tbckr/trident

Trident is a nascent CLI tool in the crowded OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) space. With only 3 stars and 0 forks after nearly four months, it currently represents a personal project or an early-stage prototype with no discernible market traction. The OSINT landscape is dominated by mature, infrastructure-grade projects like SpiderFoot, Recon-ng, and theHarvester, which offer hundreds of modules and deep community support. Trident's defensibility is essentially zero, as it appears to follow standard patterns of wrapping external APIs into a CLI interface—a commodity functionality that is easily replicated. While frontier labs (OpenAI, Google) are unlikely to build a dedicated OSINT CLI, general-purpose LLMs are increasingly capable of performing the data synthesis and 'investigative' tasks that tools like this aim to facilitate. The primary threat is not from big tech platforms, but from established open-source incumbents that already possess the plugin ecosystems and 'data gravity' that Trident lacks. Without a unique data source or a significant architectural breakthrough in how OSINT data is correlated, it is likely to remain an obscure utility.