defi-attack-patterns

defi-attack-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yaklang/hack-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (3,343 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security testing guide for decentralized finance, or DeFi: financial services built on blockchain networks and smart contracts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing DeFi protocols for flash-loan attacks, oracle manipulation, sandwich attacks, governance exploits, bridge weaknesses, and precision errors.
Why use it?
It helps examine attack patterns involving temporary loans, manipulated prices, transaction ordering, voting, bridges between blockchains, and token rules.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yaklang/hack-skills/defi-attack-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add yaklang/hack-skills --skill defi-attack-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yaklang/hack-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,343 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00046 $0.03343
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01672
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00669
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00334

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8b80984dea98, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

defi-attack-patterns 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 4d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/defi-attack-patterns/SKILL.md · 356 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 356 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: DeFi Attack Patterns — Expert Attack Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert DeFi exploitation techniques. Covers flash loan mechanics, oracle manipulation (spot vs TWAP), MEV extraction (sandwich, JIT, liquidation), precision loss attacks, governance exploits, bridge vulnerabilities, and token standard pitfalls. Base models often miss the single-transaction atomicity constraint of flash loans and the distinction between spot price and TWAP manipulation.


1. FLASH LOAN ATTACKS

1.1 Mechanism

Flash loans provide uncollateralized borrowing within a single transaction. The entire borrow → use → repay cycle must complete atomically; if repayment fails, the transaction reverts as if nothing happened.

Provider Max Amount Fee
Aave V3 Pool liquidity per asset 0.05% (can be 0 for approved borrowers)
dYdX Pool liquidity 0 (uses internal balance manipulation)
Uniswap V3 Pool liquidity per pair 0.3% (swap fee tier)
Balancer Pool liquidity Protocol-configurable

1.2 Price Oracle Manipulation

1. Flash borrow 100,000 WETH
2. Swap 100,000 WETH → TOKEN on AMM_A
   → TOKEN spot price on AMM_A skyrockets
3. On Lending_Protocol (reads AMM_A spot price as oracle):
   → Deposit small TOKEN collateral (valued at inflated price)
   → Borrow large amount of WETH against it
4. Swap TOKEN back → WETH on AMM_A (restore price)
5. Repay flash loan (100,000 WETH + fee)
6. Keep borrowed WETH from Lending_Protocol minus collateral cost

Key insight: protocols using AMM spot reserves (getReserves()) as price oracles are vulnerable. Must use TWAP or external oracle (Chainlink).

Read the full file on GitHub · 356 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. 4d ago First seen · 356 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 8b80984dea98

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defi-attack-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository yaklang/hack-skills (2,043 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 3,343 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 2026-08-30.

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