spotlight

Plugin spotlight in buriedsignals/spotlight. Commands read from the repo's manifest — yesterday.

Skills (26)

• acquisition-graduation

  Convert repeated dev-browser acquisition successes into durable Spotlight acquisition guidance. Use after a non-trivial browser acquisition works repeatedly and should become a reusable source/domain path without storing secrets, cookies, or fragile session details.

• arbiter

  Use the native Arbiter HTTPS API to browse or create bounded social-media case studies and attach its analytics to a Spotlight report.

• content-access

  Work through the legal access hierarchy for paywalled or restricted sources before marking them inaccessible and downgrading confidence

• editorial-review

  Generate a self-contained HTML review artifact after the Investigation gate and export structured feedback to the Investigation gate owner. No server required.

• epistemic-grounding

  Portable claim-to-evidence grounding for knowledge work, fact-checking, and Spotlight investigations. Use when extracting claims or findings, assigning confidence, diagnosing weak support, or deciding whether material is a lead, partially grounded claim, verified finding, disputed claim, or false cl

• follow-the-money

  Financial investigation methodology for journalists — corporate ownership, offshore structures, budgets, assets, and public blockchain tracing.

• ingest

  Retired 1.0 ingest. A findings contract 1.0 case is no longer ingested; it is activated or continued as a follow-up 1.1 case.

• integrations

  Use when an investigation step may need an external integration such as browser acquisition, Maigret account discovery, Junkipedia narrative tracking, Apify social-media collection, Arbiter social-media case studies, OSINT Navigator tool discovery, Noosphere C2PA signing, or Unpaywall access lookup.

• investigation-methodology

  Investigation methodology for journalists — step-by-step techniques, platform OPSEC, and case studies from Bellingcat training materials.

• monitoring

  Turn investigation findings into explicit, user-approved monitoring recommendations. Spotlight recommends; Mycroft owns any Scoutpost action.

• navigator

  Route investigative research to Navigator when it needs OSINT tool discovery. Use for finding investigative tools and techniques for domains, usernames, images, maps, archives, networks, verification, geolocation, company intelligence, and country-specific research.

• osint

  OSINT investigation toolkit — local SQL index of 12,500 tools (`osint-tools find`, offline), methodology guides, and optional OSINT Navigator (subscription tier). Works offline with any LLM.

• phase-ingest

  Spotlight Ingest: resolver-owned transition, ingestion.json status lifecycle, user confirmation, wiki write or decline

• phase-investigation-gate

  Spotlight Investigation gate (end of Investigation): generate summary.md + data/summary.json, present findings to the user, iterate on request, user approval gate (ends the turn), provenance packaging, review artifact, feedback processing on resume

• phase-investigation

  Spotlight Investigation — autonomous investigation cycles (max 3, then one targeted research round for a researched case): source-expression release mode resolution, investigator EXECUTION + fact-checker spawns, validators, editorial checks, monitoring recommendations, readiness criteria; includes t

• phase-methodology

  Spotlight Brief and Methodology: user brief conversation with approval gate, then investigator PLANNING spawn, methodology validation, RLM proposal (frontier opt-in), methodology approval gate

• phase-preflight

  Spotlight Preflight: config detection, sovereign search/fetch backing checks, OSINT skill inventory, OpenKnowledge workspace validation, project setup, integration tiering, resume feedback check

• phase-report

  Spotlight Report — public-facing report drafting via report-drafting + finalize-report.py deterministic rendering; hybrid data-detective handover mode

• phase-research

  Spotlight Research (between Methodology and Investigation): code runs the approved topic briefs as research lanes, merges and triages their leads, the investigator suggests marks, the member marks clues and directions at the Research gate, and AMENDMENT mode turns the marks into the methodology chan

• provenance-signing

  Build a Spotlight provenance manifest and optionally hand it to Noosphere C2PA signing before the final review/report artifact is delivered.

• report-drafting

  Report-phase hybrid synthesis — the model authors localized report framing and priority in report-draft.json; deterministic code validates finding references and renders the final Markdown, HTML, and evidence ledger.

• shell-safety

  Portable safe command construction for any agent skill or recipe. Use before a shell call containing user, model, scraped, configuration, filesystem, or generated values.

• social-media-intelligence

  Account authenticity assessment, coordination detection, and narrative tracking for social media investigations. Use when analyzing account networks, detecting bot activity or coordinated campaigns, tracking how claims spread across platforms, or building evidence trails from social content.

• spotlight

  OSINT investigation orchestrator — guides verified investigations from lead to findings to knowledge ingestion. Triggers on "investigate", "investigation", "OSINT", "look into", "dig into".

• technical-investigation

  Passive technical methods for indicators, infrastructure history, local files, email headers, public GitHub, and verified export.

• web-archiving

  Archive evidence before it disappears — first-party snapshot (MHTML + screenshot, content-addressed) by default, plus third-party archives, with chain of custody for editorial accountability and legal defensibility

Subagents (4)

• analyst

  Spotlight's contract for the analyst: from the approved case, writes the Investigation gate summary and the report draft (Pi harness) and proposes the parts of the knowledge batch that need judgment at Ingest

• fact-checker

  Independent verification of investigation findings using SIFT methodology

• investigator

  Plans and executes OSINT investigations using open-source intelligence methods

• researcher

  Works one approved research topic brief: searches and reads public sources (or the local corpus) and returns leads with captured sources

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