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai/redteam-mindset
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2dc462992616d081492168fee13a92fef1d0ed574eb941a2fd744859401c74d7

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