14 skills found
Use for 'why does X work this way', 'why we picked Y', design rationale, regressions, postmortems, or data-backed thresholds. Discovers available MCPs and queries each evidence category (source control, issue tracker, long-form docs, real-time chat, infrastructure observability, error tracking, product analytics warehouse) in parallel, then returns a cited read on decisions and tradeoffs. Use how for runtime behavior.
Craft advanced search-engine queries and Google dorks to surface hidden files, documents and mentions. Covers site:, filetype:, inurl:, intitle:, intext: and before:/after: operators, verbatim search, exposed directory listings, config files, backups and open S3 buckets, and the operator differences between Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Yandex. Use when building a Google dork, hunting a leaked document, or searching paste sites and document repositories for a name, email or selector. Applies to d
Start-here router and tradecraft baseline for any investigation into a person, company, domain, image or selector. Sets authorised scope, turns a vague request into an answerable intelligence question, writes a collection plan, picks the right workflow for the starting selector, and applies source grading and competing-hypothesis discipline. Use for "investigate this person or company", "do OSINT on X", "where do I start", or any open-source intelligence, due diligence, background or attribution
Investigate an email address — MX and syntactic validation, Gravatar lookup, corporate email-format inference, breach exposure, and full mail-header analysis covering the Received chain, Message-ID and SPF, DKIM and DMARC results. Use for email OSINT, verifying whether an address exists, finding accounts registered to it, guessing a company's email format, or tracing where a suspicious message actually came from. Applies to business email compromise and invoice-fraud investigation, phishing tria
Deep-dive a subject's social media presence — profile metadata, follower and mutual network, content analysis, and posting-time pattern of life across Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, Telegram and Discord. Use when profiling a social account, mapping someone's associates, inferring a subject's timezone or routine from their posts, or archiving a profile before it is deleted. Applies to threat assessment and executive protection, insider-threat investigation, pre-litigati
Build an entity-relationship link-analysis graph of an investigation — nodes, typed edges carrying source and confidence, aliases, and temporal validity — to expose shared infrastructure, bridging nodes and the real principal behind a frontman. Covers Maltego, Neo4j and Cypher, Gephi, centrality and community detection, and entity resolution. Use when an investigation has outgrown a list and needs a graph, or when asked how a set of people, companies and domains connect. Applies to fraud-ring an
Build a sourced, corroborated profile of a named individual from public records, social platforms, professional networks, court and property filings, licensing boards, patents, papers and obituaries — anchoring the name to a second selector first so you never fuse two people into one dossier. Use when asked to find, identify, background-check or profile a person, verify someone's claimed employment or credentials, or locate a missing or hard-to-reach individual. Applies to counterparty and inves
Track aircraft and vessels from public ADS-B and AIS broadcasts using ADS-B Exchange, Flightradar24, FlightAware, MarineTraffic, VesselFinder and Equasis. Use when following a tail number or flight, looking up an ICAO 24-bit hex code, registration or callsign, tracing a ship by IMO number or MMSI, checking a flag of convenience or port-call history, finding who owns a private jet or vessel, or analysing AIS gaps and dark-fleet behaviour. Applies to sanctions-evasion detection, trade and supply-c
Enumerate a username across hundreds of platforms with sherlock, maigret and WhatsMyName, then correlate and confirm which accounts genuinely belong to the same person. Use for username OSINT and handle enumeration, "find all accounts for this username", cross-platform account correlation, nickname and screen-name pivots, or turning a handle into a real name. Applies to fraud and synthetic-identity investigation, recruitment and marketplace scam checks, trust-and-safety enforcement, insider-thre
Trace cryptocurrency addresses and transactions on public blockchains using block explorers including Etherscan, Blockchair, mempool.space and Blockscout. Covers common-input clustering, ENS resolution, exchange deposit addresses, mixers, CoinJoin, Tornado-style pools, cross-chain bridges, and OFAC sanctions screening. Use when following a Bitcoin or Ethereum wallet, investigating where a ransom or scam payment went, or checking an address against sanctions listings. Applies to ransomware incide
Investigate a phone number — E.164 normalisation with libphonenumber, phoneinfoga scanning, carrier and line-type identification, VoIP and burner detection, messaging-app registration checks, and reverse-lookup and caller-ID sources. Use for phone OSINT and reverse phone lookup, "who owns this number", identifying a burner or VoIP number, or checking whether a number is registered on WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal. Applies to vishing and business email compromise investigation, verifying a counter
Extract and interpret embedded file metadata with exiftool — EXIF GPS coordinates, camera make, model and serial, DateTimeOriginal and CreateDate timestamps, XMP and IPTC fields, and Office and PDF properties such as Author, Company, LastModifiedBy, template paths and revision counts. Use when reading EXIF from a photo, checking who really wrote a document, dating a file, fingerprinting a camera or phone, or investigating provenance in JPEG, HEIC, RAW, MP4, DOCX, XLSX or PDF. Applies to document
