binary-ninja-reverse

binary-ninja-reverse is a skill for Codex from zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill. It costs 55 tokens per session (766 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for analysing compiled programs in Binary Ninja, a tool that turns machine code back into readable structures and control flow. It covers inspection, cross-references, data types, and automation through Python.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for authorised reverse engineering, examining imports and strings, tracing how data moves through a binary, checking patches, and automating analysis.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to understand software when the original source code is unavailable. This helps investigate program behaviour and review proposed binary patches.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it for authorised reverse engineering, examining imports and strings, tracing how…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill/binary-ninja-reverse
About the project

Reverse Skill is a routing package for AI coding agents that selects appropriate reverse-engineering, penetration-testing, and security-research methods and tools for a given target. It is used for tasks involving APKs, binaries, frontend JavaScript, packet captures, CTF challenges, and authorized penetration testing. Its catalogue add-ons provide the skills and instructions that guide these workflows.

zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill · 34,719 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 zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill --skill binary-ninja-reverse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 766 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 $0.00055 $0.00766
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00383
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00077

Measured 3d ago against content hash 257823a0e25b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

binary-ninja-reverse 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.

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/binary-ninja-reverse/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Binary Ninja reverse engineering

Use Binary Ninja when the user explicitly selects it, when its ILs materially help data-flow analysis, or when IDA/Ghidra/radare2 results need an independent cross-check.

Start safely

  1. Confirm the repository case scope is ready before acting on a target.
  2. Check skills/tool-index.md for binaryninja; Binary Ninja is commercial software and must be installed manually with a valid Vector 35 license.
  3. Work on a copy when applying patches or saving database changes.
  4. Record imports/exports, entry points, architecture, and file hash before promoting findings.

Choose the integration

  • GUI or Python API: preferred when Binary Ninja is already open or the user wants direct interactive analysis.
  • Community MCP bridge: use only when explicitly requested and after reviewing the third-party plugin boundary. Keep the Binary Ninja HTTP listener on 127.0.0.1:9009; do not enable network exposure by default.
  • Fallback: use ghidra-reverse, ida-reverse, or radare2 when Binary Ninja is unavailable or its license/API cannot open the target.

The reviewed community integration is fosdickio/binary_ninja_mcp, GPL-3.0, plugin metadata version 1.1.0, minimum Binary Ninja build 4000. The repository is not an official Vector 35 component. This skill was checked against commit 8c5134ee46e2bf44f9a4d846bd971c3e39b3e306 on 2026-09-03.

Install the Binary Ninja side through its Plugin Manager or from the reviewed source. For the MCP stdio bridge, pin the published bridge version rather than using an unbounded package:

npx -y [email protected] --host 127.0.0.1 --port 9009

Register that command only in the MCP client the user selected. The bridge is not ready until Binary Ninja is running, a binary is open, and the localhost plugin endpoint responds.

Analysis workflow

  1. Enumerate open binaries and select the intended view.
  2. Capture binary status, entry points, segments, imports, exports, and representative strings.
  3. Follow call sites and cross-references before interpreting a function in isolation.
  4. Use HLIL for readable logic, MLIL SSA for data flow, and LLIL/disassembly when lifting loses instruction-level behavior.
  5. Apply names, comments, and types incrementally; keep the original addresses in evidence.
  6. Treat byte patches, prototype changes, and saved-file writes as mutations. Perform them only when requested and preserve the original artifact.
  7. Cross-check high-impact conclusions with a second evidence source or another disassembler.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 48 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 257823a0e25b

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binary-ninja-reverse is a skill published in the GitHub repository zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill (34,719 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 766 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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