building-super-timelines-with-plaso

building-super-timelines-with-plaso is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up. It costs 101 tokens per session (1,986 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of building-super-timelines-with-plaso, MIT.

A forensic timeline that combines timestamps from many kinds of computer evidence into one chronological record. Plaso extracts events from items such as files, Windows logs, browser history, and registry data, while Timesketch helps analysts review the results.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for processing authorized forensic images or copies, filtering and exporting event data, and investigating the sequence of events in a compromise.
Why use it?
It lets investigators reconstruct what happened on a device or system without examining each evidence source in isolation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for processing authorized forensic images or copies, filtering and exporting event data, and investigating the sequence of events in a compromise.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/youngmaidainon/agent-level-up/building-super-timelines-with-plaso
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up --skill building-super-timelines-with-plaso
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,986 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00101 $0.01986
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00993
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00199

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2157d0dadc76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

building-super-timelines-with-plaso scanned grade B 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/agent.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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

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

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gift/stable
Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to building-super-timelines-with-plaso — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

cyber-security/ctf/building-super-timelines-with-plaso/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Building Super Timelines with Plaso

Authorized Use Only: Build timelines only from evidence you are authorized to analyze. Work from forensic images/copies and preserve chain of custody.

Overview

Plaso (Plaso Langar Að Safna Öllu) is the open-source engine behind log2timeline, the standard for building forensic super timelines — a single chronological, normalized view fusing hundreds of artifact types (file-system MACB times, registry, EVTX, browser history, prefetch, LNK, $UsnJrnl, syslog, and more) into one timeline. Plaso has three core CLI tools:

  • log2timeline.py — extracts events from a source (disk image, mount point, directory, or device) into a .plaso storage file using its large parser/plugin set.
  • pinfo.py — reports on the contents and processing metadata of a .plaso file.
  • psort.py — post-processes, filters, deduplicates, time-zones, and exports the storage file to an output format (CSV, JSON-line, Elasticsearch, Timesketch, etc.).
  • psteal.py — convenience wrapper that runs extraction + export in one step.

The resulting timeline is enormous, so analysts triage it in Timesketch — a collaborative, web-based timeline analysis platform that ingests .plaso files (or CSV/JSONL) and supports filtering, tagging, starring, saved searches, and automated analyzers.

When to Use

  • Reconstructing the full sequence of events on a compromised host during incident response.
  • Correlating activity across many artifact sources on a single normalized timeline.
  • Investigating anti-forensic behavior such as timestomping or log clearing (which stands out against MACB and journal evidence).
  • Feeding a curated timeline into Timesketch for team triage.

Prerequisites

  • Install Plaso (Docker is the supported, reproducible method):
    docker pull log2timeline/plaso
    # Run a tool, mounting your evidence/output directory
    docker run -v /cases:/data log2timeline/plaso log2timeline.py --version
    
    Alternatively on Ubuntu via the GIFT PPA:
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gift/stable
    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y plaso-tools
    
  • A Timesketch instance (docker-compose deployment from https://github.com/google/timesketch) for triage.
  • A forensic image (E01/raw) or mounted file system.

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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 · 170 lines · 101 tokens per session scan B 2157d0dadc76

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building-super-timelines-with-plaso is a skill published in the GitHub repository Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up (3 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,986 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). It is 92% identical to building-super-timelines-with-plaso, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.