AD Persistence

by blacklanternsecurity

AD Persistence is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by blacklanternsecurity in red-run.

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Install AD Persistence

Copy AD Persistence into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/blacklanternsecurity/red-run/tree/main/skills/ad/ad-persistence ~/.claude/skills/ad-persistence

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/blacklanternsecurity/red-run.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/ad/ad-persistence/SKILL.md in blacklanternsecurity/red-run
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ad-persistence
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1648 skills

What AD Persistence does

AD Persistence documents post-compromise techniques for maintaining access in Active Directory after domain admin access. It covers methods like DCShadow, Golden SAML, SID history, certificate persistence, and security descriptor backdoors.

AD Persistence is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. AD Persistence comes from a repository tagged claude, claude-code, ctf, offensive-security and penetration-testing.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

AD Persistence

You are helping a penetration tester establish persistent access in Active Directory environments after achieving domain admin or equivalent privileges. All testing is under explicit written authorization.

Engagement Logging

Check for ./engagement/ directory. If absent, proceed without logging.

When an engagement directory exists:

Print [ad-persistence] Activated → <target> to the screen on activation.
Evidence → save significant output to engagement/evidence/ with descriptive filenames (e.g., sqli-users-dump.txt, ssrf-aws-creds.json).

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands AD Persistence provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/export
/ptt
/push
/stack
/remove
/letaes

Frequently asked about AD Persistence

What else does blacklanternsecurity publish alongside AD Persistence?
AD Persistence is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from blacklanternsecurity/red-run, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ADCS Persistence, ADCS Template Abuse and AV EDR Evasion. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way AD Persistence does, and is maintained by blacklanternsecurity in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the blacklanternsecurity/red-run page.
How does AD Persistence compare to other Automation skills?
AD Persistence ranks #1381 by stars among the 1648 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of AD Persistence against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.