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harness-writing

trailofbitsby trailofbits5 months ago7.2k

Designs and improves fuzzing harnesses for C/C++ and Rust. Covers mapping raw bytes onto a target API, generating structured inputs, avoiding non-determinism and false crashes, and deciding what to fuzz together. Use when writing a first LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput or fuzz_target! harness, when a campaign finds nothing or reports crashes that will not reproduce, or when the target API needs structured rather than raw input.

Install

npx skills add https://github.com/trailofbits/skills --skill harness-writing
Show step-by-step
  1. 1

    Open your terminal

    • Mac: Press ⌘ Space, type "Terminal", press Enter
    • Windows: Press Win R, type "cmd", press Enter
  2. 2

    Paste the command above and press Enter

    Use the Copy command button, then paste in your terminal (Mac: ⌘V, Windows: Ctrl V).

  3. 3

    Restart Claude Code

    Close and reopen Claude Code, or start a new session, so it picks up the new skill.

Where it lives
~/.claude/skills/trailofbits--skills--plugins--testing-handbook-skills--skills--harness-writing/
├── SKILL.md
└── ... (skill resource files)
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