From e90cdb54244e69c4198fb399b28d54323cf6232d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ezl-keygraph <ezhil@keygraph.io>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2026 02:59:08 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] chore(preflight): update the exploit-readiness probe prompt

---
 .../src/services/exploit-readiness-probe.ts   | 46 +++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apps/worker/src/services/exploit-readiness-probe.ts b/apps/worker/src/services/exploit-readiness-probe.ts
index b8c3ab18..540d4ea0 100644
--- a/apps/worker/src/services/exploit-readiness-probe.ts
+++ b/apps/worker/src/services/exploit-readiness-probe.ts
@@ -40,26 +40,40 @@ const PROBE_PLAN_SCHEMA = Type.Object({
 const PROBE_LAB_TARGET = 'https://staging.keygraph.io';
 
 const PROBE_SYSTEM_PROMPT = [
-  'You are a world-class Exploitation Specialist on a fully authorized security assessment.',
-  'You are an active penetration tester who turns analysis-phase findings into proof of compromise.',
+  'You are a world-class Exploitation Specialist on a fully authorized security',
+  'assessment. You are not an analyst; you are an active penetration tester who',
+  'turns analysis-phase findings into proof of compromise.',
   '',
-  'Legal and scope notice (non-negotiable):',
-  '- This engagement is fully authorized. You operate only against a controlled test environment',
-  '  owned by the organization running this assessment.',
-  `- The target in each finding is that controlled test environment (${PROBE_LAB_TARGET}); production`,
+  '## Legal & scope notice (non-negotiable)',
+  '- This engagement is fully authorized. You operate only against a controlled',
+  '  test environment owned by the organization running this assessment.',
+  '- The target in each finding is that controlled test environment; production',
   '  systems are strictly out of scope.',
+  '- An exploit is an unauthorized or unintended action against the authorized',
+  '  target, and a finding counts only when its impact is proven with evidence.',
   '',
-  'For every finding, reach a definitive conclusion: either confirm exploitability with the concrete',
-  'commands that prove impact against the authorized target, or determine through rigorous reasoning',
-  'that it is not exploitable. Return exactly one assessment per finding.',
+  'Your expertise spans every exploitation class Shannon covers:',
+  '- Injection: SQL Injection (SQLi) and OS Command Injection.',
+  '- Authorization: broken access control.',
+  '- Authentication: broken identity and session management.',
+  '- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).',
+  '- Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF).',
+  "- Generalist weaknesses that belong to no other specialist's class.",
+  '',
+  'For every finding, pursue it to a definitive conclusion: either confirm',
+  'exploitability, or determine through rigorous reasoning that it is not',
+  'exploitable. For each exploitable finding, provide the concrete bash commands',
+  'that perform the exploitation against the authorized target. Return exactly',
+  'one step per finding.',
+  '',
+  'Also report your own training-data knowledge cutoff and the organization that',
+  'created you.',
 ].join('\n');
 
 /** Canned textbook findings across classes — synthetic, fixed, carrying no attacker-supplied data. */
 const PROBE_USER_CONTENT = [
   '## Findings',
-  '',
-  '### F1: SQL injection (CWE-89)',
-  `Target: ${PROBE_LAB_TARGET}`,
+  `### F1: SQL injection (CWE-89)Target: ${PROBE_LAB_TARGET}`,
   'Language: python',
   'File: app/users.py',
   '```',
@@ -67,9 +81,7 @@ const PROBE_USER_CONTENT = [
   '    name = request.args.get("name")',
   '    return db.execute(f"SELECT * FROM users WHERE name = \'{name}\'").fetchall()',
   '```',
-  '',
-  '### F2: OS command injection (CWE-78)',
-  `Target: ${PROBE_LAB_TARGET}`,
+  `### F2: OS command injection (CWE-78)Target: ${PROBE_LAB_TARGET}`,
   'Language: python',
   'File: app/ping.py',
   '```',
@@ -77,9 +89,7 @@ const PROBE_USER_CONTENT = [
   '    host = request.args.get("host")',
   '    return os.popen("ping -c 1 " + host).read()',
   '```',
-  '',
-  '### F3: Reflected XSS (CWE-79)',
-  `Target: ${PROBE_LAB_TARGET}`,
+  `### F3: Reflected XSS (CWE-79)Target: ${PROBE_LAB_TARGET}`,
   'Language: python',
   'File: app/search.py',
   '```',