atheris

atheris is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 42 tokens per session (2,041 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup for Atheris, a Python tool that tests code with many automatically varied inputs, including Python native extensions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a fuzzing harness, seed corpus, sanitizer configuration for native code, and reproducible crash artifacts.
Why use it?
It helps reveal crashes and unexpected behavior that ordinary example-based tests may miss. Saved failures can be replayed to reproduce the same problem.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to create a fuzzing harness, seed corpus, sanitizer configuration for native code, and reproducible crash artifacts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/atheris
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 OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development --skill atheris
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,041 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high YARA Match · line 53
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00042 $0.02041
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00816
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00408
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00204

Measured 22d ago against content hash 95383c5ca6a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

atheris 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 22d 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.

.devin/skills/atheris/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Atheris

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger User needs coverage-guided fuzzing for Python code or a Python native extension using Atheris.
Authority Reversible local: writes only the Atheris harness file, a corpus directory, and when required for dependency management pyproject.toml and uv.lock in the harness directory; rollback is deleting the harness file and corpus directory and restoring pyproject.toml and uv.lock to their pre-run state. No remote mutation. No source under test is mutated.
Side effect Local writes: a fuzz.py (or named) harness, a corpus/ directory of seed and crash artifacts, and a transient fuzzing process.
Done Atheris executes an instrumented target through a deterministic TestOneInput harness, reports coverage, and any saved crash artifact reproduces the same failure when replayed.

Inputs

  • Target: the Python function or module to fuzz, or the Python C extension to fuzz. Required.
  • Target kind: pure Python, or native C extension. Required; it selects the instrumentation and build path.
  • Expected exceptions: the exception types the target legitimately raises on bad input, so the harness catches them instead of crashing. Optional but recommended.
  • Seed corpus: initial input files for corpus/. Optional; Atheris can start empty.
  • Time/length budget: -max_total_time and -max_len values. Optional; defaults are libFuzzer defaults.
  • Sanitizers: whether AddressSanitizer and/or UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer are enabled. Optional; ASan is the default for native extensions.

Procedure

  1. Determine target kind. If the target is pure Python, follow the pure-Python path. If it is a C extension compiled from source, follow the native-extension path. Do not guess; ask the user when the kind is ambiguous. Done when: the target kind is determined as pure Python or native C extension.

  2. Install Atheris. If the harness directory is not already a uv project (no pyproject.toml present), run uv init --bare once. Then uv add atheris. Verify with python -c "import atheris; print(atheris.__version__)". Done when: Atheris is installed and importable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 22d ago Changed · +2 tokens per session 95383c5ca6a6
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines c9f0e963fe82
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -22 tokens per session d4da46fd004c
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 78 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 18e7afae2e02

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atheris is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (53 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 2,041 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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