Skills

Customize Vuln Pipeline

Adapts a C and C++ ASAN vulnerability pipeline to another target class.

Install

npx skills add anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness --skill customize -g -a claude-code -y
Category
Security
Updated
3mo ago
License
See repository
Context cost
Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

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)
Read the whole SKILL.md on GitHub

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