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title: "Protocol Reverse Engineering - Air Market"
description: "Two things are talking over the network and there is no documentation for what they say. This helps you take the traffic apart, work out the format, and write down what you learned. Reach for it when…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/protocol-reverse-engineering"
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[Air Market](/) / [Security](/category/security) / Protocol Reverse Engineering

Skill by [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson)

# Protocol Reverse Engineering

Work out what undocumented network traffic is actually saying

## What this does

Two things are talking over the network and there is no documentation for what they say. This helps you take the traffic apart, work out the format, and write down what you learned. Reach for it when you need to understand or debug a protocol you did not design.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Analyze captured packets
- Figure out a proprietary protocol nobody documented
- Write up a protocol you reverse engineered

## Information

**Protocol Reverse Engineering 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 | 12 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [wshobson/agents](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/ece811f23310a37ceb43496dbac0e244fe6845b6/plugins/reverse-engineering/skills/protocol-reverse-engineering) |
| GitHub stars | 39,077 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 13,506, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Protocol Reverse Engineering and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Protocol Reverse Engineering's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | ece811f23310a37ceb43496dbac0e244fe6845b6 |
| Content hash | 1a3b42c7e0fd9bac407d5be318ab608c29dcf597d11c1f9aba0123d87bed34fd |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/blob/ece811f23310a37ceb43496dbac0e244fe6845b6/plugins/reverse-engineering/skills/protocol-reverse-engineering/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 Protocol Reverse Engineering](/security/protocol-reverse-engineering)

## About Protocol Reverse Engineering

This is for taking apart network protocols you have no specification for. It covers packet analysis, dissecting a protocol into its parts, and documenting what you find.

It applies when you are looking at captured network traffic, trying to understand a proprietary protocol, or debugging communication that is not working the way it should.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Protocol Reverse Engineering safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Protocol Reverse Engineering and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit ece811f23310, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/protocol-reverse-engineering.

### How do I install Protocol Reverse Engineering?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/protocol-reverse-engineering 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/ece811f23310a37ceb43496dbac0e244fe6845b6/plugins/reverse-engineering/skills/protocol-reverse-engineering. 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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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/protocol-reverse-engineering>