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managing-certificates-and-encryption

managing-certificates-and-encryption is a skill for Cursor from cockroachdb/cursor-plugin. It costs 108 tokens per session (2,216 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of managing-certificates-and-encryption, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for managing TLS certificates and encryption keys across different CockroachDB deployment types. TLS protects connections, while encryption keys protect stored data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor certificate expiry, rotate certificates or customer-managed encryption keys, respond to a compromised key, add certificate names, and review encryption for compliance.
Why use it?
It helps prevent expired certificates, mishandled key changes, and unclear responsibilities between a self-managed cluster and a managed service.

Skill for Cursor ✓ vendor

Written for Cursor: shipped in a Cursor plugin.

Part of the cockroachdb plugin — 34 skills shipped together

not rated 2repo 28d ago B scan 108 tokens copy · 100% Apache-2.0

Good fit Use it to monitor certificate expiry, rotate certificates or customer-managed encryption keys, respond to a compromised key, add certificate names, and review encryption for compliance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cockroachdb/cursor-plugin/managing-certificates-and-encryption
View source ↗ cockroachdb/cursor-plugin
About the project

CockroachDB Plugin for Cursor connects the Cursor coding agent to CockroachDB clusters for database work such as exploring schemas, writing SQL, debugging queries, and managing distributed clusters. It supports self-hosted and CockroachDB Cloud connections, and its catalogue add-ons provide database-focused agents, skills, rules, and instructions.

cockroachdb/cursor-plugin · 2 stars · on GitHub

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 cockroachdb/cursor-plugin --skill managing-certificates-and-encryption
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cockroachdb/cursor-plugin

Made for: Cursor.

Or install cockroachdb, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,216 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00108 $0.02216
Opus 5.5 $0.00043 $0.00886
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00443
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00222

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ff846271ca25, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

managing-certificates-and-encryption scanned grade B with 2 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

Deploy to node, set `chmod 0600` on key file. CockroachDB auto-detects new certs — no restart required.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -ks https://<node>:8080/_status/vars | grep '^security_certificate_expiration_'
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to managing-certificates-and-encryption — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/cockroachdb-operations-and-lifecycle/managing-certificates-and-encryption/SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Managing Certificates and Encryption

Manages TLS certificate and encryption key lifecycle across all deployment tiers. Before providing procedures, this skill gathers context to determine whether the operator manages certificates directly (Self-Hosted), manages CMEK encryption keys (Advanced/BYOC), or has fully managed encryption (Standard/Basic).

When to Use This Skill

  • Monitoring certificate expiration (Self-Hosted)
  • Performing scheduled certificate rotation (Self-Hosted)
  • Managing CMEK encryption keys (Advanced/BYOC)
  • Responding to key compromise (Self-Hosted, CMEK)
  • Auditing encryption posture for compliance (all tiers)
  • Adding DNS names or IPs to node certificates (Self-Hosted)

For daily health checks: Use reviewing-cluster-health.

Step 1: Gather Context

Required Context

Question Options Why It Matters
Deployment tier? Self-Hosted, Advanced, BYOC, Standard, Basic Determines encryption management responsibility
Reason? Routine monitoring, Scheduled rotation, Key compromise, Compliance audit, Add SAN entries Determines urgency and procedure

Additional Context (by tier)

If Self-Hosted:

Question Options Why It Matters
Certificate type? CA, Node, Client, UI Different rotation procedures per type
Deployment platform? Bare metal/VMs, Kubernetes (Operator/Helm/manual) Changes rotation tooling
Certificate tooling? cockroach cert, openssl, HashiCorp Vault, cert-manager Determines generation commands
Is the CA being rotated? Yes, No CA rotation requires combined CA approach

If Advanced or BYOC:

Question Options Why It Matters
Is this about CMEK? Yes, No CMEK is the customer's encryption responsibility; TLS is managed by CRL
Cloud provider? AWS, GCP, Azure Determines KMS service and CLI commands
CMEK currently enabled? Yes, No CMEK must be enabled at cluster creation

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 228 lines · 108 tokens per session scan B ff846271ca25

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managing-certificates-and-encryption is a skill published in the GitHub repository cockroachdb/cursor-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 2,216 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). It is 100% identical to managing-certificates-and-encryption, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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