secrets-management

secrets-management is a cursor rule for Cursor from onesimplecode/agent-engineering-standards. It costs 207 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Security rules for storing secrets such as passwords, API keys, and tokens. They require secrets to use a vault when possible, restrict local credential files to their owner, and scan them before commits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when handling secrets in applications, local `.env` files, key files, token caches, configuration, tests, and pre-commit checks.
Why use it?
They reduce the chance that credentials are exposed in source code, configuration, test data, or shared files.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use them when handling secrets in applications, local .env files, key files, token caches, configuration, tests, and pre-commit checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/onesimplecode/agent-engineering-standards/secrets-management
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/onesimplecode/agent-engineering-standards

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 207 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 207 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00207 $0.00207
Opus 5.5 $0.00083 $0.00083
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00041 $0.00041
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00021

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e90d7d33f3bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

secrets-management 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 1mo 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.

examples/cursor-rules/.cursor/rules/secrets-management.mdc · 17 lines

What it actually says

Secrets Management

TR-SEC-001 — No hardcoded secrets

All secrets must be stored in a vault. Never hardcoded in configuration files, source code, comments, or test fixtures.

TR-SEC-008 — Local credential files are permission-restricted and secret-scanned

Files holding secrets on a development or production host (.env files, key files, token caches) must be readable by the owning user only (mode 600). While secrets live in local files rather than a vault (TR-SEC-001's target state), a secret-scanning check must run before commit, not only at public-release time. Counters MITRE ATT&CK T1552.001 (Unsecured Credentials: Credentials in Files).

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. 1mo ago First seen · 17 lines · 207 tokens per session scan A e90d7d33f3bf

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secrets-management is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository onesimplecode/agent-engineering-standards (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 207 tokens to every session, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.