hunting-defi-economic-and-oracle-flaws

hunting-defi-economic-and-oracle-flaws is a skill for Claude Code from UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills. It costs 191 tokens per session (2,013 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security review guide for finding ways a decentralised-finance protocol can lose money through price manipulation, oracle mistakes, or accounting errors. Decentralised finance, or DeFi, provides financial services through blockchain-based programs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine swaps, loans, liquidations, fees, share values, pool ratios, and price feeds for unsafe assumptions or exploitable maths.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish profitable economic flaws from access-control or re-entry bugs, and checks whether an apparent price manipulation still makes money after its costs.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the security-agent-skills plugin — 194 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine swaps, loans, liquidations, fees, share values, pool ratios, and price feeds for unsafe assumptions or exploitable maths.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/hunting-defi-economic-and-oracle-flaws
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills --skill hunting-defi-economic-and-oracle-flaws
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install security-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 194 skills.

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Per session 191 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,013 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 $0.00191 $0.02013
Opus 5.5 $0.00076 $0.00805
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00038 $0.00403
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00201

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6fb615661a27, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hunting-defi-economic-and-oracle-flaws 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.

skills/hunting-defi-economic-and-oracle-flaws/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hunting DeFi economic and oracle flaws: profiting by moving a price nobody bounded

Some of the most valuable protocol bugs break no access check and re-enter nothing: they move a price or exploit accounting math to extract value through actions the protocol permits. A contract reads a spot price a flash loan can swing inside one transaction, trusts a pool ratio an attacker sets, or rounds a fee in a direction a repeated call drains. This hunt is about the economic layer, the values a protocol trusts and the invariants it assumes hold. It is distinct from access control (nothing here requires a missing gate) and from reentrancy (nothing here requires re-entry); if the fix is a manipulation-resistant oracle, a sanity bound, or corrected math, it is an economic flaw and belongs here. The discipline in a crowded field is proving the manipulation is profitable after costs, not just that a price can move.

When to use

  • A protocol reads a price, a pool ratio, or a share value to make a swap, loan, or liquidation decision.
  • Fee, rounding, or share math runs on values an attacker can influence within a transaction.
  • You want to know whether an attacker can profit by moving a price or breaking an accounting invariant.

Scope check

Analyze only protocols you own or are authorized to assess, and simulate an economic exploit only on a fork or test network, a manipulation here extracts real value from real liquidity providers. Prove profitability on a fork. If you can't name the authorization, stop.

The loop

  1. Find the value decisions and their inputs first. List the points where the protocol reads a price, a ratio, or a share value to move funds (a swap, a loan, a liquidation, a mint or redeem), and for each trace the input it trusts and whether an attacker can move that input within a transaction. The economic bug lives at a value decision that trusts a movable input; establish those before anything else.

  2. Check the price source. Look for a price read from a spot source an attacker can move in the same transaction (a single pool's instantaneous ratio), a single-source oracle with no sanity bound or staleness check, or a feed that can be pushed outside a sane range without the protocol noticing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 1mo ago First seen · 130 lines · 191 tokens per session scan A 6fb615661a27

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hunting-defi-economic-and-oracle-flaws is a skill published in the GitHub repository UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 191 tokens to every session and 2,013 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-05.

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