cyber-ir-playbook

What This Skill Does

The cyber-ir-playbook skill is a specialized framework designed for security operations teams and incident responders to streamline the creation of formal incident response timelines and comprehensive report packs. It ingests raw, timestamped event logs and automatically categorizes them into standard NIST-aligned incident response phases: Detection, Containment, Eradication, Recovery, and Post-Incident. By leveraging the internal scripts, the skill ensures that messy data is transformed into a clean, chronological narrative suitable for both technical forensic analysis and executive-level summaries. It removes the administrative burden of manual timeline creation, allowing security professionals to focus on remediation efforts rather than documentation.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, use the OpenClaw command-line interface. Run the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/0x-professor/cyber-ir-playbook

Ensure that you have the appropriate permissions to access the scripts folder and that Python 3.x is configured correctly within your agent environment, as the skill relies on internal scripts for deterministic report generation.

Use Cases

• Executive Briefings: Quickly generate a high-level summary of an incident's progression for stakeholders who need to understand the 'who, what, and when' without getting bogged down in raw log data.
• Forensic Reconstruction: Use the automated timeline to identify gaps in data collection or to correlate activities across different network security sensors.
• Post-Mortem Documentation: Facilitate lessons-learned sessions by having a structured, phase-based report that identifies how long the team took to reach the containment phase versus the eradication phase.
• Compliance Reporting: Provide auditors with standardized reports that prove adherence to your organization's internal incident response policy.

Example Prompts

• "Analyze the logs in /tmp/incident_logs.json and build a timeline classified by NIST IR phases. Output the results as an executive-ready report."
• "Using the ir_timeline_report.py script, generate a CSV timeline from my logs and highlight any events that occurred outside of standard working hours."
• "Create a summary for the CISO detailing the recovery phase progress based on the current incident log state and identify any remaining gaps in the eradication process."

Tips & Limitations

• Data Quality: The quality of your report is entirely dependent on the quality of your timestamps. Ensure all incoming logs are synced via NTP.
• Contextualization: While the skill categorizes events, adding custom tags or human-in-the-loop validation during the 'Post-Incident' phase review is highly recommended for accuracy.
• Offensive Restriction: This skill is strictly for defensive purposes. It will reject attempts to generate exploit payloads or offensive orchestration instructions.
• Resource Usage: For extremely large log files, consider filtering your events to the relevant time window before feeding them to the script to avoid timeouts.