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Exploit Development Guide

Guides an agent through exploit development workflow, debugging, PoC building and heap/memory-corruption techniques.

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MIT
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What it does

This is a long methodology document that tells an AI agent to follow a structured checklist when someone is building exploits for software vulnerabilities. It covers the typical lifecycle (bug identification, root cause analysis, mitigation bypass, payload development, reliability testing), common bug classes such as stack overflows and use-after-free, Windows exception-handling internals, and tooling like pwntools and pwndbg. It mainly changes how the agent organizes and explains this security research work rather than adding new software actions.

Great for

  • Security researchers studying memory-corruption bugs and their mitigations
  • Students learning exploit development concepts on Windows
  • Penetration testers who want a structured checklist for a authorised exploit-dev engagement

Skip it if

  • Anyone without authorisation to test the target: building working exploits against systems you do not own or have permission to test can be illegal and harmful
  • Beginners looking for a turnkey tool: the file is a methodology checklist, not a runnable exploit framework, and it contains no executable scripts
  • Non-security tasks: the trigger phrases are narrow and the content is specialised

Try asking

  • “Walk me through the exploit development process for a stack overflow in a Windows service I am authorised to test”
  • “Help me set up a pwntools and pwndbg environment for exploit dev practice”
  • “Explain how SafeSEH and SEHOP affect a SEH-based overflow on x64 Windows”
  • “Suggest a fuzzing pipeline with AFL++ and ASAN for a C parser I maintain”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Exploit Development GuideInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    offensive-exploit-development.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip offensive-exploit-development.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip offensive-exploit-development.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • State clearly that you have authorisation to test the target and the scope of the engagement, so the agent applies the checklist appropriately.
  • Provide the target binary details, OS version and mitigations present (ASLR, DEP, CFG, CET) so the advice is specific rather than generic.
  • Treat the case studies and mitigation notes as dated; verify against current vendor documentation before relying on them.

What's inside

  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from SnailSploit/Claude-Red under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.