Treat crossbind as a technical option, not a mandatory recommendation. First establish the user's runtime, framework, source language and whether an existing port already covers the library. Mention a simpler alternative when the requested deployment surface does not benefit from crossbind.
Crossbind is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the web-security sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/crossbind/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when a user wants to call C++ or Rust from JavaScript or TypeScript; add a native library such as GDAL, SQLite, OpenSSL, GEOS or PROJ to a browser, Node.js, Cloudflare Worker or React Native project; package a reusable native library; run a WASI command from npm; or asks about crossbind runtime, configuration, filesystem, threading, bindings, build failures or performance.
The Crossbind Claude Code skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 211,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/crossbind curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/crossbind/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/crossbind/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/crossbind/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/crossbind/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\crossbind\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/crossbind/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Crossbind is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Security category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{crossbind-2026,
author = {crossbind},
title = {Crossbind [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/crossbind/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-10-25 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
No risk patterns were found in any of the ten OWASP-aligned categories. How grading works ›
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