Built with Next.js, MapLibre GL, FastAPI, and Python. 40+ toggleable data layers, including SAR ground-change detection, Telegram OSINT (public channel previews geoparsed onto the map), a server-side recon toolkit (DNS, WHOIS, sanctions, BGP, IP sweep, and more), supply-chain risk overlays, and malware/C2 + CISA KEV cyber threat feeds. Multiple visual modes (DEFAULT / SATELLITE / FLIR / NVG / CRT). Right-click any point on Earth for a country dossier, head-of-state lookup, entity-graph expansion, and the latest Sentinel-2 satellite photo. ShadowBroker has no accounts, product telemetry, or analytics; the dashboard talks to your self-hosted backend. Sensitive recon and Shodan queries never hit third-party APIs from the browser — they are proxied through the backend with SSRF guards and local-operator auth. The OpenClaw / agent command channel exposes the same recon backends plus full telemetry search — no separate API integration required.

Designed for analysts, researchers, radio operators, and anyone who wants to see what the world looks like when every public signal is on the same map.

A surprising amount of global telemetry is already public — aircraft ADS-B broadcasts, maritime AIS signals, satellite orbital data, earthquake sensors, mesh radio networks, police scanner feeds, environmental monitoring stations, internet infrastructure telemetry, and more. This data is scattered across dozens of tools and APIs. ShadowBroker combines all of it into a single interface.

The project does not introduce new surveillance capabilities — it aggregates and visualizes existing public datasets. It is fully open-source so anyone can audit exactly what data is accessed and how. ShadowBroker does not include product telemetry, analytics, or accounts. Operator-supplied keys stay in your local deployment, but live OSINT features necessarily make outbound requests to the public data providers you enable or query.

ShadowBroker includes an optional Shodan connector for operator-supplied API access (SHODAN_API_KEY) and a Recon Toolkit panel for keyless OSINT lookups. Both run server-side only: the browser calls your self-hosted /api/osint/* and /api/tools/shodan/* routes; outbound requests are made by the backend after SSRF validation. Recon requires local-operator access (same trust model as layer toggles and admin routes). Shodan results render as a separate map overlay and remain subject to Shodan’s terms of service.

• Track Air Force One, the private jets of billionaires and dictators, and every military tanker, ISR, and fighter broadcasting ADS-B. Air Force One and all of the accompanying Presidential/Vice Presidential planes are highlighted and monitored from the moment they leave the ground.
• Connect an AI agent as a co-analyst through ShadowBroker's HMAC-signed agentic command channel — supports OpenClaw and any other agent that speaks the protocol (Claude, GPT, LangChain, custom). The agent gets full read/write access to all 40+ data layers, compact cross-layer search (search_telemetry, search_news), the full recon toolkit (osint_lookup for IP/DNS/WHOIS/sanctions/CVE/etc.), entity-graph expansion, pin placement, map control, SAR ground-change, mesh networking, and alert delivery. It sees everything the operator sees and can take actions on the map in real time.
• Communicate on the InfoNet testnet — The first decentralized intelligence mesh built into an OSINT tool. Obfuscated messaging with gate personas, Dead Drop peer-to-peer exchange, and a built-in terminal CLI. No accounts, no signup. Privacy is not guaranteed yet — this is an experimental testnet — but the protocol is live and being hardened.
• Right-click anywhere on Earth for a country dossier (head of state, population, languages), Wikipedia summary, and the latest Sentinel-2 satellite photo at 10m resolution
• Click a KiwiSDR node and tune into live shortwave radio directly in the dashboard. Click a police scanner feed and eavesdrop in one click.
• Watch 11,000+ CCTV cameras across 6 countries — London, NYC, California, Spain, Singapore, and more — streaming live on the map
• See GPS jamming zones in real time — derived from NAC-P degradation analysis of aircraft transponder data
• Monitor satellites overhead color-coded by mission type — military recon, SIGINT, SAR, early warning, space stations — with SatNOGS and TinyGS ground station networks
• Track naval traffic including 25,000+ AIS vessels, fishing activity via Global Fishing Watch, and billionaire superyachts
• Follow earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, active wildfires (NASA FIRMS), severe weather alerts, and air quality readings worldwide
• Map military bases, 35,000+ power plants, 2,000+ data centers, and internet outage regions — cross-referenced automatically
• Connect to Meshtastic mesh radio nodes and APRS amateur radio networks — visible on the map and integrated into Mesh Chat
• Detect ground changes through cloud cover with SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) — mm-scale ground deformation, flood extent, vegetation disturbance, and damage assessments from NASA OPERA and Copernicus EGMS. Define your own watch areas and get anomaly alerts. Free with a NASA Earthdata account.
• Switch visual modes — DEFAULT, SATELLITE, FLIR (thermal), NVG (night vision), CRT (retro terminal) — via the STYLE button
• Track trains across the US (Amtrak) and Europe (DigiTraffic) in real time
• Estimate where US aircraft carriers are using automated GDELT news scraping — no other open tool does this
• Search internet-connected devices worldwide via Shodan — cameras, SCADA systems, databases — plotted as a live overlay on the map
• Run a full recon toolkit from the left sidebar — IP geolocation, DNS, RDAP/WHOIS, certificate transparency, BGP/ASN, OFAC sanctions search, CVE lookup, Tor/OTX threat checks, and subnet sweeps (InternetDB proxied server-side)
• Expand an entity graph when you select an aircraft, vessel, company, or IP — Wikidata + OFAC + live store cross-links rendered in the Entity Graph panel
• Monitor supply-chain risk — Tier 1/2 semiconductor and battery fabs scored against nearby earthquakes, wildfires, and conflict events (SCM panel)
• Toggle malware C2 hotspots — abuse.ch Feodo Tracker + URLhaus feeds mapped by country (opt-in layer)
• Monitor Telegram OSINT channels — public t.me/s war/conflict feeds (OSINTdefender, NEXTA, etc.) scraped hourly, risk-scored, geoparsed to metro anchors, and plotted as clickable map pins with inline media
• Overlay global submarine cables — static TeleGeography-derived cable routes (opt-in layer)

For high-availability deployments or home-lab clusters, ShadowBroker supports deployment via Helm. This chart is based on the bjw-s-labs template and provides a robust, modular setup for both the backend and frontend.

1. Add the Repository:

helm repo add bjw-s-labs https://bjw-s-labs.github.io/helm-charts/
helm repo update

2. Install the Chart:

# Default — pulls images from GHCR
helm install shadowbroker ./helm/chart --create-namespace --namespace shadowbroker

# GitLab registry variant
helm install shadowbroker ./helm/chart --create-namespace --namespace shadowbroker \
  -f helm/chart/values.yaml \
  -f helm/chart/values-gitlab.yaml

3. Key Features:

• Modular Architecture: Individually scale the intelligence backend and the HUD frontend.
• Security Context: Runs with restricted UIDs (1001) for container hardening.
• Ingress Ready: Compatible with Traefik, Cert-Manager, and Gateway API for secure, external access to your intelligence node.

Special thanks to @chr0n1x for contributing the initial Kubernetes architecture.

ShadowBroker v0.9.7 ships InfoNet (decentralized intelligence mesh + Sovereign Shell governance economy), an agentic AI command channel (supports OpenClaw and any HMAC-signing agent), Time Machine snapshot playback, and SAR satellite ground-change detection. This is an experimental testnet — not a private messenger and not a production governance system.

Do not transmit anything sensitive on any channel. Treat all lanes as open and public for now. E2E encryption and deeper native/Tauri hardening are the next milestones. If you fork this project, keep these labels intact and do not make stronger privacy claims than the implementation supports.

For a full picture of what the mesh actually defends against and what it doesn't, read the threat model and the claims reconciliation. Every sentence above is mapped there to the code path that enforces it (or doesn't).

