And the old woman was left with nothing.
Week of 17 — 23 April 2026**
Every week, I manually curate tools, research, and services that are genuinely useful for OSINT, digital investigations, security research, and adjacent fields.
No hype. No SEO noise. No "AI startups that change everything".
Only things you can open, verify, and actually use.
A first step for investigations into organized crime, corruption, trafficking, and global risk networks.
Tesari is designed as an entry point into complex investigations: structure, context, and navigable intelligence instead of chaotic searching.
SOCMINT. The Art and Science of Social Media Intelligence
🔗 https://blog.mcafeeinstitute.com/socmint/
OSINT of South Africa by Unishka Research Service
🔗 https://substack.com/home/post/p-194407179
ipblocklist. This project provides aggregated IP blocklists for inbound and outbound traffic, updated every 2 hours. It includes exclusions for major public DNS resolvers to prevent legitimate services from being blocked
🔗 https://github.com/bitwire-it/ipblocklist
Genome Toolkit. Personal genomics Obsidian vault toolkit - import, analyze, and act on your genome data with Claude Code
🔗 https://github.com/glebis/genome-toolkit
Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills: 754 structured cybersecurity skills for AI agents
Mapped to 5 frameworks: MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF 2.0, MITRE ATLAS, D3FEND & NIST AI RMF
agentskills.io standard, Works with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI & 20+ platforms, 26 security domains, Apache 2.0
🔗 https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills
FinceptTerminal is a modern finance application offering advanced market analytics, investment research, and economic data tools, designed for interactive exploration and data-driven decision-making in a user-friendly environment
Birdy Edwards. Automated AI powered Facebook intelligence tool for target profiling, network analysis and threat reporting. Runs entirely on-device via Ollama
🔗 https://github.com/jeet-ganguly/birdy-edwards
Signal Hunter. Personal safety platform - emergency beacon, cell towers, alerts, radiation, BLE tracker detection
🔗 https://github.com/zwanski2019/signal-hunter
MarkItDown. Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown
🔗 https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown
WeChat Article Crawler. A Claude Code skill for crawling WeChat public account (微信公众号) articles into structured data and clean markdown - with images downloaded locally to bypass hotlink protection
🔗 https://github.com/gxcsoccer/wechat-article-crawler
Savr is an app for saving online content to read later. It is file-centric, offline first, future proof, and favors decentralization
🔗 https://github.com/jonocodes/savr/
POST4U Social Media Autopilot. An open-source self-hosted app to schedule and automatically post content to X (Twitter), Telegram, Reddit and Discord made with FastAPI and Reflex
🔗 https://github.com/ShadowSlayer03/Post4U-Schedule-Social-Media-Posts
Nano PDF Editor. A CLI tool to edit PDF slides using natural language prompts, powered by Google's Gemini 3 Pro Image ("Nano Banana") model
🔗 https://github.com/gavrielc/Nano-PDF
TuiTube. TUI to download videos from YouTube, X, Twitch, Instagram, Bilibili and more using yt-dlp CLI
🔗 https://github.com/remorses/tuitube
AI Video Transcriber. Transcribe and summarize videos and podcasts using AI. Open-source, multi-platform, and supports multiple languages
🔗 https://github.com/wendy7756/AI-Video-Transcriber
VidBee. Download videos from almost any website worldwide
🔗 https://github.com/nexmoe/VidBee
PyVideoTrans. Translate the video from one language to another and embed dubbing & subtitles
🔗 https://github.com/jianchang512/pyvideotrans
Link Cleaner. Progressive Web App for removing tracking code and other variables from web links
🔗 https://github.com/corbindavenport/link-cleaner
Web-Use is an intelligent autonomous browsing agent, built to seamlessly navigate websites, interact with dynamic content, perform smart searches, download files, and adapt to ever-changing pages - all with minimal effort from you. Powered by advanced LLMs and the Chrome DevTools Protocol, it transforms complex web tasks into streamlined, automated workflows that boost productivity and save time
🔗 https://github.com/CursorTouch/Web-Use
Telegram MCP server powered by Telethon to let MCP clients read chats, manage groups, and send/modify messages, media, contacts, and settings
🔗 https://github.com/chigwell/telegram-mcp
LLM Wiki Agent. MCP server that turns raw sources into an interlinked Obsidian wiki with Claude Code
🔗 https://github.com/Anton15K/llm_wiki_agent
AgentSGE. Open-source CLI for AGENTS.md, .agents project memory, MCP sync, and automatic knowledge capture across AI coding agents
