ios-image-triage SKILL.md skillA
ios-image-triage from dreadnode/capabilities is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dreadnode/capabilities/ios-image-triage@git:20260504.2a64374Pins git:20260504.2a64374 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dreadnode/capabilities
- Path
capabilities/ios-forensics/skills/ios-image-triage/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260504.2a64374, committed May 4, 2026
- Size
- 4,878 bytes
- Repository stars
- 22
- License
- MIT
Structured first-pass triage of an unknown iOS acquisition — iTunes/Finder backup or full-filesystem extraction. Use when handed an iOS image and asked "what's on this phone and does it look compromised?" — establishes ground truth before any targeted hunt.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# iOS Image Triage ## When to Use - First contact with an unfamiliar iOS backup or FFS - Incident scoping before deep-diving (spyware hunt, comms analysis, etc.) - Quick posture check on a device handed over for review ## Goal Answer these in order: what device / iOS, what apps, what profiles, what grants, any STIX hits, any obvious anomalies. ## Procedure ### 1. Identify the source Run `mvt_status` then `mvt_info`. Record: - Device name, model (product type), serial / UDID - iOS build + major version - Acquisition timestamp (last backup date for backups; FFS capture time if present) - Encryption status (backups only) All subsequent tools take `source_kind` — set it once based on this (`backup` for iTunes/Finder, `fs` for FFS). If the backup is encrypted, run `mvt_decrypt_backup` into a working directory and use that as `source` for everything that follows. ### 2. Installed apps `mvt_installed_apps`. Look for: - Bundle IDs you don't recognize — look up on App Store, flag blanks - Apps installed very recently relative to the compromise window - Enterprise-signed / sideloaded apps outside the App Store (`AppleInternal`, `Enterprise`, `Developer` marker in metadata) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dreadnode/capabilities/ios-image-triage@sha256:b6b5634020f8e68aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260504.2a64374, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_apkn6v72srvhuk5s)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 4, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4878 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
dreadnode/capabilities · 22 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_apkn6v72srvhuk5s GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dreadnode/capabilities/ios-image-triage GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b6b5634020f8e68ad3901bed3ec156972eab9b7d8399c9b556f8e5cd9fa6da68
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.