ctf-reverse

ctf-reverse is a skill for Claude Code from dailyyarn/CTF-agent. It costs 136 tokens per session (6,748 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide for reverse engineering, the process of understanding programs from their compiled or obfuscated form. It focuses on capture-the-flag challenges, including binaries, mobile apps, virtual machines, and anti-debugging techniques.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect binaries, APKs, WebAssembly, .NET, Go or Rust executables, custom virtual machines, obfuscated code, and anti-analysis protections.
Why use it?
It gives you methods and tool references when source code is unavailable or deliberately difficult to analyze.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to inspect binaries, APKs, WebAssembly, .NET, Go or Rust executables, custom virtual machines, obfuscated code, and anti-analysis protections.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dailyyarn/ctf-agent/ctf-reverse
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 dailyyarn/CTF-agent --skill ctf-reverse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dailyyarn/CTF-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 136 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,748 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 $0.00136 $0.06748
Opus 5.5 $0.00054 $0.02699
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00027 $0.01350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00675

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9eb28a983722, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ctf-reverse 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.

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.

ctf_agent/knowledge/embedded_ctf_skills/ctf-reverse/SKILL.md · 402 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 402 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CTF Reverse Engineering

Quick reference for RE challenges. For detailed techniques, see supporting files.

Additional Resources

  • tools.md - Static analysis tools (GDB, Ghidra, radare2, IDA, Binary Ninja, dogbolt.org, RISC-V with Capstone, Unicorn emulation, Python bytecode, WASM, Android APK, .NET, packed binaries)
  • tools-dynamic.md (includes Intel Pin instruction-counting side channel for movfuscated binaries) - Dynamic analysis tools: Frida (hooking, anti-debug bypass, memory scanning, Android/iOS), angr symbolic execution (path exploration, constraints, CFG), lldb (macOS/LLVM debugger), x64dbg (Windows), Qiling (cross-platform emulation with OS support), Triton (dynamic symbolic execution)
  • tools-advanced.md - Advanced tools: VMProtect/Themida analysis, binary diffing (BinDiff, Diaphora), deobfuscation frameworks (D-810, GOOMBA, Miasm), Rizin/Cutter, RetDec, advanced GDB (Python scripting, conditional breakpoints, watchpoints, reverse debugging with rr, pwndbg/GEF), advanced Ghidra scripting, patching (Binary Ninja API, LIEF)
  • anti-analysis.md - Comprehensive anti-analysis: Linux anti-debug (ptrace, /proc, timing, signals, direct syscalls), Windows anti-debug (PEB, NtQueryInformationProcess, heap flags, TLS callbacks, HW/SW breakpoint detection, exception-based, thread hiding), anti-VM/sandbox (CPUID, MAC, timing, artifacts, resources), anti-DBI (Frida detection/bypass), code integrity/self-hashing, anti-disassembly (opaque predicates, junk bytes), MBA identification/simplification, bypass strategies
  • patterns.md - Foundational binary patterns: custom VMs, anti-debugging, nanomites, self-modifying code, XOR ciphers, mixed-mode stagers, LLVM obfuscation, S-box/keystream, SECCOMP/BPF, exception handlers, memory dumps, byte-wise transforms, x86-64 gotchas, signal-based exploration, malware anti-analysis, multi-stage shellcode, timing side-channel, multi-thread anti-debug with decoy + signal handler MBA
  • patterns-ctf.md - Competition-specific patterns (Part 1): hidden emulator opcodes, LD_PRELOAD key extraction, SPN static extraction, image XOR smoothness, byte-at-a-time cipher, mathematical convergence bitmap, Windows PE XOR bitmap OCR, two-stage RC4+VM loaders, GBA ROM meet-in-the-middle, Sprague-Grundy game theory, kernel module maze solving, multi-threaded VM channels, backdoored shared library detection via string diffing
  • patterns-ctf-2.md - Competition-specific patterns (Part 2): multi-layer self-decrypting brute-force, embedded ZIP+XOR license, stack string deobfuscation, prefix hash brute-force, CVP/LLL lattice for integer validation, decision tree function obfuscation, GLSL shader VM, GF(2^8) Gaussian elimination, Z3 single-line Python circuit, sliding window popcount, keyboard LED Morse code via ioctl
  • languages.md - Language/platform-specific: Python bytecode & opcode remapping, Python version-specific bytecode, Pyarmor static unpack, DOS stubs, Unity IL2CPP, HarmonyOS HAP/ABC, Brainfuck/esolangs, UEFI, transpilation to C, code coverage side-channel, OPAL functional reversing, non-bijective substitution, Roblox place file analysis, Godot game asset extraction, Rust serde_json schema recovery, Verilog/hardware RE, Android JNI RegisterNatives, Ruby/Perl polyglot, Electron ASAR extraction + native binary analysis, Node.js npm runtime introspection
  • languages-compiled.md - Go binary reversing (GoReSym, goroutines, memory layout, channel ops, embed.FS), Rust binary reversing (demangling, Option/Result, Vec, panic strings), Swift binary reversing (demangling, protocol witness tables), Kotlin/JVM (coroutine state machines), C++ (vtable reconstruction, RTTI, STL patterns)
  • platforms.md - Platform-specific RE: macOS/iOS (Mach-O, code signing, Objective-C runtime, Swift, dyld, jailbreak bypass), embedded/IoT firmware (binwalk, UART/JTAG/SPI extraction, ARM/MIPS, RTOS), kernel drivers (Linux .ko, eBPF, Windows .sys), game engines (Unreal Engine, Unity, anti-cheat, Lua), automotive CAN bus, RISC-V advanced

Read the full file on GitHub · 402 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 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 · 402 lines · 136 tokens per session scan A 9eb28a983722

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ctf-reverse is a skill published in the GitHub repository dailyyarn/CTF-agent (7 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 6,748 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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