domain-intel

domain-intel is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NousResearch/hermes-agent. It costs 20 tokens per session (1,132 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A passive domain-reconnaissance tool for examining subdomains, SSL certificates, WHOIS registration data, and DNS records without actively probing a site.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover subdomains, inspect certificate details, look up registration information, read DNS records, and check possible domain availability.
Why use it?
It gathers basic information about a domain and its internet setup while limiting the work to publicly available signals.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

About the project

Hermes Agent is an AI assistant that learns from its use by creating and improving skills, retaining knowledge, searching past conversations, and adapting to its users. It is for people who want to run an agent through a terminal or messaging platforms while connecting it to different AI models and scheduled tasks.

NousResearch/hermes-agent · 242,093 stars · on GitHub · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com

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/nousresearch/hermes-agent/domain-intel
Any agent
npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent --skill domain-intel
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,132 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 5.1 $0.00020 $0.01132
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00566
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00226
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00113

Measured 2d ago against content hash a212e30bced6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

domain-intel 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/domain_intel.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

- **Use `terminal` with `curl -I`** for a simple "is this URL reachable" check
Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

optional-skills/research/domain-intel/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Domain Intelligence — Passive OSINT

Passive domain reconnaissance using only Python stdlib. Zero dependencies. Zero API keys. Works on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Helper script

This skill includes scripts/domain_intel.py — a complete CLI tool for all domain intelligence operations.

# Subdomain discovery via Certificate Transparency logs
python SKILL_DIR/scripts/domain_intel.py subdomains example.com

# SSL certificate inspection (expiry, cipher, SANs, issuer)
python SKILL_DIR/scripts/domain_intel.py ssl example.com

# WHOIS lookup (registrar, dates, name servers — 100+ TLDs)
python SKILL_DIR/scripts/domain_intel.py whois example.com

# DNS records (A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, CNAME)
python SKILL_DIR/scripts/domain_intel.py dns example.com

# Domain availability check (passive: DNS + WHOIS + SSL signals)
python SKILL_DIR/scripts/domain_intel.py available coolstartup.io

# Bulk analysis — multiple domains, multiple checks in parallel
python SKILL_DIR/scripts/domain_intel.py bulk example.com github.com google.com
python SKILL_DIR/scripts/domain_intel.py bulk example.com github.com --checks ssl,dns

SKILL_DIR is the directory containing this SKILL.md file. All output is structured JSON.

Available commands

Command What it does Data source
subdomains Find subdomains from certificate logs crt.sh (HTTPS)
ssl Inspect TLS certificate details Direct TCP:443 to target
whois Registration info, registrar, dates WHOIS servers (TCP:43)
dns A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, CNAME records System DNS + Google DoH
available Check if domain is registered DNS + WHOIS + SSL signals
bulk Run multiple checks on multiple domains All of the above

When to use this vs built-in tools

  • Use this skill for infrastructure questions: subdomains, SSL certs, WHOIS, DNS records, availability
  • Use web_search for general research about what a domain/company does
  • Use web_extract to get the actual content of a webpage
  • Use terminal with curl -I for a simple "is this URL reachable" check

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

Files

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.

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. 2d ago First seen · 105 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A a212e30bced6

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domain-intel is a skill published in the GitHub repository NousResearch/hermes-agent (242,093 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,132 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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