orhun/binsider

Binsider is a Rust-based command-line tool that provides a terminal user interface for analyzing ELF binaries. It enables users to inspect file metadata, symbols, sections, and strings, while supporting dynamic system call tracing. The project also includes a documentation website and serves as a library for integrating binary analysis into other applications.

5 changes.

The project was initialized with comprehensive scaffolding, including licensing, CI/CD, and documentation, while establishing a structured architecture for a terminal-based ELF binary analysis tool. Core features were implemented to parse ELF headers, symbols, and sections, supported by a reorganized TUI module for handling user input and state management.

8 changes.

This period focused on launching the project's documentation site using Astro and Starlight, including custom UI components, dynamic GitHub stats, and theme styling. It also introduced a library usage demo example to facilitate integration and added integration tests for binary analysis.

A new demo example (examples/demo.rs) has been added to illustrate how to integrate binsider as a library. This example demonstrates initializing the analyzer, setting up the terminal UI with ratatui, and handling user input and background string extraction within a custom application loop.

examples · high confidence

A new \.well-known/funding-manifest-urls\ file has been added to the repository root, containing a link to \https://orhun.dev/funding.json\. This allows tools and users to discover the project's funding information via the standard \.well-known\ mechanism.

.well-known · high confidence

The website now uses custom Astro components to replace default Starlight layouts. The Header component integrates a custom Logo with light/dark mode text images, search, social icons, and theme/language selectors. The Hero component displays a responsive image slider with navigation controls and a video embed on the homepage, while providing a fallback to the default Starlight hero for other pages. The Footer component shows a custom layout with project credits and repository stats on the homepage, falling back to the default Starlight footer elsewhere. Additionally, a Head component adds Open Graph metadata and an Umami analytics script.

website/src/components · high confidence

The website has been scaffolded using the Astro framework and the Starlight documentation theme. This introduces a new static site structure with a custom configuration (\astro.config.mjs\) that sets up the site title, social links, and sidebar navigation. It also includes custom UI components for the head, header, hero, and footer, along with Tailwind CSS integration and specific assets like the site favicon and Apple touch icon.

website · high confidence

The website footer has been updated to dynamically display the project's GitHub star count and the latest release version. New Astro components fetch this data from the GitHub API at build time, showing the current stargazers count (formatted with a 'k+' suffix for large numbers) and the most recent tag name, alongside the repository name. This provides users with immediate visibility into the project's popularity and current version directly from the site footer.

website/src/components/Footer · high confidence

The website source directory has been initialized with the Astro framework and Starlight theme, establishing the foundational structure for the project's documentation site. This includes setting up Tailwind CSS for styling, defining TypeScript environment types for Astro, and creating a JavaScript module to power a feature showcase slider that highlights Binsider's capabilities such as static/dynamic analysis, string searching, and hexdump viewing.

website/src · high confidence

The \src/elf\ module has been restructured to provide a unified, typed interface for inspecting ELF binaries. New wrapper structs (FileHeaders, ProgramHeaders, SectionHeaders, Symbols, DynamicSymbols, Dynamic, Relocations, Notes) implement a common \Property\ trait, enabling consistent data retrieval for the TUI and static output. This change adds support for displaying dynamic symbols with version requirements, human-readable sizes for program and section headers, and detailed parsing of ELF notes (including GNU ABI tags and Build IDs). The \Elf\ struct now aggregates all these components, allowing users to view comprehensive binary metadata including file headers, segments, sections, and relocations in a standardized format.

src/elf · high confidence

The application now provides a full terminal user interface (TUI) for analyzing ELF binaries, replacing the previous placeholder output. Users can inspect general file metadata, view extracted strings with configurable minimum lengths, browse hex dumps, and view dynamic library dependencies. The tool supports dynamic system call tracing (when the \dynamic-analysis\ feature is enabled) and allows users to specify the initial view tab and accent color via command-line arguments.

src · high confidence

The repository is initialized with comprehensive project scaffolding, including a MIT/Apache-2.0 dual license, a Code of Conduct, and a Security policy. It introduces a Nix flake for reproducible builds and a Dockerfile for containerized execution. The project also adds configuration files for Rust tooling (rustfmt, editorconfig, typos), CI/CD automation (codecov, git-cliff changelog generator), and a detailed architecture diagram to guide users and contributors.

(repo-wide) · high confidence

The \src/tui\ module has been reorganized into a structured architecture comprising \command.rs\, \event.rs\, \state.rs\, \ui.rs\, and \widgets/\. This change introduces a dedicated \Command\ enum to map keyboard and mouse inputs (such as tab navigation, scrolling, and search) into typed actions, and an \EventHandler\ to manage terminal events in a separate thread. The \State\ struct now centrally manages application state, including tab selection, input mode, and scroll indices, while the \ui\ module renders the interface using these commands. This refactoring provides a cleaner separation of concerns for input processing and UI rendering.

src/tui · high confidence

A new custom stylesheet has been introduced to override the default site appearance. This change updates the color palette for both light and dark modes, switches the primary font to DejaVu Sans, and adjusts the hero section layout. It also ensures demo images are responsive and visually adapted for light mode via inversion filters, while refining the styling for action buttons and keyboard shortcuts.

website/src/styles · high confidence

Added new integration tests in \tests/app.rs\ that verify the application's ability to analyze its own binary executable. The tests confirm that the analyzer can initialize correctly and successfully extract debug string sections from the built binary.

tests · high confidence

The project now includes a new documentation website built with Astro and Starlight, adding dependencies such as Astro 4.16.19, Starlight 0.25.5, and Tailwind CSS 3.4.19. In the main Rust application, dependencies have been updated to include ratatui 0.30.0, clap 4.5.56, heh 0.6.3, and lurk-cli 0.3.14, alongside the addition of new libraries like ansi-to-tui, tui-input, and lddtree to support enhanced terminal UI and binary analysis features.

(dependencies) · high confidence

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• CAI 74 → 67 (-7.1)
• Rubric changed (rubric-2026.09.11 → rubric-2026.09.18) — scores are not directly comparable.

• Code Health 88 → 88 (+0.1)
• Architecture 100 → 99 (-1.0)
• Maturity 66 → 72 (+6.7)
• Readiness 76 → 53 (-23.5)
• Security 79 → 85 (+5.1)

• Dependency hygiene PARTLY measured — npm pinning read, dependency currency not (no pnpm-resolved versions to grade)

• Documentation: contradicts the code (website/src/content/docs/installation/build-from-source.md)
• Documentation: contradicts the code (website/src/content/docs/installation/crates-io.md)
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• 1 commits — 1 feature/other, 0 fixes

• src/args.rs — 1 commit

• change: feat(cli): expose dynamic analysis formatting options (#154)

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