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10 user-invoked investigation workflows (person, company, domain, username, email, phone, GEOINT photo, social media, plus a router and report compiler) and 18 model-invoked reconnaissance knowledge skills. Includes ethics charter, installer, and elite README.
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Ethics, Legality & Authorized Scope
OSINT is powerful. These skills are built for lawful, authorized, defensive work: threat intelligence, fraud investigation, due diligence, journalism, missing-persons research, penetration-test reconnaissance, and personal digital self-defense.
Every workflow skill opens with an authorized scope gate. Honor it.
The rules
- Passive by default. Prefer observation over interaction. Never log in to, probe, exploit, or send traffic to a target's private systems without written authorization. Reading a public profile is OSINT; brute-forcing a login is a crime.
- Stay legal in your jurisdiction. Computer-misuse, wiretap, stalking, harassment, and data-protection laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) all apply to research. When unsure, stop and get counsel.
- No harassment, doxxing, or stalking. Do not use these skills to locate, intimidate, or expose private individuals for harm. Aggregating someone's personal data to threaten them is abuse, full stop.
- Minimize and protect data. Collect only what the objective requires. Store case data encrypted, share on need-to-know, and delete when done.
- Corroborate before you conclude. A single selector match is a lead, not a fact. Attribution requires multiple independent, corroborating sources.
- Respect terms of service and rate limits. Automated scraping can be illegal or get you banned. Use official APIs where they exist.
Not for
Stalking, harassment, doxxing, unauthorized access, or any activity prohibited by law. If your objective is to harm a person, these skills are not for you.
By using this repository you accept full responsibility for how you apply it. The authors provide it "as is" with no warranty (see LICENSE).