🧅 InfoNet — Decentralized Intelligence Mesh + Sovereign Shell (expanded in v0.9.7)

The first decentralized intelligence communication and governance layer built directly into an OSINT platform. No accounts, no signup, no identity required. v0.9.7 promotes InfoNet from a chat layer into a full governance economy with a clear path to a privacy-preserving decentralized intelligence platform.

Communication layer (since v0.9.6):

• InfoNet Experimental Testnet — A global, obfuscated message relay using Tor and Reticulum. Anyone running ShadowBroker can transmit and receive on the InfoNet. Messages pass through a Wormhole relay layer with gate personas, Ed25519 canonical payload signing, and transport obfuscation.
• Mesh Chat Panel — Three-tab interface: INFONET (gate chat with obfuscated transport), MESH (Meshtastic radio integration), DEAD DROP (peer-to-peer message exchange with token-based epoch mailboxes — strongest current lane).
• Gate Persona System — Pseudonymous identities with Ed25519 signing keys, prekey bundles, SAS word contact verification, and abuse reporting.
• Mesh Terminal — Built-in CLI: send, dm, market commands, gate state inspection. Draggable panel, minimizes to the top bar. Type help to see all commands.
• Crypto Stack — Ed25519 signing, X25519 Diffie-Hellman, AESGCM encryption with HKDF key derivation, hash chain commitment system. Double-ratchet DM scaffolding in progress.

Sovereign Shell — governance economy (NEW in v0.9.7):

• Petitions + Governance DSL — On-chain parameter changes via signed petitions. Type-safe payload executor for UPDATE_PARAM, BATCH_UPDATE_PARAMS, ENABLE_FEATURE, and DISABLE_FEATURE. Tunable knobs change by vote — no code deploys required.
• Upgrade-Hash Governance — Protocol upgrades that need new logic (not just parameter changes) vote on a SHA-256 hash of the verified release. 80% supermajority, 40% quorum, 67% Heavy-Node activation. Lifecycle: signatures → voting → challenge window → awaiting readiness → activated.
• Resolution & Dispute Markets — Stake on market resolution outcomes (yes / no / data_unavailable), open disputes with bonded evidence, and stake on dispute confirm-or-reverse. Per-row submission state stays isolated so concurrent actions don't share an in-flight slot.
• Evidence Submission — Bonded evidence bundles with client-side SHA-256 canonicalization that matches Python repr() exactly, so hashes round-trip cleanly through the chain.
• Gate Suspension / Shutdown / Appeals — Filing forms for suspending or shutting down a gate, with a reusable appeal flow auto-targeting the pending petition.
• Bootstrap Eligible-Node-One-Vote — The first 100 markets resolve via one-vote-per-eligible-node instead of stake-weighted resolution. Eligibility: identity age ≥ 3 days, not in predictor exclusion set, valid Argon2id PoW (Heavy-Node-only). Transitions to staked resolution at 1000 nodes.
• Two-Tier State + Epoch Finality — Tier 1 events propagate CRDT-style for low latency; Tier 2 events require epoch finality before they can be acted on. Identity rotation, progressive penalties, ramp milestones, and constitutional invariants enforced via MappingProxyType.
• Adaptive Polling — Sovereign Shell views poll every 8 seconds during active voting / challenge / activation phases, every 30–60 seconds when idle. Voting feels live without a websocket layer.
• Verbatim Diagnostics — Every write button surfaces the backend's verbatim rejection reason. No opaque "denied" toasts.

Privacy primitive runway (NEW in v0.9.7):

• Function Keys — Anonymous Credential Scaffolding — The plumbing is in place for nullifiers, challenge-response, two-phase commit receipts, enumerated denial codes, and batched settlement. Today's challenge-response is an HMAC-based placeholder for integration testing, not a production anonymous or zero-knowledge citizenship proof. True unlinkable issuance still waits on a primitive decision (RSA blind sigs vs BBS+ vs U-Prove vs Idemix).
• Locked Protocol Contracts — Stable interfaces in services/infonet/privacy/contracts.py for ring signatures, stealth addresses, Pedersen commitments, range proofs, and DEX matching. The privacy-core Rust crate is the integration target — no caller of the privacy module needs to know which scheme is active.
• Sprint 11+ Path — When the cryptographic scheme is chosen, primitives wire into the locked Protocols without API churn.

Experimental Testnet — No Privacy Guarantee: InfoNet messages are obfuscated but NOT end-to-end encrypted. The Mesh network (Meshtastic/APRS) is NOT private — radio transmissions are inherently public. The privacy primitive contracts are scaffolded but not yet wired. Do not send anything sensitive on any channel. Treat all channels as open and public for now.

🔍 Recon Toolkit & Shodan (Osiris-derived, security-first)

Adapted from the OSIRIS recon stack (MIT) with ShadowBroker’s proxy model. Attribution: backend/third_party/osiris/NOTICE.md.

Recon Toolkit (left sidebar — local operator only):

• IP / DNS / WHOIS — ip-api.com geolocation, Google DNS-over-HTTPS, RDAP registrant data with optional HTTP security header scoring
• Certificates & BGP — crt.sh subdomain discovery, bgpview.io ASN/prefix lookups
• Threat intel — AlienVault OTX pulses, Tor exit-node checks, optional per-IP/domain reputation
• Sanctions — OpenSanctions us_ofac_sdn index (CC-BY); cross-checks on WHOIS entities and IP ISP/org strings
• CVE / MAC / GitHub / leaks — MITRE CVE API, MAC vendor lookup, GitHub profile recon, public breach checks
• IP sweep — /api/osint/sweep/scan geolocates a target /24–/32 and proxies Shodan InternetDB host discovery server-side (browser never contacts InternetDB directly)
• SSRF guard — Private, loopback, link-local, and metadata hostnames are blocked before any user-supplied fetch

Entity graph — Select any map entity to open the Entity Graph panel (GET /api/entity/expand). Resolves aircraft, vessels, companies, persons, IPs, and countries into a node/link graph (Wikidata SPARQL + OFAC + in-memory flight/ship store).

OpenClaw / agent access — The same recon backends are available on the HMAC command channel (no browser local-operator gate): osint_lookup (passive IP/DNS/WHOIS/certs/BGP/sanctions/CVE/MAC/GitHub/leaks/threats), entity_expand (relationship graph), and osint_sweep (active subnet scan — full access tier only). Call osint_tools to list supported lookup types. Skill package: openclaw-skills/shadowbroker/ (SKILL.md + sb_query.py).

Shodan overlay (unchanged):

• Internet Device Search — Query Shodan with your own API key; results plotted as a live overlay
• Configurable Markers — Shape, color, and size customization for Shodan results

🛩️ Aviation Tracking

• Commercial Flights — Real-time positions via OpenSky Network (~5,000+ aircraft)
• Private Aircraft — Light GA, turboprops, bizjets tracked separately
• Private Jets — High-net-worth individual aircraft with owner identification
• Military Flights — Tankers, ISR, fighters, transports via adsb.lol military endpoint
• Flight Trail Accumulation — Persistent breadcrumb trails for all tracked aircraft
• Holding Pattern Detection — Automatically flags aircraft circling (>300° total turn)
• Aircraft Classification — Shape-accurate SVG icons: airliners, turboprops, bizjets, helicopters
• Grounded Detection — Aircraft below 100ft AGL rendered with grey icons

