BC pilot-penetration-testing-setup
Deploy an automated penetration testing pipeline with 4 agents. Use this skill when: 1. User wants to set up a penetration testing or security assessment pipeline 2. User is configuring an agent as part of a vulnerability scanning workflow 3. User asks about recon, vulnerability scanning, exploit validation, or pentest reporting across agents Do NOT use this skill when: - User wants to run a single vulnerability scan (use pilot-task-parallel instead) - User wants to send a one-off security alert (use pilot-webhook-bridge instead)
As a process C 56/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, failures and branches
What is at stake
Medium-severity findings: the skill is probably honest, but read what alarmed the scanner.
Below is the worst case for this category. The finding here is medium: the guard saw a sign, not a proof.
The skill asks for more than the task needs: broad tool access, credential environment variables, binaries. Every extra permission widens the damage from a mistake or a compromise.
Narrow allowed-tools and the variable list to the minimum; replace binaries with readable sources or scripts.
How to improve
- Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 15
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 15
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medium Broad scope
meta-broad-allowed-toolsSKILL.md:1Broad tool permissions pre-approved: Bashallowed-tools: Bash
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low Risky intent
intent-offensive-securityREADME.md:1Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use)# Penetration Testing
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low Risky intent
intent-offensive-securityREADME.md:3Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use)Deploy an automated penetration testing pipeline with 4 agents that perform reconnaissance, scan for vulnerabilities, validate exploitability with safe proof-of-concept tests, and generate comprehensi
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low Risky intent
intent-offensive-securityREADME.md:24Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use)### reporter (Pentest Reporter)
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low Risky intent
intent-offensive-securityREADME.md:25Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use)Generates penetration test reports with findings, risk ratings, remediation steps, and executive summary. Delivers to stakeholders via Slack and webhooks.
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low Risky intent
intent-offensive-securityREADME.md:35Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use)reporter --> external : Pentest report via webhook and Slack (port 443)
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low Risky intent
intent-offensive-securityskill-card.md:2Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use)Deploy an automated penetration testing pipeline with 4 agents. <br>
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low Risky intent
intent-offensive-securityskill-card.md:14Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use)Developers and security engineers use this skill to configure a four-agent penetration testing workflow for reconnaissance, vulnerability scanning, exploit validation, and reporting. <br>
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low Risky intent
intent-offensive-securityskill-card.md:20Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use)Risk: The skill configures persistent agent state for a penetration testing workflow. <br>
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low Risky intent
intent-offensive-securityskill-card.md:21Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use)Mitigation: Install only for an approved pentest pipeline and keep a cleanup plan for ~/.pilot/setups/penetration-testing.json, handshakes, and installed role skills. <br>
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low Risky intent
intent-offensive-securitySKILL.md:4Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use)Deploy an automated penetration testing pipeline with 4 agents.
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low Risky intent
intent-offensive-securitySKILL.md:7Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use)1. User wants to set up a penetration testing or security assessment pipeline
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low Risky intent
intent-offensive-securitySKILL.md:9Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use) (detector / deny-list definition)3. User asks about recon, vulnerability scanning, exploit validation, or pentest reporting across agents
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low Risky intent
intent-offensive-securitySKILL.md:18Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use)- pentest
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low Risky intent
intent-offensive-securitySKILL.md:33Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use)# Penetration Testing Setup
Files scanned: 3. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
✓ No remarks against the Agent Skills spec
Process rating: all ten parameters 56/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Failures and branches. Linear process with no failure handling
- 30Running it twice. 1 mutating operations with no state check
- 50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 100Tools and files. Tools declared in frontmatter
- 100Steps. 4 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1906 tokens
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Description says when NOT to use the skill
- +3Description length 535: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 12 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 4 items
- +4Has examples (9 code blocks)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 89.