setup-secret

A guide for connecting workloads to secrets and writing secret-related deployment manifests. Secrets are protected values such as passwords, API keys, and tokens.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking secret access, granting a workload permission to use a secret, drafting YAML with placeholders, configuring pull secrets, and fixing unresolved secret references.
Why use it?
It explains the required identity, permission policy, and secret reference, helping diagnose deployments that cannot read a needed secret.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/controlplane-com/ai-plugin/setup-secret
Any agent
npx skills add controlplane-com/ai-plugin --skill setup-secret
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/controlplane-com/ai-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,269 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00048 $0.02269
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01135
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00454
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00227

Measured 2d ago against content hash d86435a05d63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-secret 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 2d 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/cpln/skills/setup-secret/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Secret Access Setup

Tool availability: secrets are read-only through MCP on every profile — list_resources / get_resource (kind="secret") show existence and metadata, never values. No tool creates, edits, deletes, or reveals a secret: secret data and lifecycle are managed by the user (Console, CLI, Terraform, Pulumi, or the API); you draft manifests with placeholders, the user fills the values and applies. grant_workload_secret_access (every profile) grants a workload access — it never returns values.

Secret access is the #1 thing users get wrong: a workload reads a secret only when three things are all in place. Miss any one and the value is silently absent at runtime — or the deployment pauses on an unresolved reference.

The mandatory chain

Step What must be true Without it
1. Identity an identity exists and is linked to the workload (spec.identityLink) workload has no API credential — reads nothing
2. Policy a policy grants that identity reveal on the secret reference resolves to empty
3. Reference the secret is injected as cpln://secret/NAME (env or volume) nothing to read

reveal, not viewview exposes only metadata. This is the single most common mistake.

Pull secrets are different — no identity/policy

To pull images from a private registry, don't build the chain. Add the registry secret to the GVC's pullSecretLinks and every workload in that GVC can pull. Pull secrets are registry credentials — docker, ecr, or gcp types.

kind: gvc
spec:
  pullSecretLinks:
    - //secret/my-registry

Authoring a secret manifest — the user applies it

Drafting the manifest is an expected part of the job — users ask for a scaffold, fill in the real values themselves, and apply it. Generate the YAML with UPPERCASE placeholders, then always hand back the next steps:

  1. Fill in the placeholders locally — the value never enters the chat.
  2. Apply it: cpln apply -f secret.yaml --org ORG, the Console's cpln apply button (paste the YAML), or the per-type CLI command that reads the value from a file (cpln secret create-docker --name NAME --file config.json).
  3. Treat the filled file as a live credential — keep it out of git and delete it after applying.
  4. Say when it's done — verify with get_resource (kind="secret") and continue with the access chain below.

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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. 2d ago First seen · 138 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A d86435a05d63

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup-secret is a skill published in the GitHub repository controlplane-com/ai-plugin (10 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,269 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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