.cursor/skills/tn3270-pentest/SKILL.md
Mainframe TN3270/CICS penetration testing via hack3270. Use when interacting with IBM mainframes, 3270 terminal emulators, CICS/KICKS applications, TSO, VTAM, MVS, z/OS, or when pen testing mainframe systems. Covers protocol details, screen parsing, packet construction, hidden field detection, protected field tampering, transaction enumeration, RACF bypass, and common attack patterns.
npx skillsauth add gglessner/hack3270 tn3270-pentestInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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Guardrailed mainframe application pen testing via hack3270 MCP tools. Use when pen testing a specific CICS/KICKS application on a mainframe. Enforces transaction scope locking, prevents denial of service, avoids account lockout, and requires human approval before escalation. Keeps the AI focused on the target application without scope creep into system transactions, TSO post-exploitation, or JCL submission.
tools
Complete tutorial for AI assistants on using hack3270 MCP tools. Covers all 53 tools with examples, common patterns, gotchas, troubleshooting, and TN3270 protocol reference. Read this before using any hack3270 pen testing skill. Use when working with mainframe terminals, TN3270, CICS, hack3270, or MCP tools.
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Read-only interaction with Broadcom Endevor SCM via the Endevor-MCP server. Provides 22 read-only tools for inventory browsing, element retrieval and inspection, package listing, async task management, and fingerprint validation. Use when the user asks about Endevor source code review, mainframe security assessments, or augmenting TN3270/hack3270 penetration testing with source code analysis. This server cannot modify Endevor — no add, update, delete, move, generate, sign-out, package mutations, or SCL submission.
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Create, edit, improve, or audit AgentSkills. Use when creating a new skill from scratch or when asked to improve, review, audit, tidy up, or clean up an existing skill or SKILL.md file. Also use when editing or restructuring a skill directory (moving files to references/ or scripts/, removing stale content, validating against the AgentSkills spec). Triggers on phrases like "create a skill", "author a skill", "tidy up a skill", "improve this skill", "review the skill", "clean up the skill", "audit the skill".