🚢 Maritime Tracking

• AIS Vessel Stream — 25,000+ vessels via aisstream.io WebSocket (real-time)
• Ship Classification — Cargo, tanker, passenger, yacht, military vessel types with color-coded icons
• Carrier Strike Group Tracker — All 11 active US Navy aircraft carriers with OSINT-estimated positions. No other open tool does this.
  • Automated GDELT news scraping parses carrier movement reporting to estimate positions
  • 50+ geographic region-to-coordinate mappings (e.g. "Eastern Mediterranean" → lat/lng)
  • Disk-cached positions, auto-refreshes at 00:00 & 12:00 UTC
• Cruise & Passenger Ships — Dedicated layer for cruise liners and ferries
• Fishing Activity — Global Fishing Watch vessel events (NEW)
• Clustered Display — Ships cluster at low zoom with count labels, decluster on zoom-in

🚆 Rail Tracking (NEW in v0.9.6)

• Amtrak Trains — Real-time positions of Amtrak trains across the US with speed, heading, route, and status
• European Rail — DigiTraffic integration for European train positions

🛰️ Space & Satellites

• Orbital Tracking — Real-time satellite positions via CelesTrak TLE data + SGP4 propagation (2,000+ active satellites, no API key required)
• Mission-Type Classification — Color-coded by mission: military recon (red), SAR (cyan), SIGINT (white), navigation (blue), early warning (magenta), commercial imaging (green), space station (gold)
• SatNOGS Ground Stations — Amateur satellite ground station network with live observation data (NEW)
• TinyGS LoRa Satellites — LoRa satellite constellation tracking (NEW)

🌍 Geopolitics & Conflict

• Global Incidents — GDELT-powered conflict event aggregation (last 8 hours, ~1,000 events)
• Ukraine Frontline — Live warfront GeoJSON from DeepState Map
• Ukraine Air Alerts — Real-time regional air raid alerts (NEW)
• SIGINT/RISINT News Feed — Real-time RSS aggregation from multiple intelligence-focused sources with user-customizable feeds (up to 20 sources, configurable priority weights 1-5)
• Region Dossier — Right-click anywhere on Earth for an instant intelligence briefing:
  • Country profile (population, capital, languages, currencies, area)
  • Current head of state & government type (live Wikidata SPARQL query)
  • Local Wikipedia summary with thumbnail
  • Latest Sentinel-2 satellite photo with capture date and cloud cover (10m resolution)

🛰️ Satellite Imagery

• NASA GIBS (MODIS Terra) — Daily true-color satellite imagery overlay with 30-day time slider, play/pause animation, and opacity control (~250m/pixel)
• High-Res Satellite (Esri) — Sub-meter resolution imagery via Esri World Imagery — zoom into buildings and terrain detail (zoom 18+)
• Sentinel-2 Intel Card — Right-click anywhere on the map for a floating intel card showing the latest Sentinel-2 satellite photo with capture date, cloud cover %, and clickable full-resolution image (10m resolution, updated every ~5 days)
• Sentinel Hub Process API — Copernicus CDSE satellite imagery with OAuth2 token flow (NEW)
• VIIRS Nightlights — Night-time light change detection overlay (NEW)
• 5 Visual Modes — Toggle the entire map aesthetic via the STYLE button:
  • DEFAULT — Dark CARTO basemap
  • SATELLITE — Sub-meter Esri World Imagery
  • FLIR — Thermal imaging aesthetic (inverted greyscale)
  • NVG — Night vision green phosphor
  • CRT — Retro terminal scanline overlay

🛰️ SAR Ground-Change Detection (NEW)

• Synthetic Aperture Radar Layer — Detects ground changes through cloud cover, at night, anywhere on Earth. Two modes, both free:
  • Mode A (Catalog) — Free Sentinel-1 scene metadata from Alaska Satellite Facility. No account required. Shows when radar passes happened over your AOIs and when the next pass is coming.
  • Mode B (Full Anomalies) — Real-time ground-change alerts from NASA OPERA (DISP, DSWx, DIST-ALERT) and Copernicus EGMS. Requires a free NASA Earthdata account — the in-app wizard walks you through setup in under a minute.
• Anomaly Types — Ground deformation (mm-scale subsidence, landslides), surface water change (flood extent), vegetation disturbance (deforestation, burn scars, blast craters), damage assessments (UNOSAT/Copernicus EMS verified), and coherence change detection
• Map Visualization — Color-coded anomaly pins by kind (orange for deformation, cyan for water, green for vegetation, red for damage, purple for coherence). AOI boundaries drawn as dashed polygons with category-based coloring. Click any pin for a detail popup with magnitude, confidence, solver, scene count, and provenance link.
• AOI Editor — Define areas of interest directly from the map. Click the "EDIT AOIs" button when the SAR layer is active, then use the crosshair tool to click-to-drop an AOI center on the map. Set name, radius (1–500 km), and category. AOIs appear on the map immediately.
• OpenClaw Integration — The AI agent can inspect SAR anomaly details (sar_pin_click) and fly the operator's map to any AOI center (sar_focus_aoi) — enabling collaborative analyst workflows.
• Settings Panel — Dedicated SAR tab in Settings shows Mode A/B status, OpenClaw integration state, and lets you revoke Earthdata credentials with one click.

📻 Software-Defined Radio & SIGINT

• KiwiSDR Receivers — 500+ public SDR receivers plotted worldwide with clustered amber markers
• Live Radio Tuner — Click any KiwiSDR node to open an embedded SDR tuner directly in the SIGINT panel
• Metadata Display — Node name, location, antenna type, frequency bands, active users
• Meshtastic Mesh Radio — MQTT-based mesh radio integration with node map, integrated into Mesh Chat (NEW)
• APRS Integration — Amateur radio positioning via APRS-IS TCP feed (NEW)
• GPS Jamming Detection — Real-time analysis of aircraft NAC-P (Navigation Accuracy Category) values
  • Grid-based aggregation identifies interference zones
  • Red overlay squares with "GPS JAM XX%" severity labels
• Radio Intercept Panel — Scanner-style UI with OpenMHZ police/fire scanner feeds. Click any system to listen live. Scan mode cycles through active feeds automatically. Eavesdrop-by-click on real emergency communications.

📷 Surveillance

• CCTV Mesh — 22,000+ live traffic cameras from 21 ingestors across 10 countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia, Austria, Spain, Singapore, Netherlands when NDW feed is up, plus OSM):
  • 🇬🇧 Transport for London JamCams
  • 🇺🇸 NYC DOT, Austin TX (TxDOT)
  • 🇺🇸 California (12 Caltrans districts), Washington State (WSDOT), Georgia DOT, Illinois DOT, Michigan DOT
  • 🇪🇸 Spain DGT National (20 cities), Madrid City (357 cameras via KML)
  • 🇦🇹 Austria ASFINAG motorway webcams
  • 🇸🇬 Singapore LTA
  • 🌍 Windy Webcams
• Feed Rendering — Automatic detection & rendering of video, MJPEG, HLS, embed, satellite tile, and image feeds
• Clustered Map Display — Green dots cluster with count labels, decluster on zoom

🔥 Environmental & Hazard Monitoring

• NASA FIRMS Fire Hotspots (24h) — 5,000+ global thermal anomalies from NOAA-20 VIIRS satellite, updated every cycle. Flame-shaped icons color-coded by fire radiative power (FRP): yellow (low), orange, red, dark red (intense). Clustered at low zoom with fire-shaped cluster markers.
• Volcanoes — Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program Holocene volcanoes plotted worldwide (NEW)
• Weather Alerts — Severe weather polygons with urgency/severity indicators (NEW)
• Air Quality (PM2.5) — OpenAQ stations worldwide with real-time particulate matter readings (NEW)
• Earthquakes (24h) — USGS real-time earthquake feed with magnitude-scaled markers
• Space Weather Badge — Live NOAA geomagnetic storm indicator in the bottom status bar. Color-coded Kp index: green (quiet), yellow (active), red (storm G1–G5). Data from SWPC planetary K-index 1-minute feed.

