dig-through-data-brokers SKILL.md skillA
dig-through-data-brokers from tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/dig-through-data-brokers@git:20261020.402f6b7Pins git:20261020.402f6b7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit
- Path
skills/dig-through-data-brokers/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261020.402f6b7, committed Oct 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 24, 2026
- Size
- 15,551 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
- Use people-search aggregators and primary public records to find addresses, phone numbers, relatives, age and background on a person, and to audit and remove your own exposure. Use when running a people search or reverse address lookup, tracing a debtor or missing person, building a subject's address history, or removing yourself from broker sites.
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
# Dig through data brokers People-search sites resell a blend of public records, marketing data, and self-reported data. They are fast, cheap lead generators and terrible evidence. The one rule that matters: **a broker record is a lead, never a fact.** Confirm every field you intend to use against the primary source the broker got it from — and if you cannot identify that primary source, do not use the field. ## What these services actually are Three input streams, blended and sold: - **Public records** — property deeds, court filings, business registrations, voter files where public, professional licences, bankruptcy, marriage and divorce. Authoritative at origin; the broker's copy is a stale transcription. - **Marketing and commercial data** — warranty cards, loyalty programmes, subscriptions, credit-header data, online forms, ad exchanges. Never verified, often inferred, frequently household-level rather than person-level. - **Self-reported and scraped** — profiles, résumés, forum posts, and whatever the broker's own users typed in. They also buy from each other, constantly. That is the most important structural …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/dig-through-data-brokers@sha256:05aed8732ab6e8c5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.402f6b7, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Sep 24, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 9 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261020.402f6b7 latest | 2026-10-20 | 402f6b7 | 15,551 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.cd6c208 | 2026-10-07 | cd6c208 | 15,557 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.a2d662f | 2026-10-03 | a2d662f | 15,558 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.2784cb2 | 2026-09-24 | 2784cb2 | 14,443 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 (15551 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
tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rj6jz2lx52hbeapj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/dig-through-data-brokers GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/05aed8732ab6e8c59c4ab1ef6cb632b4eb1f3283a2c55a5ab1f2280c04dbf4fa
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.
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