overcast-skip-trace

overcast-skip-trace is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kdr/overcast. It costs 62 tokens per session (935 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for building a documented profile from authorized people-search and public-record sources. It links findings from usernames, names, phone numbers, and property records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for permitted skip-tracing, due diligence, or investigations where you need cited records connected into one case.
Why use it?
It helps organize scattered records and check whether details from different sources match. Use is restricted to authorized investigations, and the results are not for decisions about credit, jobs, housing, or insurance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the overcast plugin — 35 skills, 1 hook shipped together

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/kdr/overcast/overcast-skip-trace
Any agent
npx skills add kdr/overcast --skill overcast-skip-trace
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kdr/overcast

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install overcast, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 35 skills, 1 hook.

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.

agentmods badge for overcast-skip-trace

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kdr/overcast/overcast-skip-trace"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kdr/overcast/overcast-skip-trace.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 935 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.00062 $0.00935
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00467
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00093

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3d54b8fd446d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

overcast-skip-trace 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 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.

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.

skills/overcast-skip-trace/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

overcast-skip-trace

Use this skill to assemble what is publicly known about a person from OSINT records-broker sources. Every source here is opt-in PII on a real person. Use the broad overcast skill and overcast/reference/verbs.md for exact flags.

⚠️ Authorized use only. These sources return personal data on real people via Apify-backed brokers (APIFY_TOKEN). Run them ONLY in an authorized context (skip-tracing, due diligence, an investigation you are permitted to run). person results are NOT an FCRA consumer report — never use them for credit, employment, housing, or insurance decisions. plate needs a bound actor (OVERCAST_PLATE_ACTOR; US owner data is DPPA-restricted) and returns vehicle SPEC, not the owner. None of these is a default source — you bind each deliberately.

Workflow

  1. Confirm creds and open the case:
overcast doctor --sources --json           # confirm APIFY_TOKEN resolves
overcast case init --json
  1. Discover accounts from a handle (Maigret across 3000+ sites) — a cheap, wide first pass that seeds names, avatars, and bios to pivot on:
overcast source add "username:<handle>" --json
overcast scan --source username --json
  1. Resolve a name to public records (people-search / skip-trace — addresses, phones, emails, relatives, age). Add a @<location> hint to disambiguate a common name:
overcast source add "person:<Full Name>@<city, ST>" --json
overcast scan --source person --json
  1. Reverse the strongest phone and pull property records for an address the earlier hops surfaced — each lands as its own scan record:
overcast source add "phone:+15551234567" --json          # reverse phone / carrier + web footprint
overcast scan --source phone --json
overcast source add "property:<street, city, ST zip>" --json   # assessor / tax / recorder records
overcast scan --source property --json
  1. Cross-check and record. Tie the handles, phones, emails, and addresses together in the graph (its typed-entity nodes link the same value across records), cite every claim to a scan record.id, and triage before concluding:

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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 · 88 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 3d54b8fd446d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

overcast-skip-trace is a skill published in the GitHub repository kdr/overcast (15 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 935 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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