scrub-before-publish

scrub-before-publish is a skill for Claude Code from avmnu-sng/sutra. It costs 37 tokens per session (994 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A privacy and security check for code or documentation that you are authorized to publish.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before open-sourcing a repository, posting an example, or sharing a runbook, then repeat searches to verify that private details are gone.
Why use it?
It helps remove credentials, secrets, and internal identifiers before they become public, while stopping when the material may not be yours to release.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the sutra plugin — 19 skills, 4 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it before open-sourcing a repository, posting an example, or sharing a runbook, then repeat searches to verify that private details are gone.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/avmnu-sng/sutra/scrub-before-publish
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 avmnu-sng/sutra --skill scrub-before-publish
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/avmnu-sng/sutra

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sutra, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 4 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 994 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 $0.00037 $0.00994
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00497
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00099

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6ae381ed22df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scrub-before-publish 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 11d 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/sutra/skills/scrub-before-publish/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scrub before publish

Before you publish material you have the right to publish -- open-sourcing your own repo, posting a sample, sharing a runbook -- remove the private details first. This is a security and privacy pass, not a rewrite: you keep the authorship, the license, and the substance; you strip the secrets and internal identifiers that should never leave the building.

Guardrail first: only publish what is yours to publish

This skill is for material you are authorized to release. It is NOT a way to work around a restriction.

  • A CONFIDENTIAL, INTERNAL, DO NOT SHARE, or NDA marking is a STOP SIGN, not a line to delete. If you find one, do not publish the material and do not strip the label -- get authorization or leave it internal.
  • If the material belongs to an employer, a customer, or someone else, or you are unsure you have the right to release it, stop and confirm before going further.
  • Scrubbing removes secrets from material you MAY publish. It is never a tool for laundering material you may not.

What to remove

Search for and replace every private referent. Secrets are the highest priority -- a leaked credential is an incident, not a nit.

  • Secrets and credentials -- API keys, tokens, passwords, private keys, connection strings, .env values, signed URLs. If one ever reaches a public commit it must be rotated, so catch it before, not after.
  • Absolute machine paths -- /Users/<name>/..., /home/<name>/..., C:\Users\.... Replace with a relative or generic path (./config, /path/to/project).
  • Usernames, handles, and personal names.
  • Internal hostnames and IPs -- laptop names, *.internal, *.corp, staging boxes, and private v4/v6 ranges.
  • Internal URLs -- wikis, dashboards, issue trackers, artifact registries, short links.
  • Employer, customer, product, and service names -- including codenames and insider shorthand. Replace with a neutral role name ("a backend event service", "the image-upload endpoint").
  • Email addresses.
  • Account, tenant, and contract IDs; UUIDs -- even expired or example-looking ones; a real-shaped ID invites a probe.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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. 11d ago First seen · 89 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 6ae381ed22df

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scrub-before-publish is a skill published in the GitHub repository avmnu-sng/sutra (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 994 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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.

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