useosint/skills
investigate-without-getting-made
Investigator OPSEC — threat-model who might notice you, control your attribution surface across IP, ASN, browser and TLS fingerprint, timing and logged-in accounts, separate research identity from real identity, build and age a sockpuppet research persona, and choose between VPN, residential proxy and Tor. Use when setting up a research account, avoiding tipping off a subject, worrying about LinkedIn profile-view leakage, needing a burner phone or email, or hardening a research VM or browser profile. Applies to covert due diligence, insider-threat investigation, source protection in journalism, and law-enforcement online work. Reference at useosint.com/skills/investigate-without-getting-made.
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3 files in the provider snapshot
reference/attribution-surface.md6,028 Breference/persona-runbook.md7,184 BSKILL.md15.7K B
Snapshot inspected Oct 1, 2026. Adding uses a fresh GitHub revision and checks it separately.
Your vault, your checks
- 01Inspect the source
Review the exact revision, files and available capacity.
- 02Save a private Draft
Run your vault’s security scan and complete any required review.
- 03Use the approved version
Make it available through your existing agent connection.
Observed activity
All-time installs reported by skills.sh. Daily observations start when this catalog is first synchronized.
| Date | Installs | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 2026 | 58,113 | #556 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | 58,114 | #556 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 58,121 | #560 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 58,125 | #562 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 58,126 | #562 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 58,129 | #556 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 58,129 | #559 |