🏗️ Infrastructure Monitoring

• Internet Outage Monitoring — Regional internet connectivity alerts from Georgia Tech IODA. Grey markers at affected regions with severity percentage. Uses only reliable datasources (BGP routing tables, active ping probing) — no telescope or interpolated data.
• Data Center Mapping — 2,000+ global data centers plotted from a curated dataset. Clustered purple markers with server-rack icons. Click for operator, location, and automatic internet outage cross-referencing by country.
• Military Bases — Global military installation and missile facility database (NEW)
• Power Plants — 35,000+ global power plants from the WRI database (NEW)
• Submarine Cables — Global undersea cable routes from static TeleGeography-derived GeoJSON (frontend/public/data/submarine-cables.json). Opt-in line overlay.
• Malware C2 Layer — Botnet C2 servers (Feodo Tracker) and recent malware URLs (URLhaus) from abuse.ch, refreshed on the slow tier when the layer is enabled.
• SCM Supplier Risk — Tier 1/2 fabs and battery plants (TSMC, Samsung, CATL, etc.) cross-referenced against earthquakes, FIRMS fires, and GDELT conflict proximity. Alerts in the SCM panel; optional map layer.
• Cyber Threats Feed — Recent CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) entries exposed via /api/cyber-threats and the layer toggle.
• Country Risk Index — Static geopolitical risk scores with USGS earthquake enrichment via /api/country-risk.
• Telegram OSINT — Public channel web previews (t.me/s/*) from configurable war/OSINT feeds. Hourly incremental merge (no redundant re-scrape), keyword risk scoring, Cyrillic/Arabic place aliases, metro-anchor geocoding (separate from news centroids), inline photo/video via /api/telegram/media proxy. Layer key: telegram_osint.

🌐 Additional Layers & Tools

• Day/Night Cycle — Solar terminator overlay showing global daylight/darkness
• Global Markets Ticker — Live financial market indices (minimizable)
• Measurement Tool — Point-to-point distance & bearing measurement on the map
• LOCATE Bar — Search by coordinates (31.8, 34.8) or place name (Tehran, Strait of Hormuz) to fly directly to any location — geocoded via OpenStreetMap Nominatim

🤖 Agentic AI Command Channel — OpenClaw + Compatible Agents (expanded in v0.9.7)

ShadowBroker exposes a bidirectional agentic AI command channel — a signed, tier-gated bridge that gives any compatible AI agent full read/write access to the intelligence platform. OpenClaw is the reference agent, but the channel is an open protocol: any LLM-driven agent that signs requests with HMAC-SHA256 (Claude Code, GPT, LangChain, custom Python/TypeScript clients, or your own integration) can connect as an analyst that sees the same data as the operator and can take actions on the map. ShadowBroker does not bundle an LLM, an agent runtime, or model weights — it provides the surface; you bring the agent.

v0.9.7 turns ShadowBroker from a dashboard a human watches into an intelligence surface any agent can act on.

Channel transport (NEW in v0.9.7):

• Single Command Channel — POST /api/ai/channel/command accepts {cmd, args} and dispatches to any registered tool.
• Batched Concurrent Execution — POST /api/ai/channel/batch accepts up to 20 commands in one request. The backend runs them concurrently and returns a fan-out result map. Cuts agent latency by an order of magnitude over sequential calls.
• Tier-Gated Access — OPENCLAW_ACCESS_TIER controls which commands the agent can call: restricted exposes the read-only set, full adds writes and injection. Discovery endpoint returns available_commands so the agent can introspect its own capabilities.
• HMAC-SHA256 Signing — Every command is signed HMAC-SHA256(secret, METHOD|path|timestamp|nonce|sha256(body)) with timestamp + nonce replay protection and request integrity. Supports local mode (no config) and remote mode (agent on a different machine / VPS).

Capabilities:

• Full Telemetry Access — The agent queries all 40+ data layers: flights, ships, satellites, SIGINT, conflict events, earthquakes, fires, wastewater, Telegram OSINT, malware/C2, CISA KEV cyber threats, SCM overlays, fishing activity (GFW), prediction markets, and more. Fast and slow tier endpoints return enriched data with geographic coordinates, timestamps, and source attribution.
• Compact Search (preferred over full dumps) — get_summary → get_layer_slice with per-layer since_layer_versions (SSE layer_changed push tells the agent exactly which layers updated). search_telemetry is the Google-style cross-layer keyword index. search_news covers news, GDELT, CrowdThreat, LiveUAMap, frontlines, and Telegram posts. entities_near, brief_area, find_flights/find_ships/find_entity, and correlate_entity answer targeted questions without multi-megabyte pulls.
• Recon Toolkit on the Channel — osint_lookup runs the same SSRF-guarded backends as the Recon panel (ip, dns, whois, certs, bgp, sanctions, cve, mac, github, leaks, threats, sweep_init). entity_expand builds Wikidata + OFAC relationship graphs. osint_sweep runs Shodan InternetDB subnet discovery (full tier). Layer aliases: telegram, malware/botnet, cyber/cisa/kev, scm/suppliers, gfw/fishing.
• AI Intel Pins — Place color-coded investigation markers directly on the operator's map. 14 pin categories (threat, anomaly, military, maritime, aviation, SIGINT, infrastructure, etc.) with confidence scores, TTL expiry, source URLs, and batch placement up to 100 pins at once.
• Map Control — Fly the operator's map view to any coordinate, trigger satellite imagery lookups, and open region dossiers. The agent can direct the operator's attention to specific locations in real time.
• SAR Ground-Change — Query SAR anomaly feeds, inspect pin details, manage AOIs, and fly the map to watch areas. The agent can monitor for ground deformation, flood extent, or damage and promote anomalies to pins.
• Native Layer Injection — Push custom data directly into ShadowBroker's native layers (CCTV cameras, ships, SIGINT nodes, military bases, etc.) so agent-discovered sources render alongside real feeds.
• Wormhole Mesh Participation — The agent can join the decentralized InfoNet, post signed messages, join encrypted gate channels, send/receive encrypted DMs, and interact with Meshtastic radio and Dead Drops — operating as a full mesh peer.
• Sovereign Shell Participation (v0.9.7) — File petitions, sign and vote on governance changes, stake on resolutions and disputes, signal Heavy-Node readiness for upgrades — all programmatically, all gated by tier and HMAC. Agents become first-class participants in the decentralized intelligence economy.
• Geocoding & Proximity Scans — Resolve place names to coordinates, then scan all layers within a radius for a complete proximity digest.
• News & GDELT Near Location — Pull GDELT conflict events and aggregated news articles near any coordinate for regional situational awareness.
• Alert Delivery — Send branded intelligence briefs, warnings, and threat notifications to Discord webhooks and Telegram channels.
• Intelligence Reports — Generate structured reports with summary stats, top military flights, correlations, earthquake activity, SIGINT counts, and pin inventories.
• Auditable — Every channel call is logged; the operator can introspect what the agent has done.

Connect an agent: Open the AI Intel panel in the left sidebar, click Connect Agent, and copy the HMAC secret. From there, point any compatible agent at the channel — for OpenClaw, import ShadowBrokerClient from openclaw-skills/shadowbroker/sb_query.py (see SKILL.md for examples); for any other agent, use the same HMAC contract documented above (timestamp + nonce + body digest, tier-gated). Discovery: GET /api/ai/tools and GET /api/ai/capabilities. The channel is the protocol, not the agent.

