Surveillance & Tradecraft
The discipline behind the camera.
Mission planning, foot and vehicle surveillance (single and team), counter-surveillance, cover and persona, surveillance technology (GPS, ALPR, drone, pole, CSLI), interview methodology (PEACE, HIG, cognitive), authorized social engineering and red-team execution, source handling — plus executive protection and travel security (advance work, motorcade, protective intelligence, ISO 31030).
2026.6 edition · revised continuously
The kind of specific ChatGPT won't give you.
Real example pulled from inside skill #597 — Delivery Impersonation Physical Entry Execution, included in this bundle. Ask any vanilla LLM for prop guidance on an authorized red-team engagement and you'll get either a refusal or a generic "wear a hi-vis vest." Here is what skill #597 actually says.
"A plain insulated red grocery bag — for example, a generic HorYg Reinforced Insulated Grocery Bag (~$15–25, no logo) — reads as 'food delivery' to anyone glancing at you, without being branded as any specific service."
- —No logo to invalidate the cover if the target knows which services they actually use.
- —Form factor matches DoorDash, UberEats, Grubhub, Instacart, Caviar, any generic food-delivery.
- —Cheap enough to retire after a single engagement.
- —Plausible across corporate reception, residential lobby, apartment building, hotel corridor, gated community, mixed-use loading dock, condominium gate.
"Owning a generic insulated bag is not pretense. Pretense begins when you pair it with a verbal claim of affiliation with a real corporation — that is where impersonation analysis applies. Inside an authorized red-team engagement, that claim is contractually backed. Outside one, it is not."
ChatGPT will not tell you this. Skill #597 will, every time.
What this bundle gives the agent that ChatGPT alone won't.
Vague 'set up surveillance' answer
Says park nearby, take pictures, don't be seen.
Full surveillance package
Runs surveillance-planning-and-mission-brief → static-observation-post-setup → mobile-vehicle-surveillance-team → counter-surveillance-detection → surveillance-log-and-timekeeping. Produces mission brief, rotation plan, comms plan, log template.
Every skill in this bundle.
All 86 skills, grouped by category. Every skill ships as a full folder — SKILL.md plus runnable scripts, legal references, and field checklists.
Surveillance / tradecraft
13 skills- 115Surveillance Planning and Mission Brief
- 116Static Observation Post Setup
- 117Mobile Foot Surveillance
- 118Mobile Vehicle Surveillance Single
- 119Mobile Vehicle Surveillance Team
- 120Counter Surveillance Detection
- 121Surveillance Detection Route Personal
- 122Covert Photography Evidence Capture
- 123Surveillance Log and Timekeeping
- 124Opsec for Investigators
- 125Communications Security Team
- 126Cover and Persona Development
- 654Surveillance Detection and Counter Surveillance Routes
Surveillance technology
8 skills- 304GPS Tracker Legality and Use
- 305Body Camera Protocols and Redaction
- 306Cctv Canvassing Workflow
- 307Drone Surveillance Legality and Use
- 308Pole Camera and Fixed Surveillance
- 309CSLI Cell Site Data Investigation
- 310Vehicle Telematics Onstar Tesla Investigation
- 311TSCM Technical Surveillance Countermeasures Basics
Interviewing — core
6 skills- 127Interview Planning and Pretext
- 128PEACE Model Interviewing
- 129Cognitive Interview Technique
- 130Detecting Deception Evidence Based
- 131Witness vs Subject Interviewing
- 132Taking and Transcribing Statements
Interview & interrogation — expanded
17 skills- 229Reid Technique and Its Critiques
- 230HIG Rapport Based Interrogation
- 231Strategic Use of Evidence SUE
- 232Funnel and Cone Questioning
- 233Interview Room Setup and Recording Standards
- 234Tactical Empathy and Mirroring
- 235Juvenile Interview Protocols
- 236Vulnerable Witness Interview Protocols
- 237Trauma Informed Interviewing
- 238Forensic Interview of Children Ncac Model
- 239Hostile Witness Handling
- 240Interpreter and Translator Use in Interviews
- 241Miranda Warning and Waiver Documentation
- 242Custodial vs Non Custodial Analysis
- 243Consent to Search Dialogue and Documentation
- 244Confession Corroboration and False Confession Risks
- 650Witness Credibility Assessment
Social engineering (lawful)
12 skills- 245Pretexting Framework Lawful
- 246Vishing Engagement Design
- 247Smishing Engagement Design
- 248Phishing Campaign Design Authorized
- 249Physical Pretext Tailgating Assessment
- 250USB Drop Engagement Design
- 251OSINT for Engagement Targeting
- 252Pretext Call Script Development
- 253Elicitation vs Interrogation vs Pretext
- 254Defensive Social Engineering Training Design
- 255BEC Business Email Compromise Investigation
- 256Social Engineering Engagement Reporting
Source handling
5 skills- 341Chs Confidential Source Recruitment
- 342Source Vetting and Reliability Grading
- 343Source Motivation Analysis MICE RASCLSE
- 344Source Tasking and Debriefing
- 345Source Documentation and Deconfliction
Red Team and Adversary Tactics
15 skills- 597Delivery Impersonation Physical Entry Execution
- 598Tailgating Execution Tradecraft
- 599Phone Pretext Call Execution
- 600Vishing Redirect and Pivot
- 601Smishing Conversion and Handoff
- 602Badge Cloning Execution Authorized
- 603USB Drop Operational Execution
- 604Dumpster Diving Authorized Execution
- 605Social Engineering Conversation Control
- 606Building Recon Pre Engagement No Entry
- 607Pretext Blown Recovery Tradecraft
- 646Red Team Rules of Engagement Drafting
- 647Red Team Arrest and Detention Contingency
- 648Red Team After Action Reporting Discipline
- 649Client Debrief and Defensive Controls Translation
Executive protection & travel security
10 skills- 608Executive Protection Advance Work
- 609Executive Protection Motorcade Fundamentals
- 610Executive Protection Residence Security Survey
- 611Protective Driver and Evasive Driving Tradecraft
- 612Protective Intelligence and Threat Assessment for Ep
- 613Hostile Environment Awareness Training Fundamentals
- 614International Pre Travel Risk Assessment
- 615Duty of Care and Iso 31030 Travel Security
- 616Medical Evacuation and Trauma Readiness
- 617Corporate Extortion and Virtual Kidnap Response
Skills that stay current.
Buy Surveillance & Tradecraft once to own it, frozen at this edition. Add the Update Subscription ($10/mo) and every revision to everything you own lands on your machine as we ship it — new case law, new platforms, new tactics. Cancel anytime; downloads stay yours.
How it worksGive the agent real tools.
36 pre-vetted MCP servers (Maigret, Shodan, Wayback, EdgarTools, Etherscan, Volatility, +30 more) wired into Claude Code / Desktop / Cursor / Windsurf so your agent actually runs the tools — not just suggests them.
What's in the toolkitRun agents in parallel.
Orchestrator.md — one file that makes an advanced LLM automatically spin up multiple agents at once (people, businesses, case-facts review, report writing) and merge them into one case file. Free with the all-bundle package, or $100 on its own.
See the example