Dwarf Expert

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Understanding DWARF information
• Interacting with DWARF files
• Answering DWARF-related questions
• Working with code that parses DWARF data

Example prompts

• “Use the dwarf-expert skill to provide expertise for analyzing DWARF debug files and understanding the DWARF debug format/standard (v3-v5)”
• “/dwarf-expert”

Requirements

• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Bash, Grep, Glob, WebSearch

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Official DWARF Standards (dwarfstd.org): Use web search to find specific sections of the official DWARF specification at dwarfstd.org…
2. 2LLVM DWARF Implementation: The LLVM project's DWARF handling code at llvm/lib/DebugInfo/DWARF/ serves as a reliable reference…
3. 3libdwarf: The reference C implementation at github.com/davea42/libdwarf-code provides detailed handling of DWARF data structures.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 680176d. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Bash
  • Grep
  • Glob
  • WebSearch

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are bash).

  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

Dwarf Expert loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 70 tokens; SKILL.md has 479 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~70

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.3k

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

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Read, Bash, Grep, Glob, WebSearch

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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills at commit 680176d, republished under its MIT licence (© sickn33). 479 words, ~1,313 tokens.

name

dwarf-expert

description

Provides expertise for analyzing DWARF debug files and understanding the DWARF debug format/standard (v3-v5). Triggers when understanding DWARF information, interacting with DWARF files, answering DWARF-related questions, or working with code that parses DWARF data.

allowed-tools

Read, Bash, Grep, Glob, WebSearch

risk

critical

source

community

date_added

2026-09-04

# Verify DWARF structure (compile units, DIE relationships, address ranges)
llvm-dwarfdump --verify <binary>

# Detailed error output with summary
llvm-dwarfdump --verify --error-display=full <binary>

# Machine-readable JSON error summary
llvm-dwarfdump --verify --verify-json=errors.json <binary>

# Output debug info quality metrics as JSON
llvm-dwarfdump --statistics <binary>

┌─ Need to verify DWARF data integrity?
│   └─ Use `llvm-dwarfdump --verify` (see Verification Workflows above)
├─ Need to answer questions about the DWARF standard?
│   └─ Search dwarfstd.org or reference LLVM/libdwarf source
├─ Need simple section dump or general ELF info?
│   └─ Use `readelf` ({baseDir}/reference/readelf.md)
├─ Need to parse, search, and/or dump DWARF DIE nodes?
│   └─ Use `dwarfdump` ({baseDir}/reference/dwarfdump.md)
└─ Need to write, modify, or review code that interacts with DWARF data?
    └─ Refer to the coding reference ({baseDir}/reference/coding.md)

© sickn33, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/dwarf-expert of sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 680176d

Used in 2 other repositories

We found 11 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 2 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• lingxling/awesome-skills-cnantigravity-awesome-skills/skills/dwarf-expertantigravity-awesome-skills/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills/skills/dwarf-expert+1 more
• henryalouf/ruflow.agents/skills/dwarf-expert.agents/skills/antigravity-awesome-skills/skills/dwarf-expert+4 more