Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add AppliedIR/sift-mcp --skill vhir-playbooksgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AppliedIR/sift-mcpWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/appliedir/sift-mcp/vhir-playbooks)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/appliedir/sift-mcp/vhir-playbooks"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/appliedir/sift-mcp/vhir-playbooks/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/appliedir/sift-mcp/vhir-playbooks"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/appliedir/sift-mcp/vhir-playbooks.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00105 | $0.00603 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00042 | $0.00241 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00021 | $0.00121 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00060 |
Grade A, and why
vhir-playbooks scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 4d ago.
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.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
Investigation playbooks
Each playbook is in references/. Read the one that matches the activity you are investigating, and follow its phases with the MCP tools it names. forensic-mcp's get_playbook serves the same text.
references/credential_access.md: Credential Access Investigation. Investigate indicators of credential theft, dumping, or Kerberos abusereferences/data_staging.md: Data Staging Investigation. Investigate data collection and staging activity indicating preparation for exfiltrationreferences/dns_anomaly.md: DNS Anomaly Investigation. Investigate DNS tunneling, domain generation algorithms, and unusual query patternsreferences/email_compromise.md: Email Compromise Investigation. Investigate email account takeover, mailbox rule manipulation, and business email compromisereferences/log_tampering.md: Log Tampering Investigation. Investigate event log clearing, suspicious gaps, and anti-forensic activity targeting log integrityreferences/malware_analysis.md: Malware Analysis Investigation. Investigation procedure when suspicious executables, documents, or scripts are discovered during forensic triagereferences/powershell_anomaly.md: PowerShell Anomaly Investigation. Investigate suspicious PowerShell activity including encoded commands, download cradles, and obfuscated scriptsreferences/remote_access.md: Remote Access Investigation. Investigate unexpected remote access including RDP, PsExec, WMI, and WinRM connectionsreferences/suspicious_autorun.md: Suspicious Autorun Investigation. Investigate unexpected persistence mechanisms including registry autoruns, services, and scheduled tasksreferences/suspicious_connection.md: Suspicious Network Connection Investigation. Investigate anomalous network connections including beaconing, unusual ports, and known-bad destinationsreferences/suspicious_execution.md: Suspicious Execution Investigation. Investigate unknown or unexpected program execution from forensic artifactsreferences/timestomping.md: Timestomping Investigation. Investigate timestamp manipulation in NTFS file system metadatareferences/unusual_logon.md: Unusual Logon Investigation. Investigate unexpected authentication events indicating unauthorized access or credential misusereferences/usb_activity.md: USB Activity Investigation. Investigate USB device connections and removable media activity for data theft or malware delivery
What ships with it
14 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.
- references/credential_access.md 1.7 KB
- references/data_staging.md 1.8 KB
- references/dns_anomaly.md 1.6 KB
- references/email_compromise.md 1.8 KB
- references/log_tampering.md 1.8 KB
- references/malware_analysis.md 2.5 KB
- references/powershell_anomaly.md 1.9 KB
- references/remote_access.md 1.8 KB
- references/suspicious_autorun.md 2.0 KB
- references/suspicious_connection.md 1.7 KB
- references/suspicious_execution.md 2.0 KB
- references/timestomping.md 1.8 KB
- references/unusual_logon.md 2.1 KB
- references/usb_activity.md 1.7 KB
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 27 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 50ff5187b77b
vhir-playbooks is a skill published in the GitHub repository AppliedIR/sift-mcp (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 603 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-12.
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