cosmos-vulnerability-scanner SKILL.md skillA
cosmos-vulnerability-scanner from trailofbits/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add trailofbits/skills/cosmos-vulnerability-scanner@git:20260401.d7f76b5Pins git:20260401.d7f76b5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- trailofbits/skills
- Path
plugins/building-secure-contracts/skills/cosmos-vulnerability-scanner/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260401.d7f76b5, committed Apr 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jan 26, 2026
- Size
- 10,940 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7,698
- License
- CC-BY-SA-4.0
Scans Cosmos SDK blockchain modules and CosmWasm contracts for consensus-critical vulnerabilities — chain halts, fund loss, state divergence. 25 core + 16 IBC + 10 EVM + 3 CosmWasm patterns. Use when auditing custom x/ modules, reviewing IBC integrations, or assessing pre-launch chain security. Updated for SDK v0.53.x.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Cosmos Vulnerability Scanner ## Purpose Scan Cosmos SDK modules and CosmWasm contracts for vulnerabilities that cause chain halts, consensus failures, or fund loss. Spawns parallel scanning agents — each specializing in a vulnerability category — that return findings to the main skill, which then writes them as individual markdown files to an output directory. **Output directory**: defaults to `.bughunt_cosmos/`. If the user specifies a different directory in their prompt, use that instead. ## When to Use - Auditing Cosmos SDK modules (custom `x/` modules) - Reviewing CosmWasm smart contracts - Pre-launch security assessment of Cosmos chains - Investigating chain halt incidents ## When NOT to Use - Pure Solidity/EVM audits without Cosmos SDK — use Solidity-specific tools - CometBFT consensus engine internals — this covers SDK modules, not the consensus layer itself - General Go code review with no blockchain context - Cosmos SDK application logic that is not consensus-critical (e.g., CLI commands, REST endpoints) - CosmWasm contract-only audits on chains without custom SDK modules — use the CosmWasm checklist items alone ## Essential Principles …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add trailofbits/skills/cosmos-vulnerability-scanner@sha256:5f12f1ecdcf22072The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260401.d7f76b5, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3s2jghrtvosnrmlc)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jan 26, 2026 and Apr 1, 2026, about one every 33 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260401.d7f76b5 latest | 2026-04-01 | d7f76b5 | 10,940 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260129.650f6e3 | 2026-01-29 | 650f6e3 | 10,000 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260126.7af5b1b | 2026-01-26 | 7af5b1b | 10,022 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10940 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
trailofbits/skills · 7,698 stars · license CC-BY-SA-4.0 · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3s2jghrtvosnrmlc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=trailofbits/skills/cosmos-vulnerability-scanner GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5f12f1ecdcf220726d32b391e5e646807d09d869d4cc92ae105236ecff4b9a42
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.