Disk Image Acquisition

Disk Image Acquisition is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by mukul975 in Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills.

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Install in seconds

Install Disk Image Acquisition

Copy Disk Image Acquisition into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills/tree/main/skills/acquiring-disk-image-with-dd-and-dcfldd ~/.claude/skills/acquiring-disk-image-with-dd-and-dcfldd

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/acquiring-disk-image-with-dd-and-dcfldd/SKILL.md in mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/acquiring-disk-image-with-dd-and-dcfldd
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Disk Image Acquisition does

Disk Image Acquisition creates forensically sound bit-for-bit disk images with dd or dcfldd on Linux, preserving evidence integrity through hash verification. Use when imaging suspect drives, USB devices, or memory cards for incident response or legal proceedings.

Disk Image Acquisition is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Disk Image Acquisition comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-code, cloud-security, cybersecurity and devsecops.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Acquiring Disk Image with dd and dcfldd

When to Use

When you need to create a forensic copy of a suspect drive for investigation
During incident response when preserving volatile disk evidence before analysis
When law enforcement or legal proceedings require a verified bit-for-bit copy
Before performing any destructive analysis on a storage device
When acquiring images from physical drives, USB devices, or memory cards

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Disk Image Acquisition

What else does mukul975 publish alongside Disk Image Acquisition?
Disk Image Acquisition is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Gateway Log Analysis, Abusing DPAPI for Credential Access and Achieving CMMC Level 2 Compliance. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Disk Image Acquisition does, and is maintained by mukul975 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills page.
How does Disk Image Acquisition compare to other DevOps skills?
Disk Image Acquisition ranks #60 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Disk Image Acquisition against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.