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skills/anthropics/customize

Skills for threat modeling, scanning, triage, patching, plus an autonomous scanning harness you can /customize

Verdict
SAFE
Grade
B
Trust score
89 /100
Version
—
Hosts
1 documented
License
NOASSERTION
Stars
7,614
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Overview

From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.

A Claude Code skill that ports the vuln-pipeline to your stack: a new language, vulnerability class, detection mechanism, or target shape. It reads the pipeline source, interviews you about your target, presents a migration plan, and executes the edits after you approve. For when to reach for it and what porting involves, see docs/customizing.md.

Requirements

  • Claude Code CLI installed and authenticated
  • This repo checked out — the skill edits the pipeline in place (the

domain-specific parts of harness/: stage prompts, trace parser, artifact schemas)

  • Docker + the sandbox set up (scripts/setup_sandbox.sh) for the

validation run at the end

Usage

Inside Claude Code:

> /customize

The skill runs in five steps: it reads the pipeline source, interviews you (operating context and goal first, then technical follow-ups: detection signal, PoC shape, grading criteria), presents a file-by-file plan, waits for your explicit approval, then executes and validates.

Setup variants — including running the port outside Claude Code — are covered in docs/customizing.md.

Output

No run directory — the output is the port itself:

  • A migration plan you approve before any edit (what changes, what stays,

open questions)

  • Edits to the domain-specific files: the stage prompts under

harness/prompts/, the trace parser, artifact schemas, and the target Dockerfile template

  • A canary target under targets/-canary/ with planted bugs of

the new class, plus a validation run confirming the ported pipeline finds and grades them

Questions

Reach out to your Anthropic contact.

Read from source at commit c7f8d948fb02OBSERVED · 2026-10-20
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Host compatibility

What the documentation claims. We have not run a compatibility test.

HostStatusNotes
claude-codementioned
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What it tells the agent

The instruction file, verbatim from the audited commit — this is the text the model reads, and the surface the audit's instruction layer examines. Quoted here so you can judge it without cloning anything.

---
name: customize
description: Adapt this C/C++ ASAN vulnerability pipeline to a different vulnerability class, target shape, language, or detection mechanism. Use when the user wants to port, migrate, retarget, customize, or fork the pipeline for something other than C/C++ memory-safety bugs — web apps, smart contracts, deserialization, ML systems, or any other domain.
---

# Customize the vuln-pipeline

This pipeline ships as an opinionated C/C++ + AddressSanitizer demo. Its real shape is more general: **an agent crafts an input, runs a target in a sandbox, a detector fires, a second agent verifies, a third agent analyzes exploitability.** Every noun in that sentence can be swapped. Your job is to interview the user, figure out which nouns they want to swap, and rewrite the relevant files.

The existing C/C++ code is the worked example. You don't need a playbook for each domain — read what's there, understand what's generic vs. ASAN-specific, and adapt.

## STEP 1 — Read the pipeline (do this BEFORE asking anything)

Skim these files so your questions are grounded:

- `README.md` — pipeline overview (recon → find → grade → judge → report)
- `harness/cli.py` — orchestration; shows how stages wire together and what lands on disk
- `harness/find.py`, `harness/grade.py`, `harness/report.py` — the three container-agent loops; mostly generic plumbing
- `harness/prompts/find_prompt.py`, `harness/prompts/grade_prompt.py` — **the C/C++-specific parts**; bug taxonomy, quality tiers, grading rubric
- `harness/prompts/report_prompt.py`, `harness/prompts/report_grader_prompt.py` — **also C/C++-specific**; exploitability sections (primitive, heap layout, escalation path) and the rubric that scores them
- `harness/prompts/judge_prompt.py` — triage prompt; keys on ASAN excerpts and memory-safety crash classes
- `harness/prompts/system_prompt.py` — authorization block; hard-codes "C/C++ target" and "sanitizer output"
- `harness/asan.py` — stack-trace parser for dedup/judge signatures; ASAN-specific regex
- `harness/artifacts.py` — `CrashArtifact`, `GraderVerdict`, `JudgeVerdict`, `ReportVerdict` data contracts
- `harness/config.py`, `targets/drlibs/config.yaml` — target config schema
- `targets/README.md` — how a target directory is structured (Dockerfile + config.yaml + entry wrapper)

You don't need `agent.py`, `docker_ops.py`, `recon.py`, `judge.py`, or `novelty.py` in detail — they're generic plumbing (judge/novelty domain-specificity lives in the prompts and the asan parser, not the flow). One caution: part of `harness/` doubles as shared infrastructure — `dnr_harness/` (the detection-and-response pipeline) imports `agent.py`, `sandbox.py`, `docker_ops.py`, `agent_image.py`'s `build`/`ensure_base`, `auth.py`, `cli.py`'s `resolve_target_dir`/`terminate_subprocesses`, and `prompts/system_prompt.py`'s `load_engagement_context`. A domain port should touch only the domain-specific files (the prompts, `asan.py`, `artifacts.py`, target Dockerfiles); treat any edit to the shared files as a change to both pipelines.

