Skill profile

recon

Perform structured reconnaissance and attack surface enumeration for authorized penetration tests.

What this skill does for you

Perform structured reconnaissance and attack surface enumeration for authorized penetration tests, CTF challenges, and bug bounty programs. Use when the user mentions 'recon,' 'reconnaissance,' 'enumerate,' 'attack surface,' 'subdomain enumeration,' 'port scan,' 'fingerprint,' 'asset discovery,' or needs to map a target's external footprint.

Quoted from the skill description in the pinned source

Who made it

Publisherbriiirussell

Repositorycybersecurity-skills

Installs294as of Sep 27, 2026

Use it with Edge

Set up Edge for me: read getedge.cc/SKILL.md and follow it. Then use Edge to load the recon skill from briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor.

Or read the skill source first.

Security evidence

Security state at 2026-09-30: reviewed. State definitions. This records static evidence for this revision; live load eligibility is checked again.

3 static scans, 0 counted findings. The listed scanners recorded the results shown for this package revision.

Scanner	Date	Result
Edge static checks	2026-09-27	Pass
Cisco skill-scanner	2026-09-27	Pass
Semgrep Edge rules	2026-09-27	Pass

Static scans check the code, not how well the skill works.

Scanner scope, raw findings and mirrored provider records

Edge static checks (Edge-run): edge-static/1.0.1. Scope: Static patterns for remote execution, credentials with network sends, obfuscation, prompt overrides, hidden Unicode, binaries and persistence. Revision: c9ade0349f8ecd5c9c68a82a05d2b6012c5fa1d7. Raw findings: . Counted findings: .

Cisco skill-scanner (Edge-run): cisco-skill-scanner/2.1.0. Scope: Local static, YARA, pipeline and behavioral analyzers; no LLM or AI Defense analysis. Revision: c9ade0349f8ecd5c9c68a82a05d2b6012c5fa1d7. Raw findings: 1. Counted findings: .

Semgrep Edge rules (Edge-run): semgrep/1.178.0+edge-rules.c15016a36fd3+offline-v1. Scope: Six Edge-authored static rules with Semgrep CE; offline execution and metrics disabled. Semgrep-maintained rules excluded. Revision: c9ade0349f8ecd5c9c68a82a05d2b6012c5fa1d7. Raw findings: . Counted findings: .

Source and licence

Repository: https://github.com/briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills
Pinned skill file: View source at revision
Revision: c9ade0349f8ecd5c9c68a82a05d2b6012c5fa1d7
Package hash: sha256:8e79f92a706deb120a5f5a91cceaacf104122ffb094e7e7eda9f78c68cc2ffdd
Licence: MIT