Basic Exploitation

by SnailSploit

Basic Exploitation is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by SnailSploit in Claude-Red.

2.9K stars479 forkson SnailSploit/Claude-RedAdded 2026/08/17+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/05/08

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Install Basic Exploitation

Copy Basic Exploitation 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/SnailSploit/Claude-Red/tree/main/Skills/exploit-dev/offensive-basic-exploitation ~/.claude/skills/offensive-basic-exploitation

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/SnailSploit/Claude-Red.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: Skills/exploit-dev/offensive-basic-exploitation/SKILL.md in SnailSploit/Claude-Red
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/offensive-basic-exploitation
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Basic Exploitation does

Basic Exploitation teaches foundational Linux exploitation techniques such as controlling EIP/RIP, ROP chain construction, ret2libc, shellcode injection, and heap spraying. Use it when building initial proofs of concept or understanding classic exploitation primitives with mitigations disabled.

Basic Exploitation is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Basic Exploitation comes from a repository tagged claude-ai, claude-pt, claude-skills, redteam and redteam-tools.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

SKILL: Week 5: Basic Exploitation (Linux with Mitigations Disabled)

Metadata

Skill Name: basic-exploitation
Folder: offensive-basic-exploitation
Source: https://github.com/SnailSploit/offensive-checklist/blob/main/5-basic-exploitation.md

Description

Week 5 exploit development curriculum. Foundational exploitation techniques: controlling EIP/RIP, ROP chain construction, ret2libc, shellcode injection, heap spraying, bypass techniques for ASLR/NX/stack canaries. Use when building initial PoCs or understanding classic exploitation primitives.

Trigger Phrases

Use this skill when the conversation involves any of: basic exploitation, EIP control, RIP control, ROP chain, ret2libc, shellcode injection, heap spray, ASLR bypass, NX bypass, stack canary bypass, week 5

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

Frequently asked about Basic Exploitation

What else does SnailSploit publish alongside Basic Exploitation?
Basic Exploitation is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from SnailSploit/Claude-Red, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Pentest, Advanced Red Team Ops and Bug Identification. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Basic Exploitation does, and is maintained by SnailSploit in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the SnailSploit/Claude-Red page.
How does Basic Exploitation compare to other Quality skills?
Basic Exploitation ranks #454 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Basic Exploitation against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.