/PrivateInvestigator

name: PrivateInvestigator
version: 1.1.18
description: "Ethical people-finding and identity verification via parallel research agents across people-search sites, social media, public records, and reverse phone/email/image/username lookups, with confidence-scored results requiring 3+ matching identifiers. USE WHEN find person, locate person, reconnect, lost contact, old friend, reverse phone lookup, who owns this email, reverse image search, find by username, verify identity, people search, public-data background check, who is this caller. NOT FOR structured due-diligence or company/entity intelligence investigations, or general web research synthesis (use Research)."

Customization

**Before executing, check for user customizations at:** `~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/PrivateInvestigator/`

If this directory exists, load and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.

🚨 MANDATORY: Voice Notification (REQUIRED BEFORE ANY ACTION)

**You MUST send this notification BEFORE doing anything else when this skill is invoked.**

1. **Send voice notification**:

   curl -s -X POST http://localhost:31337/notify \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"message": "Running the WORKFLOWNAME workflow in the PrivateInvestigator skill to ACTION"}' \
     > /dev/null 2>&1 &

2. **Output text notification**:

   Running the **WorkflowName** workflow in the **PrivateInvestigator** skill to ACTION...

**This is not optional. Execute this curl command immediately upon skill invocation.**

PrivateInvestigator - Ethical People Finding

What It Does

Finds people and verifies identities using public data only. It covers people-search aggregators, social media, public records, and reverse lookups in parallel, then scores results by confidence (HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW/POSSIBLE) and trusts a match only when 3+ independent identifiers align.

The Problem

Finding a real person from a name, a phone number, or an email is scattered across dozens of sources — people-search sites, county records, court portals, social platforms, reverse-lookup services — and no single one gives you the answer. Common names make it worse: search "John Smith" and you get thousands of people, most of them the wrong one. Run the searches one at a time and you either give up before you've covered enough sources or you act on a single weak match and contact the wrong person. This skill runs the sources in parallel and refuses to call a match real until several independent identifiers line up.

How It Works

**Public data only.** No hacking, pretexting, or authentication bypass — every technique here is legal and ethical. The work runs as a parallel investigation across the source categories below; findings get cross-checked and confidence-scored before anything is reported. Choose the fan-out breadth the case needs — a common name across many states wants wide parallel coverage, a rare name in one city wants far less.

Workflow Routing

| Workflow | Trigger | File | |----------|---------|------| | FindPerson | "find person", "locate", "search for [person]", "reconnect", "lost contact" — full parallel-agent investigation | `Workflows/FindPerson.md` | | SocialMediaSearch | "social media search" — cross-platform social media investigation | `Workflows/SocialMediaSearch.md` | | PublicRecordsSearch | "public records" — government and official records search | `Workflows/PublicRecordsSearch.md` | | ReverseLookup | "reverse lookup" — phone, email, image, username searches | `Workflows/ReverseLookup.md` | | VerifyIdentity | "verify identity" — confirm correct person match | `Workflows/VerifyIdentity.md` |

**When executing a workflow, output this notification:**

Running the **WorkflowName** workflow in the **PrivateInvestigator** skill to ACTION...

When to Activate

Direct People-Finding

• "find [person]", "locate [person]", "search for [person]"
• "reconnect with [person]", "looking for lost contact"
• "find an old friend", "locate a former coworker"

Reverse Lookup

• "reverse phone lookup", "who owns this email"
• "reverse image search", "find person by username"

Investigation

• "background check" (public data only)
• "what can you find about [person]"
• "research [person]"

Research Strategy

**Done = broad, independent coverage.** Every source category below is worked, and no key identifier (address, employer, DOB, family, social handle) rests on a single source. Run the categories in parallel — dispatch research agents concurrently in one message — and scale the fan-out to the case: a common name across many states justifies many parallel agents and spelling/location variants; a rare name in one city needs only a few. Independence is the point, not headcount: aggregators that resell the same database count as one source, so weight toward genuinely distinct origins (social the subject created, government records, unrelated aggregators).

Core Capabilities

1. People Search Aggregators

| Service | Type | Best For | |---------|------|----------| | TruePeopleSearch | Free | Best free option, fresh data | | FastPeopleSearch | Free | Basic lookups, no signup | | Spokeo | Freemium | Social media aggregation (120+ networks) | | BeenVerified | Paid | Comprehensive background data |

2. Social Media Investigation

• **Facebook:** Google x-ray searches, mutual friends, groups
• **LinkedIn:** Boolean search, alumni networks
• **Instagram/Twitter/TikTok:** Username patterns, cross-platform correlation

3. Public Records

• **Voter Registration:** Most states publicly available
• **Property Records:** County assessor/recorder sites
• **Court Records:** PACER (federal), state court portals, CourtListener
• **Business Filings:** Secretary of State websites
• **Professional Licenses:** State licensing boards

4. Reverse Lo