light-client-proof-verification

light-client-proof-verification is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PlamenTSV/plamen. It costs 43 tokens per session (3,037 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security review guide for light clients and cross-chain proof verification. Light clients verify another blockchain’s state without running the full network, while Merkle proofs provide evidence that data belongs to a recorded state.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect Merkle proofs, ICS-23 paths, state roots, message integrity, and related Go or Rust bridge and IBC code.
Why use it?
It helps find verification mistakes that could make forged blockchain state or messages appear valid.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to inspect Merkle proofs, ICS-23 paths, state roots, message integrity, and related Go or Rust bridge and IBC code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/plamentsv/plamen/light-client-proof-verification
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add PlamenTSV/plamen --skill light-client-proof-verification
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PlamenTSV/plamen

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,037 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 $0.00043 $0.03037
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01519
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00607
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00304

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2949a0d3d3b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

light-client-proof-verification 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.

agents/skills/injectable/l1/light-client-proof-verification/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Injectable Skill: Light Client Proof Verification

L1 trigger: L1_PATTERN=true AND (light_client/ OR ics23/ OR merkle/ OR proof/ OR verify_proof OR verify_root OR validate_path OR merkle_tree OR state_root OR trie_proof OR ibc/ OR beacon-api-client/ detected in recon subsystem map) Inject Into: depth-consensus-invariant or depth-external Language: Go and Rust Finding prefix: [LC-N] Status: v0.1 draft, Round 4 exemplars pending

Orchestrator Decomposition Guide

  • Sections 1, 2: depth-consensus-invariant (proof soundness)
  • Section 3: depth-external (cross-chain assumptions)
  • Section 4: depth-edge-case (boundary + adversarial inputs)

When This Skill Activates

Recon identifies light-client or cross-chain proof verification code. This skill is the most consequential for cross-chain bridges and IBC-adjacent code because a proof-verification bug can allow forged state to be accepted as canonical — the Dragonberry class.

1. Proof Format Fingerprinting

Identify the exact proof format used:

Format Identifier Notable pitfalls
Merkle-Patricia Trie (MPT) Ethereum state proofs, eth_getProof RLP decode edge cases; extension/branch collision
IAVL+ Cosmos SDK x/store Left-right ordering; ICS-23 subkey encoding
Sparse Merkle Tree (SMT) Aptos, Sui, Celestia Empty-leaf handling; default hash values
Verkle Future Ethereum KZG commitment; opening soundness
SSZ proofs Ethereum Beacon chain Generalized index encoding
ICS-23 IBC light clients Generic proof spec; multiple backends

Write the format into the finding header.

2. Soundness Checks Per Format

2a. Merkle-Patricia Trie (Ethereum state proof)

  • RLP decode strictness: does the decoder reject non-canonical RLP encodings? Leading zeros, empty-byte integers, overlong encodings?
  • Hash pre-image check: the proof path hashes must chain correctly from leaf to root
  • Key encoding: the MPT key is nibbled (4-bit). Off-by-one in nibble-decoding is a classic bug class.
  • Leaf vs extension vs branch disambiguation: node type encoded in first byte of value; must be checked before use

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 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. 6d ago First seen · 183 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 2949a0d3d3b3

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light-client-proof-verification is a skill published in the GitHub repository PlamenTSV/plamen (295 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 3,037 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 2026-09-03.

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