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Aws Penetration Testing

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sickn33·vlatest·cloud·MIT

Helps with AWS, testing as part of deploying and managing cloud infrastructure workflows.

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    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill aws-penetration-testing -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

sickn33

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Install target

Live repository

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Automated safety checks

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This skill failed 1 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.

  • No undeclared network calls: failed

    Contacts 3 hosts that are neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: 169.254.169.254, 169.254.170.2, app.com.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

    Hosts contacted

    169.254.169.254undeclared169.254.170.2undeclaredapp.comundeclared

    What it found (3 of 8)

    • plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/aws-penetration-testing/SKILL.md:113contacts 169.254.169.254
      http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/
    • plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/aws-penetration-testing/SKILL.md:116contacts 169.254.169.254
      http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/
    • plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/aws-penetration-testing/SKILL.md:119contacts 169.254.169.254
      http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/ROLE-NAME

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills at 5a4cdd9df8.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
5a4cdd9df8
Manifest
skills/aws-penetration-testing/SKILL.md
Scanned
1 file, 386 lines
Copies in repo
3 — all of them scanned
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About this skill

The aws-penetration-testing skill empowers AI agents to conduct comprehensive security assessments of AWS environments. It automates the discovery of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across cloud resources to harden infrastructure defenses.

When to use it

  • Performing pre-deployment security audits on new AWS architectures before going live.
  • Identifying exposed S3 buckets or open security groups in production environments.
  • Validating compliance with security best practices after major infrastructure changes.
  • Simulating attacker techniques to test the resilience of cloud-native applications.

Key capabilities

  • Scans for common AWS misconfigurations and insecure settings.
  • Identifies unpatched software and outdated dependencies within EC2 instances.
  • Detects overly permissive IAM roles and policies that grant excessive access.
  • Analyzes network topology to find potential lateral movement paths.

Example prompts

  • "Run a full penetration test on my AWS account focusing on S3 bucket permissions and security group rules."
  • "Identify any EC2 instances with open SSH ports or outdated operating systems in the us-east-1 region."
  • "Generate a report of IAM policies that allow wildcard access to DynamoDB tables."

Tips & gotchas

Ensure you have explicit authorization before running penetration tests on production environments to avoid accidental service disruption. Always configure AWS CloudTrail and GuardDuty to monitor for anomalous activity triggered by the testing process.