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CTF Reverse Engineering

by ljagiello

CTF Reverse Engineering is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by ljagiello in ctf-skills.

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Install CTF Reverse Engineering
Copy CTF Reverse Engineering 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/ctf-reverse ~/.claude/skills/ctf-reverse

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
ctf-reverse/SKILL.md in ljagiello/ctf-skills
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/ctf-reverse
Collection
One of 11 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
Quality — 1354 skills

What CTF Reverse Engineering does

CTF Reverse Engineering provides reverse engineering techniques for CTF challenges, covering binaries, APKs, WASM, firmware, custom VMs, bytecode, and anti-analysis. Use it when the main job is to understand how a compiled, obfuscated, packed, or virtualized target works before exploiting or solving it.

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

Documentation

README

CTF Reverse Engineering

Quick reference for RE challenges. For detailed techniques, see supporting files.

Prerequisites

Python packages (all platforms):

pip install frida-tools angr qiling uncompyle6 capstone lief z3-solver
# For Python 3.9+ bytecode: build pycdc from source
git clone https://github.com/zrax/pycdc && cd pycdc && cmake . && make

Linux (apt):

apt install gdb radare2 binutils strace ltrace apktool upx

macOS (Homebrew):

brew install gdb radare2 binutils apktool upx ghidra

radare2 plugins:

r2pm -ci r2ghidra   # Native Ghidra decompiler for radare2

Manual install:

  • pwndbg — Linux: GitHub, macOS: brew install pwndbg/tap/pwndbg-gdb

Additional Resources

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

Commands CTF Reverse Engineering provides

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

  • /ctf-pwn
  • /ctf-forensics
  • /ctf-web
  • /ctf-ai-ml
  • /ctf-crypto
  • /ctf-malware
  • /ctf-misc

Frequently asked about CTF Reverse Engineering

  • What else does ljagiello publish alongside CTF Reverse Engineering?

    CTF Reverse Engineering 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 Challenge Solver. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way CTF Reverse Engineering 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 Reverse Engineering compare to other Quality skills?

    CTF Reverse Engineering ranks #434 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Reverse Engineering against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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