building-super-timelines-with-plaso

building-super-timelines-with-plaso is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,908 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A guide for building a forensic super timeline with Plaso and log2timeline. Plaso combines timestamps from many sources, such as files, browser history, system logs, and registry data, into one chronological view; Timesketch is a web tool for reviewing that timeline.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps extract events from forensic disk images or folders, inspect and filter the resulting data, remove duplicates, adjust time zones, and export it for analysis in formats such as CSV, JSON, or Timesketch.
Why use it?
It brings scattered digital evidence into one time-ordered record, making it easier to investigate what happened and when.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps extract events from forensic disk images or folders, inspect and filter the resulting data, remove duplicates, adjust time zones, and export it for analysis in formats such as CSV, JSON, or Timesketch.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai/building-super-timelines-with-plaso
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai --skill building-super-timelines-with-plaso
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,908 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 56
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 49
    Docker image references without a specific tag (:latest is implicit) or digest (@sha256:...) can be silently replaced by a malicious image.
    Fix: Pin the image: image:tag or image@sha256:abc123
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 51
    Docker image references without a specific tag (:latest is implicit) or digest (@sha256:...) can be silently replaced by a malicious image.
    Fix: Pin the image: image:tag or image@sha256:abc123
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 55
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 56
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00029 $0.01908
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00954
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00382
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00191

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3e60d8e1501f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

building-super-timelines-with-plaso scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/agent.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gift/stable
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

cursor-claude-codex/skills/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills/skills/building-super-timelines-with-plaso/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Building Super Timelines with Plaso

Authorized Use Only: Build timelines only from evidence you are authorized to analyze. Work from forensic images/copies and preserve chain of custody.

Overview

Plaso (Plaso Langar Að Safna Öllu) is the open-source engine behind log2timeline, the standard for building forensic super timelines — a single chronological, normalized view fusing hundreds of artifact types (file-system MACB times, registry, EVTX, browser history, prefetch, LNK, $UsnJrnl, syslog, and more) into one timeline. Plaso has three core CLI tools:

  • log2timeline.py — extracts events from a source (disk image, mount point, directory, or device) into a .plaso storage file using its large parser/plugin set.
  • pinfo.py — reports on the contents and processing metadata of a .plaso file.
  • psort.py — post-processes, filters, deduplicates, time-zones, and exports the storage file to an output format (CSV, JSON-line, Elasticsearch, Timesketch, etc.).
  • psteal.py — convenience wrapper that runs extraction + export in one step.

The resulting timeline is enormous, so analysts triage it in Timesketch — a collaborative, web-based timeline analysis platform that ingests .plaso files (or CSV/JSONL) and supports filtering, tagging, starring, saved searches, and automated analyzers.

When to Use

  • Reconstructing the full sequence of events on a compromised host during incident response.
  • Correlating activity across many artifact sources on a single normalized timeline.
  • Investigating anti-forensic behavior such as timestomping or log clearing (which stands out against MACB and journal evidence).
  • Feeding a curated timeline into Timesketch for team triage.

Prerequisites

  • Install Plaso (Docker is the supported, reproducible method):
    docker pull log2timeline/plaso
    # Run a tool, mounting your evidence/output directory
    docker run -v /cases:/data log2timeline/plaso log2timeline.py --version
    
    Alternatively on Ubuntu via the GIFT PPA:
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gift/stable
    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y plaso-tools
    
  • A Timesketch instance (docker-compose deployment from https://github.com/google/timesketch) for triage.
  • A forensic image (E01/raw) or mounted file system.

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 166 lines · 29 tokens per session scan B 3e60d8e1501f

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building-super-timelines-with-plaso is a skill published in the GitHub repository adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai (57 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,908 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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