ossfuzz

ossfuzz is a skill for Claude Code from RedHatProductSecurity/prodsec-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (4,043 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to OSS-Fuzz, Google's free service for continuously fuzz-testing open-source projects. Fuzz testing repeatedly feeds unexpected data to software to find crashes and other bugs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to enroll an eligible project, create fuzzing harnesses, build the required images and scripts, and inspect coverage results.
Why use it?
It helps discover hard-to-predict security and reliability problems before users encounter them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 infra/helper.py --help.

Part of the prodsec-skills plugin — 133 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to enroll an eligible project, create fuzzing harnesses, build the required images and scripts, and inspect coverage results.

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Install

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RedHatProductSecurity/prodsec-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/redhatproductsecurity/prodsec-skills/ossfuzz

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install prodsec-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 133 skills.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,043 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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: 3 findings, 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 Privilege Escalation · line 156
    Potential security issue detected. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 122
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 156
    Docker image references without a specific tag (:latest is implicit) or digest (@sha256:...) can be silently replaced by a malicious image.
    Fix: Pin the image: image:tag or image@sha256:abc123
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 $0.00029 $0.04043
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.02021
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00809
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00404

Measured 6d ago against content hash cd04e1e6b835, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ossfuzz scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| **Keep harnesses in separate repo** | Like [curl-fuzzer](https://github.com/curl/curl-fuzzer) - cleaner organization |
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • ossfuzz — 98% identical, 5 lines differ
module/skills/ossfuzz/SKILL.md · 430 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 430 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OSS-Fuzz

OSS-Fuzz is an open-source project developed by Google that provides free distributed infrastructure for continuous fuzz testing. It streamlines the fuzzing process and facilitates simpler modifications. While only select projects are accepted into OSS-Fuzz, the project's core is open-source, allowing anyone to host their own instance for private projects.

Overview

OSS-Fuzz provides a simple CLI framework for building and starting harnesses or calculating their coverage. Additionally, OSS-Fuzz can be used as a service that hosts static web pages generated from fuzzing outputs such as coverage information.

Key Concepts

Concept Description
helper.py CLI script for building images, building fuzzers, and running harnesses locally
Base Images Hierarchical Docker images providing build dependencies and compilers
project.yaml Configuration file defining project metadata for OSS-Fuzz enrollment
Dockerfile Project-specific image with build dependencies
build.sh Script that builds fuzzing harnesses for your project
Criticality Score Metric used by OSS-Fuzz team to evaluate project acceptance

When to Apply

Apply this technique when:

  • Setting up continuous fuzzing for an open-source project
  • Need distributed fuzzing infrastructure without managing servers
  • Want coverage reports and bug tracking integrated with fuzzing
  • Testing existing OSS-Fuzz harnesses locally
  • Reproducing crashes from OSS-Fuzz bug reports

Skip this technique when:

  • Project is closed-source (unless hosting your own OSS-Fuzz instance)
  • Project doesn't meet OSS-Fuzz's criticality score threshold
  • Need proprietary or specialized fuzzing infrastructure
  • Fuzzing simple scripts that don't warrant infrastructure

Quick Reference

Task Command
Clone OSS-Fuzz git clone https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz
Build project image python3 infra/helper.py build_image --pull <project>
Build fuzzers with ASan python3 infra/helper.py build_fuzzers --sanitizer=address <project>
Run specific harness python3 infra/helper.py run_fuzzer <project> <harness>
Generate coverage report python3 infra/helper.py coverage <project>
Check helper.py options python3 infra/helper.py --help

Read the full file on GitHub · 430 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 · 430 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A cd04e1e6b835

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ossfuzz is a skill published in the GitHub repository RedHatProductSecurity/prodsec-skills (52 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 4,043 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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