# Substrate Vulnerability Scanner

> Scans Substrate/Polkadot pallets for 7 critical vulnerabilities including arithmetic overflow, panic DoS, incorrect weights, and bad origin checks. Use when auditing Substrate runtimes or FRAME pallets. (project, gitignored)

- Skill: `plurigrid/substrate-vulnerability-scanner` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add plurigrid/substrate-vulnerability-scanner`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/plurigrid/substrate-vulnerability-scanner/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- License: AGPL-3.0
- Author: plurigrid (https://skillmd.com/u/plurigrid)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/plurigrid/substrate-vulnerability-scanner

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# Substrate Vulnerability Scanner Skill

**Trit**: -1 (MINUS)
**Category**: building-secure-contracts
**Author**: Trail of Bits
**Source**: trailofbits/skills
**License**: AGPL-3.0

## Description

Scans Substrate/Polkadot pallets for 7 critical vulnerabilities including arithmetic overflow, panic DoS, incorrect weights, and bad origin checks. Use when auditing Substrate runtimes or FRAME pallets. (project, gitignored)

## When to Use

This is a Trail of Bits security skill. Refer to the original repository for detailed usage guidelines and examples.

See: https://github.com/trailofbits/skills

## Related Skills

- audit-context-building
- codeql
- semgrep
- variant-analysis


## SDF Interleaving

This skill connects to **Software Design for Flexibility** (Hanson & Sussman, 2021):

### Primary Chapter: 3. Variations on an Arithmetic Theme

**Concepts**: generic arithmetic, coercion, symbolic, numeric

### GF(3) Balanced Triad

```
substrate-vulnerability-scanner (−) + SDF.Ch3 (○) + [balancer] (+) = 0
```

**Skill Trit**: -1 (MINUS - verification)


### Connection Pattern

Generic arithmetic crosses type boundaries. This skill handles heterogeneous data.