anti-reversing-techniques
tessl i github:sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills --skill anti-reversing-techniquesUnderstand anti-reversing, obfuscation, and protection techniques encountered during software analysis. Use when analyzing protected binaries, bypassing anti-debugging for authorized analysis, or understanding software protection mechanisms.
Review Score
66%
Validation Score
13/16
Implementation Score
50%
Activation Score
75%
Generated
Validation
Total
13/16Score
Passed| Criteria | Score |
|---|---|
metadata_version | 'metadata' field is not a dictionary |
license_field | 'license' field is missing |
body_output_format | No obvious output/return/format terms detected; consider specifying expected outputs |
Implementation
Suggestions 4
Score
50%Overall Assessment
This skill excels at conciseness and includes appropriate safety/authorization warnings, but fails to provide actionable technical content. The entire technical substance is deferred to an external file, leaving the SKILL.md as essentially a disclaimer with vague procedural steps rather than a functional skill document.
Suggestions
- Add at least one concrete, executable example of identifying a protection mechanism (e.g., detecting IsDebuggerPresent calls, recognizing packed binaries with specific tools/commands)
- Include specific tool commands or code snippets for common analysis tasks rather than deferring everything to the external playbook
- Add explicit validation checkpoints in the workflow, such as 'Verify analysis environment is isolated before proceeding' with specific verification commands
- Provide a brief but concrete quick-start section showing a real analysis workflow before pointing to the detailed playbook
| Dimension | Score | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | 3/3 | The content is lean and efficient, avoiding unnecessary explanations of concepts Claude would already know. Every section serves a clear purpose without padding or verbose descriptions of what anti-reversing or obfuscation means. |
Actionability | 1/3 | The skill provides only vague, abstract guidance with no concrete code, commands, or specific examples. Instructions like 'Identify protection mechanisms' and 'choose safe analysis methods' describe rather than instruct, and all technical details are deferred to an external file. |
Workflow Clarity | 2/3 | Steps are listed in a numbered sequence, but they lack specific validation checkpoints and concrete actions. The workflow is high-level procedural guidance without explicit feedback loops or verification steps for what are potentially risky operations. |
Progressive Disclosure | 2/3 | The skill references an external playbook appropriately, but the main content is too sparse to serve as a useful overview. The SKILL.md itself provides almost no actionable content, making it more of a pointer than a functional quick-start guide. |
Activation
Suggestions 2
Score
75%Overall Assessment
This is a reasonably well-structured description with a clear 'Use when' clause that establishes explicit triggers. The main weaknesses are moderate specificity (could list more concrete protection techniques) and limited trigger term coverage (missing common user vocabulary like 'packed', 'unpacking', 'DRM'). The description successfully carves out a distinct niche in software protection analysis.
Suggestions
- Add more specific concrete actions such as 'identify packing algorithms', 'analyze VM-based protections', 'detect anti-tamper mechanisms', or 'recognize control flow obfuscation patterns'.
- Expand trigger terms to include common user vocabulary: 'packed executable', 'unpacking', 'DRM', 'code virtualization', 'anti-tamper', 'Themida', 'VMProtect'.
| Dimension | Score | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | 2/3 | Names the domain (anti-reversing, obfuscation, protection techniques) and some actions (analyzing, bypassing, understanding), but lacks specific concrete actions like 'detect packing algorithms', 'identify VM-based protections', or 'analyze control flow obfuscation'. |
Completeness | 3/3 | Clearly answers both what (understand anti-reversing, obfuscation, protection techniques) and when (analyzing protected binaries, bypassing anti-debugging, understanding protection mechanisms) with explicit 'Use when' clause containing specific trigger scenarios. |
Trigger Term Quality | 2/3 | Includes relevant terms like 'anti-debugging', 'protected binaries', 'obfuscation', and 'software protection', but misses common variations users might say such as 'packed executable', 'DRM', 'code protection', 'anti-tamper', 'unpacking', or 'deobfuscation'. |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | 3/3 | Has a clear niche in software protection analysis with distinct triggers like 'anti-debugging', 'protected binaries', and 'anti-reversing' that are unlikely to conflict with general reverse engineering or malware analysis skills. |