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Solidity Security

Master smart contract security best practices to prevent common vulnerabilities and implement secure Solidity patterns.

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Master smart contract security best practices, vulnerability prevention, and secure Solidity development patterns.

When to Use This Skill

Writing secure smart contracts
Auditing existing contracts for vulnerabilities
Implementing secure DeFi protocols
Preventing reentrancy, overflow, and access control issues
Optimizing gas usage while maintaining security
Preparing contracts for professional audits
Understanding common attack vectors

Detailed patterns and worked examples

Detailed pattern documentation lives in references/details.md. Read that file when the navigation tier above is insufficient.

Testing for Security

// Hardhat test example
const { expect } = require("chai");
const { ethers } = require("hardhat");

Audit Preparation

contract WellDocumentedContract {
    /**
     * @title Well Documented Contract
     * @dev Example of proper documentation for audits
     * @notice This contract handles user deposits and withdrawals
     */

    /// @notice Mapping of user balances
    mapping(address =>

Install this repository

$ npx skills add wshobson/agents

» /plugin marketplace add wshobson/agents

Skills install per repository, not per chapter — the CLI has no documented per-skill form, so we do not print one.

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Master smart contract security best practices to prevent common vulnerabilities and implement secure Solidity patterns. Use when writing smart contracts, auditing existing contracts, or implementing security measures for blockchain applications.

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How this issue was made

Source: github.com/wshobson/agents, branch main, last pushed 5 August 2026.
Licence: MIT — the text of every chapter is reproduced unmodified, frontmatter included, under the upstream licence.
Discovery: 180 chapters found by walking the repository tree for SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. 49 distinct layouts observed: plugins/accessibility-compliance/skills/*/SKILL.md, plugins/agent-teams/skills/*/SKILL.md, plugins/api-scaffolding/skills/*/SKILL.md, plugins/backend-development/skills/*/SKILL.md, plugins/before-you-build/skills/*/SKILL.md, plugins/block-no-verify/skills/*/SKILL.md, plugins/blockchain-web3/skills/*/SKILL.md, plugins/brand-landingpage/skills/*/SKILL.md, plugins/business-analytics/skills/*/SKILL.md, plugins/cicd-automation/skills/*/SKILL.md, plugins/cloud-infrastructure/skills/*/SKILL.md, plugins/conductor/skills/*/SKILL.md, plugins/data-engineering/skills/*/SKILL.md, plugins/database-design/skills/*/SKILL.md, plugins/developer-essentials/skills/*/SKILL.md, plugins/dgx-spark-ops/skills/*/SKILL.md, plugins/documentation-generation/skills/*/SKILL.md.