audit-context-building
An agent skill by trailofbits, from trailofbits/skills. Tags: analysis, architecture, code-quality, debugging, security.
What it does
Understand a codebase before looking for bugs in it - what each function assumes, what it guarantees, and what it depends on elsewhere. Use when starting an audit, threat model, or architecture review on unfamiliar code, and before any vulnerability-hunting pass.
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add trailofbits/skills --skill audit-context-buildingOr copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trailofbits/skills
cp -r skills/plugins/audit-context-building/skills/audit-context-building ~/.claude/skills/audit-context-buildingSafety box score
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Source
- Repository
- trailofbits/skills (all skills from this repository)
- Path
- plugins/audit-context-building/skills/audit-context-building/SKILL.md
- Branch
- main
- Collection
- audit-context-building
- Updated
- 2026-09-19
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