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name: hunt-intake
description: "Start an authorized hunt as a portable, local project with scope, rules, and evidence boundaries recorded before work begins."
---

# Hunt workspace intake

Start an authorized hunt as a portable, local project with scope, rules, and evidence boundaries recorded before work begins.

Defensive study and review of artifacts supplied by their owner. Record missing evidence as an open question.

## Bring to the review

- User-supplied scope and rules references
- Local workspace location
- Approved accounts, environments, and evidence constraints

## Review guide

### 1. Create the local boundary

When a local Hunt Workbench is available, call init_hunt_workspace with the user-supplied scope and rules references. Keep its data and credentials in the selected local workspace.

### 2. Separate discovery from authorization

Record known assets as inventory. A hostname, URL, or technology fingerprint found during recon does not add permission to test it.

### 3. Set evidence rules

Decide which owned accounts and redacted artifacts can support a check. Use hosted get_research_context, search_research, or get_research_record only for public citations.

## MCP calls

Public research on the hosted MCP (generic topics only): `get_research_context`, `search_research`, `get_research_record`.

Durable records in the selected local workspace: `init_hunt_workspace`, `search_hunt_records`.

Keep private evidence and scope records in the local workspace.

## What to produce

- Local workspace with scope references
- Authorization and evidence boundary
- Initial inventory marked separately from scope

## Common mistakes

- Treating discovery as authorization
- Sending private scope or evidence to the hosted MCP
- Starting checks before rules are recorded

## Reading and source context

### Resources

- [OWASP Threat Modeling: system assumptions and mitigation validation](https://vulns.co/research/resources/owasp-threat-modeling-assumptions-and-validation/)
- [OWASP Secure Code Review: baseline and change-focused review](https://vulns.co/research/resources/owasp-secure-code-review-methodology/)

### Diagrams

- [Keep workload authority tenant-scoped](https://vulns.co/research/diagrams/workload-identity-tenant-scope/)

### Reports

- [Meta service-identity exposure amplified by excessive secret access](https://vulns.co/research/reports/meta-service-identity-secrets-trust-boundary-2026/)
- [Actifio driver execution exposed excessive shared-service authority](https://vulns.co/research/reports/google-actifio-driver-service-identity-isolation-2025/)

## Provenance

Editorial guide by vulns.co / GK Data. Updated 2026-10-12.
Library snapshot: 2026-10-04; commit d5550c7891119cf1379e235721541c947850a3b3.
The guide is an editorial synthesis. Linked records preserve their own sources and review dates.

Reader: https://vulns.co/skills/hunt-intake/