dwarf-expert
An agent skill by trailofbits, from trailofbits/skills. Tags: analysis, cli, code-quality, debugging, developer-tools.
What it does
Analyzes DWARF debug information in compiled binaries. Use when inspecting .debug_* sections, DIE trees, or DW_TAG_/DW_AT_ entries with dwarfdump/llvm-dwarfdump or readelf, verifying debug info with llvm-dwarfdump --verify, answering DWARF standard questions, or writing code that parses DWARF (libdwarf, pyelftools, gimli).
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add trailofbits/skills --skill dwarf-expertOr 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/dwarf-expert/skills/dwarf-expert ~/.claude/skills/dwarf-expertSafety box score
Not rated yet. A safety box score grades what a skill and its scripts can reach on the machine of whoever installs it, across eight categories from shell execution to secrets access. Anyone can request one from this page; it is saved for everyone. How the score works.
Source
- Repository
- trailofbits/skills (all skills from this repository)
- Path
- plugins/dwarf-expert/skills/dwarf-expert/SKILL.md
- Branch
- main
- Collection
- dwarf-expert
- Updated
- 2026-09-19
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- rust-engineer — Writes, reviews, and debugs idiomatic Rust code with memory safety and zero-cost abstractions.
- audit-context-building — Understand a codebase before looking for bugs in it - what each function assumes, what it guarantees, and what it depends on elsewhere.
- code-improver — Runs an autonomous review-and-fix improvement loop over any code target — a skill, plugin, module, or directory — using a reviewer the user names.