Reverse-Skill: Open-Source Framework Brings Structure to AI-Driven Security Audits

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A developer known as zhaoxuya520 has released Reverse-Skill, an open-source framework designed to improve how AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Cline handle cybersecurity tasks. The tool acts as a deterministic skill router, guiding AI agents through verified, step-by-step workflows for tasks such as binary analysis, decompilation, and network auditing. It includes local indexing scripts that automatically detect and configure installed security tools like Ghidra, Radare2, Frida, and Nmap, eliminating the need for agents to guess command-line arguments. Reverse-Skill also maintains trajectory logs and benchmark tests to help refine the agent's knowledge base over time. The framework is compatible with major AI coding environments and is freely available on GitHub.

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