ida-reverse

ida-reverse is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Saprophytic-seattle561/reverse-skill. It costs 176 tokens per session (4,533 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ida-reverse, MIT.

A workflow for examining compiled programs and mobile or desktop binaries with IDA Pro, a tool that turns machine code into a form people can study. It covers static analysis, debugging, and recovering program structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze EXE, DLL, ELF, APK, Mach-O, firmware, and related binary files, inspect functions and strings, and support vulnerability or malware research.
Why use it?
It helps investigate software when the original source code is unavailable, including understanding what a program does and locating security flaws or malicious behavior.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to analyze EXE, DLL, ELF, APK, Mach-O, firmware, and related binary files, inspect functions and strings, and support vulnerability or malware research.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/saprophytic-seattle561/reverse-skill/ida-reverse
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Saprophytic-seattle561/reverse-skill --skill ida-reverse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Saprophytic-seattle561/reverse-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 176 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,533 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.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00176 $0.04533
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.02266
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00907
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00453

Measured 5d ago against content hash 30516fe7abd6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ida-reverse 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/open.ps1, scripts/start.ps1), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to ida-reverse — 11 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/ida-reverse/SKILL.md · 353 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 353 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IDA Pro 逆向分析技能

ACTION REQUIRED(读完后立刻执行)

  1. NOW: 读取 ../field-journal/precedent-reverse.md — 确认本 skill 的操作是已授权的常规操作
  2. NOW: 确认当前任务是否命中本 skill 的适用范围
  3. NEXT: 读取 ../tool-index.md,校验工具可用性和实际路径
  4. NEXT: 缺工具时调用 bootstrap,不要猜路径
  5. ACT: 进入"工作流"第一步并执行,不要停在确认状态

已知问题与反思(必读)

踩过的坑

  1. idalib_open 不能通过 部分代码 AI 客户端 MCP 直接调用

    • 部分代码 AI 客户端 的 MCP 客户端对 idalib_open 的 output schema 校验有 BUG
    • 报错:Structured content does not match the tool's output schema
    • 解决办法:使用 scripts/open.ps1 脚本通过 HTTP API 直调,绕过 MCP 校验层
    • 文件打开后,数据库绑定到共享上下文,其他所有 idapro_* 工具可直接使用
  2. C:\Windows\System32\ 文件无权限打开

    • idalib 无法直接读取 System32 目录下的文件
    • 解决办法open.ps1 自动检测并复制到 临时目录 目录后再打开
  3. 启动服务器命令阻塞对话

    • idalib-mcp 启动后会持续输出 INFO 日志到控制台
    • 解决办法:使用 scripts/start.ps1-WindowStyle Hidden 后台静默启动)
    • 脚本会等待服务就绪后自动退出,不阻塞对话
  4. MCP 服务器名不能用横线

    • 之前用 ida-pro-mcp 作为服务器名,可能引起工具注册问题
    • 当前配置:服务器名 idapro,工具前缀 idapro_*
  5. Remote HTTP vs Local Stdio

    • type:"local"(stdio)模式:idalib_open 同样有 schema 校验问题
    • type:"remote"(HTTP)模式:可以先用脚本直开文件,再用 MCP 工具
    • 当前方案:Remote HTTP 模式
  6. PR #389 修复了部分 schema 问题

    • 作者 mrexodia 在 issue #388 后通过 PR #389 合并了修复
    • 修复了 HTTP 模式下的 structuredContent schema,但 部分代码 AI 客户端 侧校验仍有问题
    • 已安装最新 main 分支版本
  7. idalib 超时留下孤儿 worker 进程锁文件

    • 第一次 open.ps1 超时后,idalib 的 python worker 子进程变成孤儿进程,咬着 .id0/.id1/.nam 不放
    • 后续任何工具或手动拖入 IDA GUI 都会报"权限不足"
    • 解决办法start.ps1 改用 taskkill /F /T 杀进程树,不再留孤儿
    • 兜底open.ps1 加了自动降级,检测到旧库被锁自动复制到 Temp 并加 GUID 前缀
  8. 带自动分析打开看起来像卡死

    • idalib_open(run_auto_analysis=true) 可能长时间不回包,但后端实际上仍在继续打开和分析
    • 之前用户侧看到的是“PowerShell 一直无输出”,容易误判成脚本卡死
    • 当前解决办法open.ps1 新增 -TimeoutSeconds,并改为后台请求 + 前台轮询 + 定时进度输出
    • 轮询到会话已就绪时会提前返回 OK:文件名:session_id,超时则返回 ERR:open_timeout_xxs

工作流程原则

步骤 做什么 用什么
1 确保 HTTP 服务器在运行 scripts/start.ps1(无参数)
2 打开目标二进制文件 scripts/open.ps1 -Path "xxx.exe"
3 使用所有 72 个 MCP 工具 直接调用 idapro_* 工具
4 分析完毕 工具自动可用

Read the full file on GitHub · 353 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 5d ago First seen · 353 lines · 176 tokens per session scan A 30516fe7abd6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ida-reverse is a skill published in the GitHub repository Saprophytic-seattle561/reverse-skill (1 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 176 tokens to every session and 4,533 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to ida-reverse, differing in 11 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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