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title: "Binary Analysis Patterns - Air Market"
description: "Sometimes you have a compiled program and no source code, and you still need to know what it does. This covers the ways people read binaries: taking them apart, turning machine code back into somethi…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/binary-analysis-patterns"
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[Air Market](/) / [Security](/category/security) / Binary Analysis Patterns

Skill by [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson)

# Binary Analysis Patterns

Read a program you do not have the source for

## What this does

Sometimes you have a compiled program and no source code, and you still need to know what it does. This covers the ways people read binaries: taking them apart, turning machine code back into something readable, following the paths through it, and recognizing familiar patterns. Reach for it when you need to understand an executable from the outside.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Work out what an executable does
- Disassemble and decompile compiled code
- Trace control flow through a binary

## Information

**Binary Analysis Patterns at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson) |
| Category | [Security](/category/security) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 10 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [wshobson/agents](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/reverse-engineering/skills/binary-analysis-patterns) |
| GitHub stars | 39,077 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 11,440, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Binary Analysis Patterns and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Binary Analysis Patterns's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f |
| Content hash | 915d7f94a0c5ae9d30e0710421689eded68373cc036530546f26551fe74024c3 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/blob/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/reverse-engineering/skills/binary-analysis-patterns/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Binary Analysis Patterns](/security/binary-analysis-patterns)

## About Binary Analysis Patterns

This covers patterns for binary analysis: disassembly, decompilation, control flow analysis, and recognizing code patterns in compiled output.

Use it when you are analyzing executables, trying to understand compiled code, or doing static analysis on binaries.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/details.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Binary Analysis Patterns safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Binary Analysis Patterns and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit be57c0b2e3c0, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/binary-analysis-patterns.

### How do I install Binary Analysis Patterns?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/binary-analysis-patterns on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/reverse-engineering/skills/binary-analysis-patterns. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Security listings](/category/security)
- [Everything by Seth Hobson](/@wshobson)

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