Hashcat Password Recovery

Hashcat Password Recovery is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by AgentSecOps in SecOpsAgentKit.

204 stars39 forkson AgentSecOps/SecOpsAgentKitAdded 2026/09/05+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/04/15

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Install Hashcat Password Recovery

Copy Hashcat Password Recovery 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/AgentSecOps/SecOpsAgentKit/tree/main/skills/offsec/crack-hashcat ~/.claude/skills/crack-hashcat

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/AgentSecOps/SecOpsAgentKit.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/offsec/crack-hashcat/SKILL.md in AgentSecOps/SecOpsAgentKit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/crack-hashcat
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1662 skills

What Hashcat Password Recovery does

Hashcat Password Recovery supports authorized password auditing, forensic recovery, and security research on password hashes. Use it to identify hash types, run cracking attacks, and report password policy weaknesses.

Hashcat Password Recovery is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Hashcat Password Recovery comes from a repository tagged agents, ai-agents, anthropic, appsec and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Hashcat Password Recovery

Overview

Hashcat is the world's fastest password recovery tool, supporting over 300 hash algorithms and multiple attack modes. This skill covers authorized password auditing, forensic password recovery, and security research applications.

IMPORTANT: Password cracking must only be performed on hashes you are authorized to crack. Unauthorized password cracking is illegal. Always ensure proper authorization and legal compliance.

Quick Start

Basic password cracking:

# Identify hash type
hashcat --example-hashes | grep -i md5

# Dictionary attack on MD5 hash
hashcat -m 0 -a 0 hashes.txt wordlist.txt

# Show cracked passwords
hashcat -m 0 hashes.txt --show

# Benchmark system performance
hashcat -b

Core Workflow

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

Frequently asked about Hashcat Password Recovery

What else does AgentSecOps publish alongside Hashcat Password Recovery?
Hashcat Password Recovery is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from AgentSecOps/SecOpsAgentKit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Api Spectral, Bandit Python SAST and Black Duck SCA. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Hashcat Password Recovery does, and is maintained by AgentSecOps in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the AgentSecOps/SecOpsAgentKit page.
How does Hashcat Password Recovery compare to other Quality skills?
Hashcat Password Recovery ranks #1484 by stars among the 1662 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 Hashcat Password Recovery against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.