harness-design-fuzzing

harness-design-fuzzing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from provos/ironcurtain. It costs 147 tokens per session (4,708 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reference for designing fuzzing harnesses: small programs that feed many systematically varied inputs into code and detect violations. It distinguishes tests aimed at triggering a specific bug from tests aimed at reaching underused code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning an instrumented harness for one function, several components, or a full build, and when deciding between trigger-driven and coverage-driven exploration.
Why use it?
A few hand-picked tests can miss failures at input boundaries. The guidance helps choose the scope, inputs, instrumentation, and failure check for broader vulnerability discovery.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when planning an instrumented harness for one function, several components, or a full build, and when deciding between trigger-driven and coverage-driven exploration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/provos/ironcurtain/harness-design-fuzzing
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add provos/ironcurtain --skill harness-design-fuzzing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/provos/ironcurtain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 147 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,708 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 medium

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 →

  • medium Output Handling · line 141
    Output size or generation rate is not bounded. Unbounded output enables denial-of-service through resource exhaustion, log flooding, or context-window stuffing.
    Fix: Set explicit limits on output length, generation count, and rate. Use max_tokens and truncation to prevent unbounded output.
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 $0.00147 $0.04708
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.02354
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00942
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00471

Measured 12d ago against content hash b014cc35478e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

harness-design-fuzzing 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 12d 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.

src/workflow/workflows/vuln-discovery/skills/harness-design-fuzzing/SKILL.md · 207 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 207 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Harness Design for Vulnerability Discovery

Reference vocabulary for designing instrumented harnesses that drive vulnerability discovery. Catalogs the classes, scopes, instrumentation choices, and pitfalls a harness design needs to reason about.

A harness is not a unit test. The point of a harness is to systematically explore an input space against an oracle that fires on a violation — not to confirm a few hand-picked cases. Hand-picked scenarios miss boundary values; the boundary is where the bug lives.

Design class — pick first

Every harness has exactly one of two design classes. The class drives the sweep variables and the oracle. Tier (below) is orthogonal — any tier can be either class.

  • Trigger-driven. The directive supplies a falsifiable claim with a named violation site — a specific function, value range, and expected oracle (a bounds check fires, a type narrows lossily, a sentinel collides, a state-machine transition is reached out of order). The harness sweeps the hypothesis input variables. The oracle is the named violation pattern firing.

  • Coverage-driven. The directive supplies an under-exercised dispatch surface — a code region the project's existing fuzzers don't reach, with named dispatch axes (option flags, message types, opcode tables, mode bits, format variants) the input space hasn't crossed. The harness sweeps the dispatch axes. The oracle is any sanitizer error within the named region. The named region must be a concrete file/function set, not "somewhere in the target."

Pick coverage-driven when prior trigger-driven rounds against the same region have been mitigated by upstream guards but the region itself is untested by the existing fuzz infrastructure. Pick trigger-driven when there is a specific theory to falsify.

Harness tiers

Three tiers of infrastructure scope. Match tier to hypothesis scope; never use Tier 1 for a cross-component target.

Tier 1 — Isolated function test

Extract the relevant function(s) into a standalone, self-contained program. Copy the exact types, macros, and helper functions verbatim from the source. Stub only I/O, networking, and allocation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 207 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. 12d ago First seen · 207 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A b014cc35478e

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harness-design-fuzzing is a skill published in the GitHub repository provos/ironcurtain (604 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 4,708 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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