secure-secret-input

secure-secret-input is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from avizmarlon/agent-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,706 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A procedure for collecting passwords, API keys, tokens, and other secrets through a masked local prompt instead of chat.

In plain words
What is it for?
Obtaining a missing credential, then saving it in an appropriate local configuration file, credential manager, or short-lived process memory.
Why use it?
Secrets pasted into chat may be exposed in conversation or logs. The procedure also checks existing credential storage before asking for anything.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Obtaining a missing credential, then saving it in an appropriate local configuration file, credential manager, or short-lived process memory.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/avizmarlon/agent-skills/secure-secret-input
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add avizmarlon/agent-skills --skill secure-secret-input
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/avizmarlon/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,706 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00039 $0.01706
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00853
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00341
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00171

Measured 10d ago against content hash 463611b7e2c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

secure-secret-input scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 10d 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.

Harvests environment variableshighData exfiltration

Enumerating or grepping the environment for keys collects credentials unrelated to what the mod says it does.

### Pattern 1: Collect API Key for a Service
skills/secure-secret-input/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Secure Secret Input

Use this skill when an AI agent needs a user to provide any sensitive or private value such as API keys, tokens, cookies, session IDs, passwords, app IDs, client secrets, or recovery codes.

Rule

Never ask the user to paste a secret into chat. Instead, open a visible local terminal or secure prompt window with clear labeling.

Default flow:

  1. Check first — does the value already exist in credential storage, environment variables, local configuration files, or an authenticated API? If yes, use it programmatically and do not ask the user.

  2. If the user must provide it, open a visible local window or terminal with a clear title and purpose.

  3. Mask input — use masked input when supported (e.g., PowerShell's Read-Host -AsSecureString on Windows, or read -s in bash on Unix).

  4. Write directly to destination — store the value directly to where it will be used:

    • Project runtime: .env file (excluded from version control)
    • Long-lived credential: credential manager (1Password, Bitwarden, OS keychain, etc.)
    • One-shot use: process-local memory only
    • Application integration: native OS credential store
  5. Print only safe metadata — after collection, output only:

    • Status (success / failure)
    • Destination path (e.g., env-var name, credential store item name)
    • Boolean confirmation

    Never print the actual value.

  6. Clean up — delete temporary files, markers, or helper scripts that could contain the value.

  7. Update documentation — record only the secret's logical name, purpose, and storage location in any inventory or documentation. Never record the value itself.

Window Text Example

When opening a local input window, make the purpose unambiguous. The user may see it out of context.

Title:

Secure Input - API_KEY_NAME

Body:

An AI assistant needs a sensitive value.

Label: API_KEY_NAME
Purpose: Authentication with service XYZ
Destination: Project .env and credential vault

Type or paste it here, not in the chat.
The value will not be printed or logged.

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. 10d ago First seen · 160 lines · 39 tokens per session scan C 463611b7e2c3

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secure-secret-input is a skill published in the GitHub repository avizmarlon/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,706 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (harvests environment variables). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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