Docker Compose + remote agents: The dashboard UI talks to the backend over Docker's private bridge (trusted automatically). An OpenClaw agent running on the host (outside the container) hits http://localhost:8000 from the Docker gateway IP — HMAC is required there. In AI Intel → Connect Agent, click Bootstrap then Reveal, copy SHADOWBROKER_HMAC_SECRET into your agent env, and restart the backend once so data/openclaw.env on the backend_data volume is loaded. Smoke-test with:

export SHADOWBROKER_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8000
export SHADOWBROKER_HMAC_SECRET=<from Connect Agent modal>
python openclaw-skills/shadowbroker/verify_hmac.py

Use the backend port (:8000), not the Next.js dashboard port (:3000). Hand-rolled signers must hash the exact POST bytes: json.dumps(payload, separators=(",", ":"), sort_keys=True).

⏱️ Time Machine — Snapshot Playback (NEW in v0.9.7)

A media-style transport for the entire telemetry feed. Treat the live map as a recording that can be scrubbed, paused, and replayed.

• Live ↔ Snapshot Toggle — Switching to snapshot mode pauses the global polling loop instantly; switching back to Live invalidates ETags and force-refreshes both fast and slow tiers so the dashboard catches up without a stale-frame flicker.
• Hourly Index — Every captured snapshot is indexed by its hour bucket with count, latest_id, latest_ts, and the full snapshot_ids list. Jump to any captured timestamp directly from the timeline scrubber.
• Frame Interpolation — Moving entities (aircraft, ships, satellites, military flights) interpolate smoothly between recorded frames during playback so motion stays continuous even when snapshots are sparse.
• Variable Playback Speed — Step, play, fast-forward, and rewind through saved telemetry at adjustable speed.
• Profile-Aware — Each snapshot records the privacy profile that was active when it was captured, so playback is faithful to what an operator on that profile would have seen.
• Operator-Side, Not Server-Side — Snapshots are stored locally in the backend; no third party ever sees the playback timeline.

📦 API Keys Panel — Path-First, Read-Only (NEW in v0.9.7)

Settings → API Keys is now a read-only registry. Key values never reach the browser process — not even an obfuscated prefix. The panel surfaces:

• The absolute path to the backend .env file as resolved by Path(__file__).resolve() — works on every OS, every drive, every install location (Linux /home/..., macOS /Users/..., Windows on any drive, Docker containers, cloud VMs).
• [exists] / [will be created on first save] / [NOT WRITABLE — edit by hand] indicators on the path itself.
• The path to the .env.example template so users can copy it and fill in their keys.
• A binary CONFIGURED / NOT CONFIGURED badge per key, plus a copy-pastable env line (e.g. OPENSKY_CLIENT_ID=YOUR_VALUE) the user can drop into the file by hand.

OpenSky API credentials are now a critical-warn environment requirement: the startup environment check flags missing OpenSky OAuth2 credentials with a strong warning, and the changelog modal links directly to the free registration page. Without them, the flights layer falls back to ADS-B-only coverage with significant gaps in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

ShadowBroker v0.9.7 is composed of three vertically-stacked planes — the Operator UI, the Backend Service Plane, and the Decentralized Layer (InfoNet) — plus two cross-cutting bridges (the Time Machine and the Agentic AI Channel, which is the protocol that OpenClaw and any other compatible agent connects through) and a Privacy Core Rust crate that backstops both the legacy mesh and the future shielded coin / DEX work.

╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║                       OPERATOR UI  (Next.js + MapLibre)                     ║
║                                                                             ║
║  ┌────────────────┐  ┌──────────┐  ┌────────────────┐  ┌────────────────┐   ║
║  │ MapLibre GL    │  │ NewsFeed │  │ Sovereign Shell│  │   Mesh Chat    │   ║
║  │  WebGL render  │  │  SIGINT  │  │  Petitions /   │  │  + Mesh Term.  │   ║
║  │  + clusters    │  │  GDELT   │  │  Upgrades /    │  │  (Infonet /    │   ║
║  │                │  │  Threat  │  │  Disputes /    │  │   Mesh /       │   ║
║  │                │  │          │  │  Gates /       │  │   Dead Drop)   │   ║
║  │                │  │          │  │  Bootstrap /   │  │                │   ║
║  │                │  │          │  │  Function Keys │  │                │   ║
║  └──────┬─────────┘  └────┬─────┘  └────────┬───────┘  └────────┬───────┘   ║
║         │                 │                 │                   │           ║
║  ┌──────┴─────────────────┴─────────────────┴───────────────────┴───────┐   ║
║  │  Time Machine ◀── snapshot playback ── snapshotMode toggle ──▶ Live │   ║
║  │  hourly index │ frame interpolation │ profile-aware │ per-tier ETag  │   ║
║  └──────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────┘   ║
║                                     │ REST  +  /api/[...path] proxy         ║
╠═════════════════════════════════════╪═══════════════════════════════════════╣
║                       BACKEND SERVICE PLANE  (FastAPI)                      ║
║                                     │                                       ║
║  ┌──────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────┐  ║
║  │              Data Fetcher  (APScheduler — fast / slow tiers)          │  ║
║  │                                                                       │  ║
║  │  ┌───────────┬───────────┬───────────┬───────────┬───────────┐        │  ║
║  │  │  OpenSky* │ adsb.lol  │ CelesTrak │   USGS    │   AIS WS  │        │  ║
║  │  │  Flights  │ Military  │   Sats    │  Quakes   │   Ships   │        │  ║
║  │  ├───────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────────┤        │  ║
║  │  │  Carrier  │   GDELT   │ CCTV (12) │ DeepState │   NASA    │        │  ║
║  │  │  Tracker  │ Conflict  │  Cameras  │ Frontline │   FIRMS   │        │  ║
║  │  ├───────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────────┤        │  ║
║  │  │   GPS     │  KiwiSDR  │  Shodan   │  Amtrak   │  SatNOGS  │        │  ║
║  │  │  Jamming  │   Radios  │  Devices  │ DigiTraf  │  TinyGS   │        │  ║
║  │  ├───────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────────┤        │  ║
║  │  │ Volcanoes │  Weather  │  Fishing  │ Mil Bases │   IODA    │        │  ║
║  │  │  Air Qual │  Alerts   │  Activity │ PwrPlants │  Outages  │        │  ║
║  │  ├───────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────────┤        │  ║
║  │  │ Sentinel  │   MODIS   │   VIIRS   │   Data    │ Meshtastic│        │  ║
║  │  │  Hub/STAC │   Terra   │ Nightlts  │  Centers  │   APRS    │        │  ║
║  │  ├───────────┴───────────┴───────────┴───────────┴───────────┤        │  ║
║  │  │  SAR (NEW v0.9.7)                                         │        │  ║
║  │  │   Mode A: ASF Search catalog (free, no account)           │        │  ║
║  │  │   Mode B: NASA OPERA / Copernicus EGMS / GFM / EMS /      │        │  ║
║  │  │           UNOSAT  ground-change anomalies (opt-in)        │        │  ║
║  │  └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘        │  ║
║  │   * OpenSky: REQUIRED for global flight coverage                      │  ║
║  └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘  ║
║                                     │                                       ║
║  ┌──────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────┐  ║
║  │                   Snapshot Store  (Time Machine source)               │  ║
║  │   Hourly index  │  per-snapshot layer manifest  │  profile metadata   │  ║
║  └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘  ║
║                                                                             ║
║  ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐  ║
║  │   Agentic AI Channel  (HMAC-SHA256, tier-gated  —  OpenClaw + others) │  ║
║  │                                                                       │  ║
║  │   POST /api/ai/channel/command   →  one tool call                     │  ║
║  │   POST /api/ai/channel/batch     →  up to 20 concurrent tool calls    │  ║
║  │                                                                       │  ║
║  │   Tier:   restricted (read-only)   │   full (read + write + inject)   │  ║
║  │   Auth:   X-SB-Timestamp + X-SB-Nonce + X-SB-Signature                │  ║
║  │   Sig  =  HMAC-SHA256(secret, METHOD|path|ts|nonce|sha256(body))      │  ║
║  └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘  ║
╠═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣
║                  DECENTRALIZED LAYER  (InfoNet Testnet — signed events)     ║
║                                                                             ║
║  ┌────────────────────────────┐    ┌──────────────────────────────────┐     ║
║  │    Mesh Hashchain          │    │   Sovereign Shell Governance     │     ║
║  │                            │    │                                  │     ║
║  │  Ed25519 signed events     │    │  Petitions  (DSL: UPDATE_PARAM,  │     ║
║  │  Public-key binding        │    │              ENABLE_FEATURE …)   │     ║
║  │  Replay / sequence guard   │    │  Upgrade-Hash voting (80% / 40%  │     ║
║  │  Two-tier finality         │    │             quorum / 67% Heavy)  │     ║
║  │   ├ Tier 1 (CRDT, fast)    │    │  Resolution & Dispute markets    │     ║
║  │   └ Tier 2 (epoch finality)│    │  Gate suspend / shutdown / appeal│     ║
║  │  Identity rotation         │    │  Bootstrap eligible-node-1-vote  │     ║
║  │  Constitutional invariants │    │   (Argon2id PoW, Heavy-Node only)│     ║
║  │  (MappingProxyType)        │    │  Function Keys (5 of 6 pieces)   │     ║
║  └─────────────┬──────────────┘    └─────────────┬────────────────────┘     ║
║                │                                 │                          ║
║                └──────────────┬──────────────────┘                          ║
║                               │                                             ║
║  ┌────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┐      ║
║  │            Wormhole / InfoNet Relay  (transport layer)            │      ║
║  │   Gate personas │ canonical signing │ Dead Drop epoch mailboxes   │      ║
║  └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘      ║
╠═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣
║              PRIVACY CORE  (Rust crate — locked Protocol contracts)         ║
║                                                                             ║
║   privacy-core/  ─►  Argon2id │ Ed25519/X25519 │ AESGCM │ HKDF              ║
║                      Ring sigs* │ Stealth addrs* │ Pedersen* │ Bulletproofs*║
║                      Blind-sig issuance* (RSA / BBS+ / U-Prove / Idemix)    ║
║                                                                             ║
║   * = locked Protocol contract; cryptographic primitive lands Sprint 11+    ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

