secrets-audit

secrets-audit is a command for Claude Code from HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,029 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that scans the current project for hardcoded secrets, exposed credentials, and unsafe secret-handling practices. It checks source files, configuration, CI/CD files, container files, documentation, and optionally Git history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during security reviews, before deployment, after a suspected leak, periodically, or when learning how an unfamiliar project handles secrets.
Why use it?
Credentials can remain exposed in old commits or overlooked project files even after being removed from the latest code. The scan helps locate those copies before they are abused.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the secrets-management plugin — 2 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it during security reviews, before deployment, after a suspected leak, periodically, or when learning how an unfamiliar project handles secrets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/hermeticormus/libresecops-claude-code/secrets-audit
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install secrets-management, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents.

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Per session 35 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,029 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00035 $0.01029
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00412
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00103

Measured 12d ago against content hash f436e6ef7432, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

secrets-audit 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 12d 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.

plugins/secrets-management/commands/secrets-audit.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/secrets-audit

Scan a project for hardcoded secrets, exposed credentials, and secret management anti-patterns.

Trigger

Use when you need to find leaked secrets in a codebase. Appropriate for:

  • Security review of a new or acquired codebase
  • Pre-deployment security check
  • After a suspected credential leak
  • Periodic hygiene scan
  • Onboarding to a project to understand its secret handling

Input

The command operates on the current project directory. It examines:

  • Source code: All tracked and untracked files in the repository
  • Git history: Full commit history for secrets that were added then removed
  • Configuration files: .env, .env.*, config files, YAML, JSON, TOML, properties files
  • CI/CD configurations: .github/workflows/*, .gitlab-ci.yml, Jenkinsfile, docker-compose.yml
  • Container files: Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml (secrets in build args or environment)
  • Documentation: README, docs (sometimes contain example credentials that are real)

Optional flags:

  • --history -- include full git history scan (slower, more thorough)
  • --verify -- attempt to verify if detected secrets are still valid (requires network access)
  • --fix -- generate .gitignore updates and pre-commit hook configuration

Process

  1. Repository Analysis: Identify the tech stack, frameworks, and cloud providers in use. This determines which secret patterns to prioritize (AWS keys for AWS projects, database strings for backend services, etc.).

  2. Current Tree Scan: Scan all files in the current working tree for secret patterns:

    • Known credential formats (AWS keys, GCP service accounts, GitHub tokens, etc.)
    • Generic high-entropy strings in security-sensitive contexts (variable names containing secret, password, token, key, credential)
    • Hardcoded connection strings with embedded credentials
    • Private keys (RSA, EC, Ed25519) in source code or configuration
  3. Git History Scan (with --history): Scan the full git history for:

    • Secrets that were committed and then removed (still in history)
    • Secrets in deleted branches (if reachable)
    • Large binary blobs that might contain credential stores

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago Changed · +5 lines · +35 tokens per session f436e6ef7432
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 104 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e8f40b5e87d6

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secrets-audit is a command published in the GitHub repository HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code (4 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,029 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.