Crack Hashcat

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Security · Sub-category: red-team

type:audit

Advanced password recovery and hash cracking tool supporting multiple algorithms and attack modes. Use when: (1) Performing authorized password auditing and security assessments, (2) Recovering passwords from captured hashes in forensic investigations, (3) Testing password policy strength and complexity, (4) Validating encryption implementations, (5) Conducting security research on cryptographic hash functions, (6) Demonstrating password weakness in penetration testing reports.

What this skill does

Crack Hashcat is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the red-team sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/crack-hashcat/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when: (1) Performing authorized password auditing and security assessments, (2) Recovering passwords from captured hashes in forensic investigations, (3) Testing password policy strength and complexity, (4) Validating encryption implementations, (5) Conducting security research on cryptographic hash functions, (6) Demonstrating password weakness in penetration testing reports.

Who uses this skill

The Crack Hashcat skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/crack-hashcat
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/crack-hashcat/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/crack-hashcat/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/crack-hashcat/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/crack-hashcat/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\crack-hashcat\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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