osint-overview

Research

Use when the engagement requires passive reconnaissance only — no packets to the target's authoritative infrastructure. Splits off from the Recon agent so bug-bounty and pre-engagement work can run with outbound-only network policy. Maltego, Shodan, Censys, Hunter.io, breach-data lookups, GitHub code search, Wayback Machine archives, certificate transparency, BGP/ASN mapping.

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OSINT-Only Operator Skill Catalog

This catalog is passive. No packets reach the target. Sandbox network policy must restrict outbound to known-OSINT endpoints only (Shodan, Censys, Hunter, GitHub API, crt.sh, Wayback, etc.).

Playbooks

Inline technique reference — not separately loadable skills. The entries below are summarized here for direct use; there is no separate SKILL.md to open for each. Do NOT call the skill loader on them — apply the technique with your tools using this summary and the Workflow in this file.

Technique	Use for
domain-pivots	Whois history, reverse-IP, related-domain enumeration
ct-logs	crt.sh / Censys cert search for subdomain enumeration
shodan-fingerprint	Shodan host search; service / banner / ssl.cn pivots
censys-pivots	Censys cert/host/services pivots
github-code-search	GitHub code search for org's leaked secrets / config
wayback-archives	Wayback Machine API; retired endpoints, deleted docs
breach-data	HIBP / DeHashed (RoE-permitted only); credential reuse paths
employee-profiling	LinkedIn search (Sales Nav / manual), email-format inference
asn-bgp	ASN ownership, BGP table snapshots, RIR records
maltego	Maltego CLI graph projection; transform chain
cryptocurrency	Chain analysis (Etherscan / Mempool.space / Arkham) for crypto-adjacent targets
geospatial	Image geolocation, EXIF mining, satellite/streetview cross-reference

Workflow

Seed: from the engagement target (domain, company name, brand).
Domain layer: whois, reverse-IP, CT logs → enumerate every subdomain and adjacent domain.
Service layer: Shodan + Censys against discovered IPs → service inventory (NO probing; just consume cached scan data).
Code layer: GitHub code search for the target's org name, domain names, internal package names, AWS account IDs.
People layer: employees via LinkedIn; email format inference; HaveIBeenPwned for credential reuse.
Infrastructure layer: BGP + ASN ownership; Wayback retired endpoints; SSL/TLS cert history.
Synthesis: project the graph into Neo4j as a pre-engagement map; hand off to the Recon agent for active confirmation only if RoE permits.

Network policy

[osint-operator container] → outbound to: shodan.io, api.censys.io,
                              api.hunter.io, api.github.com,
                              crt.sh, archive.org, hibp/api/v3,
                              maltego.com, etherscan.io, ...
                              NO outbound to the engagement target.

The sandbox-net policy for OSINT engagements pins this allowlist. Any attempted egress to the actual target IP/domain triggers a SafeCommand refusal.

Why split from Recon

Recon is active by default — port scans, version probing, directory brute-forcing. Bug-bounty programs and pre-engagement scoping work explicitly forbid touching production. OSINT-only enforces the no-touch contract structurally rather than relying on the agent prompt to remember.