Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/miru-zero/zero-brainnpx agentmods add skills/miru-zero/zero-brain/stack-overflow-and-ropWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/miru-zero/zero-brain/stack-overflow-and-rop)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/miru-zero/zero-brain/stack-overflow-and-rop"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/miru-zero/zero-brain/stack-overflow-and-rop/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/miru-zero/zero-brain/stack-overflow-and-rop"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/miru-zero/zero-brain/stack-overflow-and-rop.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00059 | $0.03198 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00030 | $0.01599 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00640 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00320 |
Grade A, and why
stack-overflow-and-rop 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.
This is a copy
94% identical to stack-overflow-and-rop — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 305 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
SKILL: Stack Overflow & ROP — Expert Attack Playbook
AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert stack-based exploitation techniques. Covers classic buffer overflow, return-to-libc, ROP chain construction, ret2csu, ret2dlresolve, SROP, stack pivoting, and canary bypass. Distilled from ctf-wiki advanced-rop, real-world CVEs, and CTF competition patterns. Base models often miss the nuance of gadget selection under constrained conditions.
0. RELATED ROUTING
- format-string-exploitation — leak canary/libc/PIE base via format string before triggering overflow
- binary-protection-bypass — systematic bypass of NX, ASLR, PIE, canary, RELRO
- arbitrary-write-to-rce — convert a write primitive (GOT, hooks, vtable) into code execution
- heap-exploitation — when the vulnerability is in heap rather than stack
Advanced Reference
Load ROP_ADVANCED_TECHNIQUES.md when you need:
- Blind ROP (BROP) methodology against remote services without binary
- ret2vdso for ASLR bypass on 32-bit systems
- Partial overwrite techniques for PIE bypass
- JOP / COP alternative code-reuse paradigms
1. STACK LAYOUT FUNDAMENTALS
High Address
┌─────────────────────┐
│ ... (caller) │
├─────────────────────┤
│ Return Address │ ← overwrite target (EIP/RIP control)
├─────────────────────┤
│ Saved EBP/RBP │ ← overwrite for stack pivoting
├─────────────────────┤
│ Canary (if enabled)│
├─────────────────────┤
│ Local Variables │ ← buffer starts here
├─────────────────────┤
│ ... │
└─────────────────────┘
Low Address
| Element | x86 (32-bit) | x86-64 (64-bit) |
|---|---|---|
| Return address size | 4 bytes | 8 bytes |
| Saved frame pointer | 4 bytes (EBP) | 8 bytes (RBP) |
| Canary size | 4 bytes | 8 bytes |
| Calling convention | args on stack | RDI, RSI, RDX, RCX, R8, R9 then stack |
| Syscall instruction | int 0x80 |
syscall |
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.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 305 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A e0c4adc13dca
stack-overflow-and-rop is a skill published in the GitHub repository miru-zero/zero-brain (0 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 3,198 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to stack-overflow-and-rop, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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