## STEP 2 — Interview the user

Use **AskUserQuestion** to gather requirements. Start with broad context, then narrow to technical specifics based on what they say.

### Round 1 — Context (always ask these first, together)

Two open-ended questions to understand who you're talking to and what they're after. Expect most answers to come via **Other** as free text — the options are there to prompt thinking, not to constrain.

**Question A — Operating context**
- header: `Context`
- question: `What's your operating environment? Who will run this pipeline and why?`
- options: a few archetypes as inspiration — e.g. "Pentesting firm — client engagements, need reportable findings", "Internal appsec team — scan our own services in CI", "Smart-contract auditor — pre-deployment reviews", "Security researcher — hunting novel bug classes". These tell you what output format, grading rigor, and workflow integration matter.

**Question B — Goal**
- header: `Goal`
- question: `Describe in your own words what you want this pipeline to find. What kind of target, what kind of bugs?`
- options: 2–3 concrete examples (e.g. "Web vulnerabilities like SQLi/XSS in HTTP services", "Reentrancy and access-control bugs in Solidity contracts", "Deserialization RCE in Java microservices").

The context answer calibrates your follow-ups: a pentesting firm probably cares about CVSS scoring and SARIF output; a researcher may want differential testing and novel detection signals; an internal team likely wants CI integration and low false-positive rates.

### Round 2 — Technical follow-ups (adaptive — derive from round-1 answers)

Parse their round-1 answers against the **axes of variation** below. For each axis left ambiguous, ask a targeted follow-up. Batch up to 4 questions per AskUserQuestion call. Common follow-ups:

- **Detection signal** — "How will the pipeline know it found something?" (crash, exception, canary file appears, DNS callback, differential mismatch, invariant violation)
- **PoC shape** — "What does a proof-of-concept look like?" (single file, HTTP request sequence, transaction list, test-pipeline code)
- **Isolation** — "Where does the target run?" (Docker, VM, testnet, remote sandbox, or no execution — static-only)
- **Grading criteria** — "What makes a finding high-quality vs. low-quality in this domain?"
- **Exploitability analysis** — "What sections should a report contain?" The C/C++ report has primitive · reachability · heap layout · escalation path · constraints. A web-vuln report might want injection vector · auth bypass · data exposure · chaining potential. Ask what they need, or whether they want the report stage at all.
- **Novelty/upstream check** — "Should the pipeline check if a finding is already fixed upstream?" The C/C++ version shallow-clones the target's GitHub and checks `git log <commit>..HEAD -- <crash_file>`. Only applies if targets have a canonical upstream and a sensible "crashing f
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Trust audit

SAFEgrade B · trust 89/100 Nothing in the source contradicts what it says it does. Grade A is reserved for packages that have also passed the behavioural sandbox.

LayerWhat it checksResult
L0Provenance & inventoryPASS
L1Static analysis of the codeNA
L2Instruction surface (what it tells the agent)PASS
L3Class-specific surfacePASS
L4Behavioural (sandbox)SKIPPED

What the source does

Filesystem
none-observed
Network
none-observed
Shell
none-observed
Dependencies
pinned
Secrets in source
none-found

Findings (0)

No findings outside the package's declared scope.

Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.

Audited 2026-10-20 · audit v0.4.1 · source sha c7f8d948fb02full audit observations/trust-audit/skill/anthropics__customize.json · Report an issue / request a re-scan
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Audit history

Every audit this skill has had.

DateSourceVerdictGradeScoreChange
2026-10-20c7f8d948fb02SAFEB89first audit
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Questions

What does the customize — anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness skill do?

Skills for threat modeling, scanning, triage, patching, plus an autonomous scanning harness you can /customize

Is customize — anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness safe to install?

The audit found nothing in the source that contradicts what it says it does, and graded it B (89/100). Grade A is held back for packages that have also passed a sandboxed behavioural run, which is why a clean skill reads B.

What can customize — anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness access on my machine?

The audit observed no filesystem, network or shell use at all in its source.

Which assistants does customize — anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness work with?

Its documentation mentions claude-code. That is what the text claims, not a compatibility test we ran.

How current is this page?

The grade is for one exact copy of the source (c7f8d948fb02), read on 2026-10-20. The repository is watched, and a new audit runs when it changes — this is the first audit.

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