---
phase: 09-osint-infrastructure
plan: phase-summary
subsystem: infra
tags: [recon, osint, rate-limiting, robots-txt, stealth, dedup, ants]

requires:
  - phase: 01-foundation
    provides: engine.Finding type, ants worker pool pattern
provides:
  - ReconSource interface for OSINT sources (Phases 10-16)
  - Engine with parallel fanout via ants pool
  - Per-source LimiterRegistry (golang.org/x/time/rate)
  - Stealth mode (UA rotation + jitter)
  - RobotsCache with 1h TTL and default-allow on failure
  - Cross-source Dedup by SHA256(provider|masked|source)
  - keyhunter recon full / recon list CLI commands
  - ExampleSource stub proving the pipeline
affects:
  - 10-github-recon
  - 11-shodan-recon
  - 12-pastebin-recon
  - 13-search-engine-recon
  - 14-wayback-recon
  - 15-huggingface-recon
  - 16-misc-recon

tech-stack:
  added:
    - github.com/temoto/robotstxt (robots.txt parsing)
  patterns:
    - ReconSource interface — every OSINT source implements 6 methods
    - Per-source rate.Limiter owned by LimiterRegistry keyed on source name
    - Default-allow semantics on robots fetch/parse failure
    - Dedup via stable SHA256(provider|masked|source) hash, first-seen wins
    - SourceType tagged "recon:<name>" for downstream storage unification

key-files:
  created:
    - pkg/recon/source.go
    - pkg/recon/engine.go
    - pkg/recon/limiter.go
    - pkg/recon/stealth.go
    - pkg/recon/robots.go
    - pkg/recon/dedup.go
    - pkg/recon/example.go
    - pkg/recon/integration_test.go
    - cmd/recon.go
  modified:
    - go.mod (added temoto/robotstxt)

key-decisions:
  - "Per-source rate limiters — no central limiter (RECON-INFRA-05)"
  - "Default-allow on robots.txt fetch/parse failure to avoid silently disabling sources"
  - "Dedup key = SHA256(provider|masked|source); distinct source URLs are kept"
  - "UA pool of 10 realistic browsers covering Chrome/Firefox/Safari/Edge on Win/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android"
  - "SourceType prefix 'recon:<name>' unifies recon findings with file/git/stdin through engine.Finding"
  - "Engine does NOT dedup internally; callers invoke recon.Dedup explicitly"

patterns-established:
  - "ReconSource interface: Name/RateLimit/Burst/RespectsRobots/Enabled/Sweep"
  - "Source registration via Engine.Register; Phases 10-16 add sources in buildReconEngine() or package init()"
  - "Integration tests live alongside unit tests in pkg/recon/ using the same package (not _test package)"

requirements-completed:
  - RECON-INFRA-05
  - RECON-INFRA-06
  - RECON-INFRA-07
  - RECON-INFRA-08

duration: "phase"
completed: 2026-04-05
---

# Phase 9: OSINT Infrastructure Summary

**Recon framework with ReconSource interface, per-source rate limiting, stealth UA rotation, robots.txt compliance, and ants-powered parallel sweep — ready for sources in Phases 10-16.**

## Accomplishments

- `pkg/recon` package created with 7 production files + full unit + integration tests
- `ReconSource` interface defined and proven via `ExampleSource` stub
- `Engine.SweepAll` fans out to all registered sources in parallel via ants pool
- `LimiterRegistry` provides isolated per-source `*rate.Limiter` instances with optional stealth jitter
- `RobotsCache` fetches, caches (1h TTL), and enforces robots.txt with default-allow failure mode
- `Dedup` collapses duplicate findings across sources via SHA256(provider|masked|source)
- `keyhunter recon full` and `keyhunter recon list` CLI commands wired in `cmd/recon.go`
- End-to-end integration test (`pkg/recon/integration_test.go`) wires Engine + Limiter + Stealth + Robots + Dedup against a synthetic source

## Requirements Closed

| ID              | Description                                   | Evidence                                              |
| --------------- | --------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| RECON-INFRA-05  | Per-source rate limiting via LimiterRegistry  | pkg/recon/limiter.go + limiter_test.go + integration  |
| RECON-INFRA-06  | Stealth mode (UA rotation + jitter)           | pkg/recon/stealth.go + limiter.go Wait jitter path    |
| RECON-INFRA-07  | robots.txt compliance, cache, default-allow   | pkg/recon/robots.go + robots_test.go + integration    |
| RECON-INFRA-08  | Parallel sweep orchestrator with dedup        | pkg/recon/engine.go + dedup.go + integration          |

## Plans in Phase 9

1. **09-01** Engine + ReconSource interface + ExampleSource
2. **09-02** LimiterRegistry (rate limiting + stealth jitter)
3. **09-03** Dedup (SHA256 hash, first-seen wins)
4. **09-04** RobotsCache (1h TTL, default-allow on failure)
5. **09-05** Stealth UA pool + CLI wiring (`cmd/recon.go`)
6. **09-06** Integration test + phase summary (this plan)

## Key Decisions

- **Per-source rate limiters, not central** — each OSINT source owns its bucket; matches TruffleHog pattern and keeps a slow source from starving fast ones
- **Default-allow on robots fetch failure** — a broken `/robots.txt` endpoint must not silently disable recon; errors are swallowed and `true` is returned
- **Dedup key = SHA256(provider|masked|source)** — distinct source URLs for the same masked key are kept so operators see every leak location
- **UA pool of 10** — spans Chrome/Firefox/Safari/Edge across Win/macOS/Linux/iOS/Android for realistic fingerprint distribution
- **`engine.Finding` reused** — recon findings flow through the same storage/verification paths as file/git findings; only `SourceType` is prefixed `recon:`
- **Engine does not dedup** — callers invoke `recon.Dedup` explicitly; keeps the Engine responsibility narrow (fanout only) and allows callers to access pre-dedup raw data

## New Dependencies

- `github.com/temoto/robotstxt` — small, well-maintained robots.txt parser used by RobotsCache

## CLI Surface

```
keyhunter recon full [--stealth] [--respect-robots] [--query=STRING]
keyhunter recon list
```

Phase 9 ships with `ExampleSource` only; Phases 10-16 register real sources via `buildReconEngine()` in `cmd/recon.go` (or via package-init side effects once the pattern is established).

## Handoff to Phase 10

- `ReconSource` interface is frozen for the phase block — Phases 10-16 can implement it confidently
- New sources register in `cmd/recon.go:buildReconEngine()` with a single `e.Register(...)` call
- Each source should:
  1. Return a stable lowercase `Name()`
  2. Declare its own `RateLimit()` / `Burst()` values
  3. Set `RespectsRobots()` to true for HTML scrapers, false for authenticated APIs
  4. Tag findings with `SourceType = "recon:<name>"`
  5. Exit promptly on `ctx.Done()` in `Sweep`
- Integration test pattern in `pkg/recon/integration_test.go` shows how to wire a synthetic source for source-specific tests

## Known Gaps (Deferred)

- **Proxy / TOR support** — out of scope; can be added via `http.Transport` injection later
- **Per-source retry with backoff** — each source handles its own retries; no framework-level retry
- **Distributed rate limiting** — out of scope; per-instance limiters only
- **Webhook notifications on source exhaustion** — deferred to Phase 17 (Telegram)

## Next Phase Readiness

Phase 10 (GitHub recon) can start immediately. The `pkg/recon` contract is stable and proven end-to-end by `TestReconPipelineIntegration` and `TestRobotsOnlyWhenRespectsRobots`.

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*Phase: 09-osint-infrastructure*
*Completed: 2026-04-05*
