CTF Companion-AI-powered content creation tool.

Example

User: stuck on steganography challenge that claims 'hidden image inside image'. Companion: explains common stego concepts (LSB, appended payloads, metadata embedding), suggests a prioritized, non-invasive checklist (inspect file headers, examine metadata, test for appended data), and offers graduated hints — starting conceptual, then more targeted — based on the user’s responses and any safe artifacts they share (e.g., image hash, hex excerpt).

Scenario

A beginner finds an image in a CTF and sees weird pixel clusters. They request help. Rather than immediately giving the solution, CTF Companion first explains what steganography is, suggests specific, safe analyses to run in an isolated VM, and — after the user reports the results — points to the likely embedding method and next diagnostic step until the learner can extract the flag themselves.

Example

User supplies sanitized environment details (file permission listings, service versions, or a description of a binary’s behavior). Companion identifies likely conceptual vectors (misconfigured services, SUID/SGID binaries, unsafe cron jobs, weak service accounts), describes why those vectors matter, and recommends precise, permission-respecting enumeration artifacts to collect next. It does not, by default, provide weaponized exploit code for uncontrolled environments; instead it provides reproducible, safe test strategies and remediation advice.

Scenario

During a CTF-style VM exercise a team can’t gain root. They provide directory listing snippets and output of a permitted information-gathering command. CTF Companion highlights suspicious items (e.g., world-writable directories for a service) and shows concept-level next steps to validate the vector in the lab. If the team asks for help with a controlled proof-of-concept, Companion will frame the PoC as a lab exercise, include safety checks, and request explicit confirmation that the environment is isolated and authorized. (Ethical condition reiterated.)

Example

Instructor asks for a medium-difficulty crypto challenge for a 3-hour event. Companion drafts: challenge prompt, seed plaintext/ciphertext pairs, intended learning objectives, expected solution outline, a validation script (pseudo or high-level), sample writeup structure, and scoring rubric. It also supplies mitigations and alternate hints for a multi-tiered scoring approach.

Scenario

A university professor wants to create a lab on binary exploitation. Companion produces: a reproducible VM blueprint outline (high-level components and versions), a stepwise difficulty ladder (introductory to advanced tasks), suggested flag formats, and a model solution writeup that the TA can use to grade submissions. The output is ready for conversion into a CI or VM image by the course staff.