yara-authoring

yara-authoring is a plugin for Claude Code from trailofbits/skills. Its manifest loads nothing; the 1 skill it bundles cost 83 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, CC-BY-SA-4.0.

A tool for writing YARA-X rules, which are pattern-based rules used to detect files or activity, and checking their quality. It includes rule linting, which finds writing and syntax problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to author, lint, and review YARA-X rules for threat detection.
Why use it?
It helps catch invalid or weak detection rules before they are used in security work.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it to author, lint, and review YARA-X rules for threat detection.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add trailofbits/skills
/plugin install yara-authoring
About the project

Trail of Bits Skills Marketplace is a collection of Claude Code plugins, skills, agents, commands, and instructions for security analysis, vulnerability detection, code auditing, and development workflows. It is for developers and security researchers using AI-assisted tools to inspect software, smart contracts, CI workflows, and related artifacts. The catalogue entries are examples of the marketplace’s reusable agent extensions.

trailofbits/skills · 7,603 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trailofbits/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 1 skill cost 83 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

yara-authoring scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/yara-authoring/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 10 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0

The repository is licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 83 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago Changed 4c25681dbe27
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -6 lines 6f1628110546
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +6 lines 82eebb92199e
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 10 lines scan A ea2793a6d812

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yara-authoring is a plugin published in the GitHub repository trailofbits/skills (7,603 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-10.