Contributions are more than welcome! The more people who contribute to the project the better Empire will be for everyone. Below are a few guidelines for submitting contributions.
Please first review the existing Empire issues to see if the error was resolved with a fix in the development branch or if we chose not to fix the error for some reason.
The more information you provide in a Github issue the easier it will be for us to track down and fix the problem:
- Please provide the version of Empire you are using.
- Please provide the OS and Python versions that you are using.
- Please describe the expected behavior and the encountered error.
- The more detail the better!
- Include any actions taken just prior to the error.
- Please post a screenshot of the error, a link to a Pastebin dump of the error, or embedded text of the error.
- Any additional information.
Documentation is the docs/
directory and syncs with GitBook.
The documentation is written in Markdown.
Please submit your documentation with your code changes if applicable.
The main
branch in BC-SECURITY/Empire
automatically syncs.
- Submit pull requests to the main branch. After testing, changes will be merged to
main
.- Sponsors Repo: Submit pull requests to
private-main
for most cases.sponsors-main
for sponsor specific changes,kali-main
for kali specific changes.
- Sponsors Repo: Submit pull requests to
- Depending on what you're working on, base your module on powershell_template.py or python_template.py. Note that for some modules you may need to massage the output to get it into a nicely displayable text format with Out-String.
- Cite previous work in the 'Comments' module section.
- If your script.ps1 logic is large, may be reused by multiple modules, or is updated often, consider implementing the logic in the appropriate data/module_source/* directory and pulling the script contents into the module on tasking.
- Use approved PowerShell verbs for any functions.
- TEST YOUR MODULE! Be sure to run it from an Empire agent and test Python 3.x functionality before submitting a pull to ensure everything is working correctly.
- For additional guidelines for your PowerShell code itself, check out the PowerSploit style guide.
- For more in-depth docs on developing modules, see the Module Development docs
- We are using psf/black for code formatting.
- We are using charliermarsh/ruff for linting.
- After implementing your changes:
- run
ruff . --fix
(orpoetry run ruff . --fix
). - run
black .
(orpoetry run black .
).
- run
- The repo is also configured to use pre-commit to automatically format code.
- Once you have pre-commit installed, you can run
pre-commit install
to install the pre-commit hooks. - Then pre-commit will execute black and ruff automatically before committing.
- Once you have pre-commit installed, you can run
Please write tests for your code! We use pytest for testing. Tests are located in the tests/
directory. To run the tests, run pytest
from the root directory of the project.
For tests that take >20-30 seconds, please add the @pytest.mark.slow
decorator to the test function. This will allow us to skip the slow tests when running the tests, unless we explicitly want to run them with pytest --runslow
.
Dependencies can be upgraded using poetry-plugin-up.