tshark-cli-analysis

tshark-cli-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bx33661/Wireshark-MCP. It costs 52 tokens per session (718 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line workflow for examining packet-capture files with TShark. Packet captures are saved records of network traffic, and TShark is a terminal tool for reading them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect capture metadata, protocols, fields, endpoints, frames, and specific network symptoms with focused queries.
Why use it?
It supports repeatable traffic investigations when a graphical or connected tool is unavailable, while keeping bulky raw output out of the agent’s working context.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to inspect capture metadata, protocols, fields, endpoints, frames, and specific network symptoms with focused queries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bx33661/wireshark-mcp/tshark-cli-analysis
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add bx33661/Wireshark-MCP --skill tshark-cli-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bx33661/Wireshark-MCP

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 718 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00052 $0.00718
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00359
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00072

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4b8165a3d700, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tshark-cli-analysis 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 3d 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.

skills/tshark-cli-analysis/SKILL.md · 37 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 37 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Traffic Investigation — TShark CLI

This is the direct-execution companion to the MCP workflow. It remains a locally usable prototype pending comparative evaluation; it does not require the MCP skill to be installed.

Select the smallest investigation

Identify the capture and question from context. For unknown input, inspect metadata and a compact protocol summary. For a known frame, endpoint, or symptom, start with that scope. Use a query that would distinguish the leading explanation from its strongest alternative; simple lookups need no hypothesis exercise.

Reuse successful queries while input and decoding settings are unchanged. Stop when the question is answered or the remaining uncertainty requires unavailable packets, keys, or external observations. Do not launch a broad audit or live capture merely to fill a template.

Execution contract

Use tshark --version and discover optional capinfos only when needed. Verify uncertain fields against the installed engine's -G fields output; cache that glossary outside model context and search exact field abbreviations. Missing optional utilities should not block otherwise available analysis.

Use argument arrays in subprocess code; when using a shell, quote paths and pass the entire display filter as one argument. Use -n to avoid unnecessary name resolution. Keep capture filters (-f) distinct from display filters (-Y). Read commands.md for executable patterns and output/occurrence semantics.

Do not infer a whole-capture count from head, a selected page, or -c: -c limits packets read, including packets rejected by the display filter. An early-terminated pipeline is partial even if its final command succeeds. For global statistics, finish the scan into a bounded summary or a size-monitored local artifact, check tshark's exit status and stderr, then inspect only relevant results.

Apply a timeout and output/storage budget suited to the capture. On overflow, terminate and reap the subprocess, mark the scan partial, and narrow the query. Do not rerun the same failing command unchanged. Streaming a pipeline alone does not prove bounded memory or a complete scan.

Read the full file on GitHub · 37 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 37 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 4b8165a3d700

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tshark-cli-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository bx33661/Wireshark-MCP (236 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 718 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 2026-09-06.

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