   Distribution
   ────────────
     GitHub (primary):  ghcr.io/bigbodycobain/shadowbroker-{backend,frontend}
     GitLab (mirror):   registry.gitlab.com/bigbodycobain/shadowbroker/{backend,frontend}
     Multi-arch:        linux/amd64  +  linux/arm64  (Raspberry Pi 5 supported)
     Desktop:           Tauri shell  →  packaged backend-runtime  +  Next.js frontend

Outbound privacy & audit (#348–#366): Each self-hosted install uses its own backend IP and per-install User-Agent handle. See docs/OUTBOUND_DATA.md for what contacts third parties, opt-in/env controls, and accepted tradeoffs (CCTV Referer, basemap CDN, LiveUAMap, etc.).

🐳 Docker Setup (Recommended for Self-Hosting)

The repo includes a docker-compose.yml that pulls pre-built images from GitHub Container Registry.

git clone https://github.com/BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker.git
cd Shadowbroker
# Add your API keys in a repo-root .env file (optional — see Environment Variables below)
docker compose pull
docker compose up -d

Open http://localhost:3000 to view the dashboard.

Deploying publicly or on a LAN? No configuration needed for most setups. The frontend proxies all API calls through the Next.js server to BACKEND_URL, which defaults to http://backend:8000 (Docker internal networking). Host port 8000 is only published for local API/debug access (127.0.0.1:8000 in docker-compose.yml). If it conflicts with another service, set BACKEND_PORT=8001 in .env; leave BACKEND_URL as http://backend:8000 because that is the Docker-internal port.

Running the backend outside Docker (cd backend && python main.py): the dev server binds loopback only (127.0.0.1:8000) so other machines on your LAN cannot hit admin/local-trust routes with an empty ADMIN_KEY. Set SHADOWBROKER_DEV_BIND_ALL=true in .env only when you deliberately need 0.0.0.0 and use a strong ADMIN_KEY for any non-local callers. The backend memory cap is controlled by BACKEND_MEMORY_LIMIT and defaults to 4G. If Docker reports OOM events, the backend will restart and slow layers can look empty until they repopulate.

If your backend runs on a different host or port, set BACKEND_URL at runtime — no rebuild required:

# Linux / macOS
BACKEND_URL=http://myserver.com:9096 docker compose up -d

# Podman (via compose.sh wrapper)
BACKEND_URL=http://192.168.1.50:9096 ./compose.sh up -d

# Windows (PowerShell)
$env:BACKEND_URL="http://myserver.com:9096"; docker compose up -d

# Or add to a .env file next to docker-compose.yml:
# BACKEND_URL=http://myserver.com:9096

Podman users: Do not pass the GitHub URL to podman compose pull; clone the repo first, cd Shadowbroker, then run compose from that folder. podman compose also requires a Compose provider. If Podman reports looking up compose provider failed, install one:

# Linux / macOS / WSL
python3 -m pip install --user podman-compose
podman-compose pull
podman-compose up -d

# Windows PowerShell
py -m pip install --user podman-compose
podman-compose pull
podman-compose up -d

If you are in a bash-compatible shell, the included wrapper can auto-detect Docker or Podman:

./compose.sh --engine podman pull
./compose.sh --engine podman up -d

No need to clone the repo. Use the pre-built images from GitHub Container Registry. GitLab registry images may be used as a mirror if you publish them there.

Create a docker-compose.yml with the following content and deploy it directly — paste it into Portainer's stack editor, uncloud deploy, or any Docker host:

## Image registry — uncomment ONE line per service:
##   GitHub  (primary): ghcr.io/bigbodycobain/shadowbroker-backend:latest
##   GitLab  (mirror):  registry.gitlab.com/bigbodycobain/shadowbroker/backend:latest


services:
  backend:
    image: ghcr.io/bigbodycobain/shadowbroker-backend:latest
    # image: registry.gitlab.com/bigbodycobain/shadowbroker/backend:latest
    container_name: shadowbroker-backend
    ports:
      - "${BACKEND_PORT:-8000}:8000"
    environment:
      - AIS_API_KEY=your_aisstream_key          # Required — get one free at aisstream.io
      - OPENSKY_CLIENT_ID=                       # Optional — higher flight data rate limits
      - OPENSKY_CLIENT_SECRET=                   # Optional — paired with Client ID above
      - LTA_ACCOUNT_KEY=                         # Optional — Singapore CCTV cameras
      - SHODAN_API_KEY=                          # Optional — Shodan device search overlay
      - SH_CLIENT_ID=                            # Optional — Sentinel Hub satellite imagery
      - SH_CLIENT_SECRET=                        # Optional — paired with Sentinel Hub ID
      - CORS_ORIGINS=                            # Optional — comma-separated allowed origins
    volumes:
      - backend_data:/app/data
    restart: unless-stopped

  frontend:
    image: ghcr.io/bigbodycobain/shadowbroker-frontend:latest
    # image: registry.gitlab.com/bigbodycobain/shadowbroker/frontend:latest
    container_name: shadowbroker-frontend
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
    environment:
      - BACKEND_URL=http://backend:8000   # Docker internal networking — no rebuild needed
    depends_on:
      - backend
    restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
  backend_data:

How it works: The frontend container proxies all /api/* requests through the Next.js server to BACKEND_URL using Docker's internal networking. The browser only ever talks to port 3000. The backend's host port is for local API/debug access and can be changed with BACKEND_PORT=8001 without changing BACKEND_URL.

