conduct-empirical-wire-capture SKILL.md skillA
conduct-empirical-wire-capture from pjt222/agent-almanac is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pjt222/agent-almanac/conduct-empirical-wire-capture@v1.0Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pjt222/agent-almanac
- Path
i18n/caveman-lite/skills/conduct-empirical-wire-capture/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0, committed Aug 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 19, 2026
- Size
- 16,282 bytes
- Repository stars
- 43
- License
- MIT
Capture outbound HTTP and telemetry from a CLI harness at runtime. Covers capture-channel selection (transcript file vs verbose-fetch stderr vs outbound proxy vs on-disk state), hook-driven per-event capture vs long-running session capture, JSONL output format for diff-friendly artifacts, and the observability table that maps each target to the cheapest channel that captures it. Use when a static finding needs runtime confirmation, when a payload shape is needed for a client re-implementation…
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
# Conduct Empirical Wire Capture Set up a reproducible wire-capture harness for a CLI tool's outbound HTTP and telemetry, matching each observability target to the cheapest channel that captures it. ## Scope and Ethics Read this before configuring any capture. - Wire capture is for **your own** requests against **your own** account, on **your own** machine. Capturing other users' traffic is exfiltration, not research, and is out of scope. - Credentials almost always appear in raw wire output. Redact at capture time (Step 6) — never "capture now, redact later." - Capture is *observation*, not modification. Do not use captured payloads to bypass server-side rate limits, replay another user's session, or activate a dark-launched capability without authorization. - The output of this skill is an internal artifact. Public publication of wire findings goes through `redact-for-public-disclosure` (Phase 5 of the parent guide), not this skill. ## When to Use - A static finding (a flag, an endpoint reference, a telemetry-event name) needs runtime confirmation that it actually fires. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pjt222/agent-almanac/conduct-empirical-wire-capture@sha256:956ac7f1f1ebf1e2The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, 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_opb2bdr6xaa763xp)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Apr 19, 2026 and Aug 17, 2026, about one every 60 days.
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| v1.0 latest | 2026-08-17 | a784899 | 16,282 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-04-19 | a31852a | 16,253 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-04-19 | e334ebd | 16,324 B | A | view |
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 (16282 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
pjt222/agent-almanac · 43 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_opb2bdr6xaa763xp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pjt222/agent-almanac/conduct-empirical-wire-capture GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/956ac7f1f1ebf1e2231bc7a56f3c5da8f8611ce15eadea6daf0a757877c5f2cb
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