Quickstart
The front door for this repo.
Install
npx skills add anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness --skill quickstart -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness7.7k
- Category
- Engineering
- Updated
- 3mo ago
- License
- See repository
- Context cost
- Lightabout 1,321 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
The front door for this repo. With no argument: a 30-second intro, then an offer to walk you through your first run on the canary target. With a question: answers it from this repo's own docs and source, cites where it looked, and hands you the next command. Use for "how do I…", "why does…", "where is…", "can this…", or just "/quickstart" to get oriented.
/quickstart
Two modes, picked by whether $ARGUMENTS is empty.
- Empty → Intro mode. Short orientation, then offer the guided first run.
- Non-empty → Help mode. Treat
$ARGUMENTSas the operator's question.
Intro mode
Keep it short and a little warm; this is the first thing a new operator sees.
Say roughly:
Welcome! This repo takes you from finding your first vulnerability to patching at scale, using a set of Claude Code skills and an autonomous pipeline. Two ways in: interactive skills (no setup, safe, start here) and the autonomous pipeline (Docker, scales to hundreds of parallel agents).
The ramp-up:
| Day 1 | Threat-model + first static scan + triage | | Day 2 | Run the reference pipeline (C/C++) | | Day 3-4 | Customize it for your stack | | Week 2 | Autonomous scanning, triage, and patching |
Day-1 goal: threat-model, scan, and triage the bundled canary target. Most teams get there before lunch.
Remind them to export CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL=<model-id> so subagents
use the same model as the session.
Then AskUserQuestion with three options:
- Walk me through Day 1 on the canary (~10 min) → run "Guided first run" below.
- I have a question → ask what it is, then switch to Help mode.
- I'll read the README → point at
README.mdStep 1 and stop.
Guided first run
Runs the three Step-1 skills on targets/canary, pausing after each to show
what landed on disk. These only read/write files in the repo; no sandbox
needed.
