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Imported from mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills (skills/implementing-deception-based-detection-with-canarytoken/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills --skill implementing-deception-based-detection-with-canarytoken. Copyright stays with the author (Apache-2.0).

Implementing Deception-Based Detection with Canarytoken

Name: implementing-deception-based-detection-with-canarytoken
Author: mukul975

Overview

Canary Tokens are lightweight tripwire mechanisms that alert when an attacker accesses a resource. This skill uses the Thinkst Canary REST API to programmatically create tokens (web bugs, DNS tokens, MS Word documents, AWS API keys), deploy them to strategic locations, monitor for triggered alerts, and generate deception coverage reports.

When to Use

When deploying or configuring implementing deception based detection with canarytoken capabilities in your environment
When establishing security controls aligned to compliance requirements
When building or improving security architecture for this domain
When conducting security assessments that require this implementation

Prerequisites

Thinkst Canary Console or canarytokens.org account
API auth token from Canary Console
Python 3.9+ with requests
File system access for deploying document and file tokens

Steps

Authenticate to the Canary Console API using auth_token
Create web bug (HTTP) tokens for embedding in documents and web pages
Create DNS tokens for monitoring DNS resolution attempts
Create MS Word document tokens for file share deployment
List all active tokens and their trigger history
Query recent alerts for triggered token events
Generate deception coverage report with deployment recommendations

Expected Output

JSON report listing all deployed Canary Tokens, trigger history, alert details, and coverage analysis
Deployment map showing token types across network segments

Use it

Copy one of these into your project. Installing also returns the manifest and these snippets.

yaml

targets:
  - https://api.opensmartroute.ai/api/v1/registry/mukul975-anthropic-cybersecurity-skills-implementing-dec-5d4994/manifest   # or paste the manifest below

Manifest

An Open Capability Manifest: the router reads it to know what this does, what it costs and when to pick it.

mukul975-anthropic-cybersecurity-skills-implementing-dec-5d4994.ocm.jsonjson

{
  "ocm": "1",
  "id": "mukul975-anthropic-cybersecurity-skills-implementing-dec-5d4994",
  "kind": "skill",
  "name": "implementing-deception-based-detection-with-canarytoken",
  "description": "Deploys and monitors Canary Tokens via the Thinkst Canary REST API for deception-based breach detection, programmatically creating web bug, DNS, MS Word document, and AWS API key tokens and generating deception coverage reports from triggered alerts. Use when standing up honeytoken tripwires for early breach detection or building a deception-technology coverage report.",
  "publisher": "mukul975",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "capabilities": {
    "domains": [
      "coding"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "skill-md",
      "canarytoken",
      "deception",
      "honeytokens",
      "breach-detection",
      "thinkst-canary",
      "tripwire",
      "early-warning",
      "skills-sh"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "en"
    ]
  },
  "quality_prior": 0.6,
  "examples": [
    "Deploys and monitors Canary Tokens via the Thinkst Canary REST API for deception-based breach detection, programmatically creating web bug, DNS, MS Word document, and AWS API key tokens and generating deception coverage reports from triggered alerts. Use when standing up honeytoken tripwires for early breach detection or building a deception-technology coverage report."
  ],
  "primary": false,
  "metadata": {
    "source": {
      "provider": "skills.sh",
      "repository": "https://github.com/mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills",
      "path": "skills/implementing-deception-based-detection-with-canarytoken/SKILL.md",
      "ref": "HEAD",
      "url": "https://github.com/mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/implementing-deception-based-detection-with-canarytoken/SKILL.md",
      "key": "mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills/skills/implementing-deception-based-detection-with-canarytoken/SKILL.md"
    },
    "license": "Apache-2.0"
  },
  "instructions": "# Implementing Deception-Based Detection with Canarytoken\n\n## Overview\n\nCanary Tokens are lightweight tripwire mechanisms that alert when an attacker accesses a resource. This skill uses the Thinkst Canary REST API to programmatically create tokens (web bugs, DNS tokens, MS Word documents, AWS API keys), deploy them to strategic locations, monitor for triggered alerts, and generate deception coverage reports.\n\n\n## When to Use\n\n- When deploying or configuring implementing deception based detection with canarytoken capabilities in your environment\n- When establishing security controls aligned to",
  "cost": {
    "context_tokens": 395
  }
}

Fetch it by URL: GET /api/v1/registry/mukul975-anthropic-cybersecurity-skills-implementing-dec-5d4994/manifest?version=1.0.0

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