Detecting Race Conditions

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Security · Sub-category: web-security

Detects race condition vulnerabilities including TOCTOU, double-checked locking issues, and shared state problems. Use when analyzing concurrent operations, file access patterns, or investigating timing-related vulnerabilities.

What this skill does

Detecting Race Conditions is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the web-security sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/detecting-race-conditions/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when analyzing concurrent operations, file access patterns, or investigating timing-related vulnerabilities.

Who uses this skill

The Detecting Race Conditions skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/detecting-race-conditions
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/detecting-race-conditions/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/detecting-race-conditions/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/detecting-race-conditions/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/detecting-race-conditions/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\detecting-race-conditions\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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