binutils

binutils is a skill for Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,616 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to GNU binutils, command-line tools for manipulating compiled files and libraries. It covers static archives, symbol names, debug information, crash addresses, and printable strings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or inspect static archives, strip or separate debug data, map addresses with addr2line, extract strings, and demangle C++ symbols.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork when examining or transforming existing binaries without rebuilding the source. It can connect a crash address to source code and make compiled C++ names readable.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to create or inspect static archives, strip or separate debug data, map addresses with addr2line, extract strings, and demangle C++ symbols.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/binutils
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development --skill binutils
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development

Made for: Codex.

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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 1,616 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.01616
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00808
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00323
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00162

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1870a556ae7d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

binutils 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.

.devin/skills/binutils/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GNU binutils

The GNU binutils manipulate existing binaries: static archives, symbol stripping, address to source mapping, and name demangling. Inspection of ELF structure belongs to elf-inspection.

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger The task creates or modifies a static archive, strips or converts a binary, separates debug info, maps a crash address to source, extracts printable strings, or demangles a symbol.
Authority Reversible local: writes only the archive, binary, or debug files the user names, and preserves each input when producing a new output file; rollback is version control or the preserved input. No remote mutation.
Side effect Local writes to archives, binaries, .debug files, and generated object files. Local reads of every other file.
Done The named artifact exists with the requested transformation applied, verified by re-running the matching inspection command (ar t, file, addr2line, nm -C) on the output.

Inputs

  • The target file or files: required. Name every input; the skill writes only named targets.
  • The transformation: required. Create, strip, convert, debuglink, embed, map, or demangle.
  • The target architecture: required for cross targets, so the tool prefix is aarch64-linux-gnu- or arm-none-eabi- instead of the host tools.

Procedure

  1. Build a static archive with ar. r inserts, c creates without a warning, s writes the symbol index. Done when: ar t lists the expected members and nm libfoo.a shows their symbols.
ar rcs libfoo.a foo.o bar.o baz.o
ar t libfoo.a            # list members
ar x libfoo.a foo.o      # extract one member
ar r libfoo.a new.o      # insert or replace
ar d libfoo.a old.o      # delete
ranlib libfoo.a          # rebuild the index after an external edit

LTO objects carry GIMPLE IR that plain ar indexes incorrectly. Use gcc-ar and gcc-ranlib for GCC, or llvm-ar for Clang.

  1. Strip a binary. Choose the flag from what must survive. Done when: file prog reports stripped (or not) as intended, and the symbols that must remain do.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 3d ago First seen · 121 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 1870a556ae7d

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binutils is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,616 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-06.