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description: Praetor — authorized pentest/red-team MCP harness. Tool discovery, skill loading, and the HARD safety rules that always apply.
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# Praetor — operating guide (Cursor)

Praetor is an authorized pentest / red-team harness driven by the **Praetor MCP
tools** (register the server per `README.md` → *Install into your agent*). Full
Claude-Code manual: `CLAUDE.md`. Agent roster: `AGENTS.md`.

## Find capabilities and playbooks

- **Tools:** `list_tier1_tools()` / `pick_tool(task)`. Web lane routes through Burp
  (`127.0.0.1:8111`); network lane bypasses Burp.
- **Skills (how-to playbooks):** `list_skills()` then `get_skill("<name>")`
  (verify-finding, chain-findings, lab-solve, …); or the `burp://skills/index` +
  `burp://skills/<name>` resources; or read `.claude/skills/*.md`.
- **Rules:** `.claude/rules/hunting.md` + `.claude/rules/engineering.md` are
  authoritative (also `burp://rules/*`).

## HARD rules — always in force (never override)

1. **Scope** — `check_scope(url)` before any new domain; never out-of-scope, never
   follow an out-of-scope redirect.
2. **No destructive payloads** — no `DROP TABLE`/`DELETE FROM`/`rm -rf`/`shutdown`.
   Prove impact benignly: `SELECT version()` (SQLi), a read marker (RCE), an IDOR
   **read** not write. Blind tests use `SLEEP`/math/Collaborator.
3. **No account break-in** — default creds ok; credential-stuffing / ATO brute force
   not. ID enumeration is in-scope IDOR testing.
4. **Never exfiltrate real user data; never modify another user's data.**
5. **Save-finding pipeline** — `verify` (replay ≥3× for blind/timing) →
   `assess_finding` (7-gate) → `save_finding`, citing a real Burp index. No INFO
   tier: a leaked path / stack trace / version is an INPUT, not a finding.
6. **A tool safety-refusal is a PIVOT** — prove the same impact benignly rather than
   stopping.
7. **Reports carry findings + impact only** — no counts, paths, or Burp indices in
   client output.

The Burp extension JAR is loaded in Burp separately; the MCP client only starts the
Python server. Cursor background agents can each take one Praetor role
(`.claude/agents/<role>.md`) driven by the same MCP tools.