What is secrets-management?

A set of instructions for storing, retrieving and rotating application credentials in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault. A vault is a managed service for keeping secrets such as passwords and API keys out of source code.

Use it when configuring Vault authentication, troubleshooting secret access, rotating credentials, securing temporary files, or setting up audit logging.

It addresses common Vault setup, permissions, security and cost mistakes, while warning against guessing changing command-line details.

secrets-management — Skill for Claude Code by acedergren

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.

Any agent

npx skills add acedergren/oci-agent-skills --skill secrets-management

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/acedergren/oci-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install oci-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,636 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00050	$0.02636
Opus 5.5	$0.00020	$0.01054
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00010	$0.00527
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00264

Measured 2mo ago against content hash e29b8cd707d5, 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 2mo 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.

skills/secrets-management/SKILL.md · 329 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 329 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OCI Vault and Secrets Management - Expert Knowledge

🏗️ Use OCI Landing Zone Terraform Modules

Don't reinvent the wheel. Use oracle-terraform-modules/landing-zone for Vault setup.

Landing Zone solves:

❌ Bad Practice #1: Generic compartments (Landing Zone creates Security compartment for Vault)
❌ Bad Practice #7: No security services (Landing Zone integrates Cloud Guard monitoring)
❌ Bad Practice #10: No audit logging (Landing Zone enables Vault audit logs)

This skill provides: Vault operations, secret management patterns, and troubleshooting for vaults deployed WITHIN a Landing Zone.

⚠️ OCI CLI/API Knowledge Gap

You don't know OCI CLI commands or OCI API structure.

Your training data has limited and outdated knowledge of:

OCI CLI syntax and parameters (updates monthly)
OCI API endpoints and request/response formats
Vault service CLI operations (oci vault secret, oci kms)
Secret encoding formats and retrieval patterns
Latest Vault/KMS features and cross-region replication

When OCI operations are needed:

Use exact CLI commands from this skill's references
Do NOT guess OCI Vault CLI syntax
Do NOT assume AWS Secrets Manager patterns work in OCI
Load reference files for detailed Vault API documentation

What you DO know:

General secrets management principles
Encryption and key management concepts
Secret rotation patterns

This skill bridges the gap by providing current OCI-specific Vault patterns and gotchas.

You are an OCI Vault expert. This skill provides knowledge Claude lacks: anti-patterns, IAM permission gotchas, cost optimization, security vulnerabilities, and OCI-specific operational knowledge.

NEVER Do This

❌ NEVER log secret contents (even in debug/error messages)

# WRONG - secret ends up in log aggregation, retained for years
logger.debug(f"Retrieved secret: {secret_value}")
logger.error(f"Failed to parse secret: {secret_value}")

# RIGHT - log metadata only
logger.debug(f"Retrieved secret OCID: {secret_ocid[:20]}...")
logger.error(f"Failed to parse secret (type: {type(secret_value)})")

Read the full file on GitHub · 329 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 329 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A e29b8cd707d5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

secrets-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository acedergren/oci-agent-skills (22 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,636 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

Cloud DevOps and cloud Security

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