Claude-OSINT is a library of structured skills that guide Claude through external reconnaissance, including methodology, attack-surface analysis, security checks, risk assessment, and related investigative techniques. It is intended for authorized red-team and bug-bounty engagements. The catalogue entries are the project's own Claude skills for these reconnaissance workflows.
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 elementalsouls/Claude-OSINT --skill osint-methodologygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elementalsouls/Claude-OSINTWrote 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/elementalsouls/claude-osint/osint-methodology)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/elementalsouls/claude-osint/osint-methodology"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/elementalsouls/claude-osint/osint-methodology.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00150 | $0.08681 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00075 | $0.04340 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00030 | $0.01736 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00868 |
Grade A, and why
osint-methodology scanned grade A 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 9d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
The following modules have full implementation detail — probe paths, wordlists, curl one-liners, regexes, and scoring rubrics — in `offensive-osint`. This skill defines *what to do*; that skill defines *how to do it*. Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- osint-methodology — 89% identical, 87 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 521 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
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.
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
--aggressivemode. - Never paste real PII, credentials, session tokens, or API keys into cloud-hosted LLMs.
- Never act against assets outside documented scope, even "obviously related" ones.
2. Confidence Levels
Every assertion carries a confidence level.
| Level | Meaning |
|---|---|
| TENTATIVE | Plausible from indirect evidence; unverified. Snippet-only dork match, email pattern inferred from name, single passive-source subdomain. |
| FIRM | Directly observed, uncorroborated. Subdomain resolves; Shodan banner returned; CT-log entry. |
| CONFIRMED | Multiple independent corroborations OR directly verified. Live-validated token; bucket listable; three-source subdomain convergence. |
Rule of three for attribution: 3 independent weak signals, OR 1 strong + 1 weak. Never single-source attribute.
2.1 Confidence Upgrade Workflows
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 521 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A 4bdb54d71f53
osint-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository elementalsouls/Claude-OSINT (2,568 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 8,681 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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