binwalk-carve

binwalk-carve is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from batteryshark/rekit. It costs 66 tokens per session (450 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A file-carving tool that uses binwalk to extract embedded files from firmware images and other large binary files, including filesystems, bootloaders, kernels and nested archives.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to unpack IoT, router or embedded-device firmware, especially after an initial scan finds embedded file signatures.
Why use it?
It turns detected embedded content into an output directory that you can inspect and analyse. It does not run the firmware.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is rekit run bin-triage ./out/<carved-file>.

Good fit Use it to unpack IoT, router or embedded-device firmware, especially after an initial scan finds embedded file signatures.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/batteryshark/rekit
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/batteryshark/rekit/binwalk-carve

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 450 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 $0.00066 $0.00450
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00225
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00045

Measured 9d ago against content hash af6dfb16a905, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

binwalk-carve 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (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/binwalk-carve/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Firmware Carver (binwalk)

Carve and recursively extract embedded files from a firmware image or blob with binwalk — filesystems (SquashFS/JFFS2/…), bootloaders, kernels, and nested archives.

When to use

An IoT/router/embedded firmware dump, or any large blob bin-triage flagged as containing embedded signatures. bin-triage previews embedded content; this actually extracts it so you can walk the recovered filesystem and analyse it.

What it does

Runs binwalk -e <input> (with cwd = your output dir, so the carved tree lands there on both binwalk v2 and v3), then reports the file count and the signature scan. binwalk scans signatures and runs extractors (decompress/unpack) — it does not run the firmware.

Prerequisites

  • python3 (runner) and binwalk on PATH. binwalk (v3 is a single Rust binary) pulls a whole ecosystem of extractors (unsquashfs, jefferson, sasquatch, …), so it is not bundled — install it and put it on PATH. Until then doctor marks the skill not-ready and run reports the honest gap with an install hint.

Usage

rekit run binwalk-carve ./firmware.bin ./out
# then analyse the recovered tree, e.g.:
rekit run bin-triage ./out/<carved-file>

Run this sandboxed (no network, writable output dir only) — firmware extractors are a broad attack surface over untrusted input.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 42 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A af6dfb16a905

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binwalk-carve is a skill published in the GitHub repository batteryshark/rekit (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 450 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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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