Skills investigate-without-getting-made

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investigate-without-getting-made

Name: investigate-without-getting-made
Author: useosint

Content revision r1 High Risk ⚙️ External commands📁 Filesystem access

Protect Your Identity During Online Investigations

Online investigations can expose researchers through accounts, networks, browser fingerprints, timing, and metadata. This skill provides threat modeling, compartmentation, persona controls, and exposure logging.

Supports: Claude Codex Code(CC)

⚠️ 38 Poor

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Agent request

Review the Skillstore skill "investigate-without-getting-made" from https://skillstore.io/skills/useosint-investigate-without-getting-made.md and its manifest at https://skillstore.io/api/skills/useosint-investigate-without-getting-made/manifest. Verify the artifact. Stop and obtain explicit user consent before installing or changing files.

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Agent-readable resources

Use these links when an AI agent, crawler, or script needs clean context instead of reading the full page.

Markdown detail GET /skills/useosint-investigate-without-getting-made.md Signed manifest GET /api/skills/useosint-investigate-without-getting-made/manifest Signed lockfile GET /api/skills/useosint-investigate-without-getting-made/lockfile

Test it

Using "investigate-without-getting-made". Assess a public company website review from an office network.

Expected outcome:

Risk: the company can associate the visit with the employer ASN. Use a dedicated browser profile and approved non-corporate egress. Grade the visit anonymous contact.

Using "investigate-without-getting-made". Prepare to view a subject profile while signed into a personal account.

Expected outcome:

Do not proceed. The platform may expose the viewer identity or create contact suggestions. Confirm current notification behavior using accounts you control.

Using "investigate-without-getting-made". Record an accidental attributed visit.

Expected outcome:

Stop further collection from the exposed identity.
Record the identity, timestamp, action, and visible information.
Notify the case owner and reassess the collection plan.

Security Audit

High Risk

v1 • 8/3/2026 Open versioned report

All 18 static findings are false positives caused by Markdown references and descriptive prose. The relative path is a documentation link, not filesystem access. However, detailed persona creation and detection-evasion guidance creates high dual-use risk despite legal warnings and observation-only limits.

Files scanned

499

Lines analyzed

Review items

False positives ignored

Confirmed security concerns (1)

High

reference/persona-runbook.md:35-46 reference/persona-runbook.md:52-85

Deceptive Persona and Platform-Evasion Guidance

The runbook gives operational steps for isolated identifiers, prepaid instruments, synthetic avatars, account aging, and avoiding registration signals. These details can facilitate deceptive accounts and evasion of platform abuse controls, although the skill limits personas to authorized observation.

The cited sections explicitly describe identifier isolation, registration behavior, and long-term account aging. The observation-only restrictions reduce harmful intent but do not remove the operational misuse potential.

Risk Factors

⚙️ External commands (11)

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📁 Filesystem access (1)

SKILL.md:259

Audited by: codex

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Academic citations (APA · BibTeX · CFF)

APA citation

useosint. (2026). investigate-without-getting-made security audit report (audit version 1) [Author version unspecified]. Skillstore. https://skillstore.io/skills/useosint-investigate-without-getting-made/audits/1

BibTeX citation

@techreport{useosint-useosint-investigate-without-getting-made-2026,
  author = {useosint},
  title = {investigate-without-getting-made security audit report (audit version 1)},
  institution = {Skillstore},
  year = {2026},
  number = {1},
  url = {https://skillstore.io/skills/useosint-investigate-without-getting-made/audits/1},
  note = {Author version unspecified}
}

CITATION.cff

cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this Skill, cite its author and this versioned security audit report."
title: "investigate-without-getting-made security audit report (audit version 1)"
version: "unspecified"
type: report
authors:
  - name: "useosint"
date-released: "2026-08-03"
url: "https://skillstore.io/skills/useosint-investigate-without-getting-made/audits/1"
identifiers:
  - type: other
    value: "skillstore:useosint-investigate-without-getting-made:audit:1"
    description: "Skillstore immutable audit report identifier"

Skillstore Score

Why this score Evidence Confidence: Medium

Architecture

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What You Can Build

Protect Sensitive Reporting

Plan source research while limiting account, browser, network, and metadata exposure.

Prepare Due Diligence

Assess whether online collection could alert a company, executive, or monitored service.

Control Case Attribution

Document authorization, compartment research environments, and grade exposure after each collection action.

Try These Prompts

Create a Basic Exposure Checklist

Create a pre-action OPSEC checklist for researching public websites. Use only passive sources and identify what the subject could observe.

Choose a Proportionate Research Setup

Compare a normal browser, dedicated profile, and dedicated virtual machine for this authorized investigation: [describe case]. Recommend the least complex adequate setup.

Assess Attribution Surfaces

Review this collection plan: [plan]. Map account, IP, ASN, browser, TLS, timing, contact-graph, preview, and metadata exposure. Suggest safer passive alternatives.

Develop a Full OPSEC Plan

Build an authorized investigation OPSEC plan for [objective]. Include threat actors, consequences, compartmentation, legal review points, exposure grades, failure responses, and retirement criteria.

Best Practices

Document authorization, purpose, platform scope, and retirement criteria before creating any research account.
Prefer archives, registries, and other passive sources before contacting target-controlled infrastructure.
Log each exposure event immediately and notify the case owner when attribution occurs.

Avoid

Do not sign into personal accounts inside a research environment.
Do not use found credentials, password-reset flows, or false pretexts to access closed systems.
Do not impersonate real people or use research personas to elicit private information.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this skill guarantee anonymity?

No. It helps identify and reduce attribution risks, but platforms and sophisticated observers can still correlate activity.

When is a research persona appropriate?

Only when authorized observation requires an account and legal, ethical, and platform-rule risks are documented.

Should I use Tor for every investigation?

No. Tor can attract attention, trigger account challenges, and provide poor session stability. Choose egress based on the threat model.

Is a private browser window enough?

No. It does not hide network identity, browser fingerprint, logged-in platform records, contact graphs, or external metadata.

What should I do after accidental attribution?

Stop, record what was exposed and when, notify the case owner, and reassess the investigation plan.

Does this skill provide legal approval?

No. Obtain appropriate organizational and legal review for personas, platform terms, privacy obligations, and jurisdiction-specific restrictions.

Developer Details

Author

useosint

License

MIT

Skillstore revision

Version notice

The author did not declare a version.

Repository

https://github.com/useosint/osint-skills/tree/06243a5620b0c9c97502edd4ee9e31995a3bdccd/skills/investigate-without-getting-made

Ref

76c3621ba67d9236f7e0674bbf2a2ecc2696e20c

Maintenance freshness

8/3/2026

Usage

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File structure

📁 reference/

📄 attribution-surface.md

📄 persona-runbook.md

📄 SKILL.md