Osquery Query Helper

What it does

The osquery-query-helper skill allows AI agents to construct and execute OSQuery queries. It can retrieve system information, identify potential security issues, and perform targeted searches across a host's configuration and running processes. This skill simplifies interacting with the OSQuery framework for tasks like inventory management and threat hunting.

When to use it

• Asset Inventory: Quickly gather details about installed software, hardware configurations, or user accounts on a system.
• Security Auditing: Identify potentially vulnerable services, misconfigurations, or unusual process activity.
• Troubleshooting: Investigate performance issues by querying resource utilization and system metrics.
• Compliance Checks: Verify adherence to security policies by searching for specific configurations or software versions.

Key capabilities

• Constructs OSQuery SQL queries.
• Executes queries against a target host (implicitly).
• Retrieves results from the query execution.
• Provides structured data output based on query results.

Example prompts

• "Find all processes running as root."
• "What versions of Apache are installed?"
• "Show me all users with sudo privileges."
• "List all files modified in the last 24 hours."

Tips & gotchas

• Requires a working OSQuery installation and configuration on the target system.
• The skill's effectiveness depends on the quality of the OSQuery schema and configurations available on the target host.