bindiff

bindiff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from batteryshark/rekit. It costs 105 tokens per session (1,274 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for matching functions between two compiled programs using Google BinDiff, which compares how the programs are structured.

In plain words
What is it for?
Comparing software updates to find changed functions, transferring names from a debug build to a stripped build, comparing malware variants, and locating a previously studied function in a new build.
Why use it?
It can identify corresponding code even when recompilation changes memory addresses, function order, or removes names—questions that byte-by-byte comparison cannot answer.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Comparing software updates to find changed functions, transferring names from a debug build to a stripped build, comparing malware variants, and locating a previously studied function in a new build.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/batteryshark/rekit/bindiff
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.

Any agent
npx skills add batteryshark/rekit --skill bindiff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/batteryshark/rekit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,274 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00105 $0.01274
Opus 5.5 $0.00042 $0.00510
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00127

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 69c8f38ccf46, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bindiff 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/binexport_read.py, scripts/ghidra_binexport.py, scripts/run.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/bindiff/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BinDiff (binary structural diff)

Match functions across two builds of a binary. BinDiff compares call graphs and control-flow graphs, so it survives recompiles that move every address, reorder functions, and strip every symbol.

When to use

  • Patch diffing — a vendor shipped an update; which functions actually changed? The changed list, sorted by ascending similarity, is your bug-hunt worklist.
  • Symbol porting — you have a named/debug build and a stripped one. Matched pairs where only one side has a real name (portableNames) tell you exactly which symbol goes where.
  • Variant comparison — two samples from the same family: shared code shows up as high-similarity matches, the new payload as unmatched functions.
  • Finding a function again — the routine you reversed last month has moved in the new build. Match old→new and read the pair off the table.

Reach for intellidiff instead when the question is byte or text identity (same file? which lines changed?). BinDiff answers the structural question that byte diffing cannot.

What it does

  1. Turns each input into a .BinExport (BinDiff's disassembly interchange format) using IDA Pro or Ghidra, unless you pass .BinExport files directly.
  2. Runs bindiff to match functions and basic blocks.
  3. Parses the resulting .BinDiff SQLite database, and reads both .BinExport call graphs to recover the functions that matched nothing — BinDiff's database records matched pairs only, so added/removed code has to come from the exports.

Static throughout: disassemble, match, report. Neither binary is executed. Disassembler databases go to a temp dir that is deleted afterward, so the sample's own directory is left untouched.

Prerequisites

  • bindiff — BinDiff 8 (https://github.com/google/bindiff/releases) on PATH.
  • A disassembler backend, unless both inputs are already .BinExport:
    • IDA Pro with the BinExport plugin — the runner drives idat headless with -OBinExportAutoAction:BinExportBinary.
    • Ghidra with the BinExport extension (BinExport_Ghidra-Java.zip) — the runner drives analyzeHeadless with the bundled Jython script scripts/ghidra_binexport.py.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 94 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 69c8f38ccf46

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bindiff is a skill published in the GitHub repository batteryshark/rekit (20 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 1,274 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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