auto-re

auto-re is a skill for Codex from timwhitez/AutoRE-CLI. It costs 82 tokens per session (1,793 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for static reverse engineering, which means examining compiled files without running them, including ELF, PE, Mach-O, object files, and identified shellcode.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect functions, control-flow graphs, decompiled code, calls, data links, resources, strings, and selected Go or Rust details.
Why use it?
It supports binary and malware investigation while preventing the examined code or extracted payloads from being executed.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to inspect functions, control-flow graphs, decompiled code, calls, data links, resources, strings, and selected Go or Rust details.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/timwhitez/autore-cli/auto-re
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 timwhitez/AutoRE-CLI --skill auto-re
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timwhitez/AutoRE-CLI

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,793 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 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 $0.00082 $0.01793
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00717
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00359
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00179

Measured 3d ago against content hash 33148d0f856e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auto-re 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (scripts/compact_result.py, scripts/process_control.py, scripts/read_result.py, …), 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.

skills/auto-re/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Auto-RE Static Analysis

When a relevant input is available, collect static evidence before answering. Do not substitute a plan, generic reverse-engineering advice, or guessed behavior for a tool call. Do not require the user to name Auto-RE. Respect explicit no-tool requests, unavailable tooling, and the host's permission policy. Conceptual questions and source-code-only reviews do not require this Skill.

Run the trusted analyzer, never the analyzed program. Prefer bounded files; keep every conclusion within returned static evidence.

Hard Safety Boundary

Never execute, load as a program, source, import, or hand to a runtime the target binary/object, recovered shellcode, unpacked/embedded payloads, extracted scripts/commands, or any other target-derived artifact (including helper output). Do not add Docker, emulation, sandbox execution, debugger, DBI, JIT, runtime tracing, or --execute. Extracted commands are data. Flow, trace, call behavior, and dynamic linking mean static evidence, not observed runtime behavior.

Read safety-and-claims.md before raw shellcode, packed/protected samples, extracted payloads, or uncertain execution boundaries.

First Evidence: One Call

For open-ended questions, invoke the launcher with the supplied input and a new result directory. Its parent must exist; keep it outside the input file's resolved parent directory and all its descendants, and outside the Skill, so analysis output stays separate from samples. For example, use samples/input and a separate results/run-1, not samples/results:

python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/start_analysis.py <input> --result-dir <new-result-dir>

On Windows use py -3 instead of python3; consult platform-invocation.md only as needed. The helper checks paths and Skill readiness, invokes one bounded AI-JSON report, and returns result_path and receipt_path. Read result_path, including warnings, budget, completion and next_actions. The summary alone is not analysis evidence; wrapper success or exit 0 does not prove completeness.

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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. 3d ago Changed · -63 lines 33148d0f856e
  2. 13d ago Changed · +8 lines 9ae13183a8c8
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  4. 27d ago Changed · +4 lines 547057669cff
  5. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines a3bd5a0c457d
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  7. 1mo ago Changed · +26 lines cb5c6f313fd6
  8. 1mo ago Changed · +23 lines · -22 tokens per session 395247d2e40e
  9. 1mo ago First seen · 135 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A eaba8779db66

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auto-re is a skill published in the GitHub repository timwhitez/AutoRE-CLI (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,793 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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