Red Run

by blacklanternsecurity

Red Run is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by blacklanternsecurity in red-run.

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Install Red Run

Copy Red Run 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/blacklanternsecurity/red-run/tree/main/skills/_template ~/.claude/skills/_template

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/blacklanternsecurity/red-run.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/_template/SKILL.md in blacklanternsecurity/red-run
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/_template
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1418 skills

What Red Run does

Red Run guides authorized penetration testing work within a defined technique scope. It helps track engagement state, evidence, and findings while staying within the documented methodology.

Red Run is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Red Run comes from a repository tagged claude, claude-code, ctf, offensive-security and penetration-testing.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

You are helping a penetration tester with . All testing is under explicit written authorization.

Engagement Logging

Check for ./engagement/ directory. If absent, proceed without logging.

When an engagement directory exists:

Print [<skill-name>] Activated → <target> to the screen on activation.
Evidence → save significant output to engagement/evidence/ with descriptive filenames (e.g., sqli-users-dump.txt, ssrf-aws-creds.json).

Scope Boundary

This skill covers . When you reach the boundary of this scope — whether through completing your methodology or discovering findings outside your domain — STOP.

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

Frequently asked about Red Run

What else does blacklanternsecurity publish alongside Red Run?
Red Run is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from blacklanternsecurity/red-run, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AD Persistence, ADCS Persistence and ADCS Template Abuse. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Red Run does, and is maintained by blacklanternsecurity in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the blacklanternsecurity/red-run page.
How does Red Run compare to other Quality skills?
Red Run ranks #1265 by stars among the 1418 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 Red Run against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.