Forensics Osquery

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Security · Sub-category: forensics

SQL-powered forensic investigation and system interrogation using osquery to query operating systems as relational databases. Enables rapid evidence collection, threat hunting, and incident response across Linux, macOS, and Windows endpoints. Use when: (1) Investigating security incidents and collecting forensic artifacts, (2) Threat hunting across endpoints for suspicious activity, (3) Analyzing running processes, network connections, and persistence mechanisms, (4) Collecting system state during incident response, (5) Querying file hashes, user activity, and system configuration for compromise indicators, (6) Building detection queries for continuous monitoring with osqueryd.

What this skill does

Forensics Osquery is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the forensics sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/forensics-osquery/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when: (1) Investigating security incidents and collecting forensic artifacts, (2) Threat hunting across endpoints for suspicious activity, (3) Analyzing running processes, network connections, and persistence mechanisms, (4) Collecting system state during incident response, (5) Querying file hashes, user activity, and system configuration for compromise indicators, (6) Building detection queries for continuous monitoring with osqueryd.

Who uses this skill

The Forensics Osquery skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/forensics-osquery
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/forensics-osquery/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/forensics-osquery/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/forensics-osquery/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/forensics-osquery/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\forensics-osquery\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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