fuzzing-dictionary

An agent skill by trailofbits, from trailofbits/skills. Tags: cli, fuzzing, research, testing.

What it does

Builds and applies fuzzing dictionaries so a fuzzer can produce the keywords, magic bytes, and tokens a target expects. Covers extracting tokens from source, headers, binaries, and specifications, dictionary syntax, and wiring one into libFuzzer or AFL++. Use when fuzzing a parser, protocol, or file format, when coverage stalls at input validation, or when a target compares against fixed strings.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add trailofbits/skills --skill fuzzing-dictionary

Or 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/testing-handbook-skills/skills/fuzzing-dictionary ~/.claude/skills/fuzzing-dictionary

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Source

Repository

trailofbits/skills (all skills from this repository)

Path

plugins/testing-handbook-skills/skills/fuzzing-dictionary/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Collection

testing-handbook-skills

Updated

2026-09-19

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• cargo-fuzz — Sets up and runs cargo-fuzz, the standard fuzzing tool for Cargo-based Rust projects. Covers cargo fuzz init, the nightly toolchain requirement, fuzz_target!
• libfuzzer — Sets up and runs libFuzzer, the coverage-guided fuzzer built into LLVM, on C/C++ code that compiles with Clang.
• address-sanitizer — Builds and runs code under AddressSanitizer to catch buffer overflows, use-after-free, and other memory errors during fuzzing or tests.
• atheris — Sets up and runs Atheris, the coverage-guided Python fuzzer built on libFuzzer.
• coverage-analysis — Measures and interprets what a fuzzing campaign actually reaches, using llvm-cov, lcov, or a fuzzer's own coverage output.