What is gum-auth-use-api-key?

A command for configuring gum to authenticate with an API key. Gum is the command-line tool this command belongs to, and the key can be read from standard input or a file.

Use it to set up gum API-key authentication, read a key from a file or standard input, choose a profile, and control log output.

It avoids putting the API key directly into the command and lets you save the setting under a chosen configuration profile.

gum-auth-use-api-key — Command for coding agents by ehmo: A command for configuring gum to authenticate with an…

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods

npx agentmods add commands/ehmo/gum/gum-auth-use-api-key

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ehmo/gum

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/ehmo/gum/gum-auth-use-api-key"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/ehmo/gum/gum-auth-use-api-key.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 241 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00000	$0.00241
Opus 5	$0.00000	$0.00120
Sonnet 5	$0.00000	$0.00048
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00024

Measured 5d ago against content hash 540293b3fbc3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gum-auth-use-api-key scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

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What it actually says