hashicorp-vault-secret-management

hashicorp-vault-secret-management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hamzabellouch/agent-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (2,396 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to managing application secrets with HashiCorp Vault, a service that stores and controls passwords, keys, and certificates. It covers identity-based access, temporary database credentials, automatic rotation, and Kubernetes or AppRole authentication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define Vault access policies, issue and renew temporary credentials, rotate secrets, authenticate applications, and inject secrets into Kubernetes workloads.
Why use it?
It removes the need to keep long-lived passwords and API keys in source code or configuration, reducing exposure and limiting what each workload can access.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to define Vault access policies, issue and renew temporary credentials, rotate secrets, authenticate applications, and inject secrets into Kubernetes workloads.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hamzabellouch/agent-skills/hashicorp-vault-secret-management
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add hamzabellouch/agent-skills --skill hashicorp-vault-secret-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzabellouch/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,396 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 $0.00048 $0.02396
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01198
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00479
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00240

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4cfbe627b424, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hashicorp-vault-secret-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 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.

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.

DevSecOps and Supply Chain Security/hashicorp-vault-secret-management/SKILL.md · 291 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 291 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HashiCorp Vault Secrets Management & Lifecycle Architecture

Overview

This skill provides production-grade templates, HCL policy configurations, and client SDK implementations for enterprise secret management via HashiCorp Vault. It eliminates static credentials through short-lived dynamic credentials, automated rotation engines, and identity-based access control.


1. Zero-Trust Secrets Architecture

  1. Eliminate Static Long-Lived Secrets: Move away from hardcoded API keys and static database passwords. Leverage Vault dynamic engines (AWS IAM, Database, PKI) that issue credentials with short Time-To-Live (TTL).
  2. Strict Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP): Vault ACL policies must explicitly follow default-deny semantics. Path access is granted strictly based on workload identity (Kubernetes ServiceAccount, AWS IAM role, AppRole).
  3. Automated Secret Leasing & Renewal: Applications must handle lease expiration, dynamic token renewal, and graceful re-authentication without downtime.
  4. Encryption in Transit & at Rest: Force TLS 1.3 for all client communications; ensure Vault storage backends (Raft Integrated Storage) utilize AES-GCM 256-bit envelope encryption.

2. Dynamic Secret Rotation & Access Lifecycle

[ Application / Pod ]
      │  1. Authenticate via ServiceAccount / AppRole
      ▼
[ Vault Server / Agent ]
      │  2. Issue short-lived Token (TTL: 1h)
      │  3. Request Dynamic DB Credentials (TTL: 15m)
      ▼
[ Database Engine ] ──▶ Generates ephemeral user (e.g., v-approle-user-abc-123)
Lifecycle Event Mechanism Standard TTL / Frequency
Authentication Kubernetes ServiceAccount / AppRole Token TTL: 1 Hour (Explicit Max TTL: 12 Hours)
KV-v2 Secrets Soft delete / Versioning / Metadata audit Version retention: 10 versions max
Dynamic DB Passwords Vault DB Engine (postgresql-database-plugin) Lease TTL: 15-30 Minutes; Auto-revoked on expiry
PKI TLS Certificates Vault PKI Secret Engine Cert TTL: 24 Hours; Managed via Cert-Manager / Vault Agent

Read the full file on GitHub · 291 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. 9d ago First seen · 291 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 4cfbe627b424

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hashicorp-vault-secret-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository hamzabellouch/agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,396 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 2026-09-03.