secrets-in-file-metadata
Extract and interpret embedded file metadata with exiftool — EXIF GPS coordinates, camera make, model and serial, DateTimeOriginal and CreateDate timestamps, XMP and IPTC fields, and Office and PDF properties such as Author, Company, LastModifiedBy, template paths and revision counts. Use when reading EXIF from a photo, checking who really wrote a document, dating a file, fingerprinting a camera or phone, or…
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An agent skill that teaches an AI coding agent to extract and interpret embedded file metadata using exiftool, covering EXIF GPS, camera identifiers, timestamps, XMP/IPTC fields, and Office/PDF document properties. It bundles an ethics reference, an exiftool cookbook, and a tag catalogue, with guidance on where to look, confidence grading, and legal constraints.
Reach for it when you need to pull investigative leads like GPS coordinates, authorship, or device fingerprints out of files without guessing which metadata tags matter.
Use it to
- Read EXIF GPS and camera details from a photo
- Check who really authored a DOCX or PDF
- Date a file via DateTimeOriginal and CreateDate
- Fingerprint a camera or phone by serial number
- Run pre-publication redaction checks on documents
For OSINT investigators and analysts examining file provenance
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- Shell