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Privilege Escalation Methods

97 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By davila7/claude-code-templates (GitHub) · coding · 33,256 stars · scanned at commit a6e6f93

This skill should be used when the user asks to "escalate privileges", "get root access", "become administrator", "privesc techniques", "abuse sudo", "exploit SUID binaries", "Kerberoasting", "pass-the-ticket", "token impersonation", or needs guidance on post-exploitation privilege escalation for Linux or Windows systems.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'privilege-escalation-methods' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'privilege-escalation-methods' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named privilege-escalation-methods already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'a6e6f93e9a4baaa6ff337aee5505bf5c2bae4ce6' -- 'cli-tool/components/skills/security/privilege-escalation-methods' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'cli-tool/components/skills/security/privilege-escalation-methods' ~/.agents/skills/'privilege-escalation-methods' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'privilege-escalation-methods' ~/.claude/skills/'privilege-escalation-methods' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Identical copies of this skill exist at:

• Dicklesworthstone/pi_agent_rust/tests/ext_conformance/artifacts/templates-davila7/cli-tool/components/skills/security/privilege-escalation-methods