CTF Challenge Solver

by ljagiello

CTF Challenge Solver is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by ljagiello in ctf-skills.

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Install CTF Challenge Solver

Copy CTF Challenge Solver into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/ljagiello/ctf-skills/tree/main/solve-challenge ~/.claude/skills/solve-challenge

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/ljagiello/ctf-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: solve-challenge/SKILL.md in ljagiello/ctf-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/solve-challenge
Collection: One of 11 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What CTF Challenge Solver does

CTF Challenge Solver performs first-pass triage on CTF challenge bundles, files, or services to identify the dominant category and route execution to the right specialized ctf-* skill. Use it when starting a challenge with an unclear category or when you need to determine where to begin.

CTF Challenge Solver is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. CTF Challenge Solver comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, claude-code, claude-code-skills, codex and codex-cli.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

bash scripts/install_ctf_tools.sh all

Run a narrower mode when you only want one tool group:

bash scripts/install_ctf_tools.sh python
bash scripts/install_ctf_tools.sh apt
bash scripts/install_ctf_tools.sh brew
bash scripts/install_ctf_tools.sh gems
bash scripts/install_ctf_tools.sh go
bash scripts/install_ctf_tools.sh manual

The full package lists now live in scripts/install_ctf_tools.sh.

On-demand (during challenges)

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands CTF Challenge Solver provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/ctf-misc
/ctf-web
/ctf-pwn
/ctf-crypto
/ctf-reverse
/ctf-forensics
/ctf-osint
/ctf-malware
/ctf-
/ctf-writeup

Frequently asked about CTF Challenge Solver

What else does ljagiello publish alongside CTF Challenge Solver?
CTF Challenge Solver is one of 11 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ljagiello/ctf-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include CTF AI/ML, CTF Binary Exploitation and CTF Cryptography. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way CTF Challenge Solver does, and is maintained by ljagiello in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ljagiello/ctf-skills page.
How does CTF Challenge Solver compare to other AI Engineering skills?
CTF Challenge Solver ranks #672 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of CTF Challenge Solver against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.