ida-reverse SKILL.md skillB
ida-reverse from novaestellar/novahaku is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add novaestellar/novahaku/ida-reverse@git:20260925.95cd4b3Pins git:20260925.95cd4b3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- novaestellar/novahaku
- Path
testing/ida-reverse/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260925.95cd4b3, committed Sep 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 24, 2026
- Size
- 9,394 bytes
- Repository stars
- 28
- License
- MIT
Headless reverse engineering with IDA Pro — batch decompilation, IDAPython scripting, xref mapping, and automated function analysis via idat. Use for scripted binary analysis, decompiler output at scale, and CI-style RE pipelines.
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
# IDA Pro Reverse Engineering (headless)
IDA's advantage over every other RE tool is **automation at scale**: one script,
thousands of functions, decompiler output you can grep. This skill drives
`idat.exe` in batch mode (`-A`) with IDAPython (`-S`).
## Verified environment
This skill was validated on a real install — use these exact paths on this host:
```bash
IDA="/c/Program Files/IDA Professional 9.3/idat.exe" # headless
IDAGUI="/c/Program Files/IDA Professional 9.3/ida.exe" # GUI, same DB
IDAPYSWITCH="/c/Program Files/IDA Professional 9.3/idapyswitch.exe"
```
**Binaries lost their `64` suffix in 9.3.** On 9.0–9.2 they are `idat64.exe`,
`ida64.exe`, and `idalib64.dll`. On 9.3 they are `idat.exe`, `ida.exe`, and
`idalib.dll`. Resolve the name at runtime rather than hardcoding it:
```bash
IDA_HOME="${IDA_HOME:-/c/Program Files/IDA Professional 9.3}"
for n in idat.exe idat64.exe; do
[ -x "$IDA_HOME/$n" ] && { IDA="$IDA_HOME/$n"; break; }
done
```
Confirm the install before relying on it:
```bash
"$IDA" -h 2>&1 | head -3
"$IDAPYSWITCH" --dry-run 2>&1 | tail -3
```
Expected: IDA 9.3, and IDAPython bound to a Python 3.13 DLL. If
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add novaestellar/novahaku/ida-reverse@sha256:b9e2b7aec007575fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260925.95cd4b3, 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_yr7hq6nf2azhx7zq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Sep 24, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026, more than one a day. Its first recorded version is graded A and its latest B.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260925.95cd4b3 latest | 2026-09-25 | 95cd4b3 | 9,394 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260925.c82762a | 2026-09-25 | c82762a | 8,113 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260925.7c760f5 | 2026-09-25 | 7c760f5 | 8,036 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260924.a8d2b81 | 2026-09-24 | a8d2b81 | 6,944 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No link to a raw IP address (matched: http://127.0.0.1:8745)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9394 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 script tag
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
novaestellar/novahaku · 28 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-28 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yr7hq6nf2azhx7zq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=novaestellar/novahaku/ida-reverse GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b9e2b7aec007575ff06e4b8d31d497695a6f7d3aef7c851ca48e8297778d57b2
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.