🔗 https://github.com/66reapollo2/agentsge
LLM Anonymization. Reverse proxy for Claude Code that anonymizes sensitive pentest data (IPs, hashes, credentials, hostnames, PII) before it reaches Anthropic. Dual-layer detection: local Ollama LLM + regex safety net, with per-engagement vault and self-improving feedback loop
🔗 https://github.com/zeroc00I/LLM-anonymization
LangExtract. A Python library for extracting structured information from unstructured text using LLMs with precise source grounding and interactive visualization
🔗 https://github.com/google/langextract
RTK. CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies
🔗 https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk
Git Guide. This repository contains comprehensive documentation for the Git version control system. It contains all the necessary commands, usage examples, best practices, and branching strategies
🔗 https://github.com/DaniilGavrin/git-guide
Trace MCP. MCP server for Claude Code and Codex. One tool call replaces ~42 minutes of agent exploration
🔗 https://github.com/nikolai-vysotskyi/trace-mcp
Fish AI. Supercharge your command line with LLMs and get shell scripting assistance in Fish
🔗 https://github.com/Realiserad/fish-ai/
cc-gateway. AI API identity gateway - reverse proxy that normalizes device fingerprints and telemetry for privacy-preserving API proxying
🔗 https://github.com/motiful/cc-gateway
FastHTTP. Async HTTP client with expressive logging and route-based requests
🔗 https://github.com/ndugram/fasthttp
Pearcer. An alternative, better tool similar to Wireshark
🔗 https://github.com/Jackson-pearce/Pearcer
Vigil TUI. Real-time terminal power monitor - CPU, GPU, RAM wattage dashboard Visibility
🔗 https://github.com/GIN-SYSTEMS/vigil-tui
CheckCle is a self-hosted, open-source monitoring platform for seamless, real-time full-stack systems, applications, and infrastructure. It provides real-time uptime monitoring, distributed checks, incident tracking, and alerts. All deployable anywhere
🔗 https://github.com/operacle/checkcle
Mysterium Network Node. Official implementation of distributed VPN network (dVPN) protocol
🔗 https://github.com/mysteriumnetwork/node
Proxelar. A programmable MITM proxy that intercepts HTTP/HTTPS traffic so you don't have to guess what your app is doing. Forward & reverse modes, TLS interception, TUI, terminal, and web GUI
🔗 https://github.com/emanuele-em/proxelar
local-domain-proxy. Local reverse proxy for mapping external websites to a local domain with response rewriting, HTTPS, subdomain support, WebSocket proxying, and optional Burp integration
🔗 https://github.com/artebels/local-domain-proxy
Anubis. Android app manager with VPN integration. Manages groups of apps by freezing/unfreezing them based on VPN connection state
🔗 https://github.com/sogonov/anubis
Hail. Disable / Hide / Suspend / Uninstall Android apps without root
🔗 https://github.com/aistra0528/Hail/tree/master
MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) helps with conducting forensics of mobile devices in order to find signs of a potential compromise
🔗 https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt
Thor is an open source, 3D printed, 6 degrees of freedom robotic arm. Designed to be affordable and accessible, Thor is ideal for educational settings, makers, and robotics enthusiasts. With a height of 625mm it has the capacity to lift up to 750g. Its yaw-roll-roll-yaw-roll-yaw configuration is common in industrial manipulators
🔗 https://github.com/AngelLM/Thor/
reBot-DevArm. Open Source Robotic Arm for All Developers
🔗 https://github.com/eudk/rebot-devarm
Public Record Search Link Database
🔗 https://osintcabal.org/TOOLS/publicrecords.html
Self-Hosted Apps and Alternatives. A comprehensive online directory (including a newsletter) of self-hosted applications that can serve as an alternative to popular cloud services. To search for open-source projects, use the licence type filter
OSINT Cabal. Catalogue of Tools & Resources, Methods & Guides database, OSINT & Cybersecurity News Feed, Cabal Threat Actor Dashboard
- Substack: https://osintech.substack.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osintech/details/featured/
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Free to read. Manually curated. Minimal noise.
All tools and techniques documented in the dataset are presented for informational,
educational and information security purposes only.
The dataset does not promote or endorse illegal activities.
Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws and ethical standards.
The dataset is updated on a regular basis.
Future posts will document changes, notable additions and emerging trends observed within the dataset.
This post serves as an introduction and reference point for those updates.