forensic-methodology

forensic-methodology is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code. It costs 0 tokens per session (3,423 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A digital-forensics method for collecting, preserving, examining, analysing and reporting evidence. Digital forensics is the investigation of data from computers and other devices, following practices such as NIST SP 800-86 and ISO 27037.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan evidence collection, preserve data, examine disk images and logs, extract artifacts, reconstruct timelines, test explanations and write investigation reports.
Why use it?
It provides an ordered process for handling evidence without losing volatile data or weakening its integrity. It also separates gathering facts from interpreting and reporting them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hermeticormus/libresecops-claude-code/forensic-methodology
Any agent
npx skills add HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code --skill forensic-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,423 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.03423
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01711
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00685
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00342

Measured 5d ago against content hash 87ab77bba9b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

forensic-methodology scanned grade D with 2 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 5d 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.

Enumerates the file system for secretshighData exfiltration

Searching home directories for .env, .ssh, .aws or credential files is reconnaissance for credential theft.

ls -la "$user_dir/.ssh/" > "$EVIDENCE_DIR/users/$user/ssh_keys.txt" 2>/dev/null

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

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

# Run as root on the evidence system
plugins/forensics-analysis/skills/forensic-methodology/SKILL.md · 261 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 261 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Forensic Methodology

Evidence collection, preservation, analysis, and reporting methodology following NIST SP 800-86 and ISO 27037 standards.

Knowledge Base

The Forensic Process (NIST SP 800-86)

NIST defines four phases:

1. Collection: Identifying and gathering evidence from relevant sources. The priority is to preserve evidence integrity and collect volatile evidence before it is lost.

2. Examination: Processing the collected evidence to extract relevant data. This includes disk image mounting, log parsing, artifact extraction, and keyword searching.

3. Analysis: Interpreting the extracted data to answer the investigation questions. This includes timeline reconstruction, correlation across sources, and hypothesis testing.

4. Reporting: Documenting the findings, methodology, and conclusions in a format appropriate for the audience (technical, management, or legal).

Order of Volatility (RFC 3227)

Evidence must be collected in order of volatility -- most volatile first:

  1. CPU registers and cache (nanoseconds -- effectively uncollectable)
  2. Memory (RAM) (lost on power-off -- collect immediately)
  3. Network state (connections, routing tables, ARP cache -- changes constantly)
  4. Running processes (may be terminated or replaced)
  5. Disk (persists across reboots but can be overwritten)
  6. Remote logging (SIEM, syslog server -- may be rotated)
  7. Physical configuration (network topology -- changes infrequently)
  8. Archival media (backups, tapes -- most durable)

Evidence Integrity

Hashing: Every evidence item is hashed at collection time. SHA-256 is the standard. MD5 is computed as a secondary hash for compatibility but is not sufficient alone (collision vulnerabilities).

Write-blocking: Original evidence media must be accessed through write-blockers to prevent any modification. Hardware write-blockers (Tableau, WiebeTech) are preferred; software write-blockers (Linux mount with -o ro,noexec,noatime) are acceptable when hardware is unavailable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 261 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.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 261 lines · 0 tokens per session scan D 87ab77bba9b7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

forensic-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,423 tokens. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (enumerates the file system for secrets, asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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