ios-reverse-engineering

ios-reverse-engineering is a skill for Claude Code from gyh20062008-commits/re-ios. It costs 91 tokens per session (769 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for authorized, offline examination of iOS app files, including IPA packages, app bundles, binaries, libraries, and debugging files. It records what is present and reports limitations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract app settings, permissions, CPU architecture, linked libraries, symbols, strings, code traces, embedded frameworks, URL schemes, associated domains, and hardcoded URLs.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to inspect an app without contacting its real services or bypassing protections. This helps keep analysis evidence-focused and within authorized boundaries.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the ios-reverse-engineering plugin — 2 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to extract app settings, permissions, CPU architecture, linked libraries, symbols, strings, code traces, embedded frameworks, URL schemes, associated domains, and hardcoded URLs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gyh20062008-commits/re-ios/ios-reverse-engineering
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 gyh20062008-commits/re-ios --skill ios-reverse-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gyh20062008-commits/re-ios

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ios-reverse-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 2 commands.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 769 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 $0.00091 $0.00769
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00385
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00077

Measured 9d ago against content hash be85f5263387, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ios-reverse-engineering 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (scripts/check_deps.sh, scripts/ios_api_scan.py, scripts/ios_class_scan.sh, …), 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.

plugins/ios-reverse-engineering/skills/ios-reverse-engineering/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iOS Reverse Engineering

Use this skill for authorized static analysis of iOS artifacts. Keep the workflow offline and evidence-focused: identify what is present in the artifact, record limitations, and do not interact with real backends.

Safety Rules

  • Only analyze artifacts the user is authorized to inspect.
  • Do not bypass FairPlay DRM, app-store encryption, account protections, certificate pinning, or legal restrictions.
  • Do not extract, exfiltrate, validate, or use account credentials, tokens, cookies, or session material.
  • Do not attack, fuzz, replay, or probe real production services discovered in strings.
  • If a binary is encrypted or analysis is limited, report the limitation and request an authorized debug, enterprise, decrypted, or source-derived build.

Quick Workflow

Run the bundled scripts from scripts/ in this order. The output directory defaults to ios_analysis_out.

scripts/check_deps.sh
scripts/ios_unpack.sh <target> [output_dir]
scripts/ios_fingerprint.sh <target> [output_dir]
scripts/ios_macho_analyze.sh <target> [output_dir]
scripts/ios_class_scan.sh [output_dir]
scripts/ios_api_scan.py [output_dir]
scripts/ios_report.py [output_dir]

The final report is written to:

<output_dir>/analysis-report.md

The endpoint and API clue inventory is written to:

<output_dir>/endpoints.json

What To Inspect

  • App identity: Info.plist, bundle ID, executable name, version, URL schemes, associated domains.
  • Entitlements: app groups, keychain groups, associated domains, push, iCloud, network extension, app sandbox signals.
  • Bundle layout: embedded frameworks, dylibs, app extensions, watch apps, resources, dSYM DWARF files.
  • Mach-O: architecture slices, encryption load commands, linked libraries, rpaths, symbols, Objective-C metadata, Swift symbols, strings.
  • API clues: hardcoded URLs, domains, REST-like paths, GraphQL operations, WebSocket schemes, and client framework names.

References

Load these only when useful:

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 9d ago First seen · 73 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A be85f5263387

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ios-reverse-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository gyh20062008-commits/re-ios (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 769 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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