syzkaller: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/linux-config-update/SKILL.md

linux-config-update is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from google/syzkaller. It costs 85 tokens per session (2,385 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for changing Linux kernel configuration files in the syzkaller dashboard. Linux kernel configuration controls which operating-system features are enabled, and syz-kconf generates the final configuration files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Enabling or disabling kernel options, updating Linux version tags, adding configuration fragments, and regenerating kernel configurations.
Why use it?
It prevents accidental changes caused by using the wrong compiler environment or editing generated files by hand. It also helps avoid running the full, slow configuration process when a smaller check is enough.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is google/syzkaller's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on syzkaller itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything syzkaller configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is CI=true ./tools/syz-env make configs SOURCEDIR=$KERNEL_PATH INSTANCE=upstream-apparmor-kasan.

About the project

syzkaller is an automated fuzzer that generates kernel activity and uses code coverage to find bugs in operating-system kernels. It is used by kernel developers and security researchers to test Linux and other supported kernels for vulnerabilities and failures. The catalogue add-ons help coding agents operate or use syzkaller.

google/syzkaller · 6,383 stars · on GitHub

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to google/syzkaller. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/syzkaller/master/.agents/skills/linux-config-update/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/syzkaller

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 2,385 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 $0.02385
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00954
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00477
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00238

Measured 3d ago against content hash 884971b3dbc6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

linux-config-update 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.

.agents/skills/linux-config-update/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Updating Linux Kernel Configs (dashboard/config/linux)

Use this skill when modifying dashboard/config/linux/ — whether enabling new CONFIG_* options, updating kernel tags for a new Linux release, adding new instances/fragments, or regenerating .config files.

First, read dashboard/config/linux/README.md for the main.yml and bits/*.yml declarative syntax, instance features (baseline, base-config, nonoise, reduced, vX.Y version tags), and how tools/syz-kconf generates <name>.config and <name>-base.config.

1. Running make configs (Always Use syz-env!)

[!IMPORTANT] Always run config generation inside ./tools/syz-env. Kernel Kconfig evaluates compiler capabilities (cc-option, CC_VERSION_TEXT, CLANG_VERSION, GCC_VERSION, rustc/bindgen availability, etc.). Running outside syz-env uses host compilers and produces massive, unintended diffs across all .config files. Never manually edit generated *.config files.

Fast Iteration with INSTANCE=

A full make configs run checks out multiple kernel trees (upstream, linux-next, stable, Android, ChromeOS) and generates ~80 configs, which is very slow.

When testing new options or debugging a failure, iterate on individual instances first using INSTANCE=<name> (or INSTANCE=<name>-base for the baseline config):

# Quick check on a single upstream x86_64 instance:
CI=true ./tools/syz-env make configs SOURCEDIR=$KERNEL_PATH INSTANCE=upstream-apparmor-kasan

# Check older stable/android/arch/sanitizer instances to verify version and arch constraints:
CI=true ./tools/syz-env make configs SOURCEDIR=$KERNEL_PATH INSTANCE=stable-5.15-kasan
CI=true ./tools/syz-env make configs SOURCEDIR=$KERNEL_PATH INSTANCE=upstream-s390-kasan
CI=true ./tools/syz-env make configs SOURCEDIR=$KERNEL_PATH INSTANCE=upstream-kmsan

Once single-instance checks pass, run the full command without INSTANCE= to update all affected .config files before committing:

CI=true ./tools/syz-env make configs SOURCEDIR=$KERNEL_PATH

Remove any untracked dashboard/config/linux/*.config.tmp files if left behind.

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 lines

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 · 155 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 884971b3dbc6

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linux-config-update is a skill published in the GitHub repository google/syzkaller (6,383 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 2,385 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 2026-10-26.

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