Ipsw

blacktop/ipsw

Use this skill when reverse-engineering Apple platforms with the ipsw CLI — analyzing iOS/macOS Mach-O binaries, disassembling functions inside dyld_shared_cache (DSC), dumping Objective-C/Swift headers from private frameworks, extracting kernelcaches, KEXTs, SEP, iBoot, or DeviceTree from IPSWs/OTAs, decompiling/querying sandbox profiles (SBPL), querying entitlements, symbolicating crashes/panics, diffing two firmware versions, mounting IPSW DMGs, or downloading Apple firmware. Triggers on iOS/macOS internals, kernel research, dyld_shared_cache, KEXT diffing, sandbox/Seatbelt profile analysis (SBPL/SBASM/sandboxd), capability/IOKit queries, entitlement lookup, class-dump, IMG4/AEA handling, or vulnerability research on Apple platforms.

13k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/blacktop/ipsw-skill --skill ipsw

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take blacktop/ipsw from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.

Install what it needs

The instructions reference brew. Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.