BACKEND_URL is a plain runtime environment variable (not a build-time NEXT_PUBLIC_*), so you can change it in Portainer, Uncloud, or any compose editor without rebuilding the image. Set it to the address where your backend is reachable from inside the Docker network (e.g. http://backend:8000, http://192.168.1.50:8000).

If you just want to run the dashboard without dealing with terminal commands:

1. Go to the Releases tab on the right side of this repo page.
2. Download the latest .zip file from the release.
3. Extract the folder to your computer.
4. Windows: Double-click start.bat. Mac/Linux: Open terminal, type chmod +x start.sh, dos2unix start.sh, and run ./start.sh.
5. It will automatically install everything and launch the dashboard!

Local launcher notes:

• start.bat / start.sh run the app without Docker — they install dependencies and start both servers directly.
• If Wormhole identity or DM contact endpoints fail after an upgrade, check the docs/mesh/ folder for troubleshooting.
• For DM root witness, transparency, and operator monitoring rollout, start with docs/mesh/wormhole-dm-root-operations-runbook.md.
• For sample DM root ops bridge assets, also see scripts/mesh/poll-dm-root-health-alerts.mjs, scripts/mesh/export-dm-root-health-prometheus.mjs, scripts/mesh/publish-external-root-witness-package.mjs, scripts/mesh/smoke-external-root-witness-flow.mjs, scripts/mesh/smoke-root-transparency-publication-flow.mjs, scripts/mesh/smoke-dm-root-deployment-flow.mjs, scripts/mesh/sync-dm-root-external-assurance.mjs, and docs/mesh/examples/.

If you want to modify the code or run from source:

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18+ and npm — nodejs.org
• Python 3.10, 3.11, or 3.12 with pip — python.org (check "Add to PATH" during install)
  • ⚠️ Python 3.13+ may have compatibility issues with some dependencies. 3.11 or 3.12 is recommended.
• API keys for: aisstream.io (required), and optionally opensky-network.org (OAuth2), lta.gov.sg

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker.git
cd Shadowbroker

# Backend setup
cd backend
python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate        # Windows
# source venv/bin/activate   # macOS/Linux
pip install .

# Optional helper scripts (creates venv + installs dev deps)
# Windows PowerShell
# .\backend\scripts\setup-venv.ps1
# macOS/Linux
# ./backend/scripts/setup-venv.sh

# Optional env check (prints warnings for missing keys)
# Windows PowerShell
# .\backend\scripts\check-env.ps1
# macOS/Linux
# ./backend/scripts/check-env.sh

# Create .env with your API keys
echo "AIS_API_KEY=your_aisstream_key" >> .env
echo "OPENSKY_CLIENT_ID=your_opensky_client_id" >> .env
echo "OPENSKY_CLIENT_SECRET=your_opensky_secret" >> .env

# Frontend setup
cd ../frontend
npm ci

Running

# From the frontend directory — starts both frontend & backend concurrently
npm run dev

This starts:

• Next.js frontend on http://localhost:3000
• FastAPI backend on http://localhost:8000

Pre-commit (Optional)

If you use pre-commit, install hooks once from repo root:

pre-commit install

Local AIS Receiver (Optional)

You can feed your own AIS ship data into ShadowBroker using an RTL-SDR dongle and AIS-catcher, an open-source AIS decoder. This gives you real-time coverage of vessels in your local area — no API key needed.

1. Plug in an RTL-SDR dongle
2. Install AIS-catcher (releases) or use the Docker image:

   docker run -d --device /dev/bus/usb \
     ghcr.io/jvde-github/ais-catcher -H http://host.docker.internal:4000/api/ais/feed interval 10

3. Or run natively:

   AIS-catcher -H http://localhost:4000/api/ais/feed interval 10

AIS-catcher decodes VHF radio signals on 161.975 MHz and 162.025 MHz and POSTs decoded vessel data to ShadowBroker every 10 seconds. Ships detected by your SDR antenna appear alongside the global AIS stream.

Docker (ARM/Raspberry Pi): See docker-shipfeeder for a production-ready Docker image optimized for ARM.

Note: AIS range depends on your antenna — typically 20-40 nautical miles with a basic setup, 60+ nm with a marine VHF antenna at elevation.

All 41 layers are independently toggleable from the left panel:

Recon & entity tools (not map layers — left sidebar / selection):

† osint_sweep (active InternetDB scan) requires OPENCLAW_ACCESS_TIER=full.

The platform is optimized for handling massive real-time datasets:

• Gzip Compression — API payloads compressed ~92% (11.6 MB → 915 KB)
• ETag Caching — 304 Not Modified responses skip redundant JSON parsing
• Viewport Culling — Only features within the visible map bounds (+20% buffer) are rendered
• Imperative Map Updates — High-volume layers (flights, satellites, fires) bypass React reconciliation via direct setData() calls
• Clustered Rendering — Ships, CCTV, earthquakes, and data centers use MapLibre clustering to reduce feature count
• Debounced Viewport Updates — 300ms debounce prevents GeoJSON rebuild thrash during pan/zoom; 2s debounce on dense layers (satellites, fires)
• Position Interpolation — Smooth 10s tick animation between data refreshes
• React.memo — Heavy components wrapped to prevent unnecessary re-renders
• Coordinate Precision — Lat/lng rounded to 5 decimals (~1m) to reduce JSON size

New contributors can use docs/contributor-map.md for a shorter orientation guide.

