dwarf-expert

dwarf-expert is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from trailofbits/skills. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,559 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC-BY-SA-4.0.

A tool for examining DWARF, a standard format that stores debugging information inside compiled programs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It inspects debug sections and entries, verifies them with common binary tools, answers DWARF questions, and supports writing DWARF parsers.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand how compiled code maps back to source code and check whether its debug information is valid.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the dwarf-expert plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit It inspects debug sections and entries, verifies them with common binary tools, answers DWARF questions, and supports writing DWARF parsers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/trailofbits/skills/dwarf-expert
About the project

Trail of Bits Skills Marketplace is a collection of Claude Code plugins, skills, agents, commands, and instructions for security analysis, vulnerability detection, code auditing, and development workflows. It is for developers and security researchers using AI-assisted tools to inspect software, smart contracts, CI workflows, and related artifacts. The catalogue entries are examples of the marketplace’s reusable agent extensions.

trailofbits/skills · 7,603 stars · on GitHub

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 trailofbits/skills --skill dwarf-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trailofbits/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install dwarf-expert, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,559 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 17 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 17 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00088 $0.01559
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00624
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00312
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00156

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c4623d2d9c5a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dwarf-expert 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 1mo 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.

plugins/dwarf-expert/skills/dwarf-expert/SKILL.md · 116 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0

The repository is licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 1mo ago First seen · 116 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A c4623d2d9c5a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dwarf-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository trailofbits/skills (7,603 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,559 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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