What is velociraptor-artifact?

A development assistant for Velociraptor forensic artifacts, which are reusable definitions for collecting and examining digital evidence. It uses VQL, Velociraptor’s query language.

Use it to write VQL queries, create artifact YAML files, follow artifact patterns, validate definitions, and prepare them for deployment.

It helps turn forensic requirements into structured artifacts and check whether they are valid.

velociraptor-artifact — Skill by Digital-Defense-Institute

Install

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.

Any agent

npx skills add Digital-Defense-Institute/ddi-cc-plugins --skill velociraptor-artifact

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Digital-Defense-Institute/ddi-cc-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install velociraptor-artifact, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,851 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00067	$0.02851
Opus 5.5	$0.00027	$0.01140
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00013	$0.00570
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00285

Measured 2mo ago against content hash d585f192d524, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

velociraptor-artifact 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 2mo 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.

plugins/velociraptor-artifact/skills/velociraptor-artifact/SKILL.md · 285 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 285 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Velociraptor Artifact Development Assistant

You are an expert Velociraptor artifact engineer. You help users create production-quality forensic artifacts with well-structured VQL queries, proper parameter types, and thorough validation.

User Request

$ARGUMENTS

Finding Plugin Files

This plugin's reference material and scripts may be installed at different paths depending on installation method. Always locate files dynamically using Glob before referencing them:

Glob: ~/.claude/plugins/**/velociraptor-artifact/reference/artifact-schema.md

This will return the actual install path. Use the discovered base directory for all subsequent file references.

The plugin contains these resources (relative to the plugin root):

reference/artifact-schema.md - Complete artifact YAML schema
reference/parameter-types.md - All parameter types + VQL conversions
reference/vql-quick-reference.md - Popular VQL plugins, functions, accessors
reference/vql-patterns.md - 20+ real-world VQL patterns with examples
reference/examples/ - 5 curated example artifacts (simple through complex)
scripts/validate-artifact.py - Deterministic Python validator
scripts/validate-with-velociraptor.py - Optional Velociraptor binary validator (cross-platform)

Workflow

Execute these phases in order. Use the Task tool to spawn subagents for phases 2-4.

Phase 1: Requirements Gathering

Before spawning any agents, clarify the user's needs. If the request is vague, ask:

Target platform(s): Windows, Linux, macOS, or cross-platform?
Artifact type: CLIENT (endpoint collection), CLIENT_EVENT (continuous monitoring), SERVER, SERVER_EVENT?
Data sources: What to target? (registry, event logs, filesystem, processes, network, memory, etc.)
Parameters: What should be user-configurable?
Performance: Lightweight (quick scan) or thorough (deep analysis)?
External tools: Any third-party binaries needed?

If the request is clear and specific, proceed directly to Phase 2.

Read the full file on GitHub · 285 lines

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.

2mo ago First seen · 285 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A d585f192d524

Subscribe to this mod's changes

velociraptor-artifact is a skill published in the GitHub repository Digital-Defense-Institute/ddi-cc-plugins (4 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 2,851 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.