reverse-engineering

reverse-engineering is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Shad0wMazt3r/The-Scaffolding. It costs 30 tokens per session (216 once invoked), scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A guided process for examining compiled programs and other binary files. It covers the work from receiving a sample through code inspection, unpacking, runtime tracing, virtual-machine analysis, and symbolic review.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for analyzing suspicious or unfamiliar programs, understanding how they work, finding anti-analysis techniques, and tracing their behavior.
Why use it?
It gives binary analysis a defined progression, helping reduce the chance of skipping an important stage when investigating software without source code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit It is for analyzing suspicious or unfamiliar programs, understanding how they work, finding anti-analysis techniques, and tracing their behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shad0wmazt3r/the-scaffolding/reverse-engineering
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 Shad0wMazt3r/The-Scaffolding --skill reverse-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Shad0wMazt3r/The-Scaffolding

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.

agentmods badge for reverse-engineering

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 216 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 unknown 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 $0.00030 $0.00216
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00108
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00043
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00022

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2a9a1ff1c46a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 10d 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/reverse-engineering/SKILL.md · 23 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 10d ago First seen · 23 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 2a9a1ff1c46a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reverse-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository Shad0wMazt3r/The-Scaffolding (3 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 216 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 2026-08-31.

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