ida-plugin-development

ida-plugin-development is a skill for Claude Code from HexRaysSA/claude-marketplace. It costs 63 tokens per session (8,808 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for building Python plugins for IDA Pro, a tool used to inspect compiled programs when their source code is unavailable. It covers graphical and background plugins, program structure, functions, disassembly, cross-references, and strings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating, packaging, loading, or maintaining IDA Pro plugins, including plugins with custom views, menus, rendering, hooks, and saved state.
Why use it?
It gives developers established patterns for extending IDA Pro without having to work out its plugin structure and interfaces from scratch.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the ida-plugin-development plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating, packaging, loading, or maintaining IDA Pro plugins, including…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hexrayssa/claude-marketplace/ida-plugin-development
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 HexRaysSA/claude-marketplace --skill ida-plugin-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HexRaysSA/claude-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ida-plugin-development, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ida-plugin-development

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hexrayssa/claude-marketplace/ida-plugin-development"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hexrayssa/claude-marketplace/ida-plugin-development.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,808 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 $0.00063 $0.08808
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.04404
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.01762
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00881

Measured 7d ago against content hash 0bbba159885c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ida-plugin-development 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/hcli-package.py), 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/ida-plugin-development/skills/ida-plugin-development/SKILL.md · 1,177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Developing IDA Pro plugins

Use this skill when developing plugins for IDA Pro using Python.

IDA's UI and analysis passes can be almost completely replaced through plugins. There's a lot of power (and a lot of complexity), so its important to follow known patterns. This document lists tips and tricks for creating new plugins for modern versions of IDA.

Key concepts covered in this document:

Use the IDA Domain API

Always prefer the IDA Domain API over the legacy low-level IDA Python SDK. The Domain API provides a clean, Pythonic interface that is easier to use and understand. However, there will be some things that the Domain API doesn't cover, especially around plugin registration and GUI handling.

Right now: read this intro guide: https://ida-domain.docs.hex-rays.com/getting_started/index.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,177 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. 7d ago First seen · 1,177 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 0bbba159885c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ida-plugin-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository HexRaysSA/claude-marketplace (118 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 8,808 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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