Agent skill · affaan-m
osint-investigation
Sparse-clue OSINT investigation methodology for extracting overlooked leads, connecting fragmented evidence, and testing explanations across sources. Use for multi-step CTF challenges, image/video geolocation, event reconstruction, public-account and entity verification, artifact interpretation, infrastructure research, or stalled investigations.
What it needs
About 11k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
OSINT Investigation Start with what little is available: a partial sign, a few video frames, a sparse public profile, or disconnected records. Extract overlooked details, turn them into testable leads, and follow them across images, documents, specialist platforms, maps, archives, and technical records. Choose the next action that could change the answer. Preserve originals, challenge the leading explanation, and report uncertainty where verification ends. A plausible match is a lead until it survives comparison; sparse input does not justify invented detail. When to Activate Solve multi-step OSINT CTF challenges or open-source investigations from a photo, video clip, document, public profile, domain, or a few disconnected clues. Extract useful leads when an artifact looks uninformative or ordinary searches return nothing: partial text, background details, identifiers, and source context. Determine a public scene's location, camera direction, or historical appearance: distinguish the exact station, building, landmark, or street from lookalikes. Reconstruct an event and its timeline: identify the gathering, city, and date in footage, or verify a publicly documented professional participation claim. Follow public-account and entity links across specialist platforms, official sites, archives, and records; test aliases and namesakes before joining evidence. Interpret supplied artifacts: partial text, metadata, QR/barcodes, layered media, transport clues, or object/model identifiers; verify each extracted lead. Trace media to its original context, reconcile conflicting reports, or recover historical context from dated records and archived versions. Investigate company/domain relationships, defensive threat indicators, or authorized exposure; plan scoped monitoring from a verified baseline. Unstick an investigation or a rejected CTF answer by testing alternatives, revisiting neglected originals, and changing the evidence source or method. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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