web-app-penetration-testing SKILL.md skillA
web-app-penetration-testing from usestrix/strix is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add usestrix/strix/web-app-penetration-testing@git:20260901.42baa7cPins git:20260901.42baa7c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- usestrix/strix
- Path
skills/web-app-penetration-testing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260901.42baa7c, committed Sep 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 20, 2026
- Size
- 4,320 bytes
- Repository stars
- 74,096
- License
- Apache-2.0
Pentest a web app or website end to end — black-box testing of a live URL, staging environment, or local dev server that finds and exploits real vulnerabilities (auth bypass, broken access control, IDOR, injection, XSS, SSRF, business logic) and proves each one with a working proof-of-concept instead of a signature match. Runs with Strix, either the self-hosted open-source CLI or the managed app.strix.ai cloud. Use when the user asks to pentest, hack, security-test, or audit their web app…
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
# Pentest a web application Black-box (and optionally source-assisted) penetration testing of a running web app with Strix's autonomous agents. Every reported finding is validated with a working exploit, so there are no signature-based false positives to triage. Install, LLM setup, all CLI flags, and the managed-cloud alternative are covered in the **penetration-testing-with-strix** skill — read it if the target is not a running web app, or if `strix --version` fails. For a run with no Docker and no LLM key, the same binary drives the managed platform: `strix cloud login`, then `strix cloud scans start ...` (details in **managed-pentesting-with-strix**). This skill is the web-app-specific workflow. ## 1. Confirm authorization and scope Before running anything, establish: - **The target is the user's** (or they are explicitly authorized to test it). Never pentest a third-party site on a hunch. - **Which environment.** Prefer staging over production; agents send real exploit payloads and will create/modify data. - **Out-of-scope paths** — payment flows, mass-email endpoints, admin destructive actions, third-party SSO providers. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add usestrix/strix/web-app-penetration-testing@sha256:2e8df0b9233971c4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260901.42baa7c, 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_s66c4dhaakfiaxac)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 20, 2026 and Sep 1, 2026, about one every 6 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260901.42baa7c latest | 2026-09-01 | 42baa7c | 4,320 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260820.9099710 | 2026-08-20 | 9099710 | 4,130 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260820.b5ef93e | 2026-08-20 | b5ef93e | 4,128 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 (4320 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
usestrix/strix · 74,096 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_s66c4dhaakfiaxac GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=usestrix/strix/web-app-penetration-testing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2e8df0b9233971c496d0c0c7660808fc717c08d4165455a0423229045389608a
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