Penetration Testing Checklist

by ThamJiaHe

Penetration Testing Checklist is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by ThamJiaHe in claude-code-handbook.

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Install Penetration Testing Checklist

Copy Penetration Testing Checklist 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/ThamJiaHe/claude-code-handbook/tree/main/skills/examples ~/.claude/skills/examples

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/ThamJiaHe/claude-code-handbook.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/examples/penetration-testing-skill.md in ThamJiaHe/claude-code-handbook
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/examples
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1662 skills

What Penetration Testing Checklist does

Penetration Testing Checklist provides a structured workflow for authorized web application security testing, including recon, scanning, exploitation validation, and reporting. Use it for pentests, bug bounties, or pre-deployment security checks.

Penetration Testing Checklist is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Penetration Testing Checklist comes from a repository tagged ai, anthropic-claude, claude, claude-ai and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Penetration Testing Checklist

Systematic methodology for authorized web application security testing.

IMPORTANT: Only use this skill for authorized security testing — pentesting engagements, bug bounty programs, CTF challenges, or testing your own applications.

Overview

This skill provides a structured pentest workflow:

Reconnaissance — Gather information about the target
Scanning — Identify attack surface and vulnerabilities
Exploitation — Validate vulnerabilities (with permission)
Post-Exploitation — Assess impact and lateral movement
Reporting — Document findings with remediation guidance

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

Frequently asked about Penetration Testing Checklist

What else does ThamJiaHe publish alongside Penetration Testing Checklist?
Penetration Testing Checklist is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ThamJiaHe/claude-code-handbook, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Development, API Security Hardening and AWS Cloud Infrastructure. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Penetration Testing Checklist does, and is maintained by ThamJiaHe in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ThamJiaHe/claude-code-handbook page.
How does Penetration Testing Checklist compare to other Quality skills?
Penetration Testing Checklist ranks #1528 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 Penetration Testing Checklist against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.