frida-api-trace

frida-api-trace is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from batteryshark/rekit. It costs 85 tokens per session (540 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Frida-based runtime tracer that observes selected exported program functions while preserving their parameter names and types from user-provided API Monitor XML definitions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in an authorised environment to observe Windows APIs such as file, process, memory, registry, or network functions, including argument previews and return values. It executes the target.
Why use it?
Named and typed arguments make captured calls easier to understand than raw function names and values alone.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it in an authorised environment to observe Windows APIs such as file, process, memory, registry, or network functions, including argument previews and return values. It executes the target.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/batteryshark/rekit/frida-api-trace
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 frida-api-trace
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/batteryshark/rekit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 540 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 $0.00085 $0.00540
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00216
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00054

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 94a980ab326d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

frida-api-trace 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 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/frida-api-trace/SKILL.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Signature-Aware Frida API Trace

Trace a bounded set of exported APIs while preserving their parameter names and types. This complements frida-trace: use frida-trace for quick glob-based call counts, and this skill when API signatures make the captured events materially more readable.

Safety and data boundary

This skill spawns and executes the target. Use an isolated, authorized analysis environment and invoke it through rekit run --allow-dynamic.

API Monitor's XML definitions are user-supplied data with their own license. Rekit does not redistribute them. Put your legally obtained tree at skills/frida-api-trace/assets/apimonitor/ (ignored by Git), or pass another location with --definitions.

Usage

rekit run --allow-dynamic frida-api-trace ./sample.exe \
  --apis "CreateFileW,WriteFile,RegSetValueExW,WinHttpSendRequest" \
  --format json

rekit run --allow-dynamic frida-api-trace ./sample.exe \
  --definitions /path/to/api-monitor-xml \
  --modules "Kernel32.dll,Advapi32.dll" \
  --apis "CreateProcess*,VirtualAlloc*,WriteProcessMemory"

The XML parser expands BothCharset="True" declarations into A and W exports, prefers the richest duplicate signature, and caps wildcard expansion with --max-hooks. The generated Frida script reads only bounded ANSI/UTF-16 string arguments it can identify safely; other arguments remain pointer/scalar values.

The target is terminated after --timeout seconds if it has not already exited. JSON reports selected signatures, installed/missing hooks, captured calls, truncation, and XML parse warnings. A missing export remains visible instead of silently reducing coverage.

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.8+
  • frida-tools / Python frida bindings
  • A local API Monitor XML definition tree that you are permitted to use

Direct invocation additionally requires --yes-i-consent or REKIT_ALLOW_DYNAMIC=1.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 54 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 94a980ab326d

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frida-api-trace is a skill published in the GitHub repository batteryshark/rekit (20 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 540 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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