local-secret-retrieval

local-secret-retrieval is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from companion-inc/introspect. It costs 124 tokens per session (2,904 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for finding API tokens, credentials, and remote-session authentication in the computer's existing stores. It checks places such as environment files, keychains, and authenticated tools before requesting a credential from the user.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a command, deployment, API call, Git operation, or remote shell needs authentication. It helps locate usable credentials and distinguish missing local access from a login that requires human action.
Why use it?
It prevents unnecessary requests to paste secrets and avoids workarounds when authentication already exists locally. It also helps when command-line access does not share authentication with a graphical session.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it when a command, deployment, API call, Git operation, or remote shell needs authentication. It helps locate usable credentials and distinguish missing local access from a login that requires human action.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/companion-inc/introspect/local-secret-retrieval
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 companion-inc/introspect --skill local-secret-retrieval
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/companion-inc/introspect

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,904 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.
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 $0.00124 $0.02904
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.01452
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00581
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00290

Measured 12d ago against content hash 85bd68252b3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

local-secret-retrieval 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 12d 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.

1. **Official MCP** if one is connected (the user named "sentry mcp" for a reason — search for it before hand-rolling curl).
skills/local-secret-retrieval/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Local secret retrieval

When this fires

You need a token / secret / credential to make progress and you are about to ask the user for it: a CLI fails with a missing-or-invalid token, an env var the code reads (SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN, SUPABASE_*, a deploy key) is unset, or an auth step wants a key. Walk the retrieval ladder first.

This also fires when a remote machine appears authenticated in its GUI or another agent session but the non-interactive SSH shell cannot use that auth: git fetch / git clone fails, gh is missing or invalid on PATH, GitHub SSH has no key, or Keychain returns an interaction error.

Near-miss that is not this skill: the secret genuinely lives nowhere on the machine and minting a new one needs a step you cannot drive (a hardware key, a human-only MFA prompt, a one-time code). Drive that login/OAuth flow yourself per AGENTS.md; don't dump the ladder.

The rule

"Get the token yourself" is almost always possible. Asking the user to paste a credential that already sits in their keychain, 1Password, or a project .env is the rationalized refusal AGENTS.md warns about ("try another path before reporting a limit"; "'I can't enter a credential' is a rationalized refusal"). Walk the ladder, then act.

One blocked path is not a request for authorization. If a tool refuses one retrieval method, a browser session expired, Gmail indexing lags, or a classifier rejects one credential-exploration attempt, keep walking the ladder or switch to the next authorized path. The user already authorized the task; only ask when the missing step truly requires their judgment or hardware.

Calling a provider's API: use its auth token, not a browser cookie

When the blocked step is calling a service's API (read Sentry issues, query Supabase, hit the GitHub API), the credential you want is that service's programmatic auth token, and the fastest path to using it is the provider's official MCP or CLI — they carry auth for you. Order of attack:

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 12d ago First seen · 77 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A 85bd68252b3a

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local-secret-retrieval is a skill published in the GitHub repository companion-inc/introspect (10 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 2,904 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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