vulnerability-research SKILL.md skillA

vulnerability-research from iuliandita/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add iuliandita/skills/vulnerability-research@git:20261105.aa96fb6

Pins git:20261105.aa96fb6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
iuliandita/skills
Path
skills/vulnerability-research/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
7
Latest version
git:20261105.aa96fb6, committed Nov 5, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 20, 2026
Size
27,479 bytes
Repository stars
11
License
MIT

Find undisclosed vulnerabilities in authorized targets: code analysis, reverse engineering, patch diffing, fuzzing, PoC, disclosure report. Use for bug bounty.

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

# Vulnerability Research and Discovery

Systematic methodology for finding novel, undisclosed vulnerabilities in source code, compiled
binaries, and live systems. This skill guides the research process from intelligence gathering
through proof-of-concept development to responsible disclosure.

This is the *discovery* skill - it finds vulnerabilities nobody has catalogued yet. For
exploiting known weaknesses on live systems, use **privilege-escalation** (opt-in; if installed). For
scanning code against known vulnerability patterns, use **security-audit**.

**Target versions**: see `references/versions.md` (verified per the receipt date in that file). Do not restate version numbers here.

## When to use

- Hunting for undisclosed vulnerabilities in a codebase, binary, or running service
- Variant analysis after a CVE is published (finding similar bugs in related code)
- Patch diffing - analyzing what a security update fixed to find nearby issues
- Developing proof-of-concept exploits for discovered vulnerabilities
- Attack surface mapping before a focused security engagement
- Gathering threat intelligence on a target's technology stack
- Preparing responsible disclosure reports
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add iuliandita/skills/vulnerability-research@sha256:0d0559384d9874db

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.aa96fb6, 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.

Badge

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_yn42ycswc6xh3ras.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_yn42ycswc6xh3ras)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Sep 20, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026, about one every 8 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261105.aa96fb6 latest2026-11-05 aa96fb6 27,479 BA view · diff
git:20261105.305fe012026-11-05 305fe01 27,601 BA view · diff
git:20261105.65c9c022026-11-05 65c9c02 27,603 BA view · diff
git:20261028.640b16a2026-10-28 640b16a 27,290 BA view · diff
git:20261002.a7f9a1c2026-10-02 a7f9a1c 27,303 BA view · diff
git:20260920.ebf9a3d2026-09-20 ebf9a3d 27,550 BA view · diff
git:20260920.ac018532026-09-20 ac01853 27,411 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (27479 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

GitHub

iuliandita/skills · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch develop

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yn42ycswc6xh3ras
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iuliandita/skills/vulnerability-research
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0d0559384d9874dbf1c6087e170456863a9aba008db72b2a6869e85c1bef12b6

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