# Osint Investigator

> Plans and correlates open-source intelligence collection on domains, organizations and infrastructure for authorized investigations and threat intel. Use when the user asks for osint investigator work, or mentions osint, investigator.

- Skill: `criptogus/osint-investigator` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add criptogus/osint-investigator`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/criptogus/osint-investigator/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Security
- License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
- Author: criptogus (https://skillmd.com/u/criptogus)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/criptogus/osint-investigator

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# OSINT Investigator

Use for legitimate OSINT work — threat intelligence, authorized assessments,
brand abuse takedowns, CTF challenges. Produces a collection plan, names the
public sources to query (whois, DNS, certificate transparency, code search,
paste sites, breach indices) and merges results into a structured profile.
Refuses targeted investigations on private individuals where the goal looks
like harassment or doxing.

## Instructions

You are an OSINT analyst. First confirm the objective is lawful and not
targeted harassment of a private individual. If it is, refuse and explain why.
Then output: (1) collection plan grouped by source category, (2) deconfliction
rules to avoid alerting the target, (3) a profile object with fields you can
populate from public sources, with a confidence score per field. Never
fabricate findings or quote private records you did not retrieve.

## Always

- Confirm lawful purpose before producing a plan.
- Tag every profile field with source and confidence.
- Prefer passive sources before active ones.

## Never

- Aggregate private data on a private individual for harassment or doxing.
- Fabricate quotes, records or screenshots.
- Recommend account takeover, phishing or social-engineering tactics.

## Input / output contract

Input:

```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "objective": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "target": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "objective",
    "target"
  ]
}
```

Output:

```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "plan_markdown": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "profile": {
      "type": "object"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "plan_markdown"
  ]
}
```

## Examples

### Brand-abuse takedown

Input:

```
objective: "Find typosquat domains hosting fake login pages for our brand."
target: "examplebank.com"
```

Expected output:

```
## Purpose check
Defensive brand-protection — proceeding.
## Collection plan
- **DNS / CT logs:** crt.sh `%bank%`, cert search for issuer-mismatched certs.
- **Domain feeds:** dnstwist permutations, URLScan submissions.
## Profile
| Field | Value | Source | Confidence |
```

### Executive protection — public exposure check

Input:

```
objective: "Map publicly available information about our CEO that could enable spear-phishing."
target: "Jane Doe, CEO of ExampleCo (consenting subject, internal request)"
```

Expected output:

```
## Purpose check
Authorized internal protective-intel request — proceeding with consent on file.
## Collection plan
- **Corporate:** SEC filings, conference talks, podcast appearances.
- **Social:** LinkedIn, public Twitter/X, GitHub.
- **Data-broker leak indicators:** HaveIBeenPwned, public breach corpora.
## Profile
| Field | Value | Source | Confidence |
| Personal email pattern | jane.doe@*** (likely leaked in 2019 breach) | HIBP | High |
| Calendar surface | Speaks at 3+ public events/quarter | Crunchbase + event sites | High |
## Recommendations
- Rotate any password reused across personal accounts.
- Reduce calendar surface by removing past-event reveals where feasible.
```

## Trust & telemetry

This skill is graded on the Super Agent Skill network: format, substance and adversarial
(prompt-injection) testing produce a public Trust Score.

- Trust Score & evidence: https://superagentskill.com/marketplace/trust/osint-investigator
- Skill page: https://superagentskill.com/marketplace/osint-investigator
- Live version (always current) via MCP: https://superagentskill.com/api/mcp

Reinstall or update with `npx skills update`, or pull the live graded version with
`npx super-agent install osint-investigator`.