Modern Initial Access

by SnailSploit

Modern Initial Access is an Automation 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 Modern Initial Access

Copy Modern Initial Access 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/infrastructure/offensive-initial-access ~/.claude/skills/offensive-initial-access

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/infrastructure/offensive-initial-access/SKILL.md in SnailSploit/Claude-Red
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/offensive-initial-access
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Modern Initial Access does

Modern Initial Access provides a checklist of techniques for gaining initial foothold in red team engagements, including phishing, credential attacks, exposed services, and supply chain compromise. Use it when planning attack paths mapped to MITRE ATT&CK TA0001.

Modern Initial Access is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Modern Initial Access comes from a repository tagged claude-ai, claude-pt, claude-skills, redteam and redteam-tools.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

SKILL: Modern Initial Access

Metadata

Skill Name: initial-access
Folder: offensive-initial-access
Source: https://github.com/SnailSploit/offensive-checklist/blob/main/initial-access.md

Description

Initial access techniques checklist: phishing (spear/smishing), credential stuffing, exposed service exploitation, supply chain attacks, watering hole, VPN/RDP brute force, public-facing application exploitation. Maps to MITRE ATT&CK TA0001. Use when planning initial access phases of red team engagements.

Trigger Phrases

Use this skill when the conversation involves any of: initial access, phishing, spear phishing, credential stuffing, exposed service, supply chain, watering hole, VPN brute force, RDP attack, MITRE TA0001, initial foothold

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

Frequently asked about Modern Initial Access

What else does SnailSploit publish alongside Modern Initial Access?
Modern Initial Access 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 Basic Exploitation. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Modern Initial Access 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 Modern Initial Access compare to other Automation skills?
Modern Initial Access ranks #420 by stars among the 1523 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 Modern Initial Access against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.