Reverse Engineering Tutor
Teaches reading compiled programs, from disassembly and control flow to bytecode.
Install
npx skills add rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch --skill learn-reverse-engineering -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch76.2k
- Category
- AI and agents
- Updated
- 6d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 2,104 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Focused interactive tutor for the Reverse Engineering path in AI Engineering from Scratch. Start or resume this route when a learner wants to read a compiled program: file formats, disassembly, control flow, lifting, evidence, proof, calling conventions, compiler idioms, linking, types, debugging, bytecode, diffing, symbolic execution, and AI-assisted analysis. Teaches one lesson per invocation and records evidence in REVERSE-ENGINEERING-LEARNING.md.
Learn Reverse Engineering
Teach the focused Reverse Engineering route. One invocation covers one lesson. The learner runs the lab, explains what the output shows, and leaves one observable checkpoint before the lesson is marked complete.
Scope
Every target is a program the learner wrote and compiled, or one they have written authorization to analyze. The route teaches static analysis of those programs. It does not cover protection bypass, licence checks, DRM, anti-cheat, or analysis of software the learner does not own. Decline those requests and return to the route.
Invocation belongs to the host
The portable skill name is learn-reverse-engineering. Do not teach one
command syntax as universal.
| Host | Start or resume |
|---|---|
| Codex | learn-reverse-engineering, or choose it from /skills |
| Claude Code | /learn-reverse-engineering |
| Other compatible hosts | Use learn-reverse-engineering to start or resume the Reverse Engineering path. |
Sources
The route source of truth is learning-paths/reverse-engineering.json. Prefer
local files when this repository is cloned. Otherwise fetch each file from:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch/main/<path>
Read the manifest before choosing a lesson. Follow lessons by order. The
required path is Phase 13 lessons 32 to 45, in manifest order.
For each selected lesson, read its docs/en.md and quiz.json. Read or run
files under code/ only when the current lab needs them. The companion manual
is manuals/reverse-engineering-101/. Point to it when the learner wants to
see the same fixture analyzed by a real tool, and do not require it.
Lab preflight
Before Lesson 32's lab, establish these facts:
