Skills

Quickstart

The front door for this repo.

Install

npx skills add anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness --skill quickstart -g -a claude-code -y
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 $ARGUMENTS as 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:

  1. Walk me through Day 1 on the canary (~10 min) → run "Guided first run" below.
  2. I have a question → ask what it is, then switch to Help mode.
  3. I'll read the README → point at README.md Step 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.

Read the whole SKILL.md on GitHub

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