Jason Haddix
CEO, Lead Instructor

1,000 USD

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Class Time

8-15

Recommended Level

Intermeiate

Community Access

yes

Course Last Updated

(Limited Preorder Release) (RELEASES  MID Q2)


Course Overview
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This course is a hands-on, practitioner-focused walkthrough of building real hack bots using Claude Code as the core reasoning and execution engine. Instead of abstract agent theory, we focus on concrete offensive security workflows where AI meaningfully accelerates recon, analysis, decision-making, and task execution while keeping a human firmly in the loop.

You will learn how to design, implement, and control hack bots that assist with penetration testing and bug bounty workflows using Claude Code, local tooling, and structured prompts. This is a beta release with limited seats, designed to validate workflows and gather feedback before expansion.

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Beta WIP Syllabus:

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Beta Release Notes

  • Limited enrollment, Preorder access
  • Content may evolve based on student feedback
  • AI courses are subject to extreme updates and refinements

What a Hack Bot Actually Is

  • Why most “AI pentesting agents” fail in practice
  • Hack bots vs automation vs autonomous agents
  • Where AI actually adds leverage in offensive security
  • Human-in-the-loop as a design requirement
  • Choosing the right tasks for bot assistance
  • Understanding architectuire for good bots

Claude Code! && CC for Offensive Security!

  • What Claude Code is and how it differs from chat interfaces
  • CC Architecture and tools
  • Strengths in reasoning, refactoring, and contextual understanding
  • Known limitations and how to design around them
  • Environment gotchas and tips

Hack Bot Architecture

  • Single-purpose bots vs multi-stage workflows
  • Agents vs skills vs commands in hackbots
  • Project Management
  • Intro to Context Engineering

Context Engineering for Hack Bots

  • Task framing vs open-ended reasoning
  • Prompt patterns for recon, analysis, +++
  • Context sources and designing deliberate usage of those sources

Tool-Integrated Hack Bots

  • Executing local tools through Claude Code workflows
  • Parsing and normalizing tool output
  • Feeding structured results back into reasoning loops

Practical Hack Bot Builds Live

  • Recon bot for asset discovery and prioritization
  • Endpoint and API analysis bot
  • Client-side and JavaScript analysis helper
  • Bug triage and write-up assistance bot
  • Content Discovery workflow bot\
  • Mutation bots (XSS, SSRF)

Failure Modes and Reality Checks

  • Hallucinations in offensive workflows
  • Over-trusting model conclusions
  • Cost, latency, and performance traps
  • Why “fully autonomous hacking” is still somewhat fiction

Operationalizing Hack Bots

  • Using hack bots in real engagements
  • Personal workflows
  • Repeatability and consistency
  • Documentation and auditability

Beta-Only Content and What Comes Next

  • Experimental patterns and workflows
  • What is intentionally not included yet
  • How student feedback will shape future versions

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How "Hackbots" Relate to "Red Blue Purple AI"

‍Building Hack Bots with Claude Code is designed as a natural expansion of the ideas introduced in Red Blue Purple AI, but it does not require that you have taken the Red Blue Purple AI course.

Red Blue Purple AI focuses on helping security practitioners understand how to use AI across red, blue, and purple workflows, building a strong foundation in models, prompting, and practical applications of LLMs. This course takes one specific direction from that foundation and goes much deeper. Instead of surveying AI use cases, Building Hack Bots with Claude Code zooms in on offensive security and shows how to design, build, and operate task-driven hack bots that integrate directly into real-world penetration testing and bug bounty workflows. It emphasizes architecture, prompt control, tooling integration, and human-in-the-loop, rather than general AI concepts. If you have taken Red Blue Purple AI, this course will feel like a focused continuation that turns concepts into dedicated tooling. If you have not, this course stands on its own and will walk you through everything needed to build effective hack bots, assuming you already have offensive security experience.

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