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secrets-in-file-metadata

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Find the provenance clues hidden inside your files.

What it does

Extracts file metadata and assesses what it reveals about location, timing, authorship, devices, and provenance.

When to use it

Use for photo metadata, document authorship, file dating, device fingerprinting, provenance investigations, and pre-publication redaction checks.

How to use it

Give it photos, videos, or documents; it returns metadata-based findings graded by corroboration and contradictions.

What you provide

  • Your files

Good to know

  • cannot be undone: outgoing.jpg

Latest review

What you need · 6

Requires exiftool for local metadata extraction; the instructions explicitly tell the agent to install it.

Enables the video-specific analysis of container and per-track metadata alongside exiftool.


Access · 3

This skill

outgoing.jpg

Write

Strips metadata from outgoing images (irreversible)

CMS media directories

Read

Retrieves original uploaded images