dwarf-expert SKILL.md skillA
dwarf-expert 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/dwarf-expert@git:20260803.ec2450dPins git:20260803.ec2450d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- trailofbits/skills
- Path
plugins/dwarf-expert/skills/dwarf-expert/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260803.ec2450d, committed Aug 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jan 14, 2026
- Size
- 6,020 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8,043
- License
- CC-BY-SA-4.0
Analyzes DWARF debug information in compiled binaries. Use when inspecting .debug_* sections, DIE trees, or DW_TAG_/DW_AT_ entries with dwarfdump/llvm-dwarfdump or readelf, verifying debug info with llvm-dwarfdump --verify, answering DWARF standard questions, or writing code that parses DWARF (libdwarf, pyelftools, gimli).
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
# DWARF Expert Expertise for DWARF debug info: parsing and searching it, verifying its integrity, answering questions about the standard, and writing code that consumes it. Out of scope: runtime debugging (use gdb/lldb), reverse engineering beyond the DWARF sections (use Ghidra/IDA), and compiler-specific DWARF generation bugs. # Authoritative Sources When precision matters, look standard details up instead of answering from memory: 1. **dwarfstd.org** — the official specification. Web-search specific sections, e.g. "DWARF5 DW_TAG_subprogram attributes site:dwarfstd.org". 2. **LLVM** — `llvm/lib/DebugInfo/DWARF/` is a reliable reference implementation: `DWARFDie.cpp` (DIE and attribute access), `DWARFUnit.cpp` (compilation units), `DWARFDebugLine.cpp` (line tables), `DWARFVerifier.cpp` (validation). 3. **libdwarf** — the reference C implementation at github.com/davea42/libdwarf-code. # Parsing and Searching with dwarfdump Prefer `dwarfdump` over `readelf` for DWARF-specific work. Two implementations exist — libdwarf's `dwarfdump` and LLVM's `llvm-dwarfdump` — with different options, and a bare `dwarfdump` command may be either: check `dwarfdump --version` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add trailofbits/skills/dwarf-expert@sha256:c4623d2d9c5a31c7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260803.ec2450d, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jan 14, 2026 and Aug 3, 2026, about one every 100 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260803.ec2450d latest | 2026-08-03 | ec2450d | 6,020 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260428.debfb29 | 2026-04-28 | debfb29 | 4,901 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260114.695119c | 2026-01-14 | 695119c | 4,921 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 (6020 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 · 8,043 stars · license CC-BY-SA-4.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rv53anpanr67vvaw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=trailofbits/skills/dwarf-expert GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c4623d2d9c5a31c7722a293a96038817631e7d511f256613b4cbfa417c24466a
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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.
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