Secret Scanning and Management

Secret Scanning and Management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GktuOktay/ai-skills. It costs 58 tokens per session (673 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code and version-history scanner for finding exposed API keys, passwords, tokens, certificates, and incorrectly handled environment files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan current files and past commits, keep secrets outside source code, check that local environment files are ignored, and add pre-commit or CI checks.
Why use it?
Secrets accidentally committed to source code or Git history can remain usable even after the visible line is deleted.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to scan current files and past commits, keep secrets outside source code, check that local environment files are ignored, and add pre-commit or CI checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gktuoktay/ai-skills/secret-scanner
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add GktuOktay/ai-skills --skill secret-scanner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GktuOktay/ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 673 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.
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 $0.00058 $0.00673
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00336
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00067

Measured 12d ago against content hash aebadeaed1b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Secret Scanning and Management 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 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.

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.

.agents/skills/secret-scanner/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Secret Scanning and Management

Overview

This skill focuses on detecting, managing, and preventing the leakage of sensitive information such as API keys, passwords, tokens, and certificates within the codebase and version control history.

Core Principles

1. No Hardcoded Secrets

Source code should never contain sensitive data.

  • Separation of code and config: Store configuration (including secrets) in the environment, separate from the application code (as per 12-Factor App principles).
  • Environment Variables: Use .env files for local development but ensure they are strictly ignored in version control (.gitignore).

2. Secret Scanning

Actively scan the repository for accidentally committed secrets.

  • CI/CD Integration: Integrate tools like TruffleHog, Gitleaks, or GitHub Advanced Security into your CI pipeline to scan commits before they are merged.
  • Historical Scanning: Scan the entire git history, not just the current state of the code, because deleted secrets in previous commits are still compromised.

3. Pre-commit Hooks

Prevent secrets from ever entering the git history.

  • Client-side checks: Set up tools like pre-commit to run secret scanners locally before a developer can successfully commit code.

4. Secret Managers

Use dedicated systems to store and inject secrets at runtime.

  • Centralized Management: Use solutions like AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, Azure Key Vault, or Google Secret Manager.
  • Dynamic Secrets: Where possible, prefer short-lived, dynamically generated credentials over long-lived static keys.

5. Remediation

If a secret is leaked, it must be considered compromised immediately.

  • Revoke and Rotate: Never just delete the secret from the code. You must revoke the leaked key at the provider and generate a new one.

Code Examples

Setting up a Pre-commit Hook for Gitleaks

Create a .pre-commit-config.yaml in your repository root:

repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks
    rev: v8.18.1
    hooks:
      - id: gitleaks

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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 · 61 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A aebadeaed1b3

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Secret Scanning and Management is a skill published in the GitHub repository GktuOktay/ai-skills (2 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 673 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.