osint-methodology SKILL.md skillA
osint-methodology from novaestellar/novahaku is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add novaestellar/novahaku/osint-methodology@v2.3Pins v2.3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- novaestellar/novahaku
- Path
testing/osint-methodology/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v2.3, committed Sep 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 8, 2026
- Size
- 35,554 bytes
- Repository stars
- 28
- License
- MIT
Comprehensive OSINT methodology for external red-team operations and authorized attack-surface assessments. Covers the 6-stage recon pipeline (seed → asset expansion → enrichment → exposure analysis → convergence → operator-armed active validation) with connector-resilience and stage-vs-gating discipline, asset-graph discipline, severity rubric, confidence upgrade workflows, time budgeting, identity-fabric mapping, breach×identity correlation with per-person identity dossiers, detectability…
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
# OSINT Methodology — External Red-Team Edition
## 0. When to Use / When NOT
**Use this skill when:** planning or executing authorized external recon (red team, bug bounty, ASM); mapping an org's attack surface; investigating a person/entity/threat-actor; producing client deliverables.
**Do NOT use this skill when:** the user needs active exploitation, post-exploitation, or malware dev; blue-team/detection content; or the target's authorization is unclear — surface the scope question first.
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## 1. Authorization & Legal Posture
Intended for assets the operator owns or has **written authorization** to assess.
**Soft scope check** — when authorization isn't established, ask once:
> *"Quick scope check: is this a target you own or have written authorization to assess? I want to make sure we stay on the right side of the engagement boundary."*
Once asserted, don't re-ask. If the engagement type is stated ("pentest of acme.com under contract"), proceed.
**Always-on guardrails:**
- Never weaken auth, rate limits, or safety controls on the target side.
- No destructive probes (SYN scans at line-rate, masscan, fuzzing) outside explicit `--aggressive` mode.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add novaestellar/novahaku/osint-methodology@sha256:d45855fa55b7e006The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.3, 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_ttz3tz4o5yri7llb)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 8, 2026 and Sep 26, 2026, about one every 18 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v2.3 latest | 2026-09-26 | 99d20ee | 35,554 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.3 | 2026-09-08 | 78e1d6b | 35,200 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 (35554 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
novaestellar/novahaku · 28 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-28 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ttz3tz4o5yri7llb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=novaestellar/novahaku/osint-methodology GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d45855fa55b7e0064fbff780878d30e50bee63360c593f3075c30b7893815833
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