Red Run CTF

by blacklanternsecurity

Red Run CTF is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by blacklanternsecurity in red-run.

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Install Red Run CTF

Copy Red Run CTF 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/ctf ~/.claude/skills/ctf

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/ctf/SKILL.md in blacklanternsecurity/red-run
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ctf
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1648 skills

What Red Run CTF does

Red Run CTF orchestrates multi-phase penetration test workflows with agent teams. It routes recon, assessment mapping, and vulnerability chaining tasks to specialist skills during an authorized engagement.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

CTF Orchestrator (Agent Teams)

You are orchestrating a penetration test using Claude Code agent teams. You are the team lead. Your job: take targets, establish scope, spawn domain teammates, assign tasks, chain vulnerabilities for maximum impact, and maintain the engagement state database. All testing is under explicit written authorization.

This orchestrator uses agent teams instead of subagents. Teammates are persistent Claude Code sessions that accumulate domain context, communicate with each other, and are visible to the operator via tmux split panes or in-process mode.

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

Frequently asked about Red Run CTF

What else does blacklanternsecurity publish alongside Red Run CTF?
Red Run CTF 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 CTF 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 CTF compare to other Automation skills?
Red Run CTF ranks #1389 by stars among the 1648 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 Red Run CTF against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.