Agent skill

Audit Embedded Firmware Security

by cyberful in cyberful/cyberful

Audit extracted embedded firmware for boot and update trust, credential and secret handling, service exposure, privilege boundaries, parsers, persistence, cryptography, hardening, recovery, and…

AGPL-3.0Auto-check passedSecurity

Install Audit Embedded Firmware Security

skills CLI
$ npx skills add cyberful/cyberful --skill audit-embedded-firmware-security -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install cyberful/cyberful audit-embedded-firmware-security --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyberful/cyberful.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/cyberful/builtin/skills/audit-embedded-firmware-security .claude/skills/audit-embedded-firmware-security && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
audit-embedded-firmware-security
GitHub stars
135
Token cost
~644 tokens
SKILL.md length
200 words
Files
4 (incl. references, assets)
Skills in repo
85
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
AGPL-3.0

At a glance

Audit extracted embedded firmware for boot and update trust, credential and secret handling, service exposure, privilege boundaries, parsers, persistence, cryptography, hardening, recovery, and…

  • Static firmware evidence after safe acquisition and extraction
  • SKILL.md covers Establish artifact and trust…, Trace reachable security… and Deliver
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Cryptography

What it does

Audit Embedded Firmware Security is an agent skill from cyberful/cyberful. Audit extracted embedded firmware for boot and update trust, credential and secret handling, service exposure, privilege boundaries, parsers, persistence, cryptography, hardening, recovery, and product-specific security invariants. Use for static firmware evidence after safe acquisition and extraction.

Its SKILL.md is about 640 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 6 other files, including reference files and assets (for example `agents/openai.yaml`, `assets/firmware-trust-ledger.template.json` and `references/firmware-audit-method.md`).

It sits in Security, covering Cryptography. The repository describes itself as: Cyberful is an open-source AI Red Team for discovering, exploiting, verifying, and remediating vulnerabilities. The licence is AGPL-3.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Static firmware evidence after safe acquisition and extraction
  • Tasks that involve Cryptography

Example prompts

  • “/audit-embedded-firmware-security”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ec598a6. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Audit Embedded Firmware Security loads about 644 tokens when it runs, and up to ~924 if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 200 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~84
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~644
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~924

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from cyberful/cyberful at commit ec598a6, republished under its AGPL-3.0 licence (© cyberful). 200 words, ~644 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/audit-embedded-firmware-security/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
audit-embedded-firmware-security
description
Audit extracted embedded firmware for boot and update trust, credential and secret handling, service exposure, privilege boundaries, parsers, persistence, cryptography, hardening, recovery, and product-specific security invariants. Use for static firmware evidence after safe acquisition and extraction.
metadata.domain
application-security
metadata.subdomain
firmware-security-audit
metadata.triggers
audit embedded firmware security, firmware code and configuration audit, secure boot update review, embedded service exposure audit, firmware secret and…
metadata.tags
firmware, embedded, secure-boot, updates, root-filesystem, device-security

Audit Embedded Firmware Security

Audit the extracted artifact as evidence tied to a device, version, acquisition path, and extraction manifest. Do not execute an extracted init system or treat strings and filenames as proof of reachable behavior.

Establish artifact and trust provenance

Record image hash, product and hardware claims, partitions, filesystems, architecture, boot artifacts, signing and verification metadata, update format, rollback controls, recovery images, build identifiers, packages, native hardening, and extraction limitations.

Copy assets/firmware-trust-ledger.template.json into the workarea. Read references/firmware-audit-method.md before connecting an extracted component to boot, update, service, or persistence behavior.

Trace reachable security boundaries

Map startup and privilege transitions, users and groups, service listeners, IPC, parsers, web routes, update and provisioning code, credentials, keys, certificates, debug paths, logging, storage, firewall rules, kernel and module configuration, and recovery behavior. Trace candidates into code and configuration rather than reporting inventory alone.

Use operate-firmware-laboratory for import, extraction, comparison, emulation, and managed tool operation. Route whole-product and lifecycle risk to assess-embedded-iot-security; this skill owns static firmware audit reasoning.

Deliver

Tie every candidate to artifact hashes, paths, startup or call reachability, attacker position, privilege or identity, device state, fleet reuse, control comparison, and a bounded validation plan. Mark extraction ambiguity and version-to-device uncertainty explicitly.

© cyberful, AGPL-3.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references, assets) in cyberful/builtin/skills/audit-embedded-firmware-security of cyberful/cyberful.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • assets/firmware-trust-ledger.template.json
  • references/firmware-audit-method.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ec598a6

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Mermaid to ProVerif Modeltrailofbits/skills7.5k—~4.5kAutomated safety check: PassCC-BY-SA-4.0

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Questions about Audit Embedded Firmware Security

What does Audit Embedded Firmware Security do?

Audit extracted embedded firmware for boot and update trust, credential and secret handling, service exposure, privilege boundaries, parsers, persistence, cryptography, hardening, recovery, and…. Audit Embedded Firmware Security is an agent skill from cyberful/cyberful. Audit extracted embedded firmware for boot and update trust, credential and secret handling, service exposure, privilege boundaries, parsers, persistence, cryptography, hardening, recovery, and product-specific security invariants.

When should I use Audit Embedded Firmware Security?

Audit Embedded Firmware Security fits situations like: static firmware evidence after safe acquisition and extraction; tasks that involve Cryptography.

How do I install Audit Embedded Firmware Security in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add cyberful/cyberful --skill audit-embedded-firmware-security -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (cyberful/builtin/skills/audit-embedded-firmware-security in cyberful/cyberful) into .claude/skills/audit-embedded-firmware-security in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Audit Embedded Firmware Security in Codex?

Run `npx skills add cyberful/cyberful --skill audit-embedded-firmware-security -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (cyberful/builtin/skills/audit-embedded-firmware-security in cyberful/cyberful) into .agents/skills/audit-embedded-firmware-security in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Audit Embedded Firmware Security in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add cyberful/cyberful --skill audit-embedded-firmware-security -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/audit-embedded-firmware-security, .gemini/skills/audit-embedded-firmware-security, .github/skills/audit-embedded-firmware-security and .opencode/skills/audit-embedded-firmware-security in your project.

What does Audit Embedded Firmware Security need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Audit Embedded Firmware Security is instructions for the agent only.

Does Audit Embedded Firmware Security access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Audit Embedded Firmware Security safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Audit Embedded Firmware Security use?

Audit Embedded Firmware Security is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Audit Embedded Firmware Security use?

About 644 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 280 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Audit Embedded Firmware Security?

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Who maintains Audit Embedded Firmware Security?

cyberful (a GitHub organization) maintains it in cyberful/cyberful, which has 135 GitHub stars. The repository holds 85 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 24, 2026.

Source: cyberful/cyberful on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.