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file-path-traversal

Identify and exploit file path traversal (directory traversal) vulnerabilities that allow attackers to read arbitrary files on the server, potentially including sensitive configuration files, credentials, and source code.

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The canonical home for this skill is file-path-traversal in administrakt0r/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills

SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

57%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is highly actionable and well-phased but token-heavy: it inlines payload wordlists and target catalogs that belong in reference files, duplicates payloads across phases, and lacks validation checkpoints in a destructive workflow. Splitting references and adding verify steps would materially improve it.

Suggestions

Move the Linux/Windows target-file catalogs and payload wordlists into references/ files and link to them from SKILL.md to improve progressive disclosure and conciseness.

Add explicit verification checkpoints to the testing methodology (e.g., 'Confirm /etc/passwd by checking for a root: entry before escalating') to lift workflow clarity.

Remove the payload duplication between Phase 3/4 and Phase 9, or collapse Phase 9 into a checklist that references the earlier payload sections.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Mostly efficient command/payload reference, but Phase 9 duplicates payloads already shown in Phases 3-4 and large inlined target-file lists pad the body with material Claude largely already knows.

3 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete, copy-paste-ready curl/ffuf/wfuzz commands across the common cases, with only minor gaps from the [REDACTED_RCE_PAYLOAD] placeholders in the LFI-to-RCE section.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear 10-phase structure and an 8-step methodology exist, but this destructive/exploitative workflow lacks explicit validation checkpoints, capping the score at 3 per the rubric.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized section headers give some structure, but large payload wordlists and target-file catalogs are inlined into SKILL.md with no bundle/reference files to offload them.

3 / 5

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Description

66%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is specific and distinct, clearly conveying what the skill does with concrete file-read targets, but it omits an explicit 'Use when' trigger clause, capping its completeness. Adding a trigger sentence would lift it to the top band.

Suggestions

Append an explicit 'Use when testing for file path / directory traversal, local file inclusion (LFI), or ../ parameter abuse' trigger clause to raise completeness.

Add the synonym 'local file inclusion (LFI)' to broaden natural trigger coverage.

Tighten by dropping 'potentially including' hedging to make capabilities more decisive.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain plus several concrete actions ('Identify and exploit', 'read arbitrary files') and enumerates specific targets (configuration files, credentials, source code), with only minor coverage gaps.

4 / 5

Completeness

Has a clear 'what' but no explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause, which per the rubric caps completeness at 3.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes the natural terms 'file path traversal' and 'directory traversal' plus concrete file-type triggers, though synonyms like LFI/local file inclusion are absent.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The path-traversal niche is clearly distinct with minimal overlap risk against other skills, though it is not maximally differentiated from general LFI skills.

4 / 5

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Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

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16

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