osint-tool-catalog

osint-tool-catalog is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (2,999 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference catalog of open-source intelligence tools, organized by investigation type and paired with guidance on their uses and limits. OSINT means gathering and analyzing information that anyone can access publicly.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for finding tools for tasks such as geolocation, account analysis, corporate-record research, and satellite-image investigation.
Why use it?
Investigators may know what they need to find but not which tools can help or what those tools cannot prove. This gives them a starting list for choosing suitable methods.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the autopunk-media-skills plugin — 187 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for finding tools for tasks such as geolocation, account analysis, corporate-record research, and satellite-image investigation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/osint-tool-catalog
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 ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill osint-tool-catalog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autopunk-media-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 187 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,999 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00043 $0.02999
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01499
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00600
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00300

Measured 8d ago against content hash fab1390c2aee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

osint-tool-catalog 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 8d 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/magazine-journalism/investigation/osint-tool-catalog/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OSINT tool catalog

What this skill does

Produces a categorised catalog of open-source intelligence tools relevant to a journalist's investigation, with practical guidance on what each tool does, when to use it, and what its limitations are.

When to use this skill

  • You are starting an investigation and need to know which OSINT tools exist for a specific task (geolocation, account analysis, corporate records, satellite imagery, etc.)
  • You know the general category of tool you need but not the specific name or where to find it
  • You want a reference list of tools organised by investigation type, to keep on hand for your newsroom
  • You are training a colleague or intern on OSINT methods and need a structured starting inventory

What you need to provide

Required: The type of investigation or the category of tools you need (e.g., "geolocation tools," "corporate ownership research," "full catalog for a newsroom reference sheet") Optional: The specific platform or data type you are working with (e.g., "Telegram account analysis," "ship tracking," "Chinese corporate records"); your skill level (beginner, intermediate, advanced); whether you need free tools only or can use paid services

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Identifies the investigation category or categories relevant to the request. If the user asks for a full catalog, covers all categories. If they ask for a specific domain, focuses there.

  2. For each category, lists the most reliable and widely used tools. Provides: tool name, URL (when it is a web tool or has a stable homepage), what it does in one sentence, free vs. paid status, and a practical note on what it is good at and where it falls short.

  3. Groups tools by investigation domain, not alphabetically. Domains: geolocation and mapping, account and identity analysis, satellite and aerial imagery, facial recognition and biometrics, archiving and preservation, transport tracking (maritime, aviation, rail), corporate and financial research, document and metadata analysis, network and infrastructure analysis, social media monitoring. Adds domains as needed if the investigation warrants it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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. 8d ago First seen · 155 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A fab1390c2aee

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osint-tool-catalog is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 2,999 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-04.

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