Recon Methodology

by H-mmer

Recon Methodology is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by H-mmer in pentest-agents.

804 stars156 forkson H-mmer/pentest-agentsAdded 2026/08/22Repository updated 2026/06/12

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Install Recon Methodology

Copy Recon Methodology 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/H-mmer/pentest-agents/tree/main/skills/recon-methodology ~/.claude/skills/recon-methodology

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/H-mmer/pentest-agents.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/recon-methodology/SKILL.md in H-mmer/pentest-agents
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/recon-methodology
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Recon Methodology does

Recon Methodology outlines passive and light active steps for bug bounty recon, including subdomain enumeration, URL discovery, tech detection, and content discovery. Use it to organize findings and extract IDOR and SSRF candidates.

Recon Methodology is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Recon Methodology comes from a repository tagged agents, bug-bounty, bugcrowd, claude-code and hackerone.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

subfinder -d target.com -silent -all | sort -u > subs.txt
httpx -l subs.txt -silent -status-code -tech-detect | tee live-hosts.txt

URL Discovery

gau target.com | sort -u > historical-urls.txt
waybackurls target.com | sort -u >> historical-urls.txt
grep -E "\?.*=" historical-urls.txt > params.txt
grep -iE "api|admin|internal|debug|test|staging" historical-urls.txt > interesting.txt

Tech Detection

curl -sI https://target.com | grep -iE "server|x-powered|x-runtime|x-generator"

Phase 2: Active (light contact)

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

Commands Recon Methodology provides

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

/surface

Frequently asked about Recon Methodology

What else does H-mmer publish alongside Recon Methodology?
Recon Methodology is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from H-mmer/pentest-agents, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Analyze, Autopilot and Brain. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Recon Methodology does, and is maintained by H-mmer in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the H-mmer/pentest-agents page.
How does Recon Methodology compare to other Automation skills?
Recon Methodology ranks #987 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 Recon Methodology against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.