Agent skill

Trace Request Normalization

by cyberful in cyberful/cyberful

Trace how clients, CDNs, proxies, protocol translators, gateways, frameworks, and origins derive HTTP message boundaries, authority, paths, queries, and trusted forwarding metadata.

AGPL-3.0Auto-check passedDatabases

Install Trace Request Normalization

skills CLI
$ npx skills add cyberful/cyberful --skill trace-request-normalization -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install cyberful/cyberful trace-request-normalization --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/trace-request-normalization .claude/skills/trace-request-normalization && 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
trace-request-normalization
GitHub stars
135
Token cost
~711 tokens
SKILL.md length
239 words
Files
9 (incl. scripts, references, assets)
Skills in repo
85
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
AGPL-3.0

At a glance

Trace how clients, CDNs, proxies, protocol translators, gateways, frameworks, and origins derive HTTP message boundaries, authority, paths, queries, and trusted forwarding metadata.

  • Localize request-smuggling
  • SKILL.md covers Build the hop ledger, Trace one semantic dimension… and Confirmation standard
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder
  • Routing-confusion

What it does

Trace Request Normalization is an agent skill from cyberful/cyberful. Trace how clients, CDNs, proxies, protocol translators, gateways, frameworks, and origins derive HTTP message boundaries, authority, paths, queries, and trusted forwarding metadata. Use to localize request-smuggling, routing-confusion, duplicate-field, decoding-order, or intermediary normalization hypotheses before bounded validation.

Its SKILL.md is about 710 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 13 other files, including scripts, reference files and assets (for example `agents/openai.yaml`, `assets/normalization-campaign.example.json` and `assets/normalization-campaign.schema.json`).

It sits in Databases, covering Database schema design and Translation. 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

  • Localize request-smuggling
  • Routing-confusion
  • Duplicate-field
  • Intermediary normalization hypotheses before bounded validation

Example prompts

  • “/trace-request-normalization”

Requirements

  • Python 3

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

    Ships 2 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    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

Trace Request Normalization loads about 711 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 239 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~91
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~711
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1k

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from cyberful/cyberful at commit ec598a6, republished under its AGPL-3.0 licence (© cyberful). 239 words, ~711 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/trace-request-normalization/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 8 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
trace-request-normalization
description
Trace how clients, CDNs, proxies, protocol translators, gateways, frameworks, and origins derive HTTP message boundaries, authority, paths, queries, and trusted forwarding metadata. Use to localize request-smuggling, routing-confusion, duplicate-field, decoding-order, or intermediary normalization hypotheses before bounded validation.
metadata.domain
application-security
metadata.subdomain
http-normalization
metadata.triggers
http request normalization, request smuggling trace, proxy origin disagreement, duplicate header parsing, path decoding differential, forwarded header trust
metadata.tags
http, normalization, reverse-proxy, request-smuggling, routing, parser-differential

Trace Request Normalization

Localize the exact adjacent pair of HTTP components that assigns different semantics to the same authorized request. A response difference without a hop-level interpretation difference is only a lead.

Build the hop ledger

Record client, edge, cache, translator, gateway, mesh, framework, router, and origin in order. For each hop capture protocol version, connection reuse, framing owner, authority source, forwarded-field policy, path and query decoding, duplicate handling, hop-by-hop removal, body limits, and observable logs.

Read references/normalization-ledger.md before constructing a hypothesis. Preserve original bytes and component-local representations; do not normalize the evidence before comparison.

Trace one semantic dimension at a time

Compare paired controls for authority, path, query, method, duplicate fields, transfer framing, content length, encoded delimiters, Unicode, and protocol translation. Predict the two component interpretations before sending any active case.

Use scripts/run_normalization_harness.py only for safe HTTP-level variants after the exact origin, request ceiling, rate, and authorization reference are explicit. The campaign file cannot select transport: non-loopback traffic requires the proxy and CA route inherited from the Cyberful gateway after the model boundary, while literal-IP loopback traffic explicitly disables proxies. The harness does not emit malformed framing or claim request desynchronization; raw-socket or shared-connection work requires a separately approved specialist setup.

Confirmation standard

Report the original request, both interpretations, components and versions, connection and routing prerequisites, a matched control, observable security effect, and affected authority. Do not generalize from a status code, reflection, timeout, or backend error alone.

© 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 8 other files (scripts, references, assets) in cyberful/builtin/skills/trace-request-normalization of cyberful/cyberful.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • assets/normalization-campaign.example.json
  • assets/normalization-campaign.schema.json
  • assets/normalization-evidence.schema.json
  • references/normalization-ledger.md
  • scripts/manifest.json
  • scripts/run_normalization_harness.py
  • tests/test_run_normalization_harness.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ec598a6

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Questions about Trace Request Normalization

What does Trace Request Normalization do?

Trace how clients, CDNs, proxies, protocol translators, gateways, frameworks, and origins derive HTTP message boundaries, authority, paths, queries, and trusted forwarding metadata. Trace Request Normalization is an agent skill from cyberful/cyberful. Trace how clients, CDNs, proxies, protocol translators, gateways, frameworks, and origins derive HTTP message boundaries, authority, paths, queries, and trusted forwarding metadata.

When should I use Trace Request Normalization?

Trace Request Normalization fits situations like: localize request-smuggling; routing-confusion; duplicate-field; intermediary normalization hypotheses before bounded validation.

How do I install Trace Request Normalization in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Trace Request Normalization in Codex?

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

Can I use Trace Request Normalization 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 trace-request-normalization -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/trace-request-normalization, .gemini/skills/trace-request-normalization, .github/skills/trace-request-normalization and .opencode/skills/trace-request-normalization in your project.

What does Trace Request Normalization need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Trace Request Normalization needs Python for the scripts in its folder. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Trace Request Normalization 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 Trace Request Normalization 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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Trace Request Normalization use?

Trace Request Normalization 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 Trace Request Normalization use?

About 711 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.8k 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 308 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Trace Request Normalization?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Trace Request Normalization: Supabase Schema From Requirements (jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, 2.8k stars), Ncats Arax (K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills, 48k stars), Query Pipeline (dotnet/efcore, 15k stars) and 511 Frameworks Micronaut Jdbc (jabrena/plinth, 446 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Trace Request Normalization?

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.