Overview
audit-context-building is an open-source security skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by trailofbits. Its author describes it as: “Understand a codebase before looking for bugs in it - what each function assumes, what it guarantees, and what it depends on elsewhere. Use when starting an audit, threat model, or architecture review on unfamiliar co…”. The project has 6.6k stars on GitHub and is available under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add trailofbits/skills`.
What audit-context-building does
Build understanding, not verdicts. This runs before anyone hunts for bugs, and feeds that work.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for audit-context-building is organised into these sections:
- When to Use
- When NOT to Use
- Do not analyze in this context
- What comes back, and how to read it
- The format
Installation
Add audit-context-building to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add trailofbits/skillsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
License
audit-context-building is published under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license.
Strengths
- Clear CC-BY-SA-4.0 license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in trailofbits/skills, an established project with 6,646 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does audit-context-building do?
- Understand a codebase before looking for bugs in it - what each function assumes, what it guarantees, and what it depends on elsewhere. Use when starting an audit, threat model, or architecture review on unfamiliar code, and before any vulnerability-hunting pass.
- How do I install audit-context-building?
- Run /plugin marketplace add trailofbits/skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/trailofbits/skills before installing.
- Is audit-context-building free to use?
- Yes. audit-context-building is free and open source under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does audit-context-building work with?
- audit-context-building lists Claude Code — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does audit-context-building come from?
- audit-context-building ships inside trailofbits/skills, a repository that contains 41 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 6,646 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.