wireshark-traffic-analysis

wireshark-traffic-analysis is a skill for Codex from bx33661/Wireshark-MCP. It costs 63 tokens per session (998 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for investigating captured or live network traffic with Wireshark, a tool that shows the individual messages sent across a network.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with network triage, security investigations, threat hunting, incident response, and protocol troubleshooting.
Why use it?
It helps turn a large packet capture into traceable findings instead of guesses. It records the filters, conversations, and packet details behind each conclusion.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit It helps with network triage, security investigations, threat hunting, incident response, and protocol troubleshooting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bx33661/wireshark-mcp/wireshark-traffic-analysis
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 bx33661/Wireshark-MCP --skill wireshark-traffic-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bx33661/Wireshark-MCP

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 998 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 $0.00063 $0.00998
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00499
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00100

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5e5f6abcc686, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wireshark-traffic-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 6d 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/wireshark-traffic-analysis/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Traffic Investigation — Wireshark MCP

Answer the user's question with reproducible traffic evidence. A narrow question needs a narrow investigation; an unknown capture needs triage. Do not run a security audit or a fixed tool checklist for every capture.

Establish the task

Identify the capture, question, and any host, time window, protocol, or symptom already supplied. Reuse context and previous results. Ask for the capture only when no accessible input is identified; treat an unspecified goal as triage. Unknown capture vantage point is a limitation, not a reason to stop all analysis.

Use the advertised tool schemas and available resources as the execution contract. Profiles differ; a tool named here may be unavailable. Select an available equivalent or explain the missing capability. Do not invent tool arguments or silently switch to shell to bypass an execution restriction.

For an unfamiliar capture, wireshark_open_file obtains metadata and protocol recommendations. It does not activate tools, establish an implicit current file, or certify capture completeness. Continue passing pcap_file explicitly. Skip repeated opening when this context is already known.

Choose the next useful query

User need First useful operation Follow-up only if needed
Unknown capture wireshark_quick_analysis Fill gaps with endpoints, conversations, or aggregation; do not repeat every overview component
Count, distribution, top hosts, timeline wireshark_aggregate with the relevant filter Verify completeness, then inspect a representative frame/stream for important groups
A specific host, frame, stream, or failure Filtered extraction or packet/stream inspection Broaden only if the local evidence cannot explain it
Suspected compromise or root cause A query distinguishing plausible explanations Confirm with packet evidence and inspect the strongest counter-explanation

Read playbooks.md only for the relevant investigation branch. Check uncertain field names and filter syntax through available protocol-field/display-filter resources or the installed engine; reference examples are not an exhaustive field catalog.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 6d ago Changed · -67 lines · +7 tokens per session 5e5f6abcc686
  2. 12d ago First seen · 115 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 89c9916486e5

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wireshark-traffic-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository bx33661/Wireshark-MCP (240 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 998 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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