Shadowbroker/
├── openclaw-skills/shadowbroker/   # OpenClaw skill — SKILL.md, sb_query.py client, alerts/monitor helpers
├── backend/
│   ├── main.py                     # FastAPI app, middleware, API routes (~4,000 lines)
│   ├── cctv.db                     # SQLite CCTV camera database (auto-generated)
│   ├── config/
│   │   └── news_feeds.json         # User-customizable RSS feed list
│   ├── services/
│   │   ├── data_fetcher.py         # Core scheduler — orchestrates all data sources
│   │   ├── ais_stream.py           # AIS WebSocket client (25K+ vessels)
│   │   ├── carrier_tracker.py      # OSINT carrier position estimator (GDELT news scraping)
│   │   ├── cctv_pipeline.py        # 14-source CCTV camera ingestion pipeline
│   │   ├── ssrf_guard.py           # SSRF validation for operator recon fetches
│   │   ├── sanctions/ofac.py       # OpenSanctions OFAC SDN index
│   │   ├── osint/lookups.py        # Server-side recon lookups (Osiris port)
│   │   ├── osint/openclaw_recon.py # OpenClaw dispatch for recon + entity_expand
│   │   ├── osint_intel/resolve.py  # Entity graph resolver (Wikidata + OFAC)
│   │   ├── scm/suppliers.py        # Supply-chain risk overlay
│   │   ├── intel_feeds/            # Country risk index helpers
│   │   ├── fetchers/malware.py     # abuse.ch Feodo + URLhaus
│   │   ├── fetchers/cyber_status.py # CISA KEV feed
│   │   ├── fetchers/telegram_osint.py # Public Telegram channel scrape + geoparse
│   │   ├── third_party/osiris/     # MIT attribution for Osiris-derived code
│   │   ├── geopolitics.py          # GDELT + Ukraine frontline + air alerts
│   │   ├── region_dossier.py       # Right-click country/city intelligence
│   │   ├── radio_intercept.py      # Police scanner feeds + OpenMHZ
│   │   ├── kiwisdr_fetcher.py      # KiwiSDR receiver scraper
│   │   ├── sentinel_search.py      # Sentinel-2 STAC imagery search
│   │   ├── shodan_connector.py     # Shodan device search connector
│   │   ├── sigint_bridge.py        # APRS-IS TCP bridge
│   │   ├── network_utils.py        # HTTP client with curl fallback
│   │   ├── api_settings.py         # API key management
│   │   ├── news_feed_config.py     # RSS feed config manager
│   │   ├── fetchers/
│   │   │   ├── flights.py          # OpenSky, adsb.lol, GPS jamming, holding patterns
│   │   │   ├── geo.py              # AIS vessels, carriers, GDELT, fishing activity
│   │   │   ├── satellites.py       # CelesTrak TLE + SGP4 propagation
│   │   │   ├── earth_observation.py # Quakes, fires, volcanoes, air quality, weather
│   │   │   ├── infrastructure.py   # Data centers, power plants, military bases
│   │   │   ├── trains.py           # Amtrak + DigiTraffic European rail
│   │   │   ├── sigint.py           # SatNOGS, TinyGS, APRS, Meshtastic
│   │   │   ├── meshtastic_map.py   # Meshtastic MQTT + map node aggregation
│   │   │   ├── military.py         # Military aircraft classification
│   │   │   ├── news.py             # RSS intelligence feed aggregation
│   │   │   ├── financial.py        # Global markets data
│   │   │   └── ukraine_alerts.py   # Ukraine air raid alerts
│   │   └── mesh/                   # InfoNet / Wormhole protocol stack
│   │       ├── mesh_protocol.py    # Core mesh protocol + routing
│   │       ├── mesh_crypto.py      # Ed25519, X25519, AESGCM primitives
│   │       ├── mesh_hashchain.py   # Hash chain commitment system (~1,400 lines)
│   │       ├── mesh_router.py      # Multi-transport router (APRS, Meshtastic, WS)
│   │       ├── mesh_wormhole_persona.py  # Gate persona identity management
│   │       ├── mesh_wormhole_dead_drop.py # Dead Drop token-based DM mailbox
│   │       ├── mesh_wormhole_ratchet.py   # Double-ratchet DM scaffolding
│   │       ├── mesh_wormhole_gate_keys.py # Gate key management + rotation
│   │       ├── mesh_wormhole_seal.py      # Message sealing + unsealing
│   │       ├── mesh_merkle.py      # Merkle tree proofs for data commitment
│   │       ├── mesh_reputation.py  # Node reputation scoring
│   │       ├── mesh_oracle.py      # Oracle consensus protocol
│   │       └── mesh_secure_storage.py # Secure credential storage
│   ├── routers/
│   │   ├── osint.py                # /api/osint/* recon routes (local operator)
│   │   ├── entity_graph.py         # /api/entity/expand
│   │   ├── scm.py                  # /api/scm-suppliers
│   │   └── intel_feeds.py          # /api/malware, /api/cyber-threats, /api/telegram-feed, /api/country-risk
├── frontend/
│   ├── public/data/
│   │   └── submarine-cables.json   # Static undersea cable GeoJSON
│   ├── src/
│   │   ├── app/
│   │   │   └── page.tsx            # Main dashboard — state, polling, layout
│   │   └── components/
│   │       ├── MaplibreViewer.tsx   # Core map — all GeoJSON layers
│   │       ├── MeshChat.tsx        # InfoNet / Mesh / Dead Drop chat panel
│   │       ├── MeshTerminal.tsx    # Draggable CLI terminal
│   │       ├── NewsFeed.tsx        # SIGINT feed + entity detail panels
│   │       ├── WorldviewLeftPanel.tsx   # Data layer toggles (40+ layers)
│   │       ├── ShodanPanel.tsx          # Shodan device search overlay
│   │       ├── ReconPanel.tsx           # Server-side OSINT recon toolkit
│   │       ├── ScmPanel.tsx             # Supply-chain risk command panel
│   │       ├── EntityGraphPanel.tsx     # Entity graph on map selection
│   │       ├── MaplibreViewer/popups/TelegramOsintPopup.tsx  # Threat-intercept styled Telegram pin popups
│   │       ├── WorldviewRightPanel.tsx  # Search + filter sidebar
│   │       ├── AdvancedFilterModal.tsx  # Airport/country/owner filtering
│   │       ├── MapLegend.tsx       # Dynamic legend with all icons
│   │       ├── MarketsPanel.tsx    # Global financial markets ticker
│   │       ├── RadioInterceptPanel.tsx # Scanner-style radio panel
│   │       ├── FindLocateBar.tsx   # Search/locate bar
│   │       ├── ChangelogModal.tsx  # Version changelog popup (auto-shows on upgrade)
│   │       ├── SettingsPanel.tsx   # API Keys + News Feed + Shodan config
│   │       ├── ScaleBar.tsx        # Map scale indicator
│   │       └── ErrorBoundary.tsx   # Crash recovery wrapper
│   └── package.json

Backend (backend/.env)

# Required for airplane telemetry (NEW in v0.9.7 — startup env check flags these as critical)
# Free registration: https://opensky-network.org/index.php?option=com_users&view=registration
OPENSKY_CLIENT_ID=your_opensky_client_id      # OAuth2 — global flight state vectors
OPENSKY_CLIENT_SECRET=your_opensky_secret     # OAuth2 — paired with Client ID above

# Optional (enhances data quality)
AIS_API_KEY=your_aisstream_key                # Maritime vessel tracking (aisstream.io) — ships layer empty without it
LTA_ACCOUNT_KEY=your_lta_key                  # Singapore CCTV cameras
SHODAN_API_KEY=your_shodan_key                # Shodan device search overlay
SH_CLIENT_ID=your_sentinel_hub_id             # Copernicus CDSE Sentinel Hub imagery
SH_CLIENT_SECRET=your_sentinel_hub_secret     # Paired with Sentinel Hub Client ID
MESH_SAR_EARTHDATA_USER=                      # NASA Earthdata user (SAR Mode B — OPERA products)
MESH_SAR_EARTHDATA_TOKEN=                     # NASA Earthdata token (paired with user above)
MESH_SAR_COPERNICUS_USER=                     # Copernicus Data Space user (SAR Mode B — EGMS / EMS)
MESH_SAR_COPERNICUS_TOKEN=                    # Copernicus token (paired with user above)
OPENCLAW_ACCESS_TIER=restricted               # OpenClaw agent tier: "restricted" (read-only) or "full"
# OPENCLAW_HMAC_SECRET=                         # Optional; UI Bootstrap persists to data/openclaw.env in Docker
GFW_API_TOKEN=your_gfw_token                  # Global Fishing Watch — fishing_activity layer (Settings → Maritime)
TELEGRAM_OSINT_ENABLED=true                   # Telegram OSINT layer (default on)
TELEGRAM_OSINT_CHANNELS=osintdefender,...     # Comma-separated public channel slugs (see .env.example)

# Private-lane privacy-core pinning (required when Arti or RNS is enabled)
PRIVACY_CORE_MIN_VERSION=0.1.0
PRIVACY_CORE_ALLOWED_SHA256=your_privacy_core_sha256
# Optional override if you load a non-default shared library path
PRIVACY_CORE_LIB=

When MESH_ARTI_ENABLED=true or MESH_RNS_ENABLED=true, backend startup now fails closed unless the loaded privacy-core artifact reports a parseable version at or above PRIVACY_CORE_MIN_VERSION and matches one of the hashes in PRIVACY_CORE_ALLOWED_SHA256.

Generate the hash from the artifact you intend to ship:

Get-FileHash .\privacy-core\target\release\privacy_core.dll -Algorithm SHA256

sha256sum ./privacy-core/target/release/libprivacy_core.so

Then confirm authenticated GET /api/wormhole/status or GET /api/settings/wormhole-status shows the same privacy_core.version, privacy_core.library_path, and privacy_core.library_sha256.

Frontend

How it works: The frontend proxies all /api/* requests through the Next.js server to BACKEND_URL using Docker's internal networking. Browsers only talk to port 3000; the backend host port is only for local diagnostics. For local dev without Docker, BACKEND_URL defaults to http://localhost:8000.

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