sops-encryption

sops-encryption is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (613 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Mozilla SOPS, a tool that encrypts configuration files while leaving their structure readable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to encrypt, decrypt, and edit configuration files with AWS, Google, or Azure key services, or PGP keys.
Why use it?
It lets teams keep encrypted secrets in Git or Kubernetes configuration without exposing their values.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to encrypt, decrypt, and edit configuration files with AWS, Google, or Azure key services, or PGP keys.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bagelhole/devops-security-agent-skills/sops-encryption
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 BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill sops-encryption
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 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 613 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 43
    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 52
    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 $0.00051 $0.00613
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00307
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00061

Measured 9d ago against content hash 020635be0098, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sops-encryption scanned grade A 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

wget https://github.com/getsops/sops/releases/download/v3.8.0/sops-v3.8.0.linux.amd64
security/secrets/sops-encryption/SKILL.md · 101 lines

What it actually says

SOPS Encryption

Encrypt secrets in configuration files while keeping structure visible.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Encrypting secrets in Git
  • Implementing GitOps with secrets
  • Managing Kubernetes secrets as code
  • Encrypting configuration files

Prerequisites

  • SOPS installed
  • KMS access (AWS, GCP, Azure) or PGP key

Installation

# macOS
brew install sops

# Linux
wget https://github.com/getsops/sops/releases/download/v3.8.0/sops-v3.8.0.linux.amd64
chmod +x sops-v3.8.0.linux.amd64
mv sops-v3.8.0.linux.amd64 /usr/local/bin/sops

Basic Usage

# Encrypt with AWS KMS
sops --encrypt --kms arn:aws:kms:region:account:key/key-id secrets.yaml > secrets.enc.yaml

# Decrypt
sops --decrypt secrets.enc.yaml

# Edit encrypted file
sops secrets.enc.yaml

# Encrypt in place
sops --encrypt --in-place secrets.yaml

Configuration

# .sops.yaml
creation_rules:
  - path_regex: .*\.prod\.yaml$
    kms: arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:account:key/prod-key
  - path_regex: .*\.dev\.yaml$
    kms: arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:account:key/dev-key
  - path_regex: .*
    pgp: fingerprint

Kubernetes Integration

# encrypted secret
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: myapp-secrets
type: Opaque
stringData:
  password: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:encrypted...]
sops:
  kms:
    - arn: arn:aws:kms:region:account:key/key-id
# With ArgoCD
# Install ksops plugin for ArgoCD to decrypt secrets

Best Practices

  • Store .sops.yaml in repository
  • Use different keys per environment
  • Rotate encryption keys regularly
  • Never commit unencrypted secrets
  • Use key aliases for readability
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 · 101 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 020635be0098

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sops-encryption is a skill published in the GitHub repository BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills (1,084 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 613 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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