reversing-xamarin-maui

reversing-xamarin-maui is a skill for Claude Code from trilwu/secskills. It costs 95 tokens per session (1,915 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to examining Xamarin and .NET MAUI mobile apps, which package .NET assemblies inside Android or iPhone applications. It covers extracting compressed assemblies and reading them as decompiled C# code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify Xamarin or .NET MAUI packages, extract DLLs from APKs or IPAs, decompress assembly containers, and inspect the app's C# logic.
Why use it?
It helps when a normal Android decompiler shows only Xamarin startup code instead of the application's logic. Recognizing the packaging format avoids treating the app like a native, Unity, Flutter, or React Native app.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ilspycmd ./out/YourApp.dll -o ./decompiled # or dnSpy / dnSpyEx / dotPeek.

Part of the secskills-core plugin — 30 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to identify Xamarin or .NET MAUI packages, extract DLLs from APKs or IPAs, decompress assembly containers, and inspect the app's C# logic.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trilwu/secskills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/trilwu/secskills/reversing-xamarin-maui

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install secskills-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,915 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00095 $0.01915
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00958
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00383
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00192

Measured 13d ago against content hash 9ce642e3dda8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reversing-xamarin-maui 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 13d 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.

secskills-core/skills/reversing-xamarin-maui/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reversing Xamarin and .NET MAUI Apps

Xamarin apps hide a complete .NET application inside an Android package. Once you extract and decompress the assemblies you get near-source-quality C#, which makes this one of the highest-return reversing jobs — but only if you get past the container format, which changed twice and defeats naive unzipping.

When to Use

  • The APK contains lib/*/libmonodroid.so, libmonosgen-2.0.so, or libxamarin-app.so
  • The APK contains assemblies/assemblies.blob or assemblies/*.dll
  • jadx shows only mono.MonoPackageManager and Xamarin bootstrap classes
  • An IPA contains .dll files or a Frameworks/Mono* layout
  • The target is described as Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, or .NET MAUI

When NOT to Use

  • Unity (global-metadata.dat, libil2cpp.so) — use reversing-unity-il2cpp; Unity is also .NET but uses a completely different packaging
  • Flutter or React Native — use reversing-flutter-apps or reversing-react-native-apps
  • TLS interception problems — use bypassing-mobile-pinning
  • The wider assessment — use testing-mobile-applications

Identify the Packaging Generation

Three formats shipped over the product's life, and the extraction differs.

unzip -l target.apk | rg 'assemblies|libmonodroid|libxamarin|libmonosgen'
What you see Generation Extraction
assemblies/*.dll, readable PE headers (MZ) Classic, uncompressed Unzip and decompile directly
assemblies/*.dll starting with XALZ Classic, LZ4-compressed Decompress the XALZ wrapper first
assemblies/assemblies.blob + .manifest AssemblyStore pyxamstore to unpack
lib/*/libxamarin-app.so with no assemblies/ .NET 6+ / MAUI, assemblies in the ELF Extract from the shared library
No managed assemblies anywhere NativeAOT Not .NET reversing — use analyzing-binaries
# Which one is it? Check the first four bytes of an assembly
unzip -p target.apk 'assemblies/Mono.Android.dll' 2>/dev/null | xxd | head -1
# 4d5a...  → MZ, a plain .NET PE, decompile now
# 58414c5a → "XALZ", LZ4-compressed, decompress first

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 13d ago First seen · 169 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 9ce642e3dda8

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reversing-xamarin-maui is a skill published in the GitHub repository trilwu/secskills (138 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,915 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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