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Osint Daily cover for AIL Framework, under Threat intelligence, published 16 Oct 2026. The right side is a monogram because no capture is filed. AGPL leak framework you run yourself.

01 · Product name

AIL Framework

AGPL leak framework you run yourself.

Published by AIL Project Team.

FreeGUIThreat intelligence

In short

AIL Framework is the open-source platform in ail-project/ail-framework. The README says it collects, crawls, processes, and analyses unstructured data from the clear web, Tor, I2P, chats, files, and external feeds. It was originally developed at CIRCL. On 17 Oct 2026 the GitHub API reported 1,031 stars and 148 forks, and the license field was AGPL-3.0. Release v7.1 was published on 25 Sep 2026. The project blog dated the same release post 1 Oct 2026. You run it yourself. A tagged item is a lead, not an attribution.

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Product pricing strategy

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Free

AIL Framework does not sell a seat on the pages opened on 17 Oct 2026. The GitHub license field is AGPL-3.0, the software is the release you deploy, and the project does not host a public search of other people's leaks for you. There is no dollar price in the v7.1 release notes or the 1 Oct 2026 blog post. Budget for the machines, the storage, and the time to operate a crawler. If a team wants CIRCL or another party to run it, that is a separate services conversation the release page does not price. Do not describe AIL as a free hosted breach search.

Utility and features

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The AIL README describes a framework that turns raw, messy content into structured intelligence through extraction, tagging, detection, and correlation. The sources it names are the clear web, Tor, I2P, chats, files, and external feeds. The default branch on 17 Oct 2026 was master. The latest GitHub release was v7.1, named “AIL Framework v7.1 — Interactive Crawling, Forum Improvements, Image Similarity & More,” published 25 Sep 2026. The project blog uses that same headline, with JSON-LD dates of 1 Oct 2026 for both publication and modification, and a byline of AIL Project Team. Quote both dates. The blog says v7.1 covers forum collection, interactive crawling, image analysis, trackers, APIs, PDF processing, and analyst workflows.

  • Self-hosted, AGPL-3.0. The GitHub license field is AGPL-3.0. The project does not host a public leak search for you.
  • Two dates for v7.1. GitHub published the release on 25 Sep 2026. The blog post is dated 1 Oct 2026.
  • Unstructured inputs. The README names the clear web, Tor, I2P, chats, files, and external feeds.

This listing did not install the framework. The README embeds one dashboard image, which is not two product frames, so the Screenshots section is omitted and the cover is a monogram. AGPL-3.0 is the GitHub license field. Hosting AIL for other people has the obligations of that license. A collection that includes Tor, I2P, or leaked files is a corpus you choose to run. An extracted email, a forum post, or an image similarity hit is a lead to open. It does not name an operator.

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    Cite v7.1 with the date of the page you opened: 25 Sep 2026 on GitHub, or 1 Oct 2026 on the blog.

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    Read the AGPL-3.0 field before you deploy AIL as a service for other people.

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    Treat an extraction or a similarity hit as a lead. Open the item the framework stored.

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    Do not describe this listing as a hosted search. You run the framework.

Caveats

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AIL is a collector and an analyst workbench you operate. The README's scope includes Tor, I2P, chats, and files. That scope is not permission to crawl a system you do not administer, and this listing does not provide crawl settings. An item that lands in the framework is data the pipeline stored. Correlation and image similarity are the framework's links. They are not an identification of a person.

The release date and the blog date disagree by a week. GitHub published v7.1 on 25 Sep 2026. The blog JSON-LD says 1 Oct 2026. Use the date that matches the URL you cite. One dashboard picture in the README is not a substitute for a running UI. The star count, 1,031 on 17 Oct 2026, will move. AGPL obligations apply if you offer the modified framework to others.

Potential use cases

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  • A stack proposal calls AIL a website you log into. The README says you collect, crawl, process, and analyse unstructured data from the clear web, Tor, I2P, chats, files, and external feeds, and that the project started at CIRCL. The GitHub license field on 17 Oct 2026 was AGPL-3.0. Budget for a host and for the license obligations if other people will use your instance. The project does not publish a paid seat and does not host the corpus for you.
  • Two dates are circulating for v7.1. The GitHub release was published 25 Sep 2026 and is named for interactive crawling, forum improvements, and image similarity. The blog URL is dated 1 Oct 2026, and its JSON-LD uses that day for both publication and modification, with the byline AIL Project Team. Cite the URL you opened. The blog's feature list adds trackers, APIs, PDF processing, and analyst workflows. Those are the post's claims about the release, not a test this listing ran.
  • An extracted forum post is headed for an attribution paragraph. AIL stored and tagged an item. Correlation and image similarity are links the framework made. Open the item and write what the tag asserts. A leak corpus can contain reposts, scrapes, and unrelated names. The star count to attach is 1,031, the API figure on 17 Oct 2026, and it will move. One dashboard image in the README is not a tour of the UI.

Hard cases

The case where the first result is easy to over-read.

The September tag and the October post are merged

Someone writes that v7.1 shipped on 1 Oct 2026 because that is the blog path, or on 25 Sep 2026 because that is the GitHub timestamp, and then uses the other date's feature list as if both pages were one document. Keep the release asset and the blog post as two citations. If a feature appears only in the blog, say so. This listing did not install AIL, so it cannot confirm which of those features are on by default.

Practitioners using it

Posts on X from people describing a concrete use. The quote is the post. Likes and reposts are the counts saved with it, not a live total. A label marks a creator, a maintainer, a data partner, or an investor.

Questions

Is AIL Framework free?

Yes, under AGPL-3.0, which is the license field GitHub reported on 17 Oct 2026. You supply the host. The project does not publish a paid seat on the pages opened here.

When did AIL v7.1 ship?

GitHub published release v7.1 on 25 Sep 2026. The project blog post with the same headline is dated 1 Oct 2026.

Citations

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