hackthebox

Workflow

• workflow.md — Complete workflow with commands. Read this for each step

Steps

1. Get Credentials — python3 .claude/tools/env-reader.py HTB_USER HTB_PASS HTB_TOKEN ANTHROPIC_API_KEY SLACK_BOT_TOKEN HTB_SLACK_CHANNEL_ID
2. Only for "Machine" kind of competition -> Verify vpn is running, otherwise download the vpn file from the platform and instruct the user on how to enable it
3. Generate output dirs — mkdir -p YYMMDD_<name>/{recon,findings,logs,artifacts,tools,reports} for each challenge. Do not seed attack-chain.md or experiments.md from the orchestrator — those are the coordinator subagent's first action (see skills/coordination/reference/spawning-recipes.md).
4. To achieve the tasks given by the user, when possible use the HTB_TOKEN, otherwise login to the platform using playwright at https://account.hackthebox.com/login and fill the login form with the HTB_USER and HTB_PASS
5. If necessary, start the machines
6. If necessary, check network connectivity to the machines
7. Spawn coordinator subagent per target — Agent(name="coordinator-{tag}", run_in_background=True, ...) per spawning-recipes.md. Never run the P0-P6 coordinator workflow inline in the orchestrator session — the bookkeeping discipline (attack-chain.md, experiments.md, goal_attempts counting, mandatory skeptic at experiments 5/15/25) requires the subagent boundary. Max N concurrent agents, queue-based spawning.