Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to RudyCity/superagent. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RudyCity/superagent/main/.agents/skills/protocol-reverse-engineering/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RudyCity/superagentWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00039 | $0.03518 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00019 | $0.01759 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00704 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00352 |
Grade A, and why
protocol-reverse-engineering 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 4d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 521 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Protocol Reverse Engineering
Comprehensive techniques for capturing, analyzing, and documenting network protocols for security research, interoperability, and debugging.
Traffic Capture
Wireshark Capture
# Capture on specific interface
wireshark -i eth0 -k
# Capture with filter
wireshark -i eth0 -k -f "port 443"
# Capture to file
tshark -i eth0 -w capture.pcap
# Ring buffer capture (rotate files)
tshark -i eth0 -b filesize:100000 -b files:10 -w capture.pcap
tcpdump Capture
# Basic capture
tcpdump -i eth0 -w capture.pcap
# With filter
tcpdump -i eth0 port 8080 -w capture.pcap
# Capture specific bytes
tcpdump -i eth0 -s 0 -w capture.pcap # Full packet
# Real-time display
tcpdump -i eth0 -X port 80
Man-in-the-Middle Capture
# mitmproxy for HTTP/HTTPS
mitmproxy --mode transparent -p 8080
# SSL/TLS interception
mitmproxy --mode transparent --ssl-insecure
# Dump to file
mitmdump -w traffic.mitm
# Burp Suite
# Configure browser proxy to 127.0.0.1:8080
Protocol Analysis
Wireshark Analysis
# Display filters
tcp.port == 8080
http.request.method == "POST"
ip.addr == 192.168.1.1
tcp.flags.syn == 1 && tcp.flags.ack == 0
frame contains "password"
# Following streams
Right-click > Follow > TCP Stream
Right-click > Follow > HTTP Stream
# Export objects
File > Export Objects > HTTP
# Decryption
Edit > Preferences > Protocols > TLS
- (Pre)-Master-Secret log filename
- RSA keys list
tshark Analysis
# Extract specific fields
tshark -r capture.pcap -T fields -e ip.src -e ip.dst -e tcp.port
# Statistics
tshark -r capture.pcap -q -z conv,tcp
tshark -r capture.pcap -q -z endpoints,ip
# Filter and extract
tshark -r capture.pcap -Y "http" -T json > http_traffic.json
# Protocol hierarchy
tshark -r capture.pcap -q -z io,phs
Scapy for Custom Analysis
from scapy.all import *
# Read pcap
packets = rdpcap("capture.pcap")
# Analyze packets
for pkt in packets:
if pkt.haslayer(TCP):
print(f"Src: {pkt[IP].src}:{pkt[TCP].sport}")
print(f"Dst: {pkt[IP].dst}:{pkt[TCP].dport}")
if pkt.haslayer(Raw):
print(f"Data: {pkt[Raw].load[:50]}")
# Filter packets
http_packets = [p for p in packets if p.haslayer(TCP)
and (p[TCP].sport == 80 or p[TCP].dport == 80)]
# Create custom packets
pkt = IP(dst="target")/TCP(dport=80)/Raw(load="GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n")
send(pkt)
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 521 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A feb62efcbc6c
protocol-reverse-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository RudyCity/superagent (21 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 3,518 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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