zeroize-audit
An agent skill by trailofbits, from trailofbits/skills. Tags: assembly, code-review, formal-verification, rust, security.
What it does
Detects missing zeroization of sensitive data in source code and identifies zeroization removed by compiler optimizations, with assembly-level analysis, and control-flow verification. Use for auditing C/C++/Rust code handling secrets, keys, passwords, or other sensitive data.
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add trailofbits/skills --skill zeroize-audit
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/zeroize-audit/skills/zeroize-audit ~/.claude/skills/zeroize-audit
Safety 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/zeroize-audit/skills/zeroize-audit/SKILL.md
- Branch
- main
- Collection
- zeroize-audit
- Updated
- 2026-09-19
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