gcp-secret-manager

gcp-secret-manager is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (3,853 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Google Cloud Secret Manager, a service for securely storing credentials, API keys, tokens, and certificates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and manage secrets, configure IAM permissions, and connect secrets to Google Kubernetes Engine workloads.
Why use it?
It keeps sensitive values out of source code and provides controlled access and versioned secret values for cloud applications.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create and manage secrets, configure IAM permissions, and connect secrets to Google Kubernetes Engine workloads.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bagelhole/devops-security-agent-skills/gcp-secret-manager
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill gcp-secret-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,853 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 67
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 352
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00036 $0.03853
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01927
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00771
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00385

Measured 9d ago against content hash 26707bd9daf7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gcp-secret-manager 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 9d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

security/secrets/gcp-secret-manager/SKILL.md · 510 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 510 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GCP Secret Manager

Store and manage secrets securely in Google Cloud Platform.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Managing secrets in GCP environments
  • Integrating secrets with GKE workloads via Workload Identity
  • Storing API keys, database credentials, or TLS certificates
  • Implementing secret versioning and rotation
  • Meeting compliance requirements for centralized secret management

Prerequisites

  • GCP project with billing enabled
  • gcloud CLI installed and authenticated
  • Secret Manager API enabled (secretmanager.googleapis.com)
  • IAM permissions: roles/secretmanager.admin for management, roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor for reading
  • For GKE: Workload Identity configured on the cluster

Enable the API

# Enable Secret Manager API
gcloud services enable secretmanager.googleapis.com

# Verify it's enabled
gcloud services list --enabled --filter="name:secretmanager"

Secret Creation and Management

# Create a secret (creates the secret resource, not the value)
gcloud secrets create db-password \
  --replication-policy="automatic" \
  --labels="env=production,team=platform"

# Add the secret value (first version)
echo -n "S3cur3P@ssw0rd!" | gcloud secrets versions add db-password --data-file=-

# Create secret with value in one command
echo -n '{"username":"dbadmin","password":"S3cur3P@ss!","host":"10.0.1.5","port":5432}' | \
  gcloud secrets create db-credentials --data-file=- \
  --replication-policy="automatic" \
  --labels="env=production,team=platform"

# Create with specific region replication
gcloud secrets create regional-secret \
  --replication-policy="user-managed" \
  --locations="us-central1,us-east1"

# Create with customer-managed encryption key (CMEK)
gcloud secrets create sensitive-secret \
  --replication-policy="user-managed" \
  --locations="us-central1" \
  --kms-key-name="projects/my-project/locations/us-central1/keyRings/my-ring/cryptoKeys/my-key"

# Access the latest version
gcloud secrets versions access latest --secret=db-password

# Access a specific version
gcloud secrets versions access 3 --secret=db-password

# Add a new version (rotation)
echo -n "N3wS3cur3P@ss!" | gcloud secrets versions add db-password --data-file=-

# List all secrets
gcloud secrets list --format="table(name, createTime, labels)"

# List versions of a secret
gcloud secrets versions list db-password --format="table(name, state, createTime)"

# Disable a version (makes it inaccessible but recoverable)
gcloud secrets versions disable 1 --secret=db-password

# Enable a disabled version
gcloud secrets versions enable 1 --secret=db-password

# Destroy a version (permanent)
gcloud secrets versions destroy 1 --secret=db-password

# Delete the entire secret
gcloud secrets delete db-password

# Set expiration on a secret
gcloud secrets update db-password \
  --expire-time="2026-06-01T00:00:00Z"

# Set TTL-based expiration
gcloud secrets update temp-token \
  --ttl="2592000s"  # 30 days

# Update labels
gcloud secrets update db-password \
  --update-labels="rotation=enabled,last-rotated=2025-01-15"

# Add version aliases
gcloud secrets versions update 5 --secret=db-password --set-aliases="production"

Read the full file on GitHub · 510 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. 9d ago First seen · 510 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 26707bd9daf7

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gcp-secret-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills (1,084 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 3,853 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 2026-09-03.

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