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OSINTech's Timeline (176) - 20.08.2026

OSINTech published its weekly curated roundup of OSINT, digital investigation, and security research tools for the week of 14–20 August 2026, highlighting projects including Registry Lookup, Fleetbase, Semtools, and a local Transcription Suite. The list also features AI-oriented tools such as an LLM proxy router with a built-in coding agent, the fenic DataFrame pipeline for AI-assisted data exploration, and an agent skill that synthesizes research across Reddit, X, YouTube, and Hacker News. The curator framed the selection as tools users can "open, verify, and actually use," explicitly excluding hype-driven AI startups.

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OSINTech's Timeline (176) - 20.08.2026
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Tree Leaf

Week of 14 — 20 August 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.

🧭 Featured Project

Get SMS Online has been providing temporary phone numbers for SMS verification since 2016. Our service lets you receive SMS online and verify accounts on more than 700 popular websites and apps, including social media platforms, email providers, messaging apps, online marketplaces, dating services, and much more:

Your project can be featured here. To collaborate, please send me a private message: @OSINTech

🌍 Regional & Thematic OSINT

Registry Lookup. The open database of legal entities. One search across the world’s company registries. Find the legal entity behind a business name using registry numbers, status, addresses, LEIs, and official identifiers:

🔗 https://registry-lookup.com/ OSINT of Myanmar by Unishka Research Service:

🛠 OSINT Tools, Services & Investigations

Fleetbase is a modular logistics and supply chain operating system designed to streamline management, planning, optimization, and operational control across various sectors of the supply chain industry:

🔗 https://github.com/fleetbase/fleetbase Semtools. Semantic search and document parsing tools for the command line:

🔗 https://github.com/run-llama/semtools Transcription Suite. A fully local and private Speech-To-Text app, offering multiple model backends, diarization & calendar mode. Available for Windows, macOS & Linux:

🔗 https://github.com/homelab-00/TranscriptionSuite Watermarks Remover. Strip multi-vendor AI provenance marks: Unicode text hygiene, statistical rewrite hooks, and C2PA/metadata from PNG/JPEG/SVG/PDF/DOCX/HTML/MD:

🔗 https://github.com/guillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover Artist Ninja Image Search. Free reverse image search online tool. Find matching images, partly matching images and similar images.

🔗 https://artist.ninja/reverse-image-search Human Text Editor HTE. This simulates human typing for free and has many cool features that help with typing and replacing existing text with modified text in a human like way without deleting the entire text block and just pasting the new text:

🔗 https://github.com/Wart050/Human-Text-Editor-HTE

🤖 Universal Search & AI

LLM Proxy Router + Coding Agent. High-Availability LLM API Proxy with Desktop GUI. A local Electron application that runs a fallback LLM proxy server on your machine, plus a built-in coding agent. Configure a list of provider endpoints (API base URLs, API keys via environment variables, model names), and the proxy automatically routes requests to the fastest healthy endpoint, falls back through the rest in parallel when one fails, and learns at runtime to optimize routing:

🔗 https://github.com/burny143/llm-router fenic turns AI-assisted exploration of structured and unstructured data into reusable, inspectable DataFrame pipelines:

🔗 https://github.com/typedef-ai/fenic /last30days-skill. AI agent skill that researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, Polymarket, and the web - then synthesizes a grounded summary:

🔗 https://github.com/mvanhorn/last30days-skill MCP Context Forge. An AI Gateway, registry, and proxy that sits in front of any MCP, A2A, or REST/gRPC APIs, exposing a unified endpoint with centralized discovery, guardrails and management. Optimizes Agent & Tool calling, and supports plugins:

🔗 https://github.com/IBM/mcp-context-forge Tracely is a tool designed for tracing and monitoring AI model interactions, enabling you to gain real-time insights into your models’ performance. This repository offers a straightforward interface for integrating tracing into your Python applications:

🔗 https://github.com/evidentlyai/tracely GraphGen. Enhancing Supervised Fine-Tuning for LLMs with Knowledge-Driven Synthetic Data Generation:

🔗 https://github.com/InternScience/GraphGen Graft. Turbocharge Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini & every coding agent: faster, cheaper, with contextual understanding specific to your codebase:

🔗 https://github.com/NanoNets/Graft Multi Agent Generator. Low-code/no-code python library that transforms plain English instructions into fully configured multi-agent AI teams:

🔗 https://github.com/aakriti1318/multi-agent-generator Corsair is the unified integration layer for your agents. Connect your Corsair instance to your agent and immediately get access to every integration. Your agent never sees the credentials, and you control exactly what it can do:

🔗 https://github.com/corsairdev/corsair Skales. Personal AI desktop agent for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android & iOS. Set a goal, it works on its own. Teams (pair two desktops, agents + humans), Agent2Agent, Workflows, Codework, multi-agent orgs, desktop + browser automation. 15+ AI providers, BYOK. No Docker, no terminal. Agent Skills (SKILL.md). Migration importer. Recurring autonomous tasks:

🔗 https://github.com/skalesapp/skales RepoRewind is a next-generation developer tool that transforms dry git log histories into breathtaking 3D WebGL visualizations. It instantly spins up a local server and opens a beautiful dark-mode interface where your repository is represented as a living, glowing 3D network graph:

🔗 https://github.com/Cristofervaltz/RepoRewind Shepherd is an open source, fully featured, digital adoption platform (DAP) and user on-boarding service:

🔗 https://github.com/shipshapecode/shepherd Exxperts. Local-first AI agents with governed, approval-gated memory. Any model provider; MCP tools and web search built in. Nothing remembered without your say-so, nothing leaves your machine:

🔗 https://github.com/EXXETA/exxperts Vault-LD. An open spec for Markdown vaults as linked data. YAML-LD frontmatter + a shared @context = an RDF knowledge graph. Prose for humans and LLMs, triples for machines:

🔗 https://github.com/The-Knowledge-Graph-Guys/vault-ld PentestCode. Multi-agent AI penetration testing system with persistent engagement state, strategic coordination, and parallel autonomous operations:

🔗 https://github.com/s0ld13rr/pentestcode

👨💻 Software Development & APIs

Krawl is a customizable, lightweight, cloud-native web deception server and anti-crawler that creates fake web applications with low-hanging vulnerabilities using realistic, randomly generated decoy data and AI-generated HTML templates:

🔗 https://github.com/BlessedRebuS/Krawl Anakin. Open-source web scraping API. Turn any website into clean markdown or structured JSON. Anti-detect browser, proxy auto-selection, self-hosted:

🔗 https://github.com/Anakin-Inc/anakin

🐧 Linux & DevOps

SuperLog. Open-source observability tool that uses AI agents to self-heal your software:

🔗 https://github.com/superloglabs/superlog

🔌 Hardware & Devices

Damn Vulnerable Drone is an intentionally vulnerable drone hacking simulator based on the popular ArduPilot/MAVLink architecture, providing a realistic environment for hands-on drone hacking:

🔗 https://github.com/nicholasaleks/Damn-Vulnerable-Drone

🚨 From CyberDetective

Information Gathering using Spiderfoot. A Practical Walkthrough:

🔗 https://www.infosectrain.com/blog/information-gathering-using-spiderfoot-a-practical-walkthrough 📌 Where to Follow

- **LinkedIn:** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/osintech/details/featured/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/osintech/details/featured/)

If this timeline saves you time, it’s doing its job.

Free to read. Manually curated. Minimal noise.

📌 Legal and ethical note

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.

📌 About future updates

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.

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